Ryan O'Byrne purse story
Sept 24, 2009 18:28:40 GMT -5
Post by Willie Dog on Sept 24, 2009 18:28:40 GMT -5
Raymond Bertrand wrote this and if this is the whole story then Obie has a ton of true character and deserves to wear that jersey.
Bertrand, who appears to be a very good writer, also goes on to comment on SK74.
I used google translate to put it in english. The link below is in french with the english translation below.
ruefrontenac.com/bertrandraymond/11103-raymond-22sept
Are you ready to forgive Ryan O'Byrne?
It is not uncommon that there is at least one unloved in a professional sport. It is unclear how an antipathy arises between the public and an athlete, but it rarely stays at the stage of irritation.
Let us remember the case Patrice Brisebois. An English journalist had taken a dislike noted each of his mistakes, he had found a thousand faults in the transition until a certain faction of fans may be coming to the conclusion that it might be true Brisebois, after all, was more a nuisance than a useful feature.
The first thing we knew, was that the crowd fell on him night after night. Often, we find that it is "in" to undermine an athlete and to destabilize the entire world, just to see if it will stand or whether it will collapse. This is substantially what happened in the case of Ryan O'Byrne last year.
The big guy from the Vancouver area, Canadian fourth choice in 2003, collected the guards. Bodychecks failed, erratic passing game, mess in goal, but in his own net, while there was. Unlike Brisebois who already had a long track record behind him when it happened, O'Byrne never had time to build anything solid with the public before we come to consider a champion league garage.
Then one evening in Tampa, he found himself in handcuffs after an alleged theft of purse. Tom Kostopoulos, who wanted to argue vigorously her case to the police, was locked up in turn. The two spent the night in jail. It was great state of team spirit displayed by Kotsopoulos at this time. He did nothing wrong, they said, since he found himself in trouble only because he wanted to help O'Byrne.
In fact, the true team player was O'Byrne. See if a well-paid professional athlete needed to steal a few dollars in a bag to pay for a nightcap! The truth is that the girl who complained had used his cell phone to take a compromising photo of a Canadiens player inside the bar. O'Byrne was accused of theft by the groupie, just trying to recover the device to erase a stereotype that could be found across America on YouTube.
O'Byrne was accused left without disclosing the true story. How could he tell the incident without compromising the teammate he had tried to protect? It took all the blame and he later paid a fine of $ 2500 with a promise to keep the peace.
What I liked about him is that he faced the media the next day. I do not remember exactly what he told them, but it did not pass. Besides, it has done so after scoring a goal in his own net. Nevertheless, during the last season, he must have felt very lonely in this city who shot at him. He finished the campaign in a hail of criticism before going home, where he has applied to take stock of his professional debut sad.
The examination of conscience
Did it have to be a bit masochistic to spend part of summer to watch his monstrous blunders of last season! He wanted to have the heart net. How had he come to fall so low in the esteem of everybody? Why he, a defender of the future, he behaved as a junior? Nevertheless, he has not spent most of his time to question.
He joined a boxing gym. There he learned to make better use of his six feet five inches and 235 pounds to add aggression to his game and to better defend the tip of the fist. He added eight pounds in muscle mass at the same time. He knew he had to return earlier than an honorable place in public opinion. In September, we certainly did not welcome him, saying that all was forgotten.
At camp, I was just not his when he recounted his conscientious review of the summer and its intention to become an important advocate. He looked incredulous media with great confidence in his eyes. He had no intention of changing. He had already changed. The time has come for the public and the media to change their views, too. We came very close to the hunt for Montreal last season. We've seen athletes insist on being traded for much less than that. The criticism could undermine what little confidence he had left and send it to the floor for consideration. Quarries have been broken this way.
Judging by his reaction, it was here that he wants to play and he is determined to take drastic measures to get there. Before such a determination, it is time to give a chance, I think. In the play without leaving booed at every opportunity, who knows what he can bring to the Canadian in the future? Certainly we can not throw in the towel too quickly with a lawyer of 25 years built like a wardrobe and has a very good skating ...
O'Byrne is currently regarded as the seventh defenseman on the team. It is possible that he does not finish the season in that role. Especially since Jacques Martin, who was already interested in him when he was general manager of the Panthers, will probably give him the space he needs to rebuild his confidence.
I know that Canadians invested $ 3.8 million in two defenders late-career (Gill and Mara), but the day is perhaps not far off when O'Byrne notching their schedule. Are you ready to wipe out the young cafouilleur past a defender is determined to take charge? O'Byrne has probably need this forgiveness to complete his mental preparation for the summer.
Again it
Sunday morning, 7:45, Sergei Kostitsyn is a prisoner in two or three roadblocks in the construction sector of Brossard. He does not know where to squeeze to achieve the training center where the team go to eight hours to get to Quebec by bus. It calls for teammates to tell them it will never be there in time. The bus leaves without him, as is the rule. Kostitsyn found someone to take him to Quebec, where he arrived just in time for the morning training.
This morning, a radio station, a columnist blamed coach Jacques Martin for letting him play in Quebec. He said it was the right time for Martin to assert its authority, it did not. It was even hoped that Kostitsyn is the group of players cut Tuesday.
Martin has probably recognized that what happened in the case of his turbulent teenage striker is rife for months in Quebec. We've all been "corked" in traffic behind endless roadworks. Besides, the buses that brought players in Ottawa late Saturday evening tasted this medicine at various places ...
Martin was not as good prince who tried to believe in leaving Brossard while leaving the player to cope with its problems. And you can easily think that he strongly recommended to do it an hour earlier next time. Because if there is a next time, it is the road to Hamilton that he should borrow
Bertrand, who appears to be a very good writer, also goes on to comment on SK74.
I used google translate to put it in english. The link below is in french with the english translation below.
ruefrontenac.com/bertrandraymond/11103-raymond-22sept
Are you ready to forgive Ryan O'Byrne?
It is not uncommon that there is at least one unloved in a professional sport. It is unclear how an antipathy arises between the public and an athlete, but it rarely stays at the stage of irritation.
Let us remember the case Patrice Brisebois. An English journalist had taken a dislike noted each of his mistakes, he had found a thousand faults in the transition until a certain faction of fans may be coming to the conclusion that it might be true Brisebois, after all, was more a nuisance than a useful feature.
The first thing we knew, was that the crowd fell on him night after night. Often, we find that it is "in" to undermine an athlete and to destabilize the entire world, just to see if it will stand or whether it will collapse. This is substantially what happened in the case of Ryan O'Byrne last year.
The big guy from the Vancouver area, Canadian fourth choice in 2003, collected the guards. Bodychecks failed, erratic passing game, mess in goal, but in his own net, while there was. Unlike Brisebois who already had a long track record behind him when it happened, O'Byrne never had time to build anything solid with the public before we come to consider a champion league garage.
Then one evening in Tampa, he found himself in handcuffs after an alleged theft of purse. Tom Kostopoulos, who wanted to argue vigorously her case to the police, was locked up in turn. The two spent the night in jail. It was great state of team spirit displayed by Kotsopoulos at this time. He did nothing wrong, they said, since he found himself in trouble only because he wanted to help O'Byrne.
In fact, the true team player was O'Byrne. See if a well-paid professional athlete needed to steal a few dollars in a bag to pay for a nightcap! The truth is that the girl who complained had used his cell phone to take a compromising photo of a Canadiens player inside the bar. O'Byrne was accused of theft by the groupie, just trying to recover the device to erase a stereotype that could be found across America on YouTube.
O'Byrne was accused left without disclosing the true story. How could he tell the incident without compromising the teammate he had tried to protect? It took all the blame and he later paid a fine of $ 2500 with a promise to keep the peace.
What I liked about him is that he faced the media the next day. I do not remember exactly what he told them, but it did not pass. Besides, it has done so after scoring a goal in his own net. Nevertheless, during the last season, he must have felt very lonely in this city who shot at him. He finished the campaign in a hail of criticism before going home, where he has applied to take stock of his professional debut sad.
The examination of conscience
Did it have to be a bit masochistic to spend part of summer to watch his monstrous blunders of last season! He wanted to have the heart net. How had he come to fall so low in the esteem of everybody? Why he, a defender of the future, he behaved as a junior? Nevertheless, he has not spent most of his time to question.
He joined a boxing gym. There he learned to make better use of his six feet five inches and 235 pounds to add aggression to his game and to better defend the tip of the fist. He added eight pounds in muscle mass at the same time. He knew he had to return earlier than an honorable place in public opinion. In September, we certainly did not welcome him, saying that all was forgotten.
At camp, I was just not his when he recounted his conscientious review of the summer and its intention to become an important advocate. He looked incredulous media with great confidence in his eyes. He had no intention of changing. He had already changed. The time has come for the public and the media to change their views, too. We came very close to the hunt for Montreal last season. We've seen athletes insist on being traded for much less than that. The criticism could undermine what little confidence he had left and send it to the floor for consideration. Quarries have been broken this way.
Judging by his reaction, it was here that he wants to play and he is determined to take drastic measures to get there. Before such a determination, it is time to give a chance, I think. In the play without leaving booed at every opportunity, who knows what he can bring to the Canadian in the future? Certainly we can not throw in the towel too quickly with a lawyer of 25 years built like a wardrobe and has a very good skating ...
O'Byrne is currently regarded as the seventh defenseman on the team. It is possible that he does not finish the season in that role. Especially since Jacques Martin, who was already interested in him when he was general manager of the Panthers, will probably give him the space he needs to rebuild his confidence.
I know that Canadians invested $ 3.8 million in two defenders late-career (Gill and Mara), but the day is perhaps not far off when O'Byrne notching their schedule. Are you ready to wipe out the young cafouilleur past a defender is determined to take charge? O'Byrne has probably need this forgiveness to complete his mental preparation for the summer.
Again it
Sunday morning, 7:45, Sergei Kostitsyn is a prisoner in two or three roadblocks in the construction sector of Brossard. He does not know where to squeeze to achieve the training center where the team go to eight hours to get to Quebec by bus. It calls for teammates to tell them it will never be there in time. The bus leaves without him, as is the rule. Kostitsyn found someone to take him to Quebec, where he arrived just in time for the morning training.
This morning, a radio station, a columnist blamed coach Jacques Martin for letting him play in Quebec. He said it was the right time for Martin to assert its authority, it did not. It was even hoped that Kostitsyn is the group of players cut Tuesday.
Martin has probably recognized that what happened in the case of his turbulent teenage striker is rife for months in Quebec. We've all been "corked" in traffic behind endless roadworks. Besides, the buses that brought players in Ottawa late Saturday evening tasted this medicine at various places ...
Martin was not as good prince who tried to believe in leaving Brossard while leaving the player to cope with its problems. And you can easily think that he strongly recommended to do it an hour earlier next time. Because if there is a next time, it is the road to Hamilton that he should borrow