Walsh's Words Draw the Ire of the CBC and Habs Fans
As I was perusing my hockey links this morning I ran across a link to a brilliant piece on a subject that is rather laughable.
As I was consulting
Habs Insideout for my morning update on the Motreal Canadiens, I came upon an interesting story by Dave Stubbs concerning a scene which took place last night across the internet between the CBC and the agent for the Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jaroslav Halak, Allan Walsh.
At some point last evening Mr. Walsh decided to emit a 'tweet' that captured the attention of a great majority of the hockey masses.
Walsh 'tweeted,'
"Interesting stat of the night...Price is 10W, 32L in his last 42 games. Hmm."
Quite a bold statement from someone who should be working very hard to promote his own client as opposed to slandering someone elses.
Stubbs then very kindly pointed out a great link to a piece posted by
Rocket @ All Habs. Rocket penned an exceptional piece describing how he and Walsh went on to exchange some 'tweets' of their own discussing the motives behind it all.
The funny thing is that Walsh's statement made it all the way to the live broadcast of the Flames-Rangers game on CBC. Furthering the situation, Jeff Marek and Kelly Hrudey tore into Walsh for his words and turned this into a bigger story than it needed to be.
It was a statement better left alone.
No one wants to create something out of nothing and this is exactly what Mr. Walsh appears to be doing.
Hrudey was adament that it was in poor taste, and I can't help but agree.
Stubbs, Rocket and many more folks are joining in on this debate and I am not sure that will help solve this problem.
Carey Price is an exceptional goaltender with one of the highest ceilings for goaltender potential in the league. Rushed? Perhaps, but at his age there is no reason for the franchise to throw in the towel. Why give up so soon on someone who could be the next savior?
Jaroslav Halak is no slouch himself, which is why you can see why Walsh is trying to push how valuable the young Slovak netminder is. Halak, who is in the running for a post as a goaltender with the Slovakian Olympic squad, perhaps even the starter, has had a terrific start to the season and has the better numbers of the two Canadiens goaltenders. But what goalie wants an agent that is going to cast him in a negative light?
There is no reason for his agent to start a feud between the two uber-competitve young men that isn't already there.
I highly recommend you read up on what Dave Stubbs @
Habs Insideout and Rocket from
All Habs have to say.
Although I feel that this is a situation that no single team should have to go through, it does highlight an interesting dilemma that the NHL now faces, how do they monitor their league and prevent these sort of things from happening when mass and instant communication is given precedence over relevance?
Whatever the real story and motives behind all of this truly are, it doesn't seem to matter anymore as it would appear that the Canadiens are now headed into another media spun 'goaltender controversy.'
It's certain that Bob Gainey doesn't need another headache in the form of an issue between his netminders, but at the same time, with the Canadiens battling to stay at .500, maybe the team could benefit from extra pressure on Halak and Price to be push them to better?
It's just too bad this discussion is a result of personal motives. Price's record of 10-32 in his last 42 is quite astonishing and definitely a conversation starter, but Walsh is not making things any better by singling him out.
Bon chance Mr. Gainey...just a little more fuel to the Canadiens fire.
I will be back with more on the Caps later on...
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