No Trouble at All
It’s rare that professional athletes demonstrate any true feelings in the public meeting place that is the media common. They just don’t do it that often, and when they do, the knee-jerk reprisal from either the team they work for of the fans who follow them isn’t worth the straight-forwardness in the first place. Do players get pissed off from time to time? Of course — they’re just like us. It’s not often, though, that you hear someone give you an honest answer when dealing with a obvious disappointment. When that slight comes on such a grand stage as an Olympic omission from your home country’s hockey team, though, then it’s understandable that the delicious honesty may find its way into comments when emotions run high.
Team Sweden was announced the other day:
Notably absent from the list is Detroit’s Johan Franzen, who is currently nursing a knee injury. Another notable absentee is Vancouver’s Mikael Samuelsson, who pulled no punches in discussing the snub. “Probably going to get in trouble for this, but they can go (expletive deleted)* themselves,” was his reaction following the Canucks win over Calgary Sunday night.
*fudge
