Steve Simmons: Lazy Reporter, Laziest Reporter, or Something Sinister?

Yeah, I should edit that to expand but one thing that might make sense is if it’s a way of lessening expectations on any possible return.

I’d hate for Kabby to be seen as a bad dressing room presence, only to get dealt for a crappy package like, I dunno: Stajan, Hagman and White? only to go be a stud on the team we dealt him to. Maybe Simmons IS sinister

Don’t follow the Leafs.

:(

MacLean’s backpedaling like crazy.

Water is wet.

About ten minutes after I joined PPP in going after Simmons on this supposed feud, (as set out above by PPP), his response was….nothing.

I tweeted him again: “@simmonssteve (sound of crickets chirping).” Still nothing.

I don’t get it. I would expect a legitimate reporter who reported factual inaccuracies as a result of erroneous information received from a source to stand up and defend his integrity. All Simmons says is that his source was “right about the injury”. I asked him a direct question – did you base your story on the mere fact that Sundin visited a doctor – and he’s not replying. I doubted this “feud” story immediately, and Simmons’ silence on the Sundin/hip thing speaks volumes to me about his credibility as a reporter.

I agree with every word of this.

I voted lazy too.

i voted lazy, because “laziest” gives him an air of superiority over all other lazy reporters, and I don’t even think he’s very good at being lazy.

something sinister just gives him too much credit all together…

Yes. Sinister is Rosi DiManno

He’s a parody of himself at this point.

hahaha

They’re the real Killer B’s!

i just knew a sedin could never reach 100 pts on his own ;)

I hope that’s a late April’s Fools but I would respect the Sedins more if they did it.

favorite rumor

Definitely not a fair comparison. Like comparing Apples to rotten apple cores.

sadly, or happily? depending on the return

But, if you were a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and a source that you trusted came to you and said that a prominent player was unhappy with his coach would you run the story?

Yeah, I get why he would do it. Still speaks to the shoddy level of work that he would and it would be acceptable.

And yeah, Kabby’s going. We’ve had all year to make our peace with it.

Just how soon is anyone’s guess.

I can guess. Sometime between July 1st and August 15th. After that it stops being “soon”.

I think mf37 pretty much nails it. If Simmons has a decent source on this, then it’s news and he should report it. Of course only Simmons knows who his source is — if he’s eklunding this one, that’s a different ballgame. But I don’t think he is.

And we shouldn’t just assume the story is wrong because Kaberle and Wilson deny it. For one thing, it’s been well-reported in the hockey world that Wilson can be a dick to his players and that the Sharks hated him by the end. So him not getting along with somebody isn’t really surprising.

And the story here is that Kaberle is talking about Wilson to his friends. So the fact that Wilson doesn’t know anything about it is meaningless, and the fact that Kaberle denies it doesn’t tell us much.

You may be correct in wanting to print a sensational story such as Simmonds has but I would hope that like many real journalists (much like the ones I personally know), that once you get your “scoop”, you follow up on it to verify it in whole or in part. If Simmons’ source tells you Kaberle and other players hate Wilson, well you will have to confirm that allegation with at least one more person and it doesn’t have to be Kaberle but some one else to collaborate that allegation. If you don’t you might as well write that Wilson is the antichrist because your source told you he saw his horns and tail on a few occasions.
The article should never of been printed before the FACTS were confirmed. This is just another sad attempt of a sad man trying to prove that he is a real reporter where in fact he’s just a hack through and through. And like I said before, whom does he write for??? Oh yes that paper not worthy of lining my bird cage.

I wanted to get some wrasslin’ references in as a proper tribute but I couldn’t think of any.

Beauchemin and Phaneuf seem to be the first powerplay unit for the last month with Kaberle and Gunnarsson coming on as the second unit.

Kaberle isn’t leading the attack any more, but appears to be under specific instructions to move the puck to the forwards sooner. Since the Great Overhaul, Wilson and Kaberle have been employing a different style of attack that doesn’t depend on one player to carry the puck through the nuetral zone. Instead, Kessel, Phaneuf, Beauchemin, Kulemin, Bozak, and Schenn, are being given opportunities to lead the offence and generate scoring chances, meaning less points for Kaberle beacuse he isn’t the one engineering the offence. It’s as simple as that really. The Leafs know what Kabby can do and they need to see what others can do and Kabby is graciously assisting the coaching staff to better assess the talent.

And finally:

“Kaberle is not picking his teeth out of the glass all night (anymore). I’m excited about that. There’s some notion that everyone has to be tough on a hockey team. They don’t. You have to surround your skill guys with enough size and toughness that they can play their game. And I think that’s what we’ve done.”

said Burke once.

It’s the timing of this that really irks me. Ron’s been here for almost 2 full years. Tomas should really know what he’s all about by now.

If he’s THAT sick of playing for Ron, he had the opportunity to ask Burke to trade him last month.
If he’s THAT upset about Ron correctly calling out his veteran D to play better, my sympathy for him is lacking.

Ron called out Beauchemin too (who’s been having an even worse season than Kaberle). Interesting that none of Francois’ “friends” have been chatty.

I’ve had a few coaches I thought were assholes personally.

Still liked playing for them.

I play with a very good player on my indoor soccer team. Sometimes he yells at me. When he does, it’s because I’ve done something wrong. I try to correct it and then he’s nice to me.

Ron Wilson as a coach follows that path. Unfortunately, Kaberle hasn’t raised his game during Wilson’s time to get to the praise part of the program. If he’s around next year and starts off + 5/10 I bet he gets the praise.

It wouldn’t suprise me if half the team thinks Ron Wilson is a dick…Doesn’t necessarily mean you would want out though.

This is what troubles me about Simmons reporting the feud story supposedly from Kabby’s friend. Simmons is the guy that (it would seem) jumped from “Mats Sundin is seeing a hip doctor” to “Mats Sundin’s career is over because of an untreatable hip injury.” I don’t trust Simmons to recognize that in reporting the friend’s remarks, he’s dealing with hearsay – the friend’s version of a statement to be attributed to Kaberle – responsibly, accurately and without hyperbolic speculation and conclusory nonsense to follow.

how’d you record that?

Cox also sits at that table…. eww

Doesn’t have to be April 1st for Simmons to be a fool