“Here’s what I can tell you: the Flames players are aware of it. The coaching staff and management are aware of it as well. I think there’s a real understanding that we’re talking about a 19-year-old who has matured a lot over a short period of time. From what I understand after talking to a few people, his teammates aren’t upset with him. If anything, they’re going to give it back to him a little and say, ‘Hey, here’s why you don’t say something like that going forward.’ But it’s coming from a supportive place — he’s still their teammate, and they want to build him up.”
The dinosaurs have spoken
This is such a click bait summarization of what he said, and this whole thing isn’t nearly as big a deal as so many want it to be.
No, they aren’t going to chew out a teenager BC he hurt a bunch of adult’s fee-fees saying they were robots and telling him to give simple answers… it’s a teachable moment for a freshly turned Pro kid, that’s it
Can we fuck off with this clickbait stuff? Listen to what Pat actually says, this is just mouth breathers wanting another excuse to shit on the team lmao
Totally out of the loop here, but what comments did Parekh say?
I think the league off the ice would be much more entertaining if players were freer to speak their minds
Hockey players are boring as shit. Why bother doing media availability when all they do is give the same generic answers.
He will try to be open but he will get burned by the press just like what is going on here. He will then just do what all the other players do and stop giving them anything. This will take care of itself
Garbage clickbait.
There’s too many memes (Thank you Jared Keeso) of very simple, monotone, repetitive and robot-like answers from players in interviews because of the media training these players get, let alone their moods in the moment and exhaustion. I agree with Zayne. Give me some personality. Like Cooley. Genuinely a guy who is so happy to be in the position he is in, happy, very golden retriever energy and a good sport, and you see it in every interview and on the chase series.
Not asking for guys to ream out the mistakes of other players or coaching staff on camera, but man… Add some sauce to the otherwise very bland interviews we see every night league wide.
What did he say? I scrolled down long enough and couldn’t find an answer
Cough *BS* cough
You can’t be mad at him for telling the truth. You can not like it, but that’s an issue with you, not him.
He was right and I thought he did it in a way that didn’t insult anyone in particular or make it personal. Could he have worded it a little better? Maybe. But I don’t see why we can be mad at him for observing how it is and saying “nah, I want to do my own thing.” As long as he’s not insulting or hurting anyone (which he isn’t), it’s a nothingburger.
Habs fan in passing. What garbage ass clickbait “media company” is this. I read the article and it wasn’t at all like this
He wasn’t wrong lol
This is the biggest non-story in ages.
1) His comments are 100% correct and everyone knows it. It’s not going to hurt anyone’s feelings because they know.
2) I legitimately don’t think the comment was directed at players, it was more at the PR guys that coach them to be robots.
3) The media wants more personality, then they do this shit when someone shows it and they stop. If they want personality, celebrate it. Don’t dunk on the guys willing to take a risk and show who they are.
Hes a kid and probably dosnt know what to say and what not to say. Im sure they will talk to him and make sure he knows. Its a teachable moment and I don’t think this will label him a bad teammate
Jesus, what a non-issue
For a league that’s so obsessed with marketing to non-traditional audiences and growing its brand, I can’t get over how ridiculous it is that NHL culture refuses to get out of its own ass and start encouraging players and coaches to act like human beings instead of soulless robots.
Young players speaking their minds? We can’t have that! What audiences really want is hundreds of near-identical quotes about “giving 100%” and such. That’s what really gets the fans going.
The drama over this is stupid. The Flames knew who they were drafting. Elliotte even alluded to the fact that Zayne fell because other orgs were wary of his personality. Flames are going to have to him more leeway and he’ll have to rein it in a bit if they want to find a happy medium. This isn’t a Flames thing either. This is an NHL culture issue. They love the robot aesthetic
I genuinely don’t get what the big deal was, he was just saying sports media is super robotic and forces players to act a certain way and he doesn’t want to lose his personality. As far as I could tell he wasn’t blaming Flames players or mgmt for that, but I could be wrong. Slow news week I guess. And if any 2 Flames players would be okay with showing personality during interviews it would be Iggy and Conny, they were great in interviews because they were more themselves.
I wish more guys would be open, funny, or even more pissed when they talk. Cooley is a breath of fresh air.
He’s not wrong. Just look at what Connor McGregor did for the UFC or Floyd did for boxing, get loud out there
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Highly doubt the players gave a fuck lol
Clickbait way of putting it.
“Steinberg explained:
“Here’s what I can tell you: the Flames players are aware of it. The coaching staff and management are aware of it as well. I think there’s a real understanding that we’re talking about a 19-year-old who has matured a lot over a short period of time. From what I understand after talking to a few people, his teammates aren’t upset with him. If anything, they’re going to give it back to him a little and say, ‘Hey, here’s why you don’t say something like that going forward.’ But it’s coming from a supportive place — he’s still their teammate, and they want to build him up.”
The dinosaurs have spoken
This is such a click bait summarization of what he said, and this whole thing isn’t nearly as big a deal as so many want it to be.
No, they aren’t going to chew out a teenager BC he hurt a bunch of adult’s fee-fees saying they were robots and telling him to give simple answers… it’s a teachable moment for a freshly turned Pro kid, that’s it
Can we fuck off with this clickbait stuff? Listen to what Pat actually says, this is just mouth breathers wanting another excuse to shit on the team lmao
Totally out of the loop here, but what comments did Parekh say?
I think the league off the ice would be much more entertaining if players were freer to speak their minds
Hockey players are boring as shit. Why bother doing media availability when all they do is give the same generic answers.
He will try to be open but he will get burned by the press just like what is going on here. He will then just do what all the other players do and stop giving them anything. This will take care of itself
Garbage clickbait.
There’s too many memes (Thank you Jared Keeso) of very simple, monotone, repetitive and robot-like answers from players in interviews because of the media training these players get, let alone their moods in the moment and exhaustion. I agree with Zayne. Give me some personality. Like Cooley. Genuinely a guy who is so happy to be in the position he is in, happy, very golden retriever energy and a good sport, and you see it in every interview and on the chase series.
Not asking for guys to ream out the mistakes of other players or coaching staff on camera, but man… Add some sauce to the otherwise very bland interviews we see every night league wide.
What did he say? I scrolled down long enough and couldn’t find an answer
Cough *BS* cough
You can’t be mad at him for telling the truth. You can not like it, but that’s an issue with you, not him.
He was right and I thought he did it in a way that didn’t insult anyone in particular or make it personal. Could he have worded it a little better? Maybe. But I don’t see why we can be mad at him for observing how it is and saying “nah, I want to do my own thing.” As long as he’s not insulting or hurting anyone (which he isn’t), it’s a nothingburger.
Habs fan in passing. What garbage ass clickbait “media company” is this. I read the article and it wasn’t at all like this
He wasn’t wrong lol
This is the biggest non-story in ages.
1) His comments are 100% correct and everyone knows it. It’s not going to hurt anyone’s feelings because they know.
2) I legitimately don’t think the comment was directed at players, it was more at the PR guys that coach them to be robots.
3) The media wants more personality, then they do this shit when someone shows it and they stop. If they want personality, celebrate it. Don’t dunk on the guys willing to take a risk and show who they are.
Hes a kid and probably dosnt know what to say and what not to say. Im sure they will talk to him and make sure he knows. Its a teachable moment and I don’t think this will label him a bad teammate
Jesus, what a non-issue
For a league that’s so obsessed with marketing to non-traditional audiences and growing its brand, I can’t get over how ridiculous it is that NHL culture refuses to get out of its own ass and start encouraging players and coaches to act like human beings instead of soulless robots.
Young players speaking their minds? We can’t have that! What audiences really want is hundreds of near-identical quotes about “giving 100%” and such. That’s what really gets the fans going.
The drama over this is stupid. The Flames knew who they were drafting. Elliotte even alluded to the fact that Zayne fell because other orgs were wary of his personality. Flames are going to have to him more leeway and he’ll have to rein it in a bit if they want to find a happy medium. This isn’t a Flames thing either. This is an NHL culture issue. They love the robot aesthetic
I genuinely don’t get what the big deal was, he was just saying sports media is super robotic and forces players to act a certain way and he doesn’t want to lose his personality. As far as I could tell he wasn’t blaming Flames players or mgmt for that, but I could be wrong. Slow news week I guess. And if any 2 Flames players would be okay with showing personality during interviews it would be Iggy and Conny, they were great in interviews because they were more themselves.
I wish more guys would be open, funny, or even more pissed when they talk. Cooley is a breath of fresh air.
He’s not wrong. Just look at what Connor McGregor did for the UFC or Floyd did for boxing, get loud out there
The f did he say?