good Jack Todd article.(hides from spiro)
Dec 2, 2002 22:37:31 GMT -5
Post by wade on Dec 2, 2002 22:37:31 GMT -5
Please dont let spiro hurt me for posting this...
Stand up and cheer Brisebois
By JACK TODD
Montreal Gazette
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Did you see that play Patrick Brrrrrr-eeeeeeze-by ...
Nope. Not gonna do it. I'm sure you're holding the breath, waiting for the MMQB to rip Patrice Brisebois for that bad pass the other night, but y'know what? It ain't gonna happen. Matter of fact, Mr. Brisebois gets a free ride in this column forevermore.
Why? Because Brisebois has class, that's why. Because in a day and age when more and more players think they have no obligation to meet the media, when more and more athletes hide after a loss and almost all disappear when it was their gaffe that cost the game, Brisebois is front and centre every night. He takes the heat, he doesn't make excuses, he's there win or lose.
That play against the Flyers aside, Brisebois is having a solid season. He's doing it defensively, he's getting his points, he's logging tons of minutes played. Oh - and did we mention? Brisebois plays hurt. Last year, this year, lots of other seasons.
So the next time you see No. 43 lugging the puck at the Bell Centre, stand up and cheer. Brisebois is the last player left from that '93 Stanley Cup, he loves being a Canadien, he sets an example that dozens of other athletes would do well to follow. Matter of fact, I even forgive him for the time he almost ran over my toe with his Porsche.
Here's to Patrice Brisebois - my hero.
And let's can the boos, people. This guy deserves better.
Meanwhile, here at Panic Headquarters: OK, folks, it's official. By the time they get back from this brutal road trip (Dallas, Colorado, Phoenix and Boston in six days) the Canadiens will have played more than a third of their season - and the bottom line is, they just don't look very good.
With the Leafs about to hold a Stanley Cup parade in December after winning a few games, it looks like the Canadiens can do no better than fourth in their own division behind Boston, Ottawa and Toronto.
Figure New Jersey, Carolina and Philadelphia are a lock for the playoffs, along with Pittsburgh if Super Mario stays healthy.
If the Tampa Bay Lightning are for real, that means the Canadiens are on the outside looking in come playoff time, along with the Rangers, the Islanders, Florida, Atlanta and Buffalo.
For a team that made it to the second round of the playoffs last spring, this is progress in the wrong direction.
Casualty Ward: they're still dropping like flies in the Gazette sports department. I dunno. Maybe it's time to become a fashion writer. The latest to fall is columnist and feature writer Dave Stubbs, my partner in crime through many an Olympiad and one of the three fittest people
I know. Stubbs suffered a heart attack late last week and is now in need of your get-well cards at the Lakeshore General.
The toll keeps mounting: former columnist Michael Farber of Sport Illustrated, a quadruple bypass last summer. Desker Kevin Ramsey, a heart attack a couple of years back. A couple of others less healthy than they'd like to be. your MMQB, still on crutches awaiting hip-replacement surgery.
I dunno. Maybe we can all have a reunion in the emergency ward. Get a big-screen TV, watch the Super Bowl while the nurses watch to be sure we don't get over-excited.
Lies, rumours and vicious innuendo: No, it wasn't Darcy Tucker ugly - but for a guy who complained about Tucker's hit as much as Michael Peca to try the same thing on Zdeno Chara is almost the definition of hypocrisy. I mean, why did Peca get down to go low on Chara? If the
5-foot-4 Peca jumps at the 7-foot-5 Chara, it's still a low hit. ...
Heroes: Patrice Brisebois, Jeff Hackett, José Theodore, Richard Zednik, Andrei Markov, Saku Koivu, Craig Rivet, Randy McKay, Yanic Perreault, the Vancouver Canucks, Joe Thornton, Mario Lemieux, Marian Hossa, Alex Mogilny, Alexandre Dumas and anyone who can remove the hex from the Gaz sports department.
Zeroes: Michael Peca, Eric Lindros, Pavel Bure.
Stand up and cheer Brisebois
By JACK TODD
Montreal Gazette
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Did you see that play Patrick Brrrrrr-eeeeeeze-by ...
Nope. Not gonna do it. I'm sure you're holding the breath, waiting for the MMQB to rip Patrice Brisebois for that bad pass the other night, but y'know what? It ain't gonna happen. Matter of fact, Mr. Brisebois gets a free ride in this column forevermore.
Why? Because Brisebois has class, that's why. Because in a day and age when more and more players think they have no obligation to meet the media, when more and more athletes hide after a loss and almost all disappear when it was their gaffe that cost the game, Brisebois is front and centre every night. He takes the heat, he doesn't make excuses, he's there win or lose.
That play against the Flyers aside, Brisebois is having a solid season. He's doing it defensively, he's getting his points, he's logging tons of minutes played. Oh - and did we mention? Brisebois plays hurt. Last year, this year, lots of other seasons.
So the next time you see No. 43 lugging the puck at the Bell Centre, stand up and cheer. Brisebois is the last player left from that '93 Stanley Cup, he loves being a Canadien, he sets an example that dozens of other athletes would do well to follow. Matter of fact, I even forgive him for the time he almost ran over my toe with his Porsche.
Here's to Patrice Brisebois - my hero.
And let's can the boos, people. This guy deserves better.
Meanwhile, here at Panic Headquarters: OK, folks, it's official. By the time they get back from this brutal road trip (Dallas, Colorado, Phoenix and Boston in six days) the Canadiens will have played more than a third of their season - and the bottom line is, they just don't look very good.
With the Leafs about to hold a Stanley Cup parade in December after winning a few games, it looks like the Canadiens can do no better than fourth in their own division behind Boston, Ottawa and Toronto.
Figure New Jersey, Carolina and Philadelphia are a lock for the playoffs, along with Pittsburgh if Super Mario stays healthy.
If the Tampa Bay Lightning are for real, that means the Canadiens are on the outside looking in come playoff time, along with the Rangers, the Islanders, Florida, Atlanta and Buffalo.
For a team that made it to the second round of the playoffs last spring, this is progress in the wrong direction.
Casualty Ward: they're still dropping like flies in the Gazette sports department. I dunno. Maybe it's time to become a fashion writer. The latest to fall is columnist and feature writer Dave Stubbs, my partner in crime through many an Olympiad and one of the three fittest people
I know. Stubbs suffered a heart attack late last week and is now in need of your get-well cards at the Lakeshore General.
The toll keeps mounting: former columnist Michael Farber of Sport Illustrated, a quadruple bypass last summer. Desker Kevin Ramsey, a heart attack a couple of years back. A couple of others less healthy than they'd like to be. your MMQB, still on crutches awaiting hip-replacement surgery.
I dunno. Maybe we can all have a reunion in the emergency ward. Get a big-screen TV, watch the Super Bowl while the nurses watch to be sure we don't get over-excited.
Lies, rumours and vicious innuendo: No, it wasn't Darcy Tucker ugly - but for a guy who complained about Tucker's hit as much as Michael Peca to try the same thing on Zdeno Chara is almost the definition of hypocrisy. I mean, why did Peca get down to go low on Chara? If the
5-foot-4 Peca jumps at the 7-foot-5 Chara, it's still a low hit. ...
Heroes: Patrice Brisebois, Jeff Hackett, José Theodore, Richard Zednik, Andrei Markov, Saku Koivu, Craig Rivet, Randy McKay, Yanic Perreault, the Vancouver Canucks, Joe Thornton, Mario Lemieux, Marian Hossa, Alex Mogilny, Alexandre Dumas and anyone who can remove the hex from the Gaz sports department.
Zeroes: Michael Peca, Eric Lindros, Pavel Bure.