And we have our answer ...

Tyler Seguin is a dbag.


For those of you who didn't watch the B's last night or listen to the Sports Hub on your drive to work this morning, our boy #19 skipped team meetings/breakfast yesterday morning in Winnipeg which led to Coach Julien sitting him out of last night's game. 

"I'm going to carve you up, Seguin"

Apparently this has happened on multiple occasions - and what great timing to provide us with the answer we have been looking for over the past few days.


The kid's a punk. I've picked a side. It's official. As my buddy Colin points out, let's look at Derek Jeter. Can we compare Seguin to Jeter? Maybe not, but let's take out the sport they play and think about Jeter at Seguin's age. Seguin has the potential to be a 17-20 year guy in this league accruing awards and accolades similar to that of #2. As much as I hate to say it, pretty safe to say that playing for the Yankees and in New York City is a FAR bigger stage than the Bruins and Boston. 4 rings in 5 seasons, 12 more seasons without causing any type of riff in New York possibly the world's biggest sports stage, and signing massive contracts solely based on his character at this point in his career. Jeter has done it right. Thanks, Niloc for the email rant, as always.


#19's excuse for not making the meetings, "I set an alarm, but my phone was still on Boston time." News flash - that makes no sense. If he set his alarm for right now, 10am Boston time, he would have been woken up at 9am Winnipeg time which in most cases would have actually made him early for meetings. This theory might not make complete sense but did you hear what Jack and Brick said? The window for this breakfast and meetings was extended and a total of 3 HOURS! He had 3 hours to roll over and be like, "shit i'm late" and get his ass downstairs to sit in a chair, eat something and listen to someone talk. We've all heard stories about NHL hangovers and long nights with players puking on the ice or in a bucket at breakfast the next morning. The kid can't get himself from a hotel room to a lobby?

"Listen, I'm hung over, your hung over,
and this kid doesn't show up. Dead man."

Secondly, pretty sure if Seguin can afford that Benz we discussed in Monday's blog, then he probably has a mobile phone that adjusts itself. If you set your alarm for a certain time, that alarm goes off no matter where you are in the world at that time. Yes, it was a long flight the night before from Pittsburgh, but 23 other guys played in the same game #19 did and took the same flight. How did they get to the meetings? Side question, if Chara misses a meeting, does he get benched?


Thirdly, NHL youngsters have roommates on road trips. Unless Jordan Caron was trying to sabotage his way into the lineup and effed with Seguin's alarm or was like "go back to sleep bro, we got time", then pretty sure there's no reason Punk Boy couldn't get up. PS: what does Jordan Caron bring to the Bruins? Anything?


Back to the topic at hand, this happens once, no big deal, but 3 or 4 times, the kid thinks he's above the team which is going to lead to losses like last night. I don't care who you are, how old you are, or how many goals you've sniped, your 1 of 24 and if Bergeron doesn't dangle and feed the kid's stick for an empty net goal, how many scoring titles is Seguin going to win? Zero. Gronk is setting records and out banging porn stars, still making time to call into the Sports Hub once a week. 

"Take notes hockey player."

Couldn't Seguin just do that and at least show up to team meetings? 2nd year in the league and he is going to need his teammates and coaches to like him or it will be a long, disappointing career for a potential hall of famer.


For the dozens of people who texted or emailed or verbally expressed whether the think dbag or the man, it's time to man up and make a comment. This could be a great debate, so voice your opinion and let's come to a consensus on this.


Happy Hump Day,
Marshy