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Originally Posted by Eubee
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Lol, what a great link - thank you
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They absolutely detested Zack Kassian in Edmonton, once upon a time, when he broke then-Oiler Sam Gagner’s jaw with a cheap high stick in pre-season, then mocked Gagner when he returned in December wearing a face shield.
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So, Reminder #1: This dude is a real POS
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“That’s funny isn’t it?” said the Windsor-born [you just knew this guy was from Windsor...] winger. “If you’d have told me that (they’d chant my name) a couple of years ago, I’d have bet every dollar that I had… But I expect nothing less than that from the fans here. They’re so passionate.”
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Neither do we
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Kassian’s passion used to be for good times, not hockey, and he rolled through three organizations as an ever-diminishing asset before Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli acquired him for a song (goalie Ben Scrivens) from Montreal. There, he’d signed his exit papers with a late-night car wreck involving two girls, a truck, and who knows what type of fuel.
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Reminder #2: No, you need to understand.. this guy is really a real big POS. But for good measure, Spector minimizes ("who knows what type of fuel") Kassian allegedly driving down a highway intoxicated to the point he passes out behind the wheel:
Spoiler!
According to a report from Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette, Kassian testified that he had at no point that night been behind the wheel of his vehicle, but there were 2 other people inside the car with Kassian at the time and one of them disputes that claim.
“I crawled into the back seat and fell asleep. The rest I don’t recall,” said Kassian as per the Montreal Gazette.
The other passenger in the car, a young woman named Gemma Brown, testified that it was Kassian who was initially behind the steering wheel of his pickup as the trio left his home early that morning. She also added that Kassian appeared to fall asleep while driving down the highway and it was at that point that she and De Courcy-Ireland managed to place Kassian in the backseat. This obviously is a stark contract to Kassian's testimony although how this might impact him moving forward, especially given how long it has been since this incident, remains to be seen.
A video recording inside the ambulance caught Kassian lying to an ambulance technician about the substances he had consumed that evening, and Kassian was pressed about whether or not he may have lied regarding other details of his story.
“If you are trying to prove that I was driving, it is false, completely false,” Kassian said near the end of his testimony.
https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/...ny-in-dui-case
...just to remind everyone that reporting and analyzing what he writes isn't the Spector way
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Kassian was everything you want of a power forward in Game 2, laying Sharks players out left and right, winning board battles, killing penalties…
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Those hits seem to be a-ok then! A big part of the game, no doubt.
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It was this organization’s original builder, Glen Sather, who began an Edmonton tradition of taking a chance on a player in need of a second or third chance. He signed a 25-year-old Craig MacTavish out of a Massachusetts prison three months before his sentence was up for vehicular homicide, and MacTavish turned into a pillar of the Oilers dynasty years.
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Organizational Reminder: No matter the level of disrespect for others' well-being they've shown, who they murdered in 1984, or who's lives they put in jeopardy a few months ago. What happens in your personal life, no matter how despicable, will be ignored here in Edmonton. We'll happily give you millions no matter the person you are.
Somehow, this is a good thing.
Quite often any article dug up from the Oilers past is hilarious in hindsight, but this one was extra special. Great reference to hard and clean hits that turn the game around... WHILE linking Kassian with MacT's vehicular homicide? *Chef's kiss*