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March 13, 2006, 11:19 PM ET
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Being on the other side of the game now, I look athockey in an opinionated way, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. I do a radio show and it's my job to give the public my thoughts on a given situation from the eyes of a former player. I work for a radio station in Montreal calledTEAM 990 (am) and recently gave many opinions regarding the Theodore/ Aebischer trade. More or less the pros and cons from both sides of the deal. Sportnet News, a tv station out of Toronto came to Montreal to get some feel of how the town of Les Habitants was reacting. Where do you go? Why not the only sportsstation in MTL, TEAM 990 and interview a former teammate and now opinionated radio host named PJ Stock. I did an interview for them more or less telling them that it was a credit to Theodore for playing for the Habs for 10 years, which in today's league it's almost unheard of. I also said that it was a good move for both sides (risky for Colorado) in the long run. Sportnet News, asked if I could get some of the listeners to call in or email me...which they did. They filmed me answering calls and reading emails, doing my sch-tick! Shook hands and left. I got a call from my cousin in Calgary and he immediately jumped at me for my response to the Theo/Aebischer move. I thought he was joking until I saw it myself. They played a clip of me reading an email that read that Theo "was themost overratedgoalie in the history of the Canadiens" except they didn't show me reading it, justTheo getting scored on. I am a veryproud opinionated person and am not afraid of saying whatever is on my mind to who ever will listen (which usually gets me in trouble). Sportnet News could have said that this is PJ Stock reading emails from viewers or whatever but what they did was wrong to Theodore and wrong to listeners and mostly wrong to me. I apologize to the Theodore family and Jose himself for what Sportsnet News made look like my opinion and obviously was not.
