723...More On Dany Heatley

This is cut and paste from Barry McLoughlin's blog on what he sees going on in the Dany Heatley slmozzle.

For your erudition I am one of Mr. McLoughlin, world class spin doctor, says so right on his web site, I am one of Mr. McLoughlin's two followers.

I, by the way have *3*.

Which makes my base 50 per cent larger than Mr. McLoughlin's.

For those of you wondering, what I just did, that is spin.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Hockey Star Faces PR Challenge

Welcome back to the dog days of August. Often it's a time when otherwise mundane stories can escalate into front-page national stories, causing pain and notoriety - whether deserved or not. For Ottawa Senators fans, the handling of star forward Dany Heatley fits into this category of news event. Word had leaked out back in June that Dany was unhappy with the way coach Cory Clousten had been treating him and told Senators management that he wished to be traded (only one year into a six year, $40 million plus contract. Outrage immediately followed - casting Dany as a spoiled, ungrateful brat turning his back on Ottawa fans. [Whoever said politics is mean? Sports fans can show no mercy at all.]

Dany waited all summer, refusing to say anything, and then only days before beginning hockey camp with the Canadian Olympic team, he holds a conference call/news conference.
Did he meet the test? Clearly not. What went wrong? I was interviewed on that and here is the resulting Ottawa Citizen story:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/contradictory+message/1918390/story.html

Personally I think the problem with Dany Heatley is that he doesn't like his new boss, ain't thrilled with living in Ottawa/Kanata and has the resources to tell the Senators and his employers to go f'k themselves and that pisses off the 99.9 per cent of us that have to do what we have to do.

That's what I think.

No need to rebuild his image; 35 goals this season and a medal in Vancouver will do that just nicely.

And if he was some 3rd line schmo, we would not be having this conversation; he would suck it up and be happy.

WFDS

718...Did You Know Canada Is At War?

And in a recession?

There is also a lot of other funky stuff going down, homelessness, a bit of crime, archaic drug laws that criminalize non criminals, the lack of a CFL team in Ottawa.

All this pales of course when one thinks of la cause celebre Dany Heatley in our National Capital.

Mr. Heatley is on the front page of both of the Anglo papers in Ottawa, The Sun and The Citizen and, perhaps, I don't live in a francophone area, on the front of Le Droit.

In case you don't know, Mr. Heatley is a hockey player for the Ottawa Senators but he doesn't care for his new coach [read: boss] and has had enough of living in Ottawa, working for the Senators and wants to be transferred elsewhere. From the reaction of Joe Fan, who doesn't know better and muckty mucks like Barry McWhat'sHisName, Mayor Larry's spin doctor, one would think Mr. Heatley is some kind of devil, er, demon.

Think it through folks. First off, he is a hockey player, an entertainer. Two, have you ever had a job you di'nt like, a boss you di'nt like? This seems to be the case with Mr. Heatley.

Doesn't like his new boss, is bored with the town, wants to move.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Get a grip Ottawa. Gatineau. Eastern Ontario. Western Quebec.

WFDS