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[macbk]

anyone else see this Dan Boyle clip? looks like it was from the Rangers' locker room as the guys were packing up for the offseason. dude HATES that NY Post writer


http://www.tsn.ca/video/must-see-da...larry-brooks-in-profanity-laced-tirade~857183

Yeah I listened to it before on Michael Kay's radio show. Boyle thinks the Post writer targets him. He went off but I mean he's 39 and had a pretty **** season...

 

[DeadsetAce]

anyone else see this Dan Boyle clip? looks like it was from the Rangers' locker room as the guys were packing up for the offseason. dude HATES that NY Post writer


http://www.tsn.ca/video/must-see-da...larry-brooks-in-profanity-laced-tirade~857183

Yeah I listened to it before on Michael Kay's radio show. Boyle thinks the Post writer targets him. He went off but I mean he's 39 and had a pretty **** season...

i was about to ask you Ranger fans if that writer really is a douche or if Boyle is just pissed about getting criticized

 

[dmxfury]

Everything I've read the reporter is a clown (shrugs)

NY peeps can shed light

 

[macbk]

I don't mess with the Post at all. Daily News >>>>

But Boyle has to have a point when he basically said everyone else can stay and he has respect for instead of the Post clown.

 

[DeadsetAce]

i'm truly lost with what to do when i get off work today. first night without hockey in a while

maybe laundry i guess

 

[tmay407]

Everything I've read the reporter is a clown (shrugs)

NY peeps can shed light

Read this on Puck Daddy earlier today at lunch. Almost sounds like a mix of both...clown reporter + Boyle being sensitive about being a target.

TARRYTOWN, NY – If this was Dan Boyle’s final day as a New York Rangers defenseman, he made it a volcanic one.

The Rangers players met the media at their practice facility for the final time after their five-game elimination at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins. One of the most anticipated interviews was Boyle, the 39-year-old pending unrestricted free agent whose time with the team was likely over and whose NHL future was murky at best.

As reporters crowded around him, Boyle noted the presence of one in particular: Larry Brooks of the New York Post, whom you may remember from his years-long battle with former coach John Tortorella.

Before speaking to the media scrum, Boyle said he wanted Brooks to leave the interview area, offering a personal criticism of his work as well.

“I don’t want him here,” said Boyle.

“What?” Brooks said. “You know, the feeling’s mutual, man.”

“Nobody likes you. Nobody respects you. Just so you know,” said Boyle.

“OK,” said Brooks.

“At least I’m leaving here with the respect of my teammates,” said Boyle. "Instead of [expletive] someone like you, who tries to bury somebody. That's all you do. It's not a critique. I'm telling you I don't want you here. I have no respect for you. I want you to get the [expletive] out.”

“I don’t care what you think,” said Brooks.

“I can tell you to get the [expletive] out if I want to!” said Boyle, his voice now raised.

“You can, but I don’t have to listen to you,” said Brooks.

“Yeah, ya do!” said Boyle. “I want him out. And that other [expletive] clown, Brett, or whatever the [expletive] his name is. Where's he at? Everyone else is fine. I want him out. It’s my right."

Rangers staff stepped in to calm the scene down, and suggested Boyle not speak to the media at that time.

"Can they not all stay here? I have tons of respect for some of these guys. I just don't want him here. That should be fine," said Boyle.

At this point, Brooks hadn't left yet.

"Can you just [expletive] leave?!" Boyle asked again, loudly.

"If you had asked me politely, I might have," said Brooks.

Boyle: "POLITELY? Why would I be polite with you? Are you kidding me?"

Brooks then told Boyle to "grow up," Boyle laughed that off and Brooks walked off to another interview.

Boyle was a frequent target for Brooks during his time with the Rangers. The Post reporter wrote at the start of the season that “allowing Anton Stralman to escape as a free agent in order to sign Dan Boyle on July 1, 2014, stands as Glen Sather’s most regrettable decision of the final 10 years of the Rangers president’s tenure as general manager."

The “Brett” in question was fellow Post reporter Brett Cyrgalis, who wasn’t actually in attendance on Tuesday morning in Tarrytown. He hammered Boyle in an article published after the Rangers elimination, as Boyle was a healthy scratch in Game 5: “He was a big-time disappointment for the Blueshirts, and that might be how his career ends — watching instead of playing.”

Later, he tweeted: Response to Dan Boyle? I did my job. Not sure he ever did his.


As for Boyle, he said he was proud to have the chance to play for an Original Six team, and that he still feels like he could physically play in the NHL. No decision on his future has been reached, but retirement is the likely option.

Maybe he'll join the hockey media, see how the other half lives.

 

[jjs07]

this dude was watching hockey for the first time...some dude in St. Louis:

Bro...u gotta go thru his twitter feed. Dude is hilarious.

Tony X.
‏@soIoucity

99% sure my job knows i have twitter now when they asked i linked them to a vegan Christianity account and said i volunteer in my spare time

*Blues offered him tickets

 

[Bad Religion]

Isn't that the same reporter Torts always used to lose it on?

 

[DeadsetAce]

Isn't that the same reporter Torts always used to lose it on?

someone didn't read the article Tmay posted


yeah same guy apparently. Torts' post games while coaching the Rags were hilarious, man. I miss those

 

[Bad Religion]

Definitely skipped that post. 

 

[youngin33]

Dan Boyle had a great career and all, but this season was very hard for him and he did not handle that situation at all.

 

[jjs07]

Dan Boyle had a great career and all, but this season was very hard for him and he did not handle that situation at all.

Larry Brooks is a tool.

Says a lot about Brooks when you have a well-respected/mild-mannered guy like Boyle cursing you out.

 

[youngin33]

Larry Brooks is a tool.

Says a lot about Brooks when you have a well-respected/mild-mannered guy like Boyle cursing you out.

The fact that Boyle is well respected and mild mannered, he should have exhibited that and been a professional there. He lost his cool and IMO doesn't come off well. I can understand the sentiment though because he's got bad things written about him and might be retiring.

 

[sosly]

Preds over Ducks tonight

To that guy picking a team to root for, pick a Canadian team. You get to witness the thrill of a draft lottery on Saturday

 

[DeadsetAce]

To that guy picking a team to root for, pick a Canadian team. You get to witness the thrill of a draft lottery on Saturday

i've got the Ducks tonight...Perry finally gets his head outta his ***. i can't go against my dude Kesler, either

 

[dmxfury]

I got the ducks as well

 

[(*Fin)]

The fact that Boyle is well respected and mild mannered, he should have exhibited that and been a professional there. He lost his cool and IMO doesn't come off well. I can understand the sentiment though because he's got bad things written about him and might be retiring.

When you're about to retire and don't give a damn no more, there are no filters. Athletes are human too.

 

[stillin729]

Capitals better beat down the Penguins

 

[dmxfury]

If your boys would've showed up in the beginning of the series it could've been a nice Pa battle

 

[slicknick951]

Islanders came out with the hitters first

 

[gil23]

good start

 

[DeadsetAce]

tied up

 

[gil23]

we trying hard to lose game 1

 

[DeadsetAce]

this is an underrated series. going to be good

 

[gil23]

lightning




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