Hockey Players that Irk You
by Les Beaver on Apr 21, 2011 10:59 PM EDT
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I'll go first: Tyler Kennedy. No idea why, he just does.
Since I need 75 words (never knew that) here's some more:
Phil Kessel, though I almost kinda feel bad for the guy. I will never, ever understand how anyone thought he was worth 2 1st round picks. Ever.
All of the Staal brothers, though I think I'm kinda coming around to Eric. The other two just irk the shit out of me.
Max Talbot, meh.
Olli Jokinen, ugh.
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brandon dubinsky
annoys me quite a bit
Of course theres everyones favorite player to hate, Crosby
Carcillo, Emery just annoy me
The sedin twins can be a bit whiny
I think patrick kanes a bit of a douche
"Mario Lemiuex… I used to respect you."- Turgeon1992
I really liked Dubinsky for awhile, then it seems it's gone to his head, now he comes off like a prick. I dunno.
I actually don’t mind Crosby. I maybe the only non-Pens fan to say that. But he really doesn’t bother me. He’s a great player, seems like a nice enough guy.
I dunno who's mustache is worse
Budinsky’s or Creepy Crosby’s
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
lol, both staches look so out of place
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
To me Dubinsky
is one of those players that annoys me on other teams, but i wouldnt mind having him on the island
Great work along the boards, decent goal scoring and good passing abilities, great PK work
he just has his little douche moments that cant be forgiven on another team, especially the rags
"Mario Lemiuex… I used to respect you."- Turgeon1992
lol, the staals(eric aside) love "finishing" checks late and do play "on the edge" from time to time.
Watching them live points this out big time.
Cooke is numero uno on this list. Goes without saying why.
Avery, not for the shenanigans, but for trying to fight every non-fighter in the nhl one at a time. lol
Orpik for trying to light up every player in sight even if:
-it takes him out of position
-the whistle is blown
-it can potentially harm his goalie
-it’s a late hit
and for loving to keep his hands up when playing/hitting people(watch him play).
A number of “agitators” that refuse to drop the gloves (clutterbuck and phaneuf for example).
Pretty much all players that love throwing blindside hits. (phaneuf and cooke are great examples)
“Backup” goalies with something to prove in hockey fights(Cough, Brent Johnson, Cough).
Ultimately most heavyweight enforcers because they suck at 2-way hockey but love creating useless fights and taking up needed roster spots to better players.
I don’t follow the west that much, but corey perry is up there in the west.
Nothing really irks me a ton, but these little things/players stick out when I think about it.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
How did I forget Phaneuf?
Cooke doesn’t irk me so much as I really just feel dislike for him.
I’ve moved past Avery. I said in a other thread I’ve reached a level of indifference with him, which, I think, means “I won.” :) He’s almost a non-entity out there now, just another 3rd line guy.
I have no problem with the Johnson/DP fight, that was as much DPs fault as anything. I also have no problem with Johnson calling out Haley, I do have a problem, however, with both Godard and Johnson pounding on Haley when he was down.
I blame DP definitely for half of that goalie fight, but the other half goes to that haymaker throwing johnson.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
So much, Orpik
The master of checking players into his own goal’s crossbar, goalie be damned. He did the same “Grabner treatment” to Bergenheim earlier in this playoff series (the one where the Pens were getting blown out, of course). When they talk about the difference between playing physical and playing with zero regard or respect for your union “brother” {cough}, I think of guys like Orpik. He basically does mini-versions of Chara on Pac all the time.
Lighthouse Hockey: Send us your cold, your poor, your healthy goalies.
And it goes unnoticed. He still racks up pim, but not nearly enough as his "intent to injuring" ass deserves.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
Colby Armstrong
There's a mountain of buoyant nostalgia under this team and it's going to erupt like Vesuvius when the Islanders are back in playoff contention.... Count on it.
by Nova Scotia Isles Fan on Apr 22, 2011 9:17 AM EDT reply actions
Any of the spoiled brats, like...
Marc Andre-Fleury (wipe that daddy’s-little-girl smirk off your face)
Patrick Kane (just pay the frickin cab driver)
Daniel Briere (weasel, weasel, weasel…)
Alexander Semin (you’re the one who’s “no big deal,” dude)
…weasel
Patrick Kane (just pay the frickin cab driver)
IDK, I really like him. He’s got some pepper and a pile of talent.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Apr 22, 2011 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Ron Duguay on the MSG pre game telecasts (If Bon Jovi played hockey, he'd be Duguay)
Also on the list…
Cooke
Avery
Clutterbuck
Briere – dirty player, stickman
Luongo – aloof, acts like nothing bothers him, but has the deer in headlights look
Carcillo
Pronger
Bertuzzi
I’m sure there are plenty more, but can I please include John Tortorella? Is there a coach with a more punchable face?
Tomas Holmstrom
I’ve always found him to be extremely dirty. Because he parks himself in every goalie’s face, and plays for a perennial Cup contender, he gets lauded as a “throwback to old time hockey. Eddie Shore!” . How he doesn’t get called for goalie interference every time he steps on the ice, I have no idea. It feels like he’s been doing this since 1984.
He’s very good at what he does and has the rings to back it up. But I’ll bet if the Islanders, or any other team not called the Red Wings, had a player that used the same tactics, they’re be pitchfork-and-torch wielding mobs out gunning for him.
After him, it’s the usual suspects: Avery, Cooke, Talbot. Basically anybody willing to throw an elbow at a guy’s head and not fight someone afterward.
For me it's...
Marc Staal- i just can’t stand him
PK Subban- too young to be that arrogant
Dubinsky- kinda annoys me but i respect his energy.
Danny Heatley- I really can’t stand this guy.
how could i forget Heatly
i freakin hate that best friend killing d-bag
"Mario Lemiuex… I used to respect you."- Turgeon1992
My cup of fan hate for Dan(n)y runneth over.
Lighthouse Hockey: Send us your cold, your poor, your healthy goalies.
Tyler Kennedy is one deformed motherf**ker!
The usual suspects irk me…any penguin or ranger. I also despise Kovalchuck. Not because he didn’t sign with the Isles (i’m happy he didn’t) but because all he really cared about was the money and doesn’t have the game to back it up. Same with Joe Thorton! He gets away with alot because of who he is.
Hate Hate Hate!
Briere: getting tired of his cheapshotting crap. I was psyched when it looked like Gaustad (or was it Kaleta) was going to beat some snot bubbles out of him…but then it was Harnetll (also good) who got it. Watching him get his own face-off treatment (after he leaned in with a headbutt) was awesome.
Komisarek: We don’t think about him much bc he kind of sucks now, but he was also a dirty prick until he bit off more than he could chew with Lucic and (it looks like) he ended his career.
Penguins
Nabokov
Ryan Hollweg: the man who should probably have twice as many boarding suspensions than Matt Cooke. Human filth.
Anyone named Maxime or Maxim…those guys suck and are gutless pukes…they deserve to get beat up early and often…little known fact, Maxime is French for “Maxim” which is French for “absorbent underwear cover”.
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 22, 2011 2:57 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 4 recs
Honorable mention
Avery, Pronger, Cooke, Clutterbuck
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 22, 2011 2:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
So much foulness in that list
That is worthy of Hate Hate Hate!
Lighthouse Hockey: Send us your cold, your poor, your healthy goalies.
Is Hollweg still in the league? If so, he deserves to be on the wall of shame for players that irk me.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
I think in the AHL right now
But he’s been back and forth for a few years.
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
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"He's a dirty sob."
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
All-Hate Team
Darcy Tucker – Dale Hunter – Jaromir Jagr
Ulf Samuelsson – Kevin Hatcher
John Davidson
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
Just of curiousity, why jagr?
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
early 90's
girly hair + dumb girly face = me wanna punch
(multiplied by my pittsburgh hatred in ’93)
(doubled by becoming a Rag, back when I hated the Rags)
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
lol, I can understand the girly hair + girl face thing.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
LOL!
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Apr 23, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I've got a particular reason for being wary of Jagr
Or at least, his biggest fans.
Lighthouse Hockey: Send us your cold, your poor, your healthy goalies.
I will read that INTENTLY later, for I too have a crazy-Jagr-fan-psycho-chick story
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
Oooh, I wanna hear it
Lighthouse Hockey: Send us your cold, your poor, your healthy goalies.
by Dominik on Apr 27, 2011 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Avery
On top of the obvious obnoxios quality, its his being so over paid.
douchebaggery aside
that man is not at all worth 4 million a year, hes barely even worth half that
"Mario Lemiuex… I used to respect you."- Turgeon1992
Avery IS Worth $4 Million a Year
In just clothes alone. And that’s not even counting the designer frames.
by rmblifn on Apr 28, 2011 1:35 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nice.
I always forget how much I dislike him until I see him play, and then I just cringe.
by Les Beaver on Apr 27, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
HE is the reason I was rooting for the Bruins.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Apr 30, 2011 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions
All-Atlantic Duche Team
Avery——-Briere———Talbot
Pronger——-Orpik
Fleury
I know people say Pronger, but the man has elite talent and skills. His game is something to admire watching, even if a little dirty at times. Imagine if Chara played Pronger's game? He'd be even better.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
If Chara played Pronger's game
He’d be in prison…he’s too big to do that…he has like 3 inches and 50lbs on Pronger.
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 26, 2011 8:56 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Eh, I'm sure Pronger holds up on a lot of his hits. If Haley and a lot of other sub 205lbs players can hit as hard as they do, I gotta think Pronger holds up a lot on most of his hits.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
I think Pronger only holds up to preserve energy
So he can play 25+ a game.
Seriously, Pronger is fantastic, but it doesn’t keep him from being a consummate douche.
Lighthouse Hockey: Send us your cold, your poor, your healthy goalies.
by Dominik on Apr 27, 2011 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hmmmm
Talbot, Crosby, Cooke….I think we might as well just put the Penguins in general because they are a bunch of whiney, bratty assholes.
Avery.. Douchiness galore there
Avery.. Douchiness galore thereBriere…..dickhead
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
Adding to the list
Gaboprick – Ranger dirty player and lazy
Pheneuf – cheap hit and run
Avery – picks on smurfs and then turtles when faced with a fighter
Cooke, Talbot, Orpik, Letang, – hit them when they are not looking (how can one team have so many cheap shot artists and then have a whiny hypocritical owner, oh yes this is the NHELL)
Crosby – big cry baby, he hit me….he hit me….he couldn’t play in the days of the Broadstreet bullies, Bruins or Isles. He would have get his !#$#$ beat for whining so much
Briere – he and gaborik must be cousins
Pronger – uses his stick like an old fashion cop to tune up his man…
Hartnell – plays really mean and dirty
Chara – does something every game that makes you want to bitch slap him
Brent Johnson – We need a heavy weight to knock that #$#$$ smile off his face after he clocked DP
Heatley – and his toothless grin after he scores on us again and again. Only reminding us we past over him that draft year and selected what knucklehead….
Honorable Mention – Mike Milbury who can that idiot be one television acting as though he is an expert. He must be related to George W. Bush. Two freaking disasters….
Yeah like the "new guy' is a real star, what an obamanation,
They all belong together, Milbury criticizes the ISLES for fight friday, while he beats a fan with a shoe. They all know more then us common folk.
In loving memory;Dad thanks for making us Islanders fans, ACC 1918-2011
by bossy2219 on Apr 26, 2011 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This dirtbag-my hate meter is at 11...may hit 12
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
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Just got worse
taunting the bench after his goal. He must be destroyed.
by afrosupreme on Apr 26, 2011 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
HE'S IN.....
The same class as Cooke and Avery, NO CLASS, another piece of sh….
In loving memory;Dad thanks for making us Islanders fans, ACC 1918-2011
He's a dirtbag, but I admire that he can and will back it up with his fists. It's a rarity among a lot of agitators.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
by OzzyFan on Apr 27, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I used to love when people did that
Because you can knock them out with one punch that way as they lean in. Awesome Miller didn’t even flinch.
"Gervais...he looks danger in the fist with his face!" JPinVA
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 27, 2011 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Awesome Miller didn’t even flinch.
I thought the exact same thing.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Apr 30, 2011 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions
How's about an All-Islander Hate Team?
Dave Chyzowski-Scott Scissons-Todd Bertuzzi
Ollie Jokinen-Kirk-Muller-Oleg Kvasha
Brad Isbister-Tim Connoly-Martin Straka
Janne Niinimaa-Roman Hamrlik
MA Bergeron-Chris Campoli
Evgeny Nabakov
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
Score 2 goals for us in 20 games, then goes off and has a career
Also it just got annoying seeing good teams have tough big talented tough guys like Tkachuk, Leclair, Iginla, Shanahan, Nolan…and we were always stuck with diminutive wimpy slicksters like Straka, Niklas Andersson, Matthias friggin Weinhandl…we had Bertuzzi, then Wendel Clark, then Trevor Linden…I exhaled and these guys were gone. Very annoying.
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
No Yashin love? lol
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
No Chris Simon? No Yash? No Thompson? No Mike Comrie? They all got so much hate lol.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Apr 30, 2011 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions
How did we forget that moment.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
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