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Monday, June 27, 2005

Who's this "we"?

Everybody out there who calls us spoiled because we play a game, they can kiss my ***. I will say personally, to everybody who calls us spoiled ... don't come. We don't want you in the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey.

-- Jeremy Roenick, center for my (formerly) favorite NHL team, the Flyers (6/25/05)

Who's this "we"? Is Roenick suddenly the spokesman for the NHLPA? Does this statement come from him having polled every player on every team?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that it didn't. But in the spirit of being the self-appointed spokesman for a bunch of other people, I have a reply. If you're going to lash out at the people who really pay your salary (because it's not the owners) while the millionaires and the billionaires can't come to an agreement, then "we don't want you in the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to play hockey", Jeremy.