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"We were brainwashed"... - MikeS - 07-06-2005
From the TSN site comes this beauty:
Quote:Kings' Avery: Players were brainwashedNow, contrast the bold text above to JR's comments last week...
Los Angeles Kings forward Sean Avery says NHL players were wrong and are sorry for the lockout which cost fans an entire NHL season.
"We were brainwashed," he tells the Los Angeles Times about the decision to follow the union's advice during contract talks with the owners.
"We burned a year for nothing. We didn't win anything. We didn't prove anything. We didn't get anything. We wasted an entire season."
Avery places the blame for hte situation squarely on the shoulders of union boss Bob Goodenow, who he says "embarassed" a lot of players.
"I am furious at Bob (Goodenow)," Avery tells the newspaper. "Bob thought he was bigger than he was. Bob brainwashed players like me."
The NHLPA declined to comment on the story.
Avery claims most of the players did not know what was going on during the talks, did not know the "real story".
"We underestimated how rich the owners were," he said. "Nobody thought they would be willing to burn a season."
"They won. They beat us."
Avery says he understands the fans negative reaction towards the players.
"The saddest thing that happened to me during the lockout was the two or three times that fans asked me what was going on," he said. "I wished I could have apologized to them then. I apologize to them now."
"We owe the fans everything, we need to get them back, we need to cross our fingers that they will come back," he said.
Avery is the latest player to come out and criticize the union's position during the lockout in the last week. Detroit Red Wings goaltender Manny Legace, a union representative, called the past year "a farce" and that they wasted a lot of money for nothing.
Sounds like we're nearing the end of this debacle...
- cferneyh - 07-06-2005
That's HILARIOUS! Avery was one of the more outspoken players - saying that the players would put together their own league and other nonsense like that. It is unfortunate that it players this long to figure out they were fighting a losing battle - and it cost them all one year of their career. For a third liner like Avery, losing one year out of what won't be a long career has to hurt.
- MikeS - 07-06-2005
Here are a couple of other quotes from the same LA Times article that TSN cropped:
Quote:"To be honest with you, most of us didn't know what was going on," Avery said. "Guys had no control over the situation. Guys were out there giving interviews and we didn't know the real story. Bob embarrassed a lot of guys."
Quote:"The fans get taken for granted, but, to them, a million dollars is a million dollars," he said. "And we're going to come out looking like crybabies and whiners."
Quote: Avery was so frustrated during the lockout, he skated in two places he never imagined.I can't help but think of the scene in "A Fish Called Wanda" with John Cleese being held out of the building window by his ankles as I read that...a fitting metaphor, actually... :wink:
For the Motor City Mechanics in a low-level United Hockey League.
And with 10-year-olds at a youth hockey practice.
"I'm skating around with these kids and thinking, I should be at Staples Center and they should be watching me," said Avery, the tough guy humbled, his peers humiliated, their sport saved.
"Can you please tell all the fans that we're sorry?" he said. "We're really, really sorry."
For those too young to remember (from IMDB.com):
Quote:[Otto dangles Archie out a window]:lol:
Archie: All right, all right, I apologize.
Otto: You're really sorry.
Archie: I'm really really sorry, I apologize unreservedly.
Otto: You take it back.
Archie: I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.
Otto: OK.
- robert goulet - 07-06-2005
Sean Avery seems to be easily brainwashed....Bob Goodenow has pulled the wool over his eyes and his former Player Agent, David Frost had mind control over him and many other players including the now locked-up Mike Danton.
Sean if you happen to read this, I have an uncle in Nigeria that just passed away and I need your credit card information so that I can get his entire estate's assets transferred back into Canada....he was a diamond mine owner....it's a great opportunity.
Goulet!!!
- cferneyh - 07-06-2005
robert goulet Wrote:Sean if you happen to read this, I have an uncle in Nigeria that just passed away and I need your credit card information so that I can get his entire estate's assets transferred back into Canada....he was a diamond mine owner....it's a great opportunity.Goulet!!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
- gratts99 - 07-06-2005
me thinks the players are missing some of their $$$, and getting a little bored.
- j-monster - 07-06-2005
Well, no one ever said hockey players were geniuses. I guess it didn't take much to brainwash them, did it?
- northern wave - 07-06-2005
poor sean...to be brainwashed, don't you have to have a brain???
- lilbones - 07-07-2005
Mr. Avery has a penchant for being a bit of a moron, so I wouldn't say that the players are finally seeing the light or anything because of his comments...he's a jerk, and he's shown that time after time.
However, if they havent signed off on a new CBA within two weeks i'd be surprised.