Well, who would have thought it. The Tessier Saga has its latest chapter opened for us all to see.
Tessier (he of terrible website fame) has today returned for a second stint with the Nothingham Panthers. A team he, of course, vowed never to return to because he “hated the city”. Now if you think for one second that was mere Steelers PR, well I don’t know where you get your crazy ideas.
Tessier seems to have taken on the role of Snowball from Orwell’s Animal Farm. Having arrived in Sheffield mid-season last year following the departure of Jeremy Cornish, Tessier proceeded to revive a Steelers team, though still in the hunt, from what was a down turn and centre them to the Playoff title, culminating in the Steelers fans screaming in almighty joy as Tessier taunted the Panthers fans in, what of course wasn’t a PR stunt!, lifting a set of Golf Clubs over his head on the ice of the NIC.
But all of a sudden “the truth” emerged!
Tessier was cast asunder! He wasn’t the player they had seen on the ice who scored umpteen points, won 90% of his face offs and basically ran the show!
No!
He was the problem!
He had to go!
Booo Dan Tessier! Boo and Hiss!
Dave “Napoleon” Simms played it coy!
Bob “Squealer” Westerdale told us the “truth”!
And the poor animals of Sheffield and SteelTalk, lapped it all up.
It wasn’t Snowball! It was “Steeeeeeeeve”!
So what now?
Dan’s crossed back over the fence to Foxwood Farm and the “Biggest Rivalry since God v Devil” continues with a bit of spice.
Here at The Plough we’ll be entrigued to see how Simms and Moran spin the various issues.
We await Tessier’s claims that “The reason I didn’t return previously was that I didn’t see eye to eye with Mike Ellis, but that’s all good now he’s gone”.
We await the fickle fans in Nothingham hailing their saviours return “We never really hated you.. we were only kidding, you’re great!”
And we await the Steelers fans continuing to fall for the Simms-Star PR machine telling them what they should think of it all!. BOOO Dan Tessier! Hisssssss!
It’s all rather exciting really, isn’t it?
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Tessier / Steelers scandal reminds us hockey hasn't gone away, you know!
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
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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