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tsexrexhockey: kickstand: Hey Red Wings remember when this goofy fuck didn’t do anything for us the last time we signed him to a year contract?  Good fucking job picking him up again.  I’m pissed. he’s a bum. One of the problems with the vast majority of sports journalism, whether in print, online, tv or radio is that too much coverage assumes that once a player has a good year or good run, he is automatically a star player to be reckoned with. Sure, some players legitimately are, but some also have flukishly good years and are never quite as good as a particular performance indicates. Bertuzzi had only one 40-goal season, 2002-03 (hell, Glen Murray had a 40-goal season that year). He has had only one 20-goal season since. Isn’t it time that we stop looking at Bertuzzi as a star who hasn’t played up to potential for a variety of reasons over the last few years and start looking at him as an average player that happened to have a pretty good year once.

tsexrexhockey:

kickstand:

Hey Red Wings remember when this goofy fuck didn’t do anything for us the last time we signed him to a year contract?  Good fucking job picking him up again.  I’m pissed.

he’s a bum.

One of the problems with the vast majority of sports journalism, whether in print, online, tv or radio is that too much coverage assumes that once a player has a good year or good run, he is automatically a star player to be reckoned with. Sure, some players legitimately are, but some also have flukishly good years and are never quite as good as a particular performance indicates. Bertuzzi had only one 40-goal season, 2002-03 (hell, Glen Murray had a 40-goal season that year). He has had only one 20-goal season since. Isn’t it time that we stop looking at Bertuzzi as a star who hasn’t played up to potential for a variety of reasons over the last few years and start looking at him as an average player that happened to have a pretty good year once.