Here is a term for all my friends out there that LOVE Canadian hockey sayings ... a sandbagger is usually that guy that is really amazing but plays with shitty guys just so he can score a lot and be a hotshot and win all the time , this goes for teams too .
This weekend i was asked to get a team together in 5 days ! I asked all the regulars and most of the guys couldn't so i started to ask guys that were interested in joining our squad that i have not seen play yet . We were told we were going into C division , usually pretty good hockey that my team should do well at ....usually. The teams we played this weekend were not C teams , if anything they were very high B teams . Yeah we got smoked .... it wasn't all that bad ........
The worst part was that 2 of the teams were absolute douche bags ... teams winning by 4 goals and still hanging a cherry picker up at my blue line with minutes left in the game . Yeah if you are that team doing that you are not showing any respect . I mean it is bad enough that these teams are so desperate to win that they drop down a division but they are trying to score with a 4 goal lead with 2 min left in the game ???? c'mon !
Regardless to say i brought 5 skaters out this weekend to "try out " and all of them were awesome . I hope they don't take this tournament beat down we took as a sign of what we can do . Unfortunately these teams were just better then our undermanned squad . Yeah some of you are asking yourselves if i run or think i run a pro team LOL ... the fact is there are so many skaters willing to play in Toronto that i look at this league list with skaters looking for teams and some of them claim to be better then they actually are , so i don't want to end up with some ankle burner because he thought he was the best player out on the pond that one time in 1996 . First year i ran the team i had a guy named Saber tell me he played Jr., i think he meant the last time he played was when he was a jr. He was the first guy i had to give money back to ( his attitude sucked too ) honestly i don't want to ever have to go through that again , that is why i "try out " guys before i collect money and assure them spots on my squads .
So how many of you have ever been at a tournament where an NHL prospect and a pro were on the same team and in C division ? the last team we played were decent guys aside from sandbagging with a goalie that was on the Canadian Jr. team . I guess they didn't want to play Tyler Seguin , i wouldn't either ! he was in A division at this tournament ..... nice Maserati .
This weekend i was asked to get a team together in 5 days ! I asked all the regulars and most of the guys couldn't so i started to ask guys that were interested in joining our squad that i have not seen play yet . We were told we were going into C division , usually pretty good hockey that my team should do well at ....usually. The teams we played this weekend were not C teams , if anything they were very high B teams . Yeah we got smoked .... it wasn't all that bad ........
The worst part was that 2 of the teams were absolute douche bags ... teams winning by 4 goals and still hanging a cherry picker up at my blue line with minutes left in the game . Yeah if you are that team doing that you are not showing any respect . I mean it is bad enough that these teams are so desperate to win that they drop down a division but they are trying to score with a 4 goal lead with 2 min left in the game ???? c'mon !
Regardless to say i brought 5 skaters out this weekend to "try out " and all of them were awesome . I hope they don't take this tournament beat down we took as a sign of what we can do . Unfortunately these teams were just better then our undermanned squad . Yeah some of you are asking yourselves if i run or think i run a pro team LOL ... the fact is there are so many skaters willing to play in Toronto that i look at this league list with skaters looking for teams and some of them claim to be better then they actually are , so i don't want to end up with some ankle burner because he thought he was the best player out on the pond that one time in 1996 . First year i ran the team i had a guy named Saber tell me he played Jr., i think he meant the last time he played was when he was a jr. He was the first guy i had to give money back to ( his attitude sucked too ) honestly i don't want to ever have to go through that again , that is why i "try out " guys before i collect money and assure them spots on my squads .
So how many of you have ever been at a tournament where an NHL prospect and a pro were on the same team and in C division ? the last team we played were decent guys aside from sandbagging with a goalie that was on the Canadian Jr. team . I guess they didn't want to play Tyler Seguin , i wouldn't either ! he was in A division at this tournament ..... nice Maserati .
ah Sabre!!!
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