The worst interview possible.
The time you get up to get a drink, have a whiz, maybe go check your mail.
I hate player interviews. I can sit and listen to Pat Steinberg and Rob Kerr chase each others tails all afternoon long before I can sit through 48 seconds of an interview with Josh Jooris or Joni Ortio, or Sid Crosby for that matter. In their defense, the interviewer is often just as at fault. The same dull, boring questions get asked over and over. I'm not sure who's worse.
The odd, VERY odd interviewee comes along once in a while that might be half ass interesting, or maybe entertaining. They're far and few between though. PK Subban, Drew Doughty come to mind. Maybe Brizghalov or whatever his name is. He can be unpredictable and good as well. Conroy was alright, but the guy was mostly psycho babble. He's a little more reigned in now as management, and can be quite interesting.
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The player often exhales at the start of his answer, and may look above the head of the person who asked the question. The word “obviously” serves as punctuation. Questions about individual plays are met with redirection to group contributions. (“Full credit to my linemates.”) Even group success is often deferred to either the opposing team being well-coached and hard-working. At the very least, the venue for the game is acknowledged by the visiting player. (“This is a tough barn to play in.”)
While you can’t paint everyone with the same brush, there’s a common dialect in the language of the game that stretches across every level — a common hockeyspeak.
Stock phrases become fallback positions: “It’s a tough two points we got tonight. We really had to dig deep, grind it out … That’s a really well-coached group and hard-working team over there. Full credit to those guys … For us, we just have to keep working … There are no easy games in this league. If you don’t bring your A game every night, anyone can beat you … It’s gut check time. Every guy in this room has to look in the mirror … I liked our compete level/I thought our compete was lacking tonight … At the end of the day … ”
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03...r-generations/