Snow takes Gopher

Posted by: adamw

I liked this article by Bruce Ciskie, pointing out the irony of the New York Islanders selected highly-touted Minnesota recruit Aaron Ness in the recent NHL Draft. We pointed that out, too, in our Draft Roundup. Ciskie expands and opines on that, and gets a comment from Snow, where he mentions he’s not concerned about Ness playing for Don Lucia.

There are only two conclusions to reach about that … either a) give credit to Snow for overlooking his past issues with Lucia and take the best player … or b) it points out the folly of Snow ripping Lucia to begin with.

I go with the latter.

Snow said he was only “defending his guy (Kyle Okposo)” last December, in response to Lucia’s initial comments about the Islanders pressuring Okposo. But what Snow doesn’t understand — and never understood — is that Lucia was only taking the heat, i.e. defending, Okposo too. By Lucia publicly stating that the Islanders were pressuring Okposo, he was trying to take the heat off Okposo from Minnesota faithful who were criticizing him. Who knows if Lucia really felt like the Islanders were unfairly pressuring Okposo.

Snow took it as a personal knock, and blew it back up as a personal attack on Lucia.  The whole thing was ridiculous.  And Snow taking Ness now only proves that Snow never really believed the nonsense he was spewing on Lucia to begin with.

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