Comments on: Win or lose, Hossa was still wrong

By: dustin

dustin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:38:58 +0000

you know the real story? Hossa’s a jinx, he plays for pens against redwings, the pens lose. he plays for redwings against pens, redwings lose. hes a jinks lol. And he said previous to losing it wasnt about winning a cup, it was about learning how to win from the only team that really has shown they can be one of the best every single year.. although the cup would have been nice for hossa its wasn’t even the main reason he went wo the wings. because no one can honestly say the red wings are not the best team in the league, If the redwingsdont make the cup every year its a supprise, no other team is consistently expected to go to the finals year in year out as the wings are

By: aaron

aaron — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25:58 +0000

you forgot the part about him wanting out of atlanta so bad he nancied out on almost every shift just so he wouldn’t hurt himself or his trade value. whether or not he should have wanted out of atlanta is an entirely different point - any guy that tanks to save his own value is gonna be a problem in the dressing room in some way or another. if detroit locks him up with a multi-year deal, my prediction is that we’ll see the real hossa, not the relative “honeymooner” we saw this year, assuring himself that he’s on the fast track to winning a cup. we’ll see how he really fits into detroit’s “team first” concept.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:38:12 +0000

Hey, geniuses: it’s not about the number of games he played. If he’d just signed elsewhere, THEN it would be a non-story. It’s the “I left because I have a better chance to win here” swipe while leaving that made it a story. This isn’t hard to understand.

By: eyebleaf

eyebleaf — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:48:28 +0000

Poor Hossa. Way to be douchebags about it after, as Kid Canada put it so well, Hossa played 12 games for the God damn Pens.

By: najky

najky — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:41:43 +0000

Id like to say M. Hossa is very good player and man. He deserves to lift the Stanley cup. Pittsburgh: Congratulation for winning…and M. Hossa I hope you will have more luck the next time.

By: Guy Lefleur

Guy Lefleur — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:03:49 +0000

Hossa Da Man Now??

By: PurtGame13

PurtGame13 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:49:15 +0000

hossa is a coward im so happy he lost, he was part of something nice last year but left cuz he got beat, where did he go? to the team that beat him. and ask urself this would he have stayed if pens would have won cup? they were 2 wins short and he got greedy, hope he signs a 1 year with pens lol dies slow u karl malone like coward

By: Habs Fan

Habs Fan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:36:38 +0000

What you have to look at is that Marian Hossa is a regular season player NOT a playoff player. He puts up really good numbers in the regular season and is barely noticed in the playoffs. The red wings weren’t any better with him because they already succeed at gaining a playoff berth every year, he didn’t change that, but now they had an expensive dud on their roster come playoff time. He didn’t perform in the playoffs for Ottawa, Pittsburg or Detroit. If you’re trying to get into the playoffs he can help, but if you want to win the cup then he’s a waist of space on the bench. He felt he had a better chance at winning the cup in Detroit but he didn’t help them any along the way in the playoffs and that’s why he had to see his former teammates from Pittsburg, that he snubbed, raise the stanley cup while he pretended to still have some pride left.

By: Talbot Lover

Talbot Lover — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:18:11 +0000

AND HE WAS WRONG!!!!!! PENS ARE AWESOME!!!!!!

By: Louis Lipps Sinks Ships

Louis Lipps Sinks Ships — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:46:19 +0000

Kid Canada - The story isn’t “Long-time Penguin must face former team.” It’s that Hossa had a simple choice between the two teams, and he basically said that he didn’t think the Pens could win the Cup. (The fact that he took less money shows his conviction.) As a Pens fan, it’s not like we can call him a traitor, but it’s a slap in the face nonetheless. Same as the Pens trying to prove Melrose or Cherry wrong if they were vocal about the Pens lack of Cup-worthiness, but this comes from someone who test-drove the team and instead signed with their (somewhat) rival.

Looking at it another way: It’s as if a high-profile person wagered several million that either 1) Detroit would win the Stanley Cup or 2) Pittsburgh would not win the Cup. On top of that, this is a person who has had experience playing for one of the teams and against the other just last year. The fact that this could blow up in his face in the most spectacular of fashions is intriguing to me…at least on the schadenfreude level.