That's Just Grapes Being Grapes...

Grapes is an ignorant, jingoistic ass.

And THN’s Ryan Kennedy deserves derision too. Really? AO hits from behind “every once and a while?” Actually: He does so rarely, especially for a guy with as many HTs as AO. Look it up before you type, Kennedy…

It goes on in all sports with foreign guys, particularly in baseball. How many times have you heard the phrase “Manny being Manny” or have heard some other Latin player being described as “child-like” or “aloof”?

I hate when Grapes talks about foreign guys like this, because he’s missing the entire point of how WONDERFUL they’ve made the game of hockey.

OK, so Europeans first weren’t tough enough, they couldn’t make for effective captains (well, until last year), and now, they play too rough and are ignorant besides.

Gee, Don…maybe we should just give you a gun to shoot them all.

I’m getting mixed messages here. Does Ovechkin lack accountability because (1) Brashear is there to cover his butt and AO is “too valuable,” or (2) he’s not Canadian?

Because Kennedy attributes #1 to Cherry, but typically we only get the anti-Russian comment directly from the horse’s mouth.

I have never thought he was worth a moment’s notice. His nationalistic bullshit is so Seventies. Y-A-W-N

THIS IS HOW I TALK I HAVE A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT AND I CANNOT LOWER THE SOUND OF MY OWN VOICE NOR CAN I STOP TALKING TO HEAR MYSELF TALK.

He gets paid for how he speaks, not what he speaks… Kind of like Kornhole and Wilbitch, now that I think about it. Yikes.

Hey Cherry, of course if Ovechkin was Canadian (like me) you would be talking about how much you love the guy and the way he is both a scoring machine and hitting machine. Typically you love guys like him, but since he is Russian, you have to come up with some reason for disliking him. It is not because he hits from behind…that is just your cover for your real dislike…he is not Canadian (or American…Cherry also likes the Americans too).

Cherry says he’s seen people hold up before hitting OV. I’ve never noticed that; but if it’s true, it aint because of Brash. It’s because they know OV will likely survive the hit, seek them out, and punish them. He’s unique in that he polices himself. From the Bruins game the other day – OV got hooked into the board, a penalty but not an intent to injure — “a hockey play” as OV called it. Brash didnt go after anybody – but sure as heck OV was a hitting machine in the 3rd. Come to think of it, Brash’s fights this year (correct me if I’m wrong D’oghboy) have mostly been staged/tough guy fights, not the “payback fight” Grapes speaks of. Basically, it’s ignorance. He’s not watching our games, folks. He’s reading USA Today and watching the Leafs and Habs and Flames……

The only reason Cherry doesn’t like him is because he’s not from North America (Cherry bigotry is targeted at all European players not named Mats Sundin.) Take him for what he is, the Rush Limbaugh of hockey, who says things not necessarily because he believed them, but because they’ll start up controversy.

There is a reason he dresses like a clown every week….