Hockey Widow wrote:
He can refuse the assignment. But ya he is frustrated. He was so pumped to be going to Toronto. He was a Lou pick up not a Babcock choice and Babcock is making it known. But Lou is stubborn. They could try and trade him for a 5-7 type of pick and get something for nothing. Love or hate BB he would always try to find a home for players, to the point of waiving them so they would get picked up.
Some would say Evil Lou is the opposite of BB in this regard.
Evil Lou screws the player every chance he gets... they say.
They say Leivo is getting the same treatment as Corrado.
Leivo was benched for all but one game, forced to play up a minor injury for the first 18 games.
(allegedly)
Holland, they say, received the same treatment (benched for 17 of 19 games before finally traded).
I hear Lupul and Robidas are guys who said they were good to go, teammates agreed, but
... for
some reason
...
the TO medical staff refused to clear them and they went home, never to be seen again.
But perhaps they were okay with their careers being ended a hair early... while still collecting full salary.
Horton used to talk about trying a comeback until he had a little chat with Lou (they say).
Michalek, Laich, and Greening were acquired with the intention of creating overpaid Marlie depth.
Or so the story goes.
Enroth was signed as a UFA only to start 4 games before being waived (goalies are seldom claimed)
... and then sent down 3 times, as though some say, to rub salt in the wound.
Folks speculate that perhaps Enroth forgot to shave one day or skipped a haircut appointment.
(Lou's grooming rules come before everything else apparently)
I'm not saying, I'm just saying... there must be reasons why they call him Evil Lou.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck- ... 54405.html
Ever see the movie “Horrible Bosses” and wonder where they came up with all their material? Probably from Lou Lamoriello as noted in a $2.25 million lawsuit filed in U.S. District court by former president of Devils Arena Entertainment, Richard Krezwick.
There’s a lot of legal mumbo jumbo and stuff, but here is the best part, by far, which is buried way low in the NJ.com story about this. Why? I don’t know because it’s incredible:
Several weeks after Krezwick learned he would be let go, several of his senior managers were fired by the Devils, the lawsuit says.
“Lamoriello physically positioned himself in a chair at the base of the employee elevator of the arena so that he could watch these individuals pass by with their boxes of personal belongings in order to leave the building directly after they were fired and to laugh as they passed by, as to take credit for their firing,” the lawsuit adds.
Allegedly, there are reasons Lamoriello was stripped of his GM-ship in NJ... in favour of Ray Shero
... and reasons NJ-legend Martin Brodeur turned down a front office job in NJ in favour of St. Louis.
