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by IwoCPO on 06/08/09 at 10:49 AM ET
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And just as I’m about to head to the airport...I see this.
Some tool at Puck Daddy who isn’t Wyshysnski
More of this drivel is available at Abel to Yzerman ("I’m sure there was discussion about the ‘tired’ remarks and the thoughts from esteemed writers like Helene Elliott, gushing and babbling happily about the ‘end of the Wing dynasty’").
Please, everyone that isn’t a Detroit fan (i.e. tolerable people): Let us join together to issue a formal apology for ever having believed that anyone that is not the Red Wings would win this Stanley Cup, with a corollary that Chris Osgood(notes) is at least twice as good as Ken Dryden and Little Caesars has the best pizza on the planet.
Not sure what “The Two Line Pass” is up to, what he’s talking about, who he is or who he roots for. And I don’t have time to deal with him/her/it right now. Please someone review his literature and let me know if it’s something we should be discussing.
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Some tool at Puck Daddy who isn’t Wyshysnski
It’s important to distinguish between the tools who comprise the authorship of Puck Daddy. They are many.
They’ve basically thrown down the gauntlet over there and just said: “F*ck it. We hate the Wings and we don’t care who knows anymore.”
Not that that was ever really in dispute.
Posted by Mandingo from The Garage on 06/08/09 at 09:57 AM ET
Wow, it’s amazing what a snap judgment will do for you. I can tell just from what you’ve posted that he’s not worth reading unless you like the random scribblings of a mouth-breathing moron.
Have a good and safe flight, Chief.
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 06/08/09 at 10:01 AM ET
Go to his blog. He’s a Pens fan all the way. His pages are full of apologies for the Pens, and why the other team that plays them are dirty, mean, and have terrible fans.
Plus, he has this on his site: “Want to get in touch with me? Send me an electronic mail!”
An electronic mail?
Really??
My barely computer-literate grandma doesn’t even call it that.
You gave this guy his Warholian fifteen minutes of fame, Chief. I’d suggest forgetting he ever existed after today.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:02 AM ET
and Little Caesars has the best pizza on the planet.
It is pretty damn good. Pizza Hut dreams of one day becoming as delicious as Little Caesars. And to top it all off, the pizza tastes so much better after a Wings victory. Bitches.
TPSH reincarnated
TPSH’s brother.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 06/08/09 at 10:03 AM ET
Puck Daddy has been slowly transformed into the ESPN of hockey blogs. Simply stated, they appeal to the lowest common denominator. If you wait long enough, they’ll say something inflammatory and stupid about every single team, they just hope to keep you distracted with the rest of the drivel in between pieces where you get to be the target.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 06/08/09 at 10:05 AM ET
a mouth-breathing moron.
Well, if he likes Malkin, and he’s a mouth-breather, then they must be brothers, cause Malkin’s always got that doofus agape look on his face. I just imagine when Malkin skates by all you hear is, “Duuuuuhhhhhrrrrrrr.”
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 06/08/09 at 10:05 AM ET
They’ve basically thrown down the gauntlet over there and just said: “F*ck it. We hate the Wings and we don’t care who knows anymore.”
I interviewed Whyshynski for a season preview show in early October on WKNW, a station in the Sault. Whenever the Wings were brought up, he just wanted to talk about how the Cup was dented at Cheli’s bar the day of the parade, or how Draper’s kid took a dump in the Cup. It became apparent pretty early the guy hated the Wings.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:05 AM ET
Wow. I didn’t think anyone could be as illiterate and stupid as that and get published. That ass wouldn’t get published in a real paper or magazine, tell you that much. What a fricking dope.
Posted by Wings_Fan_In_KC from the rolling prairies on 06/08/09 at 10:11 AM ET
I found out where all the Pen(i)s trolls went today. Thumbs and feet firmly planted in mouths. Just when I thought I had enough reasons why NOT to read PuckDaddy....another one rears it’s ugly, unintelligent, naive head. I’ll never visit that site again. Not one more hit from this guys...ever.
It feels good to be hated after a game like Saturday.
Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 06/08/09 at 10:15 AM ET
Is this someone else who figures that my mom and I are both ***holes because we cheer for the Wings? I had no idea I had so many enemies. Gosh, it makes me feel important. 
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/08/09 at 10:15 AM ET
I just read it… Mandingo’s comment on article is dead-on. It’s not poorly written at all, in fact, it’s a decent read, it just stinks of sour grapes and a piece of shit in his mom’s basement making as many witty, potentially controversial quips as he possibly can just to get attention.
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 06/08/09 at 10:17 AM ET
He’s not a Pens fan Blogger. He’s a Flames fan. Which should answer some of your questions as to why he’s bitching about Detroit.
Posted by Russian Rocket on 06/08/09 at 10:19 AM ET
Did Puck Daddy ever do their eulogy for the Blackhawks this year?
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 06/08/09 at 10:20 AM ET
Puck Daddy has been slowly transformed into the ESPN of hockey blogs.
Pro: More Erin Andrews eye candy.
Con: Need to mention NBA playoffs or Brett Farve every 12.4 seconds.
Let me mull it over. I’ll get back to you.
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 10:21 AM ET
TLP’s a Flames fan and Wyshynski is a Devils fan. Is it any surprise that on a hockey blog that they let their personal biases show?
Plus, he has this on his site: “Want to get in touch with me? Send me an electronic mail!”
An electronic mail?
Really??
My barely computer-literate grandma doesn’t even call it that.
Just a shot in the dark but that might, just maybe, be tongue-in-cheek.
Posted by Pension Plan Puppets on 06/08/09 at 10:25 AM ET
Con: Need to mention NBA playoffs or Brett Farve every 12.4 seconds.
You got that covered.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:25 AM ET
Just a shot in the dark but that might, just maybe, be tongue-in-cheek
Or maybe, just maybe, it isn’t.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:26 AM ET
Puck Daddy has been slowly transformed into the ESPN of hockey blogs.
Pro: More Erin Andrews eye candy.
Con: Need to mention NBA playoffs or Brett Farve every 12.4 seconds.
Let me mull it over. I’ll get back to you.
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 11:21 AM ET
More like:
Pro: It’s well-proven that the lowest common denominator is good for a lot of page views
Con: People who aren’t dumbshits have no respect for your site.
Mull this over: you’re a joke.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 06/08/09 at 10:27 AM ET
@ J.J. from Kansas
Just saw your last note. We did have a Blackhawks eulogy written by a Blues blogger, and it was one of the best of the series, IMO:
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 10:27 AM ET
I interviewed Whyshynski for a season preview show in early October on WKNW, a station in the Sault. Whenever the Wings were brought up, he just wanted to talk about how the Cup was dented at Cheli’s bar the day of the parade, or how Draper’s kid took a dump in the Cup.
He also expended about 10 blog posts and 10,000 words during All-Star week defending Bettman’s decision to suspend Lidstrom and Datsyuk for being injured.
He seems like a decent guy, but he’s a Wings hater. There’s nothing wrong with that. But I wish they’d just drop this faux-objectivity that pervades most of their stuff. It’s embarrasssing to watch sometimes. They expend so much energy faking impartiality.
If you want to hate on a team, have the balls to hate on them.
This unapologetic, irrational anti-Wings post over there is actually kind of refreshing. At least it’s not their usual back-handed approach.
Posted by Mandingo from The Garage on 06/08/09 at 10:28 AM ET
Oh, sorry:
Signed,
Joke who took his time to respond to you, despite your trolling.
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 10:29 AM ET
Please someone review his literature and let me know if it’s something we should be discussing.
About as discussion-worthy as the masturbatory habits of the red-ruffed lemur.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 10:29 AM ET
Oh, sorry:
Signed,
Joke who took his time to respond to you, despite your trolling.
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 11:29 AM ET
When I come to your site and call you a joke, I’m trolling. When I do it here, I’m sharing an opinion. Thanks for the link on the eulogy. Now get back to work, there are mouth-breathing commenters over there whose shift and 1 keys are getting lonely.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 06/08/09 at 10:32 AM ET
He seems like a decent guy, but he’s a Wings hater.
Agree, he’s got a good sense of humor. But it’s when he feigns impartiality, as you hit on, that he becomes difficult to read.
C’mon, Gregg, drop the faux-even-handedness...your bosses at Yahoo Sports won’t mind. Hell, they probably don’t even know they have a hockey blogger on the payroll.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:32 AM ET
Hell, they probably don’t even know they have a hockey blogger on the payroll.
Wait, that’s a paid gig?
Wow.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 10:34 AM ET
He seems like a decent guy, but he’s a Wings hater. There’s nothing wrong with that. But I wish they’d just drop this faux-objectivity that pervades most of their stuff. It’s embarrasssing to watch sometimes. They expend so much energy faking impartiality.
If you want to hate on a team, have the balls to hate on them.
I thought that’s what we were doing when all you fellows got your panties in a bunch over it. And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans.
Keep reading!
Your best friend,
TLP
Posted by TLP from Boston on 06/08/09 at 10:35 AM ET
@ Red Winger
“Whenever the Wings were brought up, he just wanted to talk about how the Cup was dented at Cheli’s bar the day of the parade, or how Draper’s kid took a dump in the Cup.”
I’m sure that’s not an accurate description of our interview, sir. Although I can’t recall our chat verbatim.
I’m not in radio per se, so I am confused by the notion that jokes about the Cup dent and young Draper making poo-poo in the Chalice somehow translates into Wings-bashing. Did you have the stones to call me out on it on the air, or do you save those accusations for your Internet muscles?
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 10:37 AM ET
And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans.
Yes, the monosyllabic offerings of prepubescent pens “fans” seem much more your speed.
DIAF.
Love,
TD
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 10:37 AM ET
And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans
Hate us more. We dig it.
Are we spoiled? You’re damn right we are. But of all 30 NHL teams, no one has a right to be spoiled like us.
We won’t rest until every damn one of you kneel at the altar of Yzerman.
We won’t be happy until the NHL announces in some future July that there will be no schedule for an upcoming season, because the Stanley Cup is going to be automatically given to the Detroit Red Wings, they are just that damn good.
We’re the luckiest damn sports fans on the planet, because of the team we follow, passionately. We know it. And we won’t rest until all the rest of you admit it to our faces...on one knee, head bowed.
Clear?
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:40 AM ET
Chief, seems like all the PD contributers are Pen(i)s fans:
Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/08/09 at 10:43 AM ET
I’m not in radio per se, so I am confused by the notion that jokes about the Cup dent and young Draper making poo-poo in the Chalice somehow translates into Wings-bashing. Did you have the stones to call me out on it on the air, or do you save those accusations for your Internet muscles?
Call you on it on the air? That wouldn’t be cool. I just didn’t know your presentation was as humor-based as it was. So I adjusted, played along.
But it’s not about internet muscles. I’m on another Internet show as you, TFP, with Francis. Come on at 11:30 today, and we can discuss. Want the number?
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste. Marie on 06/08/09 at 10:44 AM ET
I thought that’s what we were doing when all you fellows got your panties in a bunch over it.
You’re quoting a post in which I’m actually giving you credit for openly hating on the Wings and you’re claiming my “panties are in a bunch”?
And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans.
As a Wings fan, I hate a lot of Wings fans, too.
Fans don’t have anything to do with the team.
You also need to realize that going into an admittedly non-ojective team fan site to cull posts and forum entries to “prove” that a team’s fans are somewhat touchy and a bit irrational is pretty lazy “journalism”.
Is it really all that shocking that a team’s fans are emotionally invested in their team?
Posted by Mandingo from The Garage on 06/08/09 at 10:44 AM ET
The Puck Daddy writers really know how to get people riled ... and continue to talk about and read what they write. Which makes them very, very good at what they do. And those who leave ‘bent-out-of-shape’ comments only add to the daily hilarity/trainwreck of it all.
AOL Fanhouse used to be one-stop shopping for good writing/lame comments about hockey. Puck Daddy has taken both to new heights.
Posted by Pokecheck from Raleigh NC on 06/08/09 at 10:45 AM ET
As a Wings fan, I hate a lot of Wings fans, too.
Fans don’t have anything to do with the team.
You also need to realize that going into an admittedly non-ojective team fan site to cull posts and forum entries to “prove” that a team’s fans are somewhat touchy and a bit irrational is pretty lazy “journalism”.
Is it really all that shocking that a team’s fans are emotionally invested in their team?
(starting a slow clap)
Posted by Triple Deke Tyler from Lansing on 06/08/09 at 10:47 AM ET
Just saw your last note. We did have a Blackhawks eulogy written by a Blues blogger, and it was one of the best of the series, IMO:
I’m sure it was stellar, he probably lifted SO MANY weights just to get siked up to write it.
And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans.
The bottom line is people hate Wings fans because we have a lot to brag about. That translates directly back to all the winning the Wings have done for the last two decades. That sounds like sour grapes. And that’s fair. I hated the Avs because they were good. I hate the Ducks because they’re good.
Look, there are *#$%@& fans of every sports team in the entire world. For you to paint Wings fans with a broad brush and hate us all is ignorant and childish.
Did you have the stones to call me out on it on the air, or do you save those accusations for your Internet muscles?
Funny thing for a guy that’s based all his success on flexing his own internet muscles to say. We all say shit on the interweb we wouldn’t say in real life, get over yourself.
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 06/08/09 at 10:49 AM ET
And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans.
Great line. I’ve preserved it on the right hand side.
Add yourself to the list of fu**ing assholes we’ll be talking about after Nick lifts Cup #12 sometime this week.
Posted by IwoCPO from Washington, DC on 06/08/09 at 10:50 AM ET
My favorite part of the whole entry is the cherry-picked “fans” photo, presumably from the end of an average regular season game in December, or from warmups or something.
I drink your tears, TLP. They taste like bitterness and sorrow.
Posted by Incognetis from Exile in Alabama on 06/08/09 at 10:50 AM ET
AOL Fanhouse used to be one-stop shopping for good writing/lame comments about hockey. Puck Daddy has taken both to new heights.
More like schtick writing and lame comments about hockey. But fair play.
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 06/08/09 at 10:52 AM ET
My favorite part of the whole entry is the cherry-picked “fans” photo, presumably from the end of an average regular season game in December, or from warmups or something.
No doubt. Or the preseason. Or from a legit game, and they just think it’s funny to insult a tough economic situation that impacts the entire world, not just Detroit, any longer. And that’s class. Like leisure suits and key parties.
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 06/08/09 at 10:54 AM ET
My favorite part of the whole entry is the cherry-picked “fans” photo, presumably from the end of an average regular season game in December, or from warmups or something.
I did enjoy that, but felt it was runner-up to labeling Malik’s quote ...
“..As fantastic as the Red Wings’ 5-0 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins was from a fan’s perspective, I’m plain old [ticked] off at the fact that the same people who so eagerly claimed that the Red Wings were tired, old, slow, and (if you watched the CBC or NBC’s coverage of the game) started measuring the Penguins’ fingers for Stanley Cup rings changed their tune en masse.”
... as “drivel”. Because the Wings could win a 5th Cup in 12 years, we are to be void of all negative emotion and never express anything other than absolute joy and satisfaction.
Posted by Triple Deke Tyler from Lansing on 06/08/09 at 10:58 AM ET
Oh look, it’s Wussynski himself (though I suspect that he and Leahy have been here many times before - Jimmy? Joe?)
Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/08/09 at 11:06 AM ET
Personally I like most articles on Puckdaddy. They cover a lot of different areas. I also have no problem about a little team bias. Hell if I were writing a hockey blog it would sound a lot like the one you are reading now. I happen to really dislike the TLP segment, therefore I do not read it. He is biased in a way only a Wings fan can understand. That being said if you are asked to write an article on a HOCKEY BLOG (not a Flames blog or a Wings blog like you are reading now) covering what happened with ALL 30 teams during the weekend, and what seems like every article throws a jab at the Wings or their fans you are a douche. And thats ok because I would probably be bitter to as a Flames fan too.
Posted by AxeMaster9 on 06/08/09 at 11:07 AM ET
This is turning into the season of STFU for the Wings and their fans.
I can understand why Puck Daddy contributors would not like Wings fans. I can understand why Puck Daddy contributors wouldn’t like any team’s fans reading the cesspool of comments each post turns into. I’ve seen Mandingo over there in the comments section and I’ve made a few forays there as well, but it seems for every well-reasoned response someone in there has, there are eight stupid ones to drown that out. Of course, before somebody goes digging up all my old posts there, I will freely admit that I’ve previously fallen victim to the mentality that permeates. I remember a whole string of Chris Pronger jokes not too long ago.
Quite simply, I’m starting to think that the bloodthirsty mob is starting to make policy there.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 06/08/09 at 11:08 AM ET
nothing to concern about there, the guy’s a complete tool, ragging on everyone and every thing
Posted by MsRedWingFan on 06/08/09 at 11:09 AM ET
“And for the record, I don’t hate the Red Wings, I hate their fans.”
--Douche Bag at Puck Daddy who isn’t Wyshynski
Another classic Chief.
Posted by AxeMaster9 on 06/08/09 at 11:09 AM ET
Wahhhh!
It’s not enough to have the premier franchise in sports today. We have to have everyone in the media love us as well.
I never realized that calling everyone “bitches” around here was meant to be literal.
Posted by alexcutter on 06/08/09 at 11:19 AM ET
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