The NHL has this cool tradition where the every player on the Stanley Cup winning team, no matter how minimal his contribution, gets a day with the Stanley Cup. Even defensemen who spent only four months hovering between useless, invisible, and detrimental get their day with The Cup.
But someone needs to explain to me how this was allowed to happen:
Maybe if Tomas Kaberle was allowed to wear that get-up during games he wouldn’t be so scared of contact. I’m not sure what this article says, or even what language it’s written in, but I imagine Kaberle allowed himself to be photographed like this as an apology to the city of Boston for trying (unsuccessfully) to destroy the 2011 Boston Bruins.
Is anyone else worried that the Carolina Hurricanes dumped Joe Corvo so they could sign Kaberle? Could Corvo actually be worse than Kaberle?
Corvo, I’ve been told, is essentially Kaberle with a better shot. He's an offensive defenseman whose defense can accurately be described as offensive. The Bruins have the depth defensively to absorb an offensive defenseman who is a wreck in his own zone. They did just win a Stanley Cup with Kaberle getting regular minutes.
But I still can’t get past the fact that Corvo was released because another team thought Kaberle at $12.75 million over three seasons was a better option.
There's also the whole "Corvo beat up a woman in a bar a few years ago" thing. Then again, if it were Kaberle, the woman probably would have beat him up.
So there’s that…
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