Broad Street Baby Giroux Says Booing is to Blame

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I thought I had seen it all in sports since seeing the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl. I was wrong. I just saw the Captain of the Philadelphia Flyers say the fans were too tough on him and the team and fans booing is partly to blame for the Flyers’ poor performances at home.

If you don’t feel like watching that, here’s the relevant part:

Question: “Was this crowd tough on you? Not just you, but the whole team. You guys are trying too hard to please them? Is that part of the equation?”

“Yeah. I think. … I do think so. I think when it’s not going very well, fans, they can get a little … start booing us and stuff. That’s when we try to do too much. On the road, we don’t really get that. We have our game plan at the start of the game, and we carry on for 60 minutes.”

There you have it. The Captain of the franchise that was once known as the Broad Street Bullies admits that he thinks the fans were too tough on him and the team with the “booing and stuff.” This reads more like a quote from a Broad Street Baby.

I can’t imagine Bobby Clarke, Mel Bridgman, Ed Van Impe, Dave Poulin, Keith Primeau, Derian Hatcher, Rick Tocchet, or any other former Flyers Captain complaining about the fans being mean to them? Come on. Hockey players are tough guys. They fight. They re-enter games minutes after getting stitches or losing teeth. Booing is going to rattle them?

Giroux blew in this year’s Playoffs. If he made $2M/year then he performed okay, but he doesn’t. He’s one of the top 20 paid players in the NHL. In his last two Playoff series, Giroux has 4 points (1G, 3A) in TWELVE GAMES and is a -12. I’m sorry, as much as it hurts Giroux’s feelings, he deserved to be booed.

Has Giroux seen ticket prices for a Flyers game in a city where the median household income is $41,300? They’re fucking expensive, in case he didn’t realize. Does Giroux realize that the Flyers haven’t won a Stanley Cup in 43 YEARS yet had the 3rd highest average attendance in the NHL this past year at 99.9% capacity behind only Montreal and Chicago. Yeah, please don’t boo him. He’s trying his best.

Giroux has a no trade clause, but maybe he’d rather play in Anaheim, Winnipeg, Los Angeles, or San Jose where fans won’t be so mean and demanding. His trade value may never be higher. I’m just sayin’.

You know who didn’t think the fans were too hard on the Flyers? Sean Couturier, that’s who. The guy who game back and scored the winning goal in Game 5, and a hattrick in Game 6 WITH A TORN MCL.

When asked about the fans and booing, Couturier had this response:

There’s some nights they probably had the right to boo us. We were bad enough and we probably deserved it. … I don’t really think it had an effect on the results of our home record. I think we’re a tight group and we kind of shut it off.” via Philly.com

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve found the Captain of the Philadelphia Flyers whether he’s wearing the C or not and his name is Sean Couturier.

In the meantime, please cheer Giroux every time he steps on the ice and louder every time he steps off the ice after the opposition scores or he hasn’t registered a point. He needs everyone’s unwavering support.

What a tool.