Post by Q-Pool Champ on Aug 31, 2007 17:32:09 GMT -4
To the editor:
I’ve been a Wildcats fan since the beginning of the franchise. It seems after every game I’ve read the same article. That’s why Neil Hodge is known as “copy paste Hodge” to many of us. Lately it seems Hodge is spicing things up and he’s stepping way over the line.
Mr. Hodge began a rampage against 16 year old forward Pierre Luc Brousseau the day after he was selected in the 2007 draft. Hodge made sure to point out the only reason he was selected was because his dad was a member of the Wildcats Board of Governors. Hodge reminded us about Brousseau’s unworthiness when the 2007-2008 training camp began,. Then when Brousseau was cut, Hodge made the cut a bit deeper by once again pointing out why Brousseau was here in the first place.
Brousseau knew why he was in camp and so do the fans. There is no need to write 3 articles questioning the skills and merits of a 16 year old kid. Brousseau probably had the experience of his life at Cats camp but Hodge has to make a negative story out of the situation.
Now the latest “Hodge Podge”. His next victim is 17 year old American Paul Dimitruk. Dimitruk decided to leave the Wildcats camp to attend to family issues. Now whether or not these issues are reality or a smokescreen to return to the US junior ranks is anyone’s guess but there is no need for Hodge to question the kid’s character and to call the affair a “gong show”, “circus”, and “soap opera.”
Dimitruk is a 17 year old kid who is making the biggest decision of his life and has the maturity to think of his future before committing to the Cats. Nowhere did he or his dad ever say a bad thing about Moncton, The Cats, the QMJHL, regretting his decision, or leaving Moncton for good. Yet Hodge decided to completely fabricate this story. Wildcats head coach Danny Flynn even contradicts Hodge. I hope the Cats’ future US recruits don’t read Hodge’s gong show because they’ll never want to come to his soap opera.
Neil Hodge is not a fair representation of the Moncton Wildcats organization and the City of Moncton. He is an irresponsible journalist who was shocked when Gatineau Olympiques coach Benoit Groulx took offense to his articles criticizing Gatineau’s 19 year old star player for playing physical. He’s the same dirt sheet writer who was banned from the Bathurst Titans dressing room by owner Leo-Guy Morissette for questioning his business model.
Mr. Hodge has to realize the Times & Transcript is not the National Enquirer. Ever since Bill Schurman left town, it seems Mr. Hodge’s common sense has also mysteriously vanished. To use a Hodge like quote, “read into that what you will.”
Everyone knows Hodge is fed information by the team’s owner who also owns the paper but I have a hard time believing Robert Irving condones Hodge’s latest antics. I wonder if Hodge is trying to get fired. If Hodge doesn’t watch himself Cats fans may soon find him pumping gas at Blue Canoe when we’re purchasing copies of the Acadie Nouvelle to read up on our team.
I’ve been a Wildcats fan since the beginning of the franchise. It seems after every game I’ve read the same article. That’s why Neil Hodge is known as “copy paste Hodge” to many of us. Lately it seems Hodge is spicing things up and he’s stepping way over the line.
Mr. Hodge began a rampage against 16 year old forward Pierre Luc Brousseau the day after he was selected in the 2007 draft. Hodge made sure to point out the only reason he was selected was because his dad was a member of the Wildcats Board of Governors. Hodge reminded us about Brousseau’s unworthiness when the 2007-2008 training camp began,. Then when Brousseau was cut, Hodge made the cut a bit deeper by once again pointing out why Brousseau was here in the first place.
Brousseau knew why he was in camp and so do the fans. There is no need to write 3 articles questioning the skills and merits of a 16 year old kid. Brousseau probably had the experience of his life at Cats camp but Hodge has to make a negative story out of the situation.
Now the latest “Hodge Podge”. His next victim is 17 year old American Paul Dimitruk. Dimitruk decided to leave the Wildcats camp to attend to family issues. Now whether or not these issues are reality or a smokescreen to return to the US junior ranks is anyone’s guess but there is no need for Hodge to question the kid’s character and to call the affair a “gong show”, “circus”, and “soap opera.”
Dimitruk is a 17 year old kid who is making the biggest decision of his life and has the maturity to think of his future before committing to the Cats. Nowhere did he or his dad ever say a bad thing about Moncton, The Cats, the QMJHL, regretting his decision, or leaving Moncton for good. Yet Hodge decided to completely fabricate this story. Wildcats head coach Danny Flynn even contradicts Hodge. I hope the Cats’ future US recruits don’t read Hodge’s gong show because they’ll never want to come to his soap opera.
Neil Hodge is not a fair representation of the Moncton Wildcats organization and the City of Moncton. He is an irresponsible journalist who was shocked when Gatineau Olympiques coach Benoit Groulx took offense to his articles criticizing Gatineau’s 19 year old star player for playing physical. He’s the same dirt sheet writer who was banned from the Bathurst Titans dressing room by owner Leo-Guy Morissette for questioning his business model.
Mr. Hodge has to realize the Times & Transcript is not the National Enquirer. Ever since Bill Schurman left town, it seems Mr. Hodge’s common sense has also mysteriously vanished. To use a Hodge like quote, “read into that what you will.”
Everyone knows Hodge is fed information by the team’s owner who also owns the paper but I have a hard time believing Robert Irving condones Hodge’s latest antics. I wonder if Hodge is trying to get fired. If Hodge doesn’t watch himself Cats fans may soon find him pumping gas at Blue Canoe when we’re purchasing copies of the Acadie Nouvelle to read up on our team.
