Mark
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Roman Polak once told me he felt way more pressure playing in St. Louis than he did in Toronto because of the daily expectations put on the team from management and ownership to win. Said players aren’t pressured by newspapers and talk radio as those can easily be ignored. Says the internal pressure that comes from the inside is far more demanding than media pressure.
In Friday's 3-2 OT win over San Jose, Kyrou had just 10:34 of ice time in the game. He played one shift early in the 3rd period and then was benched for the final 16:57 of regulation and OT. I asked Monty about accountability and ice time down the stretch ... "Well, the accountablity is important because you just don't hand out ice time. I think our players, we hold them to certain levels of competitive spirit. Everybody is different in how they compete. But that's the one thing we're trying to build here with our identity." #stlblues
NEW: Canadian curling star Marc Kennedy claims he was set up by "premeditated" cameras to catch him "in an act" of cheating. The Canadian curling team is now claiming to be victims after they were caught on camera 'double-touching' the stone. "They have come up with a plan here at the Olympics, as far as I know, to catch teams in the act at the hog line," Kennedy said. "This was planned... it was kind of evident that something was going on, and they were trying to catch us in an act." Kennedy and Coach Paul Webster accused Sweden of setting up cameras to catch them cheating. "I know we’re not the only team that they’ve done that to. So I think this was, I don’t know what the word is for that, but like a premeditated plan to try to catch us," Kennedy said. Sweden is firing back at Canada, saying they've been sounding the alarm on alleged Canadian cheating for seven or eight years. "We've been saying this for maybe seven, eight years or something. The media crew decided to place the camera on the hog line to see what was happening..." said Niklas Edin of Sweden.
