Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look back at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
People often blame the media when things are going wrong with a team. It happens everywhere with every team.
Is it fair?
Look, I get the hypothesis. The team plays bad, they get a bunch of questions on the negative end of the scale and fans think that just breeds more negativity and the worse the play gets from the team.
Toronto is a great example right now. Goaltender Frederik Andersen is off to a start that is not what you want to see from a guy who just signed a five-year 25-million dollar deal.
And already the knives are out and the story line of another goaltender fails in Toronto is being written. But I don’t think that’s going to make Andersen a worse goaltender as much as I think, like head coach Mike Babcock, it’s a little too soon to lop Andersen in with Vesa Toskala or James Reimer or Jonathan Bernier. It’s five games.
That’s six per cent of a season. That’s the equivalent of one bad game for a quarterback in the CFL and media lumping a QB in Tino Sunseri or Seth Doege or Warren Jones.
But, the media does have to fill papers and airtime and when the goaltender isn’t playing well and he’s getting paid as much as Frederik Andersen, he’s as easy a target as the quarterback in Saskatchewan.
