I have explained that NHL teams are only as good as their players about, oh, seven thousand fucking times.
If you can't understand that any team Shane plays on will be a great team, I fucking cannot anymore.
Ottawa is well on it's way to greatness by the time Shane signs with them.
Has Montreal historically been the greatest team in the history of hockey with a lot of cups? Sure, but when you're the only team older than the goddamn league, that's bound to happen.
Montreal got Shane because they sucked. You only get first round draft picks when you suck. That's the goddamn point of the draft, to equalize things.
One more person fucking chirp at me about Shane having to leave a great team, I fucking dare you. He MADE that team great. He has the rings for those fucking banners, and no one will ever forget the Hollander Era for the Metros. And trust me, history will never shut up about the time they fumbled Hollander because they didn't like his boyfriend.
Ask a Habs fan about Patrick Roy. But not when they're drunk, cuz you might get tears, but you also might get punched. What you will absolutely get is an angry screed of how stupid it was to hire Tremblay and lose Roy.
Here's a link to a reddit post where the FIRST FUCKING COMMENT is "Dunno why they even hired Tremblay." The moment they're discussing is 30 YEARS OLD AND NO ONE IS OVER IT.
I don't know much about other sports and I don't care to, the NHL is exhausting enough.
But NHL history will not be kind to Theriault, and to whoever the hell is the Montreal GM.
And Shane, like Roy, will win cups elsewhere, and people will start whispering about the Hollander Curse when Montreal drops back down to the lowest ranked team in the League once again.
Miss me entirely with this "Shane deserves Montreal" bullshit.
It's not a question of "Shane deserving Montreal."
Montreal doesn't deserve Shane. They never did. Because if they fucking deserved Shane, Shane would have never had this conversation with Rose, because every asshole who made their star fucking player feel uncomfortable or unwelcome would be fucking GONE.
The Admirals did it for Gay Hockey Jesus Scott Hunter.
Montreal doesn't deserve Shane. They never did. Because if they fucking deserved Shane, Shane would have never had this conversation with Rose, because every asshole who made their star fucking player feel uncomfortable or unwelcome would be fucking GONE.
And stop comparing the Metros with the Canadiens. It's so fucking unfair to the Habs, who are progressive and supportive, whose captain has said they would welcome a queer player in their locker room. Not just support or tolerance, but acceptance.
Yes, the example I used is Patrick Roy and the Canadiens, but that's because that's the example most analogous to Shane deciding to leave Montreal when he's UFA. Roy chose to leave because the GM hired someone he didn't like, and that person started treating Roy like shit.
