Exactly. As if the team is crazy to keep him.

he writes a “trade staal” story, i am going to cuss like crazy. i went through the trade staal stage already, thank you.

He went on Mark Madden the other day and said that he didn’t like Geno and that they didn’t get along (I’m not exactly sure what exactly was said as I heard it second hand). His newspaper articles almost seem to be apart from his other forms of expression.
I read what he writes for the paper and also his online blog “Chipped Ice” through which he plays the name-dropping insider. He constantly brags about conversations he has with different players like they’re good friends. I remember one particular entry when he talked about how Petr Sykora told Geno that Rossi was a good guy and that he could be trusted.
Rossi is at the same time, the best and worst beat reporter. He obviously has a rapport with many of the players, but when he rips them in the press he betrays their trust. I’m not saying that he should constantly stroke the team when it is undeserved, but when he jumps on the “trade Malkin” bandwagon and says that he doesn’t get along with Geno, I think it’s pretty obvious that (like the recently fired Michel Therrien) he’s “lost the room.”

thanks, samspade. interesting to hear the toronto perspective.

i love you guys over there. and i love when you come here. thanks for y’all’s thoughts.

Wow I love you guys.

enlightening, thanks for your take.

Absolutely agree, he’s probably the default #3 after a “down” year…and what the other two accomplished this year. It would be insane to trade him….it would be nearly impossible to win that trade if you’re the Pens.

I really hope they come back and continue to throttle the Habs. If the Habs keep winning, then their trap and parking all five guys in front of the goaltender crap will catch on league wide, and another lockout will ensue.

Go Flyers! Hockey as we know it is in the balance!

No, but i see its 3-0.
Pretty much knew Habs would win this one.
The key is game 4 – always the most PIVOTAL.
If the Trunk Monkeys can head home up 3-1…

Well as much as I appreciate the praise (and I’m sure the rest of the staff here does too), I’m not really one for messing with a guy’s livelihood. Rossi is, in the end, just doing his job. And while I may not have been the biggest fan of him most recently, and especially when I tried to introduce myself to him in the past and he completely blew me off, I still think that he’s doing his job well. Speculation and whatnot is, to an extent, part of his job. But being a complete jerk about it in terms of still thinking that it’s ludicrous to not trade away Malkin is a bit much.

In the end, I’m not out to see Rossi get fired for his work. If personality and ego were factors in his employment he would’ve been fired a long time ago. Same can be said of most journalist/beat writers. But his work does speak volumes for his credibility and, every once in the while, he’s bound to go off the deep end.

Yeah, I’ve never been a fan of Rossi’s work. That sort of admission is really taboo in the print media, but honestly I think that’s what sets bloggers apart, aside from the fact that we can post whenever we want and oftentimes as a result scoop the “real” media, at least until they embraced Twitter.

Honesty is a scary thing sometimes.

this was a very angry comment and i am sorry. i think.

you may be right. But to advocate the trade of a player that has meant so much to this team after a “down” year….and in his position no less, is pretty ridiculous.

On Mark Madden’s show yesterday, Tim Benz put forth the theory that Rossi knew all along that what he was about to say was ridiculous and printed it only so that the team would then get the opportunity to deny it, shoring up Geno’s confidence in his position.

I think it’s giving Rossi a little too much credit on one hand, and on the other hand if it’s true, then Rossi is clearly too close to the team he’s supposed to be covering impartially. (This sort of yellow journalism is nothing new at the Trib, mind you, but it still never fails to annoy me.)

At any rate, I disagree with the idea that we should ignore him. Personally, I think the only way to deal with someone like Rossi, who apparently believes what he says and therefore isn’t a simple troll, is to expose them to as much light as possible. Only then will people realize the difference between quality work and this sort of nonsense.