Comments on: Lay Off Mario

By: matteo

matteo — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:04:44 +0000

No that was the "Save the bearded clam" foundation.....or was that Shave....hmmmmm

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By: guinsfan4life

guinsfan4life — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:50:42 +0000

Regardless of Lemieux's performance, and he has shown that he can still compete at a level commensurate to that of his peers--he can do alot for the NHL still.

One interesting point in your post, the "evolution of hockey". Interesting. So you are saying that Mario is getting in the way of hockey evolving. Evolving into what? Hockey has become its' own worst enemy, which has the sport going backwards. Hockey was evolving up and until the mid 1990's when the league expanded to include more teams which left teams searching for talent that wasn't there. Subsequently, players who had no speck of ability were playing in the league and because they had no way to make up for their shortcomings but to grab, clutch and hold. This in turn made the supply of young offensive players in more demand and increased player salaries.

Hockey has yet to pick up steam it had from the early 90's when it was truly evolving.

We'll have to wait and see if it will start to evolve again after the CBA is up.

Mario can still fill arenas. If that is one thing he can do for the NHL, then so be it. The Economy sucks right now so if that means just a few more bucks in the owners pockets, he has done enough.

Brett Hull also says basically what he wants about the game. He has agreed on more than one occasion about the same topics that Mario has. Paul Kariya also has to a lesser degree. Why not fine them? Well because from top to bottom this league has no identity-the owners are all out to get theirs instead of working toward making the game profitable for each other. These are the same players who pack the arena on a nightly basis. Why bite the hand that feeds you?

By: JimmyD

JimmyD — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:36:42 +0000

I couldn't say it better myself. He's a little slower, but also a little wiser. I admit as a Pens fan, I was a little upset he played for Canada in the OLY, and then shut it down for the season, but given the same circumstances, I'd do the same. He could have demanded 15 mil + to play for any team with cash, he could of let Paul Allen move the team to Portland and got every last dime he was owed. The guy didn't speak a lick of English when he got here and had a 10th grade education and hmmm look at him today. Say yeah because he made millions playing hockey, but that deal wasn't an easy deal to consummate. We don't have agents that say things to us like "Don't wear the jersey on draft day" "I can you millions more" As an 18 y/o kid that sounds good and screw [people who thinks he's greedy. He was a selfish player at the beginning, but he's a true leader today. He could still sell this team and walk away a very rich man. Put yourself in the same position would you take the easy road and walk or would you put up with BS and do it. I'd probably walk. Let him be IDIOTS

By: LordOfHockey

LordOfHockey — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:09:28 +0000

The people that say Mario should retire and he is not one of the greats never actually saw him play before his return (some of the stuff after has been Magic to but nothing compared to before), Mario has the best scoring touch the league has ever seen, and of of the best sets of hands ever this man does perfect passes to anyone, personally i hate the so called Great One mainly because he always played with a tough guy on his side so no one would touch him, wow thats amazing a player with pretty much the entire ice during the 80s amassed a large amount of points. Mario did not have this protection he was getting beat on every night, he had a hard battle with cancer and still continues to play, But yes Mario doesnt give a damn about hockey and his stats after all do suck, and hell he complains alot to, think about it this way, If the Great One had no protection and had fought with cancer do you honestly think that after this man had taken such a beating he would continue to play.

By: defenestrate

defenestrate — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:26:41 +0000

God is love

Love is blind

Ray Charles is blind

Ray Charles is god

SCTP - "Le mew...le meow...le purr"

By: Hineychow

Hineychow — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:25:22 +0000

I agree with you 99%. Only one thing I don't is that the year before Mario's return the Pens made it almost to the conference finals. They gave the Flyers a hell of a run and I thought they would have beat them in that series. Rmember that sick 5 overtime game where Primeau scored that goal?

Anyhow, the whole point to this is that they were a good team the year prior to Mario's return and he just added to the momentum. I think if they would have kept that team together they might of had a 3rd cup under him.

By: titans

titans — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:02:51 +0000

Gretzky is GOD!

By: defenestrate

defenestrate — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 08:29:29 +0000

15,000 points for a Chris Farley reference hidden inside a very insightful Mario article.

I don't bash Mario - it is well known that my main bash target is Wayne "Meryl Streep" Gretzky.

SCTP - "I hates rabbits"

By: defenestrate

defenestrate — Sat, 09 Aug 2003 08:26:49 +0000

I thought you were the President of “Release The Twins”…

By: titans

titans — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 20:17:34 +0000

Mario can bite me!!