Several NHL players, virtually illiterate and uneducated, take to business ventures once their playing days are behind them - and you can't go wrong when you target your fanbase's basic visceral needs of food - food - and more food!
Once you've played hockey, you know that after the ice there's nothing better than good old frozen food - that pops into the microwave or, at least, a conventional oven for no more than 20 minutes, all things considered...!
And so it is not surprising at all to see this "Savy" dude (or, as I used to call him when he left the Blackhawks organization for the Canadiens, the "Savy without saavy" dude!) turn towards his cromagnon fanbase's most basic needs in order to kickstart his "Savard Entreprises" gig nowadays...
What makes no sense at all to me, though, is that NHL.com would list this old-timer who couldn't get it done (and never led his team(s) to the promised land - not even the Finals for crying out loud) amongst the PLAYER SITES of note TODAY... Look at it yourselves: it is there, among current players' personal webpages and all...! The list of current players is actually MISSING VITAL CURRENT PLAYERS STILL VERY MUCH ACTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE ON THE ICE AS WE TYPE AWAY FURIOUSLY AND FRUGALLY, still ... Active players such as the Boston Bruins' own Michael Ryder, who sure does have his own website and was instrumental in the demise of his old team, the Montreal Canadiens (just ask Habs pundit Stubbs about that!) and yet Ryder -and a number of other Bruins- is not/are not on the list there...?!?
This makes no sense at all - unless...
Unless the NHL is a bunch of putrid corporate sell-outs that will promote only those guys who PAY THEM ENOUGH IN ORDER TO HAVE A LITTLE PUBLICITY ON THEIR FREAKING NHL.COM...!
Pathetic - but the adage is true, you know: it takes money to make money. If you don't have any to invest in order to make more, you will not make any more. Everybody knows THAT MUCH...!
And Savy has the saavy for so much, at least: he reinvests into the league that fed him, even as a lousy post-playing career coach (one of the worst ever indeed) - and, now, he expects the return on that investment... Some return he can get - as his website is simply listed among all the other guys, guys who simply have community interests on *their* websites...! Sure, so does Savy, but no one else but him has "Entreprises" and "INC." (both, yeah!) cited after their last name...!
Practically no one else (other than Sid The Kid, sure...) wants to sell you so much crap either...
Savy's Pizza... sheesh. I'd rather have Adam Oates' macaroni and cheese!
His precious pizza is only available at surrounding Windy City grocers anyways - and it is not as good as Delissio... Or delivery...!
Matthew Barnaby was a little pest on ice when he was playing hockey in the NHL - his huge setback was that he never found a worthwhile cause to be pestilent for! He played on such loser line-ups such as the Buffaloooooo Sabres and the New York Rangers - teams that went nowhere but DOWN. He inspired such venomous vipers on skates such as current Ranger Sean Avery; just as he took his inspiration from the master, former Boston Bruin Ken Linseman! But those are other stories...
But now, Barnaby has remodeled himself, as so many former NHLers do: he's reformed as a sportscaster now. He believes that his experience in the game translates well onto the TV screen as an analyst of sorts and an all-around expert - and so do the people that hired him. He makes predictions that, oftentimes, are close enough to match reality so as to feed his allure of an "expert" and a pundit, simultaneously. At the beginning of these playoffs of spring 2011, he selected a bunch of teams to win their respective series and advance - but he reserves the right to re-analyze things, apparently... And so, faced with the battling Boston Bruins' determination, poise and will to win displayed in the opening games of their second-round (and second go-around, in two years) series against the pesky Philadelphia Flyers, he makes an about-face and goes back on his prediction based upon... bias, really.
And he commits it all to video too:
Barnaby, along with other pundits, had originally picked the Flyers this year - again. But seeing as the Bruins are simply more "ready to play," he now calls the Bruins "dominant" and even "unbeatable" once their power play issues are resolved! Wow - it took a 7-3 victory in game one and then a dominant defensive performance in game two for Barnaby to see the light! Before those two events, Barnaby could not recognize that it is the Bruins who have a Norris trophy nominee in their ranks, defenseman Zdeno Chara, not the Flyers! The latter team's prized Chris Pronger is neither a candidate nor even able to play so far: and when he does play, he is not the kind of defenseman that changes the pace of a game, otherwise he'd be nominated for the Norris too! The rest of the Flyers line-up is made up of mercenaries of all ilks - while the Boston Bruins are a real TEAM.
It took these two reminders -the 7-3 win and the 3-2 overtime win- to remind everyone and Barnaby that it is the Boston Bruins that have this huge edge: IN NET... For to win in hockey, you need solid goal-tending! And the Boston Bruins's goal-tending is a hell of a lot more solid than the Flyers' revolving door system! All that the Boston team needs to do is to keep doing it exactly as they are now and, this time, there won't be any unforeseen debacles due to a simple (and perhaps chronic) lack of LUCK... Not until rounds three or four anyhow - but that is another story!
Until then, prognosticators from all walks of life can adjust to reality... (Analysts such as PJ Stock know the truth already - others, such as Barry Melrose and Barnaby here, will carry on "adjusting" all throughout...!)
And the pundits will make their money in the meantime - looking good as they merely state the facts AFTER the fact(s)...!
Place your bets accordingly now - it shall be quite lucrative indeed to do so, at long last... ;)
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Money does not bring happiness, though - raising a fortune won't equate bliss, EVER!
No, folks, cash does not bring joie de vivre... But it does make everything more comfortable!
However, you must know this:
Money isn't real; it's man's invention!
Pain is real - pain and other 4-letter words...
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