All has been very quiet here lately. We have been outside in the summer sun trying to remember what ice hockey looked like. Still, we were brought back to reality when a call from a friend informed us of a newspaper article that Sheffield Steelers hot-shot Dan Tessier had been sacked and then stabbed in the back for good measure.
This got me jumping . . . I like nothing more than a bit of good scandal. Of course, moments after clearing the dust from my keyboard and logging onto the interweb, I realised that slick Dan Tessier hadn't actually been knifed in the back, but still there was a web of finger pointing, deceit and 'he said, she said' about it all. This was my ballpark.
There is no point me going over the entire story again. If you care you probably know by now and if you don’t know by now you probably don’t care and if somehow you do then check the above link to the story.
Like the professional I am I got on the ball and called some contacts who could not locate Dan. When I talked to the Steelers they denied they had ever heard of anyone called Dan Tessier but I finally got a number from an ex-pro I often drink with and when I called the number I was greeted by a man claiming to be Dan Tessier's agent. He informed me that Dan wouldn't be talking to rogue journalists but did confirm to me Dan's disgust and hurt at the entire situation.
"Dan is a winner and he is terribly upset at how bitter the playoff victory back in April now tastes in his mouth. He was sure the team loved him when they handed him a set of Golf clubs during the post-playoff-final-game celebrations," (to show off to them hated Panthers, an ex-team of Dan's that could in a dramatic twist become his new team again). The agent went on to say, "Dan now feels ashamed and embarrassed to find out them clubs were not meant to be used as a departing shot at the Panthers fans left in the crowd but more as a departing gift from the Steelers organisation as he was getting his contract ripped up. He should have seen it as the first sign that they would rather see him on a Golf course than the Sheffield ice next year".
When I pressed the fellow further on Dan's response to this gesture all he would say is that Dan no longer has the golf clubs but he will be getting a gun, whether that be as a successful applicant to the Canadian Provincial Police or for his own safety when he returns to Nottingham is yet to be known.
The best bit about it all is that it is set to run and run. Happy June folks.
~Raoul Duke
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