I am going to preface this by saying I love Mike Richards and his tough hockey, sometimes.  I thought he was an intricate part to Canada’s glorious success in winning gold in Vancouver.

In an article (link on the bottom of the page) it states that Flyers captain Mike Richards was taking shots at PK Subban. Now knowing I am the biggest  Subbanator fan I am bias. He is a great talent and i recognize that as he grows and becomes more prominent in the league people will take their shots at him. I won’t get upset over every comment but this one is special. Mike Richard’s comments are just dumb, misinformed and forgetful.

Lets start with forgetful; last year in the playoffs (Mike Richards might have forgot) the Montreal Canadiens called up 20 year old PK Subban. After playing a couple of games where he did not see too much ice time, he watched one of the best defensemen, Andrei Markov, in the NHL go down with a serious knee injury. How did he react? He stepped into the void beautifully averaging north of 20 minutes per game on the ice. He also he had 4 points in the 5 playoff games against the Flyers, and 2 points in the two regular season games against the Flyers. He ended the playoffs with 1 goal and 7 assists in 11 games, not too bad. 

Now misinformed, when PK played for Pat Quinn on the world junoir team, with his best friend John Tavares, and lead them as an assitant captain to the gold the most commonly used attribute by Pierre Mcguire was a great locker room presence. His teammates have always said the same thing. He is a guy who isn’t afraid to step up for a teammate (as shown by Tuesday night). PK has a reputation for being humble, polite and kind to anyone and everyone. However, he is in the NHL and if he is mean to you Mike be a man he was ready to drop the gloves, don’t come out after the game saying PK is ‘cocky’.

Now dumb, if you can remember as far back as Tuesday night you may remember that Mike “tough guy” Richards started this fued with PK Subban by attacking Andrei Kostityn. So to say PK hasn’t earned his stripes isn’t your right Mike. You don’t determine when he earns his spot his team does. They seem to get along fine. So you think because you go after a scorer you have stripes and the guy who protects him doesn’t? Typical Flyers Bullshit. I remember last year tough guy Daniel Carcillo attack Marion Gaborik. Now on levels of bitchdom he reached below SEAN AVERY. That is like going deeper than the bottom of the ocean. The flyers are goons have a history of it and no one respects you going after Kostityn or Carlcillo fighting Gaborik. The Flyers suck, they go after the Canadiens and try to fight them after they lost the game. Maybe if you focused your attention on scoring on Carey Price rather than trying to fight Kostityn you sould have scored. (Congrats Carey on your 3 shutout in 16 games, and Richards probably wouldn’t have scored with his weak shit.) 

Back to his comments on the cockiness of PK. He has earned his stripes let me tell you. His teammates love him and his fans love him. Now I wonder if we ask Crosby, a guy who battled a lot with Subban in both the beginning of the season and in the playoffs, what he thinks of Subban. I bet he answers differently the your bitch ass Richards.

Lastly I feel Richards is upset because PK had No Fear (Hockey News cover) of fighting him. Richards man up or pick on someone else you puss, just dont come out saying slanderous things about a kid who is done nothing wrong since he has been in the league. 

Darrol Powe keep your head up you dirty player.

Richards article:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/flyers-richards-blasts-cocky-subban/article1803139/ 

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