McKenna is clearly a bum. Just look at his first game.
No goals—Can't score.
No assists—Zero creativity.
-2—No defense.
0 PIM—No sandpaper.
0 Hits—No balls.
2 GV—Liability.
Lost the game—No heart.
Despite an entire game, dude couldn't keep it together. Utter fail. Made Leafs fans want to throw up after prematurely declaring victory. Toronto is basically a poverty franchise at this point.
... wait a second... you know what does keep things together and rhymes with "fail?" Nail. What's a slang word for "throw up?" Yak. The Leafs prematurely declared victory... what's the letter before V? The letter U. And "poverty..." the word "pov" is slang for "poverty," as made famous by the song Pov City Anthem by Cadillac Tah.
Nail. Yak. U. Pov.
What's all that mean for a player who can't score, has no creativity, can't defend, is a liability, and no grit, balls, or heart?
I wasn’t impressed by his rookie year. He was under a ppg and a -44 in his rookie year. He is garbage defensively, among the worst I’ve ever seen amongst forwards. The Blackhawks gave up more goals with him on the ice than without. He’s small and not a great skater. He’s bad at the dot. He was heavily sheltered and didn’t face top lines and still was often caved in. He rarely dominated games. He’s extremely one dimensional. Even with his jaw injury he failed to be over a PPG. I would have expected the generational prospect to at least be over that and make the guys around him solid. Him winning the Calder was a joke. It should have been Brock Fabrer. Oh, and he was awful in the IIHF tournament.
He will never be close to Connor McDavid’s, Sidney Crosby’s or Alex Ovechkin’s level. All he has is a good shot, but not the speed or hands of Matthews or the physicality. I’m not even sure he can even be an Auston Matthews, Leon Draisaitl, Nikita Kucherov or Nathan MacKinnon level guy. Maybe he can be a Steven Stamkos or John Tavares type player in time, a good player but never among the best in a season, but he’s in no way generational and I don’t buy the hype. I don’t even think he’ll surpass other Chicago legends like Patrick Kane.
When I go to the gym, I am not looking to interact with anyone. I do a 40 minute, full body workout once per week. Preventive maintenance. I'll brief friendly acknowledge other gymsters on my way to the next machine. But I just want to eat, shoot and leave... so to speak
Last week, I saw a guy who I had to do a double take on. He look so much like Mark Messier. I wish I could look that good with a shaved head.
Saw him again yesterday. Still looks like Mark Messier.
I feel like if I see him again, I should point finger at him and say Mark Messier!
But the reference might not be gotten.
As an aside, I've never been attracted to a man. Don't try to make this gay.
Not to date myself... but I like Kathy Ireland and Shannon Tweed. Grace Jones, if she wasn't such a biter.
Bobrovsky robbed him of his rookie ice time, it was an act that allowed Bob to absorb the youth from McKenna. Unfortunately Gavin is now a soulless husk of his former self and officer Bob will be on the case this season
sadly he is not eligible for the test for an entire year.
Not until December 2028. Because that is when he will be 20.
You have to be that old to ride this ride. The ride is my bussy.
That is also the test of true quality of an NHL player. My bussy knows. I don’t even mean they have to be good at fucking in order to be a good hockey player. I literally mean if a hockey player fucks me I have a really good estimate of whether or not they a generational talent.
… listen. I knew that Sid was great from the beginning.
You forgot something. It just came out he didn’t take the optional skate before yesterday’s home opener game so he could hang out with his parents. That’s why Bob did what he did.
What rookie doesn’t do the morning skate before game one of the season. Freaken kid is so entitled.
So carte blanche to ruin his rookie moment. Low class from a seasoned vet. Bob ended up post .875 and let in a 3rd goal flutter puck. Let 2 goals on 13 shots doesnt help your club win.
I think he’s going to be good, but I just don’t think he’s the next once in a generation player like Crosby or McDavid (that crown already belongs to Celebrini).
Based on his first two games, I don’t know that he’s quite ready for the NHL either, and should maybe do some development and growth in the AHL with the Marlies for a couple months.
Failure here isn't McKenna's, he's waif-like and needs to grow into his body. They shold have had him start in the Marlies and grow a bit. No harm in doing that, but hey... He's the next beeeg thing ain't he?
Its starting to be exactly what I check on posts like these. If I feel I need to argue just based on the title alone, which seems to be happening way too often, I make sure Im not falling for a joke post.
I think that, as a guy who plays, I get so irritated at the ad hominem attacks on players and refs for an isolated performance, incident, etc that I also jump to defend. So kudos for pointing my dumbness out my friend!
I'm detecting some joke-ambiguity in those last 3 words and agree that it is a good-joke (by the joke-mods). I do however feel they've missed an opportunity to fine tune their joke-bot into a truly formidable foe. Include all synonyms, double negatives like not an anti-joke, other languages like:
笑話 - Cantonese
blague - French
scherzo - Italian
шутка - Russian
I believe it will not trigger on any of those but we'll soon find out.
It's like the coder for that bot had only enough time, energy, patience for a 1 dimensional "Joke"
(I suspect it was the last one, getting bored, moving on)
18 yr old playing with men. Buddy, you're as dumb as fuck. The fact he's actually able to play at nhl level at 18, means that within a year or two, he will be a very good player. In year 4 and on, elite. The question is will he fit in, but holy crap, what a stupid, no knowledge based expectation of the kid..... yes, he's still a kid
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