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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

zeke said:
Self immolation is funny.

Of course even funnier is that this hyman take actually stems from his uncontrollable habsfan leafs hate, even though hyman's been gone for years.
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See, I’m not sure about this. We’re talking about a home-grown, hometown player that the Leafs shoved out the door and got nothing in return for.

And he’s since, after signing for a mid-level cap number with his new team, gone on to have seasons of 27, 36 and now 51 goals (and counting).

If you’re motivated by Leaf hate, isn’t that a player you’d want to celebrate? While dunking on the Leafs for being so dumb?

Maybe the dude is just an anti-semite.
 
If Dubas signed him, he would have turned into a pumpkin here before he turned 31 and we'd be sending him with a draft pick to any taker.
 
In saying that, nothing he said wasn't true. Hyman's dad went through great lengths to help his son reach his goals. He moved mountains to do it by literally owning leagues and buying scouting services. This is not the same as simply growing up with rich parents. He had an absolutely enormous advantage to make it, especially in a sport where the pool of players is far smaller than most sports. Those kinds of advantages that he had absolutely go a long way to ensuring he makes the show. He's absolutely right that hard work isn't why he got to where he was. Hard work alone usually doesn't get you to the show, and in Zach's case it was as close as it gets to a father buying his way into his son making it to the NHL. He likely doesn't get there without his dad moving mountains to put him in situations to be noticed and to be developed into the player he is today.

But he seems to be very angry about it. It's not Hyman's fault or even his dad's fault. It seems like he wanted to shame him and shamed the media for not bringing it up at every turn. At the end of the day, relax. He was very bitter about him playing with Matthews and Mcdavid, as if that alone = a 50 goal scorer. Have you seen Nick Ritchie next to Matthews?
 
Deckie007 said:
Hockey is expensive to play. Therefore family has to have $ to succeed. Not really news, but bringing religion into it is unnecessary.
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Yuuup. I work with the organizing bodies a couple of times a winter now, and tend to be at a lot of the big AAA and Klevr tournaments. There are definitely some of your typical working class hockey parents left who make big time personal sacrifice to come up with the 10K+ in team fees, 5K+ in random costs (equipments, tournament travel costs, training camps, etc, etc, etc). But I see a whole bagload of essspensive SUV's at those tournaments compared to the lower tier tournaments I'm at.
 
Preston said:
In saying that, nothing he said wasn't true. Hyman's dad went through great lengths to help his son reach his goals. He moved mountains to do it by literally owning leagues and buying scouting services. This is not the same as simply growing up with rich parents. He had an absolutely enormous advantage to make it, especially in a sport where the pool of players is far smaller than most sports. Those kinds of advantages that he had absolutely go a long way to ensuring he makes the show. He's absolutely right that hard work isn't why he got to where he was. Hard work alone usually doesn't get you to the show, and in Zach's case it was as close as it gets to a father buying his way into his son making it to the NHL. He likely doesn't get there without his dad moving mountains to put him in situations to be noticed and to be developed into the player he is today.

But he seems to be very angry about it. It's not Hyman's fault or even his dad's fault. It seems like he wanted to shame him and shamed the media for not bringing it up at every turn. At the end of the day, relax. He was very bitter about him playing with Matthews and Mcdavid, as if that alone = a 50 goal scorer. Have you seen Nick Ritchie next to Matthews?
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I prefer to think it wasn't due to him being Jewish, and more due to the fact he played on the Leafs as the issue for what AB said. Someone on Twitter asked why he didn't mention about Reinhart who also has 50. Dude plays in Florida. No one cares Panthers players always get a free pass.
The guy is still trending, but says no one reached-out to him from the media.

Let's face it, hockey is hell expensive.
 
Hyman definitely had Jewish privilege. But he also had 4 brothers that didn’t make it past their dad’s junior teams. Privilege only gets you so far in a pure meritocracy likes pro sports, which is literally no where.

Hyman is one of the hardest working guys in the NHL.
 
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