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Will be at the game tonight trying to increase my record of 3-0 this season. (one of these games being in Uniondale, the 1-0 OT win)

Maybe Parros is in to get a few minutes of ice time in a game he won't need to fight in. He certainly earned it. I think this game will either be ugly, or one of those games where the Habs show up and play a hell of a game.

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Of course, Patrick Roy had that attitude. Brett Hull had that attitude. Kobe Bryant. Charles Barkley. Usain Bolt. Deion Sanders. I could keep going on. Imagine if Subban ever said this: "Do I catch flak because I'm smarter than everyone else? Maybe." Hull did. And he won Cups. Also, you have to be pretty simple to think I was saying Subban = Gretzky. But you did prove my point. It was okay for Wayne Gretzky to be lazy on defence. Why? Because he was the best. You don't bench the best. Guess what? Subban is the best on Montreal. You don't bench our best player. Would you have benched Saku Koivu for too many high sticks? Damphousse for hooks? No? Well Subban is better than both of them in their prime (and Vinny D was my favourite player as a kid). Nobody would have dared bench them, but here we are benching Subban. "There's no I in team, but there is in win." - Michael Jordan, not a pro athlete

Im sorry, but if you actually think 'This' you need to give your head a shake. You don't just give a guy like Subban the whole leash, because he takes it and runs with it until it is tighter than it has any business being. Subban has an attitude that he is above the team, you can see it constantly with the way he behaves. In order to be a pro athlete you can't have that type of attitude. You guys say that stars need to be able to shine, that is what MT is doing. If Subban does what Subban wants he is constantly making mistakes on the ice and being caught out of position. MT is merely structuring his growth, as ANY coach in the national hockey league would be doing if Subban was a member of his team. No coach would just let him do his thing, because coaches are not idiots and are tasked with player development in cases like this. Seriously guys, this is not atom hockey, this is NHL. MT did the absolute right thing benching PK, just like he does with EVERY OTHER PLAYER ON THE ROSTER WHEN THEY MAKE A MISTAKE. PK is not above the team, but you guys think he is. Furthermore the game was not winnable. Especially when your start player takes a 2:00 penalty AFTER THE WHISTLE with 20 mins left in the game. Unacceptable, and yes a point needs to be made here. Fact: you don't see any other elite defensman in the NHL take bad penalties like that. Or a fraction as many as PK. I guess bad penalties are just part of PKs mad skills? (actually it is probably the most rough part of his game right now and it is no surprise that MT would try to send him a message here. PK takes WAY too many penalties) Let the coaches coach guys, I think they know more about these players that they are around every single day than you guys, who have never spoken to the players once before in your entire lives. And to the guy who compared Subban to Gretzky.... Just stop talking, seriously.