...nuff said
...nuff said
Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA Level C
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another AA/AS original.
"We are the Pittsburgh Penguins, and we approve this message."
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
How does he feel? Probably like the world's biggest jackass.
Perhaps the world's third biggest jackass.Originally Posted by SteelTorch
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
Id put him behind Meion also...but thats it! Watch him come begging back to the Penguins now that his one year contract is over and Pengo management saying.....Originally Posted by RuthlessBurgher
SCREW YOU HOSSA!!!
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentations of their women.
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The loss was especially hard on Red Wings' misfiring sniper Marian Hossa who spurned the Pens to sign a one-year deal with Detroit as he believed it presented him the best opportunity to win a cup. Hossa struggled mightily under the expectations and was held without a goal in the series.
"Regret? I don't have any regrets," Hossa said following the game. "Whether your like it or not, in life, there's going to be pressure. It squeezes you. It's very difficult to play like that."
In the opinion of TSN hockey Insider Bob McKenzie, that pressure was too much for the normally high scoring Slovak.
"Hossa was physiologically spooked in a big way and just completely off his game," McKenzie stated. "I thought he played better in Game 7, he got a little more going and he seemed to be skating more free and easy, but in the grand scheme of things that's got to be a tough hand shake going down that line."
Former player and current NHL on TSN analyst Ray Ferraro was less generous with his assessment of Hossa's play.
"If you want to try and pick maybe one significant event that determined what the outcome of this series was, it would be that Marian Hossa came up absolutely empty," said Ferraro following the game.
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
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Originally Posted by Bob Smizik
My Steeler Blog:
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I e-mailed Rossi asking him to post of picture of the "BADCHOICE" jersey in his blog.Even in defeat, Hossa has no regrets
By Pierre LeBrun
ESPN.com
DETROIT -- You'll find few nicer guys in the NHL than Marian Hossa. He's a polite chap, a soft-spoken Slovak liked a great deal by most every teammate he's ever had.
But 11 months ago, he slapped the Pittsburgh Penguins in the face, whether he meant to or not, when he turned his back on a five-year, $35 million deal and stunned the hockey world by signing a one-year, $7.45 million deal with Detroit.
"I know myself, I made the right decision," Hossa said on a conference call in July. "But it wasn't easy to throw that much money away. We'll see at the end of next year whether I decided good or not. I truly believe I made the right decision."
One Penguins fan answered that question Friday night when she e-mailed a photo to Pittsburgh Tribune-Review beat writer Rob Rossi of her wearing a Pens jersey with Hossa's old No. 18 with the name "BADCHOICE."
A subdued Hossa came out to meet the media Friday night, just like he has every day during this series, and he answered the same question over and over and over again. He dreamed of winning a Cup in Detroit. Instead, the nightmare scenario became reality for him after the Penguins sealed their win in Game 7.
"That's life, sometimes you make choices," Hossa said. "I still had a great year in this organization. Great guys, great people around. It could go both ways, just one goal makes a difference. You score one more and you celebrate. Sometimes, that's life and you just have to move on. It's a great life experience."
He admitted the pressure of the situation may have got to him. He was scoreless in the seven-game Cup finals series.
"Whether you like it or not, there's lots of pressure," Hossa said. "You learn when the pressure is on and you learn how to handle it. It's squeezing you. It's a pretty tough one. I tried to battle hard, but I couldn't get anything done offensively. ...
"It's not easy. We've got lots of things going on. I tried to block it, but you're human. It's not easy."
Perhaps Penguins fans should be thanking Hossa. After all, if he stayed, perhaps the team doesn't have such a hard time. Perhaps there's no coaching change. Perhaps Bill Guerin and Chris Kunitz aren't acquired at the trade deadline.
"Regret? I don't regret it," Hossa said. "It could be different circumstances if I sign in Pittsburgh. They probably couldn't sign some other players and they'd be a different team. We could sit here for hours discussing this, but it would be a different team and it could be different things."
Penguins blueliner Brooks Orpik said some of his teammates might have felt different, but he didn't begrudge Hossa his decision.
"I have nothing but respect for the guy," Orpik said. "I don't feel bad for him, but he was in a difficult situation."
Pierre LeBrun covers the NHL for ESPN.com.
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
Actually, I don't think Hossa is that bad of a guy. He turned his back on Pittsburgh, and
that was a slap in the face for him to say that the Pens weren't good enough. But you
can't blame the guy for wanting to win. That's what it's all about, isn't it? So many times
we scream at players for being all about the money, but Hossa turned down money to win.
With that said... :P
I say SCREW HOSSA as well but I think the reason he left was alot because of Michael Therrian.....as long as it worked out for the Pens! World Champs 2009!!!
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