Hockey players are quite often very superstitious people. Montreal Canadien players couldn't have been happy to see a politician exploiting his appearance at their crucial game 4 to try and salvage his own falling poll numbers. The night before the big game, Iggy was promoting his upcoming appearance at the Bell Center with former Habs great Ken Dryden on Twitter. During the big game, Iggy was Tweeting about the electricity surrounding him. The CBC enabled his egocentric PR stunt with several gratuitous photo ops, and they even brought Dryden into studio to talk about politics during the 2nd intermission with the team trailing 2-0. God forbid they talk about hockey!
The end result, the Canadiens lost and are now down 3 games to 1. I know that they have played their best hockey these playoffs when on the brink of elimination, but let's face reality here, when a team goes up 3-1 they win the series at least 90% of the time. The probability of one team erasing a 3-1 deficit twice in the same playoffs would be a tiny fraction of a single percentage point. If they are able to do it, they would likely be in a position to set a new record for wins in a playoffs when facing elimination (if they haven't already). There is room for a tiny glimmer of optimism, but regardless if this series goes back to Montreal for a game 6, team officials should not allow Iggy to even enter the building. His is the wrong kind of "electricity", the bad kind of "electricity"...
Scott Morrison of Hockey Night in Canada said it best when he Tweeted "Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff sitting behind the losing bench. Enough said." I am a new follower of Scott Morrison on Twitter. I don't know if Morrison is a Conservative, but this should at the very least qualify him for a Senate seat...
If Montreal loses the series, Ignatieff should accept responsibility and appologize to the people of Montreal for personally jinxing their magical playoff run. How many seats do you expect the Liberals to lose in Montreal next election over this controversy? The guy is just bad luck.
Iggy certainly seems to have the Sadim touch (polar opposite of the Midas touch). Every thing he touches is cursed and doomed to failure. I can't think of a single exception to that... can anyone think of anything he's involved himself in that has worked out well for him and/or the liberal party?... (crickets...)
ReplyDeleteTo be AT THAT game, not a die-hard fan, not able to verbalize with continuity, 'the game', 'the players or the lines', the etcetera's... was sacrilege.
ReplyDeleteThis team is a religion, this game was pivotal and indeed it is my opinion based on the twitter, this was a photo-op for a very insecure, unqualified guy.
He absolutely sounds and looks like an opportunist in every aspect. The only part that will change that 100% failure rating from me is if I find out, HE privately ordered and PAID for his ticket.
I won't hold my breath but yes,it is my opinion, he hexed them!
Dryden should have known better than to try to educate MI in person at a crucial playoff game, especially after what happened to the Canucks. What a dumb move!
ReplyDeleteI just read a press release being prepared.
ReplyDeleteThe Flyers are mean, scary and should stop bullying the Habs.
Lib-Bloc solution to fix this injustice, Hab get 3 extra players for next 3 games.
Ha! That's funny CanadianSense. Iggy is a jinx, keep him away from any hockey games, don't even let him watch the games on TV, as if he really sits at home watching hockey.
ReplyDeletewhat about leafs nation ? someone in Toronto needs to get the message out that this mp from that city abandoned them and jumped on the montreal bandwagon . iggy even went as far is to claim he was a montreal fan now . anyone who watches hockey knows the habs are hated in toronto , i was in a sports bar north of toronto for this game and they were cheering for philadelphia . maybe iggy will lose his seat in toronto over this stunt .
ReplyDeleteScott Morrison should get the Pulitzer for that one.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it should of said "Liberal appointee Michael Ignatieff sitting behind the losing bench."
Actually James, the Midas touch was a curse.
ReplyDeleteIt seemed like a gift until he turned his family to gold accidentally.