Chara half assed the Stanley Cup final because he didn't cry when he lost. What a boring life he must lead. Bergeron too.
I guess anyone who laughed at Marchand crying deserves to be shamed by you and the likewise intellectually advanced?
You don’t get it. Not everyone cries, not everyone has to cry in that moment. Whether you do or don’t doesn’t matter, because everyone is different and responds to it differently.
But people who know what it feels like to give everything for something, and either get it (or lose it) will understand that it’s perfectly ok to cry in that moment whether out of happiness or disappointment.
To call it disrespectful or classless is just idiotic. That’s all. It doesn’t make you manly, or old fashioned, or anything worthy of respect when you trot in here with a “crying? lol what is crying??”
And by all means, laugh at Marchand for crying. Because if you don’t like a guy on an opposing team, it’d be wrong to deny yourself the schadenfreude of seeing them in that level of crushing disappointment.
Taking a little bit of joy in watching a player you don’t like cry is fine. I still find joy watching Kesler cry. But trying to categorise it as some shameful thing that isn’t befitting of a respectful classy gentleman is just embarrassing to watch lol.
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I just said I don't like when guys lose a championship and cry.
Then you’ve never earned or lost something that significant (relative to your own life of course), and that’s a very sad thing indeed.
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I had no intention of the post getting any legs. Marchand crying has blown up social media and I just said I don't like when guys lose a championship and cry. I'm sure many people on this very board laughed at him for crying.
Maybe show some grace in defeat is all I'm saying.
For the record I never said anywhere that men shouldn't cry, or the crying implies lack of manliness etc.
Not laughing at a player for crying is showing some grace.
Not being annoyed with a player for crying after losing on the biggest stage is showing some grace.
Crying when losing one of the biggest games/moments of your career is not a lack of grace.
Lack of grace would be walking off the ice before the handshake line. Doing the handshake line and telling the other players to "f-off". Throwing your silver medal into the crowd. Those are examples of what you should be annoyed with.
The players don't cry because the other team win, they cry because they didn't and their dreams weren't realized.
I have always wondered how dangerous that con smythe trophy would be during celebrations. Booze + the Vlad the Impaler of trophies probably equals some very close calls.
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IMO this is pretty significant. I imagine part of this is due to the incoming coach being a breath of fresh air lifting the locker room. The other part is that maybe some established good teams hold on to their existing head coach too long after successive failures. Certainly seemed to be the case with Blysma in Pittsburgh but I feel in the case of the Blues that Mike Yeo was always a suspect hire seeing locker rooms tend to really hate this guy in short order.
The stat itself is cool but I get the feeling if we look at the entire sample size of mid-season coaching changes, the vast majority of them led to very unsatisfactory results.
