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Kotkaniemi15

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Forum: NHLJul. 16, 2022 at 11:06 p.m.
Thread: 2021-2022 NHL Offseason Discussion Thread #8 - Gone Fishing
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>You think he can’t deal with pressure based on what exactly? If that does affect him, I absolutely hope he gets in a better situation, but there’s absolutely nothing that is public knowledge that outlines Jo’s inner thoughts, which most people don’t even have a full grip on in their own mind. So assuming someone’s mental state/triggers is extremely unhelpful and harmfully simplifying someone who you don’t know, and almost certainly never will know. Saying he’s “no good at dealing with immense pressure” may be true, but there’s absolutely no evidence that we have that it is true, and saying that can do only harm and no good.

If someone that I don’t know said that I have a huge problem with procrastination and laziness, while being a true statement, it isn’t that person’s place to comment on my mental struggles if I am not the one initiating the conversation. There may be more nuanced conversations that I didn’t try to initiate, but are started by people who know me well, which is much different than people who don’t know me at all commenting on my procrastination issues that they don’t even know for sure if I have.

And I’m sorry for sounding overly critical, since I’ve interacted with you enough to know that you mean well. This is just a kind of statement that has really frustrated me among things that hockey fans say, and I felt like saying something.</div></div>

I get that you're a fan of Drouin's and want to think the best of him and that's perfectly fine.

I did base my comment on the fact that Drouin is, at least if I recall correctly, like the only active player who has taken a leave of absence from his team. Whatever he had to deal with back then is something we can't be fully sure of, but you'd have to think he had some issues that made him think he's of no importance for his own team that were actually fighting of cup that year to everyone's surprise. My guess is that the pressure around Montreal got to him and he started to question himself, but this is conjecture as I have no actual proof on what the issue was in the end.

As for why I'd like to see him play for a small market team with no much pressure on himself is to ascertain these thoughts, cuz if he can perform there even close up to his immense potential he had back when he was in his early twenties, he's gonna look like a very different player he is today.

From the young days when he requested for a trade from Tampa to the struggle of recent years, health problems and the hiatus he took it's inconceivable that he's got himself a certain "reputation" amongst hockey folks.
Forum: NHL TradesJul. 7, 2022 at 10:40 p.m.
Thread: (MTL/NYI) - Romanov for 2022 1st round pick (13th)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kotkaniemi15</b></div><div>That’s a sad way to watch my team? I think it’s sad if the only way you watch hockey is just cheering for the corporation regardless of who is on the ice and how they act.

Suzuki is the most boring person on earth. I love Cole. But he’s not enough to get me to continue to watch hockey, especially when there’s so much else I could be doing with those 246+ hours of time and $200 I would spend watching the habs each year.

Would I fall in love with Slafkovsky and the others if I got back into hockey? Probably, yes. But that’ll never remove the pain that I’ll feel every time I think of the losses of Romanov, Kotkaniemi, Mete, Lehkonen, and so many others. Hockey fandom has some great highs, but also a lot of lows, and I should really be focusing my free time into something that is just highs with no lows and I’ll be a lot happier of a person.</div></div>

Well said. We control none of this and are cheering for laundry. Without any connection to the players, we may as well put on Hughes and Gorton jerseys.
Forum: NHLMay 12, 2022 at 11:37 p.m.
Thread: 2021-22 NHL Off-season Discussion Thread - #1
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As someone completely ignorant of anything sports-related, I am deeply honored. 🙏<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThankYouNewJerseyDevils?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#ThankYouNewJerseyDevils</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHLDraft2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#NHLDraft2022</a> <a href="https://t.co/HbeJ7uDF3E" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://t.co/HbeJ7uDF3E</a></p>— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1524844257701335042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">May 12, 2022</a></blockquote>



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