During Thursday's match against the Senators, he was seen on ice having words with Senators captain Erik Karlsson. He was, it turns out, congratulating Karlsson and his wife on the coming birth of their first child. That's not the way hockey is considered in the land that created the game. In some ways, Nashville was a blessing. While Montreal holds hockey sacred, Nashville sees it as entertainment.
Almost immediately on arrival, Subban, wearing a cowboy hat, took to the stage at Tootsie's and sang a passable rendition of Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues. At Christmas, he disguised himself as a senior citizen he called "Eddie" and went about handing out candy canes and other gifts to strangers in the street. He established a "Blueline Buddies" program aimed at bringing police and under-privileged youth together for meals, a hockey game and autographs and photographs with the Nashville star.
Nashville, well used to flamboyant celebrities, loved it. When Subban made a Mark Messier-type guarantee of a playoff win last spring and pulled it off, they cheered all the harder. The wider hockey world, however, has never warmed to larger-than-life personalities the way, say, basketball and baseball have. Howie Young, who played with multiple teams during the s and s, was so wild on the ice, and much wilder off the ice, that NHL president Clarence Campbell declared him "the greatest detriment to hockey that ever laced on a pair of skates.
Derek Sanderson won the Calder Trophy as a Boston Bruins rookie in , jumped to the World Hockey Association for what was then the biggest contract in hockey history, bought a Rolls Royce, bounced back to the NHL, opened a New York nightclub with football star Joe Namath and ended up broke, drunk and sleeping on a park bench before he put his life back together.
Subban is far too young to have known Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion, but perhaps he would relate best to a fellow former Montreal star. Geoffrion played for the Canadiens through the s and into the early s, once hitting the haloed goal mark and once winning the league scoring championship. He also had a bit of a singing career, once appearing on national television with Perry Como. He could not, however, win everyone over.
Though you don't need to look far to find a no. The Sicamous, BC native and Habs captain leads his Devils' counterpart in all stats categories, and many analysts are crediting Weber with inspiring the team to play above its talent. La question demeure pertinente: Weber est-il vraiment sur une pente plus descendante que Subban? The question still stands: Is Weber really on a more downward slope than Subban?
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It was wrong then, too, with a sense of confidence that seems to be mistaken for something else. I think any player that has high expectations of himself is always going to speak in a confident way.
In , after declaring he would make the Bulls as a rookie, Burnett said Subban spent the summer working, preparing. By the time training camp arrived, the Bulls realized it would be impossible to send him away.
He made the roster and has become an example the Bulls have trotted out for lower-round picks ever since. Those things are done above and beyond. Killing, his old defence partner, helped facilitate some of those choices on the ice. No need to wait until next weekend to score sweet sales on gadgets, gear.
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