C'mon Barry33...

Ando · Guru

C'mon Barry33...

barry33 · Guru

Ando wrote:

...you just dished us the insite scoop on Kovalev being very selfish (which is about as much "news" as the hatred between Arabs and Jews). ...you still have one BIG bomb though...about who/how the room has/is being run by a certain individual (that is my guess)...when will you spill this? The deadline? The end of season? OR...will Gainey need to show his full intensions for player personnel first???

Well as I noted before in an earlier post..Kovalev is in a certain clique in that room and yes it includes Koivu and Rivet. If you are lookinng for me to point the finger at Saks I will not do it. Selfish he is not. What I will say is this. The fact that Kovalev is really not very well liked by the majority of his teamates, but is close with Rivet and Saks, makes Saks job to get the room in order that much more difficult. A more or less guilt by association deal. I know it all sounds pretty damn childish for a bunch of grown men getting paid millions. But alas, egos are a horrible thing. As all of you know I am not a Saks hater, As Johhny M says I only call what I see..or hear.

-- Edited by barry33 at 14:41, 2006-01-29

Ando · Guru

...interesting stuff!

And-o is betting though that Gainey...one way or another...is looking to change this clique based structure!

...oh and Barry33...YOU turned this into a Saku issue again...or is that still???...And-o was actually referring to Theodore!

mperra (Admin) · Guru

barry33 wrote:

Well as I noted before in an earlier post..Kovalev is in a certain clique in that room and yes it includes Koivu and Rivet. If you are lookinng for me to point the finger at Saks I will not do it. Selfish he is not. What I will say is this. The fact that Kovalev is really not very well liked by the majority of his teamates, but is close with Rivet and Saks, makes Saks job to get the room in order that much more difficult. A more or less guilt by association deal. I know it all sounds pretty damn childish for a bunch of grown men getting paid millions. But alas, egos are a horrible thing. As all of you know I am not a Saks hater, As Johhny M says I only call what I see..or hear.-- Edited by barry33 at 14:41, 2006-01-29

Barry33, on the subject of cliques, how bad was the Theo-Ribiero-Dagenais clique?

barry33 · Guru

mperra (Admin) wrote:

barry33 wrote: Well as I noted before in an earlier post..Kovalev is in a certain clique in that room and yes it includes Koivu and Rivet. If you are lookinng for me to point the finger at Saks I will not do it. Selfish he is not. What I will say is this. The fact that Kovalev is really not very well liked by the majority of his teamates, but is close with Rivet and Saks, makes Saks job to get the room in order that much more difficult. A more or less guilt by association deal. I know it all sounds pretty damn childish for a bunch of grown men getting paid millions. But alas, egos are a horrible thing. As all of you know I am not a Saks hater, As Johhny M says I only call what I see..or hear.-- Edited by barry33 at 14:41, 2006-01-29 Barry33, on the subject of cliques, how bad was the Theo-Ribiero-Dagenais clique?

Mario- I never had the impression that clique was that bad..mostly because Dagenais and Ribiero were not held to the high standards that the Captains are. But all of this clique stuff aside boys..EVERY team has them. Any team I have ever played on had certain groups that stuck together. The key is unititing them all under a common cause. I think the media makes a bigger deal of it then it needs to be. We have one major problem on this team right now..lack of talent and the talent that we do have is underperforming