Aw, boo-hoo.
A number of San Jose Sharks were asked prior to the game against the Winnipeg Jets what was their least favourite city to play in was, and some whined about winter in Winnipeg being cold and dark. Cold and dark in Winnipeg, in Canada, during the winter? The devil you say!
I guess being pampered in southern California will make whiners out of professional athletes. Not that most of them, in all sports, aren't pampered little whiners with their millions of dollars to do what they love. Poor babies.
Coach Paul Maurice answered cool and collectively on behalf of, I think, all Canadian hockey fans.
Personally, losing to a better team might have the baby Sharks a little on the defensive these days. So agrees The Hockey News Ken Campbell.
“I hate Winnipeg because the Jets are way better than we are and we frittered away a bunch of years as a Stanley Cup contender by choking in the playoffs while they’re a team on the rise. I also hate Winnipeg because they’re a bunch of points ahead of us and The Hockey News has picked them to win the Stanley cup in 2019. “I heard it’s cold and dark. Well, that happens in Canada, occasionally, pretty regularly every winter. It’s dark at night, yeah that happens pretty much around the world. I don’t think any coach, any player, trainer, referee, should ever complain about a day in the National Hockey League. We’ve got a sold-out building, pretty sure that goes into hockey related revenues, everybody cashes their cheque. The thread count at your hotel isn’t right or your frappacino isn’t frothed right – I don’t even know what a frappacino is – but my point being, we’ve got nothing to complain about. A pretty good life, every day. Every city’s a pretty darn good one.” |
