Hockey 2011-2012

[smc]

Originally Posted by shadows

smc, being a Bruins fan, do you think that the past two incidents involving Tim Thomas's political actions(White House visit and his posts on Facebook) are (or going to be) a detriment to the team? I can't help but feel that this will have some effect on the team.

They absolutely are a detriment. Irrespective of the political content, the actions of Tim Thomas are detracting from the team. On the day the Bruins visited the White House, the story was Tim and not the Bruins. With his recent Facebook post, you can see his teammates starting to grow weary of it. On the TV news, they stand by him in their words, but their eyes reveal a different perspective.

It's really unfortunate. I thought Tim Thomas should have been fined by the league for the crap he pulled at the White House. And just to show that it's not about the politics for me, I thought Major League Baseball should have fined Theo Epstein (then Red Sox general manager) when he did the same thing during the Bush years.