An Open Letter to Dominik Hasek
Dear "Dom",
I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm tired of your over-the-top, attention-seeking foolishness. For years now, you have been playing the greatest game in the world and being paid handsomely to do so, but it has never proven to be enough. Aside from the potential to win the greatest trophy in sport every year (and successfully achieving the goal in 2002), and the millions of dollars you're paid to play, you demand to be the focal point of your club at all times - be it for the right or wrong reasons.
Everyone - Ottawa fans or otherwise - is tired of the "will-he-play?" chess game going on regarding your career, first in 2002 when you 'retired' (or bailed on Detroit, depending how one views it), and now in 2006 with your latest fluke injury. It's to the point where people don't even know what it is that you've "injured" - is it the adductor or the abductor? I think it's a muscle you found on WebMD and thought you could milk for an injury, but I guess I'm not a doctor...not that it particularly matters, as you seem to know more than doctors or coaches or anyone else about what pain tolerance truly is.
The fact of the matter is that you were one of the best goalies of all time. I hate to admit it, but you were. However in that same breath, you are the worst teammate of all time. You're a spotlight-hogging, selfish, groin-pulling geezer, and it's time for you to stop your crap. Either go play a game and make a difference, or stay away from the team and let Ray Emery do his job. Emery is the future of this franchise, he's doing the best job anyone could ask of him given his circumstances, and should the Ottawa Senators ever win a Stanley Cup it will be with him between the pipes - long after the name Hasek has left the back of a Sens jersey.
Apparently you were the guy to put Ottawa over the top and hand them the Stanley Cup, but in actuality it looks more and more like you're the guy who's going to cost John Muckler his job - again, not that I care, as I hate John Muckler too, but it's a nice way to treat your greatest friend and ally in the organization (probably the league). And make no mistake, you have few allies in the NHL - the only positives to come about you at this point are from real teammates who are actually good and tow the company line by saying the right things to the media at all times. When it comes to 'mates that were alienated in the past, comments focus strictly on on-ice performance and ability, which screams out that you are locker room cancer.
In concluding my letter to you, Dom, I would like to say that when Bryan Murray served you dinner by saying 'get off the ice, practice is for the goalies who might actually play', he made an friend for life right here. You are the most self-absorbed, sorry excuse for a hockey player I have ever seen in my life, and when I think that guys like Bobby Baun scored Stanley Cup winning goals on broken legs for the salary a part-timer hauls down at Subway in 2006, and you can't play because your fake muscle won't let you, I actually get physically ill.
Sincerely,
Matthew Ryder
PS: I hope you don't get a contract at the end of this season, and retirement finds you diving for tourist pennies in a Micronesian swamp. The Opinion Blog of Matthew Ryder
I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm tired of your over-the-top, attention-seeking foolishness. For years now, you have been playing the greatest game in the world and being paid handsomely to do so, but it has never proven to be enough. Aside from the potential to win the greatest trophy in sport every year (and successfully achieving the goal in 2002), and the millions of dollars you're paid to play, you demand to be the focal point of your club at all times - be it for the right or wrong reasons.
Everyone - Ottawa fans or otherwise - is tired of the "will-he-play?" chess game going on regarding your career, first in 2002 when you 'retired' (or bailed on Detroit, depending how one views it), and now in 2006 with your latest fluke injury. It's to the point where people don't even know what it is that you've "injured" - is it the adductor or the abductor? I think it's a muscle you found on WebMD and thought you could milk for an injury, but I guess I'm not a doctor...not that it particularly matters, as you seem to know more than doctors or coaches or anyone else about what pain tolerance truly is.
The fact of the matter is that you were one of the best goalies of all time. I hate to admit it, but you were. However in that same breath, you are the worst teammate of all time. You're a spotlight-hogging, selfish, groin-pulling geezer, and it's time for you to stop your crap. Either go play a game and make a difference, or stay away from the team and let Ray Emery do his job. Emery is the future of this franchise, he's doing the best job anyone could ask of him given his circumstances, and should the Ottawa Senators ever win a Stanley Cup it will be with him between the pipes - long after the name Hasek has left the back of a Sens jersey.
Apparently you were the guy to put Ottawa over the top and hand them the Stanley Cup, but in actuality it looks more and more like you're the guy who's going to cost John Muckler his job - again, not that I care, as I hate John Muckler too, but it's a nice way to treat your greatest friend and ally in the organization (probably the league). And make no mistake, you have few allies in the NHL - the only positives to come about you at this point are from real teammates who are actually good and tow the company line by saying the right things to the media at all times. When it comes to 'mates that were alienated in the past, comments focus strictly on on-ice performance and ability, which screams out that you are locker room cancer.
In concluding my letter to you, Dom, I would like to say that when Bryan Murray served you dinner by saying 'get off the ice, practice is for the goalies who might actually play', he made an friend for life right here. You are the most self-absorbed, sorry excuse for a hockey player I have ever seen in my life, and when I think that guys like Bobby Baun scored Stanley Cup winning goals on broken legs for the salary a part-timer hauls down at Subway in 2006, and you can't play because your fake muscle won't let you, I actually get physically ill.
Sincerely,
Matthew Ryder
PS: I hope you don't get a contract at the end of this season, and retirement finds you diving for tourist pennies in a Micronesian swamp. The Opinion Blog of Matthew Ryder
posted by Matthew Ryder at 4:17 AM
10 Comments:
I laugh in Dominek's face. He is a compelte jerk. A whiner, and has screwed the sens over.
This proves that when you retire, you retire.
I am tired of seeing players re-enter the game three times over.
I as a Sens fan am completely distraught by this situation.
I don't understand why Dominek Hasek through away his season trying to be the hero for the Czechs. He was forgetting who pays him.
I am sure Dom would be playing if he was healthy. I doubt he is faking.
I don't know where you got this idea from.
The one thing I know that when you are injured you DO NOT interrupt the team. You stay away. I don't know what the hell he is thinking.
I hope you don't get a contract at the end of this season, and retirement finds you diving for tourist pennies in a Micronesian swamp.
ha!
I don't think he is faking it at all.
Why would he come out to practise instead of hiding away nursing his supposed injury?
The "Dominator?" He dominates the media, and as good as he was in his day, he was always waiting for the right time to get "injured" and then "recover!' miraculously. When you see a guy like Smith, playing after that horrendous smash in the face a few nights back, while Dom plays games with the media, the fans, and more importantly, his teammates, waiting till it is such a perfect time to return, it's easy to see why Canadian hockey players are best. They have heart!
and now the sens are out.
SON OF A BITCH. Dom is off playing his games with the media instead of performing for his team who needs him. Emery was terrible.
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Well that is surely all we will see of Hasek in the NHL.
He better not come back and milk money out of another poor team who dares to sign him on to a contract.
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