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Originally posted by MrMastodonFarm+Jul 28 2004, 11:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MrMastodonFarm @ Jul 28 2004, 11:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-SuperNilson@Jul 29 2004, 05:44 AM
I'm proud to say i've always supported Turek.. however he definetely wasn't worth his old pay cheque and I commend him for taking a pay cut.
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Support? What do you mean support?
Does criticizing a player for piss poor play mean you are not supporting him? No, it means you are being honest. Why would you be “proud” to say you supported him? Does that mean you had blind faith and didn’t notice his poor play? Honestly, I am confused on that.
I have seen numerous posters on this message board proudly proclaim that they stood by Roman Turek. Well whoop de do! Just because I criticized his play when he play playing very poorly doesn’t mean I didn’t “support” him, it means he sucked and he wasn’t playing well and he deserved the chastising he received. Simple as that.
Turek has always been a great human being, and I think it is hilarious to see people proclaim they have always supported him before he took a pay cut. Well good for you guys for doing that, it just means you are blind and didn’t see how awful he was playing. [/b][/quote]
Because he has always been a great goalie.. I can't see a reason to blame him at all last season.... He trains his ass off over the summer, comes into camp fired up, has an excellent training camp, get's injured once early on, comes back, get's a major knee injury, is out for many months, comes back at a VERY tough part of the season where I don't think he was 100% ready to come back, His knee was still bothering him during all that Turek hating that ran rampant through the city of Calgary, Kipper comes back giving Turek time to heal up on the bench, and plays some magnificent hockey at the end of the season when needed.
I saw absolutely not reason to bash the guy, aside from his paycheque. You try being a 6'4" butterfly goalie with a wonky knee and having an entire city hate you.
So yes, I'm very proud that I didn't stoop to hopping on the Turek hating bandwagon.