08-03-2018, 12:03 PM
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#341
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by bax
I also disagree with the Sun’s headline, but I find it somewhat amusing that so many here are rushing to the defense of Brouwer when there has been so much vitriol posted about him on this very board.
He’s been the butt of the joke on here for a while with much worse things said about him then “get outta here”.
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I'll take more responsibility for it once I start getting paid for my opinion.
In the meantime, I'm allowed to say what I personally think of Brouwer's play for this hockey team, but I still have to answer to myself.
Have I asked for him to be launched into the Sun? Yes. I think even the densest of people would figure out that hyperbole. But I strictly reserve those comments to 'Professional Hockey Player Troy Brouwer' and not personal Troy Brouwer.
Treliving is right, hes still a person and I wish him nothing but the best, he just didnt fit with this team, but his contract and his play was negatively affecting the hockey team that I watch. I'm not running him over with a bus or anything.
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08-03-2018, 12:09 PM
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#342
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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I encourage anyone offended by this to complain to the Sun. This is bush league stuff and this city and its fans deserve better than this type of representation by our newspapers as we are much classier than this. We would be roasting Edmonton if their media printed this headline. Maybe time for a "Calgary Sun is no good" thread.
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08-03-2018, 12:10 PM
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#343
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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I totally read that headline with the Scorpion Mortal Kombat voice.
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08-03-2018, 12:15 PM
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#344
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Regina
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Here is the thing, I would take Brouwer on the Flames this year at 1 million per year. But he was grossly over paid for the player that we all watched the last 150 games. Not sure if it was usage mixed with he just is not the player we thought he was or what happened
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08-03-2018, 12:24 PM
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#345
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chemgear
I totally read that headline with the Scorpion Mortal Kombat voice.
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I take offense to this.
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08-03-2018, 12:25 PM
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#346
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheScorpion
I take offense to this.
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No need to have a sub-zero attitude about it
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08-03-2018, 12:25 PM
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#347
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I encourage anyone offended by this to complain to the Sun. This is bush league stuff and this city and its fans deserve better than this type of representation by our newspapers as we are much classier than this. We would be roasting Edmonton if their media printed this headline. Maybe time for a "Calgary Sun is no good" thread.
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Sent them a good one on Facebook.
It's not just the fact they are taking a low blow at a person that just lost his job (yes I know he's still being paid) but it almost makes me embarrassed to be Calgarian.
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08-03-2018, 12:28 PM
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#348
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Lifetime Suspension
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Absolutely brutal take by the Sun. What an embarrassment to the city. Honestly I expect more.
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08-03-2018, 12:28 PM
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#349
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Oh man, that is likely why Canadian markets are harder on players. I doubt this gets more than 3 paragraph's in a paper in Dallas if this was a Dallas Stars player being bought out.
You can't fault players for the contracts they sign...who wouldn't. The Flames over valued Brouwer based on him having a pretty decent playoff with the Blues. As many mention, after that injury early in the first year he struggled to get back on track. Than add in that even in the last two years the game looks to be moving towards skating and speed, and the guys like Brouwer who are slowing down, are losing their place.
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08-03-2018, 12:33 PM
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#350
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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Yea I wasn't expecting it to be that bad.. It's not even a clever pun or something.
I was one of Brouwer's least favorite fans but that headline is pure crap.
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08-03-2018, 12:35 PM
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#351
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broke the first rule
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That newspaper needs to be fired into the sun.
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08-03-2018, 12:38 PM
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#352
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bax
I also disagree with the Sun’s headline, but I find it somewhat amusing that so many here are rushing to the defense of Brouwer when there has been so much vitriol posted about him on this very board.
He’s been the butt of the joke on here for a while with much worse things said about him then “get outta here”.
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We are posters on a message board.
That is the front page of one of two major publications in the city.
You don’t see a difference here?
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08-03-2018, 12:41 PM
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#353
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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The calgarysun is trash. I haven't read an article of theirs in years. Cringe worthy covers like this is the only thing that brings readers in.
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08-03-2018, 01:06 PM
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#354
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Once you’re done reading it you unread it?
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I don't know how to do that.
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08-03-2018, 01:14 PM
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#355
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North Vancouver
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Just sent a strongly worded email to the Sun, not that they'll care. Like most of you, I wanted Brouwer gone as much as anybody, but that headline is just mean-spirited and classless. That paper is an embarrassment. Always has been.
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08-03-2018, 01:20 PM
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#356
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
I don't know how to do that.
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Me neither. Just grasping at straws.
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08-03-2018, 01:29 PM
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#357
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Norm!
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In terms of us all coming out in defense of Brouwer against the Sun, after years of Brouwer being our whipping boy.
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08-03-2018, 01:35 PM
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#358
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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I get some of the dislike thrown towards Brouwer the hockey player but this kind of crap by a local media outlet is tasteless.
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08-03-2018, 01:36 PM
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#359
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Flames Town
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Quote:
Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Wotherspoon lol
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my bad. oops
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08-03-2018, 01:41 PM
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#360
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
We are posters on a message board.
That is the front page of one of two major publications in the city.
You don’t see a difference here?
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No, I understand the difference. I just find it amusing that posters are upset with the sun for saying something classless about Brouwer when many posters have been doing the same thing here if not worse for over a year.
This is still a public message board in which Troy or any of him family members could read. Anonymity shouldn't be an excuse to say hurtful things about a stranger.
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