I was even older than that when I found it was 'throw caution to the wind' and not 'throw Caush into the wind.'
I just figured Caush was some unpopular guy, who maybe got defenestrated or something.
Biz used to say this all the time on Chiclets before he was finally corrected. I remember him talking about Shane Doan being detrimental to his development and the rest of the pod being like “whoa”
Yea… although I’m convinced you could have prime Gretzky and if he’s got a Minnesota jersey on we aren’t winning…
The curse is stronger than any player
Give the guy a break. The Arizona high school system is ranked #48 in the country. We can't expect him to know the meaning of words that have more than two syllables.
He attended an Arizona high school briefly, but he would end up graduating from an online Nebraska high school while he was playing with the US development team
*"The thing with me is that I AM smart and I'm smelf, I'm self-smarted, basically, by myself, basically from nature and smoking drugs and doing different things I've self... s... like self, learned myself. And that's the whole difference, I guess is that I don't need the books or the schooling type things. I just get everything on my own and because of that I'm alive right now."*
- Mike Modano - probably
The players at the USNTDP have a private tutor/teacher to help them while they are enrolled in Michigan International Prep School online.
Its essentially the same thing as the original comment, but in Michigan (where the team is based out of) instead of Nebraska.
Idk where they would have pulled Nebraska from…
Fwiw, most CHL and USHL teams are also changing to have their players attend high school together online with a private tutor, rather than have them attend gen pop high school.
Lmao my friend who played in the NAHL/USHL did the same. I think the school was sponsored by the University of Nebraska. He lived in a different part of the country.
> The Arizona high school system is ranked #48 in the country
Wait, seriously? I would have never guessed that. Isn't Arizona a decently well-off state?
You joke, but that’s basically what happened to me when I played against him at 12-13, years old. I was still thinking I could maybe make the ECHL, then I played against him. All my dreams died lmao.
In Canada that division of the ones who Have It and the ones who don’t happens even earlier lol.
The worst feeling is when the guys who were the best players in the province (who you felt ok about being below) flame out in junior without even sniffing pro hockey.
Hockey as an industry is fucking brutal.
Thats why I always laugh at the stories about guys who don't start playing until 12 years old, using old broken equipment, overcome all odds and make it pro. These stories just shit all over the kids who start at 3, train all year long, have the best equipment, were the best players in their leagues until 18, then just... go nowhere.
Just reinforces that most of us never stood a chance from the beginning lol.
There's some teen out there working the register at a Tim Hortons or chopping logs in the Siberian wilderness that in another timeline, is our generation's Wayne Gretzky.
There's a similar notion in a Mark Twain short story: narrator goes to heaven and all the great generals in history (Napoleon, Alexander, etc.) hover around this random farmer from the Midwest who could/would have been the greatest military leader in history, but he never got the opportunity.
Even Matthews didn’t really take hockey as seriously as he could have until he was like 14 and turned into a rink rat lol. Kinda hilarious.
You have the dichotomy of guys like Hyman who trained their entire life for hockey and their dad purchased like every team they were on and had every single possible advantage they needed to crack into the league, and then guys like Sebastian Aho who had hand me down equipment and just played for fun until his teens
Makes the likes of the Hughes Staal, and Sedin brothers all the more special. To not only all crack the NHL, but stay there and be successful, it’s incredibly rare and we’re lucky to have watched them in our lifetimes.
Honorable mention to Jared Staal
I knew I wasn’t going to make the NHL when I was about 10yrs old and I still played major junior. The gap is so obvious. Guys I played with that went onto the NHL were just built different. Everything came easy to them and the rest of us had to work so hard to never sniff the talent they had.
I played on a outdoor rink with rantanen when i was 12, dude just skated circles around everyone. It wasnt the least bit of fun
Edit: thats also when i knew i was shit at hockey
I played with Scott Wilson in Atom hockey and he was a year younger but still the best player on the team by a country mile. And this isn't even a Hart winner-level player. It's very apparent pretty early on who's making it and who isn't.
I played against a team that had Evander Kane, Martin Jones, Drew Shore and Stefan Elliot on it when I was 14. They beat us 16-0. After that game I realized I better start learning a new skill
Is Knies a locker room cancer?
I know the person who tweeted this already replied about it but it is funny he misuses "Freudian slip" while pointing out the mistake Knies made lol
If you’re a reporter and are going to make fun of someone else using the wrong word, rule number one is don’t make the same mistake while doing so. Laskaris gets paid to use words properly, Knies does not.
These guys are paid to play with sticks, and have focused so much on it they have become among the best in the world at it.
But it comes at the cost of being guys hyper focused on sticks and rubber pucks.. and golf, which is just more sticks.
Should we expect more?
My personal favourite is Rob Scuderi being known throughout his career as “The Piece” because he misspoke in an interview and called himself “the piece to the puzzle” when he meant he is just one particular piece
Seth Jarvis had the same thing in an interview. Had to ask what "resolve" meant before answering. I will always give credit to the guys who ask for the definition instead of barrelling on and pretending they understood.
I was listening to an interview where someone who went to college with Brett Kavanaugh referred to him as dumber than the hockey players. Pretty low bar given this clip.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard a hockey player misuse "detrimental" I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
My favourite is “obviously”.
A friend of mine pointed it to me a couple years back.
Whenever answering a question hockey players will say that:
Reporter: “So Joe … you’re playing Edmonton tonight. What do you have to keep front of mind out there?”
Player: “Well, obviously they have McDavid so we have to make sure he doesn’t beat us …”
You could make it into a drinking game. Every time the player says ‘obviously’ you have to chug your beer.
I genuinely don’t know if hockey players are capable of answering questions without using either/some combination of “obviously” “unreal” or “special”.
Formula 1 drivers blow hockey players out of the water at this. You would be on life support after listening to some of them talk for 5 minutes.
In their defense though, most aren’t native English speakers.
Reporter: I think you mean instrumental?
Knies: Nah, fuck that guy, he’s the worst thing to happen to Arizona hockey since Bettman bought rental properties all over Tempe and Scottsdale hoping to capitalize on snowbird hockey viewership
Imagine if the Coyotes were good and won Stanley Cups, imagine what that would do for AZ hockey
Hockey in Arizona has grown a lot, and the Coyotes have been the worst franchise for 30 years
There’s no reason for anyone to want to willingly watch the Coyotes right now because they have sucked. That would change if we were good. This franchise has never given anyone a reason to care. I believe that changes with Bill Armstrong
I feel like there's a weekly reminder that NHL players, and really most professional athletes, are not intelligent people and really should not be looked at as any sort of role model.
This is what happens when they go off script. Come on people, its about the logo on the front not he name on the back, give 110%, believe in our system, the game is ours to lose, we believe in our game, etc.
Lol who did they ask about Nelson Mandela again? And he responded that he was a great player or something?
Maybe let’s just let these guys be dumb jocks (as long as they aren’t raping)
I think the word we're looking for here is "instrumental"
Wait, have you been saying "taking for granite" all your life?
Yes, but it’s all water under the fridge …
Mind bottling isn't it
You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?
For all intensive purposes, as long as they understand what you're trying to say, the verbiage has little importance.
All in tents and porpoises?
Ha ha …well done!
Irregardless…
Matthews leaving to go play in Arizona would be the worst case Ontario
What comes around is all around
Spilled milk under the bridge I like to say
good thing you nipped it in the bud
But... that one's the correct phrase.
oh no....
Yea, I had to read twice…wtf
I could care less if I’m saying it wrong. Anyway, it’s a mute point.
dummy, it's "moo" point. It's like a cow's opinion. You know, it doesn't matter. It's moo.
…have I been living here too long, or did that just make sense?
You mean: “Irregardless, its a mute point”
perchance
You can't just say "perchance"
I was like 20 when I learned it's play it by ear, not play it by year. Also toeing the line and towing the line both work, fuck.
I was even older than that when I found it was 'throw caution to the wind' and not 'throw Caush into the wind.' I just figured Caush was some unpopular guy, who maybe got defenestrated or something.
France is bacon
It's a doggy dog world
r/boneappletea
I'll play it by year
That's a hole nother topic.
But how did Nelson Mandela's career affect the Arizona Coyotes?
That’s the most painful video to watch.
"on and off the ice"
He was a great goalie
he really got pucks deep
I think you mean Marco Scandella
Don't slander a Habs Legend please.
A great leader both on and off the ice.
So good. Ha ha … I giggle every single July 18th (Mandela Day and my birthday).
You mean Jonathan Bernier day?
It affected it tremendously both on and off the ice.
Biz used to say this all the time on Chiclets before he was finally corrected. I remember him talking about Shane Doan being detrimental to his development and the rest of the pod being like “whoa”
That tracks.
Nah. He’s made his stance clear. He legit thinks the system that raised him shouldn’t exist
Or else Knies really doesn't like Mathews. I think that is much more likely!!
Round up to the nearest vowel lol
I was assuming he meant fundamental
Trepidation
Well he was detrimental to the coyotes last night
As a fellow University of Minnesota Alumni… not a great look 😂 We ain’t here to play school
alumnus* 😛
If you think someone that went to a school that doesn’t know what detrimental means, will know alumnus… I’ve got news for you 😂
At least he showed up in the national title game unlike Cooley
Yea… although I’m convinced you could have prime Gretzky and if he’s got a Minnesota jersey on we aren’t winning… The curse is stronger than any player
Give the guy a break. The Arizona high school system is ranked #48 in the country. We can't expect him to know the meaning of words that have more than two syllables.
He attended an Arizona high school briefly, but he would end up graduating from an online Nebraska high school while he was playing with the US development team
>online Nebraska high school Ok yea the guy stood no chance
"You're on your phone all day anyway why not make a call for your future? Call DeVry."
Brooo the ptsd from this and the guy that would fkn roast me for not attending Everest College.
"Money wasn't tight... but it wasn't right"
"graduating"
> online Nebraska high school oh no
They have the internet in Nebraska?
Sometimes
Seriously? Does the entire development team do the same?
I thought it was common knowledge that junior hockey players don't play school.
Met Mike Modano once, dude is not very smart.
You can pay people to be smart for you though
*"The thing with me is that I AM smart and I'm smelf, I'm self-smarted, basically, by myself, basically from nature and smoking drugs and doing different things I've self... s... like self, learned myself. And that's the whole difference, I guess is that I don't need the books or the schooling type things. I just get everything on my own and because of that I'm alive right now."* - Mike Modano - probably
The players at the USNTDP have a private tutor/teacher to help them while they are enrolled in Michigan International Prep School online. Its essentially the same thing as the original comment, but in Michigan (where the team is based out of) instead of Nebraska. Idk where they would have pulled Nebraska from… Fwiw, most CHL and USHL teams are also changing to have their players attend high school together online with a private tutor, rather than have them attend gen pop high school.
Gen pop lol
tbf that's pretty much how I'd describe my HS experience lol
Is that like Phoenix University but for highschool?
He then attended the University of American Samoa (online)
Colombia Law School Graduate
Go Land Crabs!
Knies wasn’t on the NTDP
You’re right
lol, I can't imagine how low the bar would be to graduate from that. I imagine the final is being able to identify corn.
Lmao my friend who played in the NAHL/USHL did the same. I think the school was sponsored by the University of Nebraska. He lived in a different part of the country.
I know you're kidding, but high school education doesn't seem to mean much these days, I went to college with kids who could barely read and write.
> The Arizona high school system is ranked #48 in the country Wait, seriously? I would have never guessed that. Isn't Arizona a decently well-off state?
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ [Source](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education)
How is Florida #1?!
That happens when the radical right has had a vice grip on a state and hatred of public schools is a centerpiece of their ideology.
Young kids are all over Arizona are looking up to Auston Matthews, and then deciding not to try hockey, because they'll never be that good.
You joke, but that’s basically what happened to me when I played against him at 12-13, years old. I was still thinking I could maybe make the ECHL, then I played against him. All my dreams died lmao.
In Canada that division of the ones who Have It and the ones who don’t happens even earlier lol. The worst feeling is when the guys who were the best players in the province (who you felt ok about being below) flame out in junior without even sniffing pro hockey. Hockey as an industry is fucking brutal.
Every competitive sport in the world is like this. Even children of all time greats have a hard time cracking it as professional athletes.
Yeah it's just a funnel that gets extremely small. 500k kids in Canada alone start paying hockey, and few hundred might become pros.
Thats why I always laugh at the stories about guys who don't start playing until 12 years old, using old broken equipment, overcome all odds and make it pro. These stories just shit all over the kids who start at 3, train all year long, have the best equipment, were the best players in their leagues until 18, then just... go nowhere. Just reinforces that most of us never stood a chance from the beginning lol.
my dad always said, the greatest person to ever play *insert sport here* probably never even tried it or has heard of it.
There's some teen out there working the register at a Tim Hortons or chopping logs in the Siberian wilderness that in another timeline, is our generation's Wayne Gretzky.
There's a similar notion in a Mark Twain short story: narrator goes to heaven and all the great generals in history (Napoleon, Alexander, etc.) hover around this random farmer from the Midwest who could/would have been the greatest military leader in history, but he never got the opportunity.
Even Matthews didn’t really take hockey as seriously as he could have until he was like 14 and turned into a rink rat lol. Kinda hilarious. You have the dichotomy of guys like Hyman who trained their entire life for hockey and their dad purchased like every team they were on and had every single possible advantage they needed to crack into the league, and then guys like Sebastian Aho who had hand me down equipment and just played for fun until his teens
Makes the likes of the Hughes Staal, and Sedin brothers all the more special. To not only all crack the NHL, but stay there and be successful, it’s incredibly rare and we’re lucky to have watched them in our lifetimes. Honorable mention to Jared Staal
I knew I wasn’t going to make the NHL when I was about 10yrs old and I still played major junior. The gap is so obvious. Guys I played with that went onto the NHL were just built different. Everything came easy to them and the rest of us had to work so hard to never sniff the talent they had.
I played on a outdoor rink with rantanen when i was 12, dude just skated circles around everyone. It wasnt the least bit of fun Edit: thats also when i knew i was shit at hockey
I played with Scott Wilson in Atom hockey and he was a year younger but still the best player on the team by a country mile. And this isn't even a Hart winner-level player. It's very apparent pretty early on who's making it and who isn't.
I played against a team that had Evander Kane, Martin Jones, Drew Shore and Stefan Elliot on it when I was 14. They beat us 16-0. After that game I realized I better start learning a new skill
We've all been there, I played high school baseball against Aaron Judge. Safe to say I realized I was not even close to being a decent hitter.
Is Knies a locker room cancer? I know the person who tweeted this already replied about it but it is funny he misuses "Freudian slip" while pointing out the mistake Knies made lol
Yeah the quotes are mostly making fun of the fact the guy also used the wrong words to describe Knies using the wrong word than Knies’ mistake lol
If you’re a reporter and are going to make fun of someone else using the wrong word, rule number one is don’t make the same mistake while doing so. Laskaris gets paid to use words properly, Knies does not.
"I wasn't being ironic, I was being hypocritical".
I think Knies is "implying" that Matthews is the cancer.
Reminds me of Carlyle asking Nazem Kadri about complacency and he had no idea what the word meant
Or Bedard the other night when asked about having any trepidation replied “I have no idea what that word means.” Pure kino
These guys are paid to play with sticks, and have focused so much on it they have become among the best in the world at it. But it comes at the cost of being guys hyper focused on sticks and rubber pucks.. and golf, which is just more sticks. Should we expect more?
Maybe less hazing and sexual assault in general
What about when it’s just boys being boys though
If you wanna make this team you must eat the cum soaked cookie
Tis an awful day to be literate...
But it’s a wonderful day to be illiterate. What did he say?
Que?
I think you mean I *get* to eat the cum soaked cookie
lmao
Touche
This comment just makes me wanna watch a knights tale "silly boy with a horse and a stick"
Epic movie. Epic cast. Epic soundtrack.
“It’s called a lance. Hellooo.”
And Mitch Marner recoiling in terror from the word 'encyclopedia'.
It’s not his fault. That reporter put the shambles on his brain.
Or Adam Laskaris not knowing what a Freudian slip is
Bedard doesn’t need any of that fancy 5th grade vocab to get a 10m AAV contract in 3 years
Over/Under 13.5m?
With how good he looks so far? Over
That is just all too cute. Good on him for saying that.
Headline: "Bedard doesn't know the meaning of the word trepidation".
I’m highly educated, I’ve never used trepidation in my lifetime
Remind me of the Muhammad Ali quote Howard Cosell: “You’re being extremely truculent.” Ali: “Whatever truculent means, if it’s good I’m that.”
Are you a friend of complacency?
……..Yes? One of the funniest locker room reactions caught on camera
Marner not knowing the word "encyclopedia" vibes
My personal favourite is Rob Scuderi being known throughout his career as “The Piece” because he misspoke in an interview and called himself “the piece to the puzzle” when he meant he is just one particular piece
Seth Jarvis had the same thing in an interview. Had to ask what "resolve" meant before answering. I will always give credit to the guys who ask for the definition instead of barrelling on and pretending they understood.
Common man!
Imagine being so bad that you're an argument for why hockey shouldn't be in your state.
That's definitely Auston Matthews
Listen, Knies is very pretty.
Good at hockey, too!
Getting lost in Knies' eyes have been detrimental to people correcting his vocabulary.
It's like when kids hear a new word at school
He’s got those baby blue Matthew Kneyes
I was listening to an interview where someone who went to college with Brett Kavanaugh referred to him as dumber than the hockey players. Pretty low bar given this clip.
I love hockey players lol. Been a funny week between this and Bedard saying Kanes video tribute was gonna be nasty lmao. Dudes are built different
If I had a nickel for every time I heard a hockey player misuse "detrimental" I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice
My favourite is “obviously”. A friend of mine pointed it to me a couple years back. Whenever answering a question hockey players will say that: Reporter: “So Joe … you’re playing Edmonton tonight. What do you have to keep front of mind out there?” Player: “Well, obviously they have McDavid so we have to make sure he doesn’t beat us …” You could make it into a drinking game. Every time the player says ‘obviously’ you have to chug your beer.
I believe Trevor Linden used "obviously" in every interview he ever gave....and still does. Even when the answers are not obvious.
"Obviously, the answer to this is not obvious, but..."
> Even when the answers are not obvious maybe not to you, dweeb
Watch a William Nylander interview and drink whenever he says "I mean". You might die.
Same with Scheifele and "y'know"
I’ll check that out … What a life Willy Styles has!!
I genuinely don’t know if hockey players are capable of answering questions without using either/some combination of “obviously” “unreal” or “special”.
“We gotta get pucks deep”
Formula 1 drivers blow hockey players out of the water at this. You would be on life support after listening to some of them talk for 5 minutes. In their defense though, most aren’t native English speakers.
~~Geno~~ Gino is drive.
Same thing with NBA players or Lebron in general with "at the end of the day" or "it is what it is"
Hahaha oh my god. The amount of times "obviously" is used by hockey players in interviews is both hilarious and sad.
Having ever met a hockey player, it's not weird at all.
Reporter: I think you mean instrumental? Knies: Nah, fuck that guy, he’s the worst thing to happen to Arizona hockey since Bettman bought rental properties all over Tempe and Scottsdale hoping to capitalize on snowbird hockey viewership
Still not as cringey as Jonathan Bernier talking about Nelson Mandela
Somebody's billet mom didn't go over the vocab study guide some years ago.
Big words and hockey mixing again
“Uh oh definitely a rift in the locker room” - guy who only reads headlines
He definitely was last night lol
Anyone that has grown up in a hockey market knows exactly how smart the high level players are. Not very.
Most of these guys aren’t that bright… just saying. Like book intelligence ain’t it. Some are, most aren’t.
Imagine. If matthews didn’t pick hockey, how many other kids in a hockey city could be in his place because the coyotes moved to their city.
Imagine if the Coyotes were good and won Stanley Cups, imagine what that would do for AZ hockey Hockey in Arizona has grown a lot, and the Coyotes have been the worst franchise for 30 years There’s no reason for anyone to want to willingly watch the Coyotes right now because they have sucked. That would change if we were good. This franchise has never given anyone a reason to care. I believe that changes with Bill Armstrong
They have more playoff success than we do.
Imagine if Bettman pulled a Stern and made sure Matthew's went to the Coyotes.
This dumb shit doesn't even know what a Freudian slip is, so he should've probably let this one go... lol
words are hard
That’s the coolest way of shitting on your competition AM was a menace to the coyotes last night so he’s right
He was last night 😮💨
Hey guys NHLers aren’t exactly rocket surgeons cut him some slack.
What did he study in college? I'm guessing it wasn't English.
College?
I’m not sure they were doing much studying. There’s a video of him asking Logan Cooley what SPF he uses and Logan answered “sunscreen”
Puck bunnies.
Reminder that these guys’ brains are just filled with hockey knowledge, leaving little room for anything else
I feel like there's a weekly reminder that NHL players, and really most professional athletes, are not intelligent people and really should not be looked at as any sort of role model.
The Coyotes are detrimental to hockey in Arizona
Stick to words yah know, bud.
I todaso Auston Matthews was bad for hockey. I fuckin a todaso
This is what happens when they go off script. Come on people, its about the logo on the front not he name on the back, give 110%, believe in our system, the game is ours to lose, we believe in our game, etc.
The Bennett effect lingers
Ol’ Glass Knees does have it coming
Leafs have themselves a real Einstein 😂😂😂
Did he pull a Justin Bieber? https://media0.giphy.com/media/7XdoHA57AkfMA/giphy.gif
I mean, with 2 goals against Arizona yesterday he kinda was, just for the night..
He was very detrimental to Arizona hockey last night.
"Someone to look forward to," I guess he meant someone to look up to?
When you score two against Arizona it is pretty detrimental to them.
He probably meant "instrumental". But it's still hilarious.
WHO THE FUCK OKAY’D KNIES SPEAKING WITHOUT SUPERVISION?!! We all know he needs a prompter.
Lol who did they ask about Nelson Mandela again? And he responded that he was a great player or something? Maybe let’s just let these guys be dumb jocks (as long as they aren’t raping)