Commodore 64 Ripping Babcock and Arniel

[Bertuzzied]

hahahaha. well at least he isn't boring.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...9059--nhl.html

“I'm very disappointed with how my last year in Columbus went and with my year in Detroit. I feel I was treated piss poor; I was thrown off the team in Columbus because I was single and I was making a lot of money. The coach was jealous because he played a lot of years, he had a wife and kids and he felt he didn't earn a lot of money so he booted me off the team. The next year he started doing the same to Derick Brassardbut he got fired before he could finish it.”


“I hung up the phone, five minutes left. My gut screamed ‘Say No!’ This coach screwed me over nine years ago. He buried me in the paper after I had a good camp in Anaheim. He buried me so I would look bad so he could then play his boy from juniors who was an undrafted rookie at camp that year ... Kurt Sauer. Six years later when I finally had a chance to take a shot back at him publicly I did so in the paper when I was in Columbus. But then I started to think about Detroit, a good team, always makes the playoffs, get to play with great players, and about maybe getting the opportunity. So I took Mike Babcock's word and I signed the contract, thirty minutes into free agency. I signed the [expletive] contract faster than when I was a ‘hot commodity’ four years earlier. I was one of the first players gone that year in free agency. Off the board July 1st.
“I went to camp in Detroit, and got scratched out. I did injure my knee a bit so I missed couple of days in camp and the first four games. I got back as if it was nothing major. I came back, and the team won its first five games. I got scratched, but okay, the team was winning. We lost seven in a row, then I wasn’t even close to playing. Scratch, scratch.

Suck it Scott Arniel!

[Gaskal]

No wonder the Blue Jackets suck.

[puckluck2]

Honestly think he must be the worst player in history to earn as much as he did.

[Table 5]

Kicked off because he was single and made a lot of money? Sure Mike, that sounds totally plausible.

[Ashasx]

It's actually pretty funny.

[irrevocable]

He doesn't have a soul. We all know that to be true. ####ing ginger.

[GreenLantern2814]

I hate stories like these. It'd be one thing if Steve Yzerman came out years later and said 'Scotty Bowman was a prick and I hated every moment he coached me'. A marginally talented stay at home D who got an $18M deal and a cup ring on the backs of other people coming out after becoming essentially exiled to Russia just screams pathetic sour grapes to me.

STFU, Mike Babcock is smarter than you. He has hardware because he's one of the best coaches in the league. You have hardware because Cam Ward and Eric Staal were on your team.

[Northendzone]

Commodore got an $18m deal........I want to work in a salary cap world......

[FAN]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Suck it Scott Arniel!

Was that pic taken from his mom's basement?

[FAN]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Kicked off because he was single and made a lot of money? Sure Mike, that sounds totally plausible.

You know it may be not believable, but that's actually entirely plausible. Let's face it, discrimination exists. It's certainly not the first time we've heard a coach being accused of not liking a player because a player's life may have gone too smoothly in the mind of the coach.

Let's face it, if you're a family man and you're choosing between hiring a 30 year old with a wife and kids and a 30 year old who is single and loves to party who would you hire? Despite the long hours and commitment, hockey teams are generally filled with family-oriented guys. I don't think there are many 30 year old NHL players who are single and likes to party.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by FAN

I don't think there are many 30 year old NHL players who are single and likes to party.

[Erick Estrada]

He's a colourful character and IMO the league needs more not less Mike Commodores. Maybe some of them could be better hockey players but he did have a couple of decent years.

[strombad]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

I hate stories like these. It'd be one thing if Steve Yzerman came out years later and said 'Scotty Bowman was a prick and I hated every moment he coached me'. A marginally talented stay at home D who got an $18M deal and a cup ring on the backs of other people coming out after becoming essentially exiled to Russia just screams pathetic sour grapes to me.

STFU, Mike Babcock is smarter than you. He has hardware because he's one of the best coaches in the league. You have hardware because Cam Ward and Eric Staal were on your team.

I'm shocked at how seriously you took his hilarious comment.

[browna]

Yeah I don't doubt that a coach would prefer some players over others, given the attitude and perception (a partier) they have of certain players.

A character like Commodore likely isn't for every coach, especially if he already had had him earlier in his career and didn't see much of a change when he got him again.

I think you can toss SOB in there as well as a similar type guy.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Professional athlete.........

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by FAN

You know it may be not believable, but that's actually entirely plausible. Let's face it, discrimination exists. It's certainly not the first time we've heard a coach being accused of not liking a player because a player's life may have gone too smoothly in the mind of the coach.

Let's face it, if you're a family man and you're choosing between hiring a 30 year old with a wife and kids and a 30 year old who is single and loves to party who would you hire? Despite the long hours and commitment, hockey teams are generally filled with family-oriented guys. I don't think there are many 30 year old NHL players who are single and likes to party.

He never mentioned partying as being the reason. Just that he didnt like him because he was single and made a lot of money. While there are a lot of married guys in the NHL, there are also a ton of single guys. And they all pretty much make money...so it's not like his position is anything special exactly.

Arniel might not have liked Commodore because he was a ginger. He might not have liked him because he had a big mouth. He might not have liked him because he was a bubble player. But not like him, and waive him, because he was single and had money? Yeah, that just seems like a really huge reach.

The guy was a borderline NHLer his entire career...him being cut from a team is not really that big of a surprise.

[FAN]

Originally Posted by Table 5

He never mentioned partying as being the reason. Just that he didnt like him because he was single and made a lot of money. While there are a lot of married guys in the NHL, there are also a ton of single guys. And they all pretty much make money...so it's not like his position is anything special exactly.

Arniel might not have liked Commodore because he was a ginger. He might not have liked him because he had a big mouth. He might not have liked him because he was a bubble player. But not like him, and waive him, because he was single and had money? Yeah, that just seems like a really huge reach.

Okay tell me this and this is actually a serious question. How many 30 year olds in the NHL are actually single? Take the Flames team from previous years. Whose 30 and single? This might actually be a nice trivia question, name the last 30+ year old full-time Calgary Flame with no long-time girlfriend, no kids, and no previous wives.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by FAN

Okay tell me this and this is actually a serious question. How many 30 year olds in the NHL are actually single? Take the Flames team from previous years. Whose 30 and single? This might actually be a nice trivia question, name the last 30+ year old full-time Calgary Flame with no long-time girlfriend, no kids, and no previous wives.

I have no idea, but I do know that the average age of a Canadian man getting married is 31 (and for an American, it's 29.8). So a 30 year old single guy doesn't sound that odd to me. And pretty much all NHLers are rich, so that would be no surprise to anyone either.

Let's face it, the guy was a bubble-defenseman his entire career who was very lucky to even play as much as he did. The man who who was supposedly jealous of him played almost 300 more NHL games than he did. Commodore bounced around 7 different organizations in a decade...were all those organizations jealous? Or did they just realize that he wasn't very good, and moved on? Guys like this need to be extremely professional to stick around. Maybe he did party too much to the point where it was the different between him being an NHLer or not? Maybe he just didn't have what it takes to be an NHLer anymore? I don't know.

But him not getting a chance because he was single and had money? That seems like such a BS excuse. Otherwise Sidney Crosby better start looking for a wife soon.

[albertGQ]

Didn't Andrew Ference criticize Big Red for slinging drinks at Cowboys one year during training camp when Toker felt he should be working out?

[Robbob]

good on parker and Commodore, eventually the fan bases will get together and get rid of all these coaches.

I really shouldn't have to green text that.