Theo Fleury: great hockey player, bad gambler. His latest appearance on team 1040 (Sports radio in Vancouver) was just another bad gamble waiting to get cashed out.
Fleury stated that the Vancouver Canucks, while putting up top numbers in almost every stat regular season wise, will fall out of the playoffs in the first round, non dependent on who their opponent may be.
To be more precise, Fleury pin pointed the problem to arguably the hottest player in the NHL for his respective position: Robert Luongo. Fleury believes that Luongo will always be a regular season fantasy leader, but a ghost when the playoffs are around.
"Who cares?" Luongo responded when being asked for his opinion on Fleury's comments.
Ever since Fleury voiced his opinion on radio, he has been taking heat from Vancouver fans over facebook and twitter. While voices of complaint should have been expected, some fans are taking it too far. One spineless fan went even far enough to attack Fleury's sexual orientation. Fleury did not respond kindly to this. In one of his tweets, he says that the Vancouver fans are finally showing their true "color".
Woah there Theo, hold on a second.
Are you really going to label all Canucks fans as classless trash just based on your experience with one ignorant moron over twitter?
And do you think this happened only because it was Vancouver? Would this have not happened if you did what you did in any other NHL town besides Calgary?
You may have half the country pitying you for what you had gone through during your career, but this is just pathetic. To make a blunt comment like that over the radio and then go on criticize all fans of a Canadian hockey market, really?
Enough is enough. This isn't how you're promote a book.
