NJD Prospect Stefan Matteau Walks Out On Junior Team

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/jrhockey-buzzing-the-net/devils-first-rounder-stefan-matteau-reportedly-quits-b-034759479.html
 

There is no longer a big-league baseball team in Montreal, but the closest junior hockey team apparently has a new designated quitter.
New Jersey Devils first-round pick Stefan Matteau's turbulent season, which has included being suspended by the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada for rough play, missing out on Team USA's world junior championship triumph and making his NHL debut at age 18, has taken a rather volatile twist. 

Details are slowly being filled in, but Stéphane Leroux (@StephRDSJunior) of Réseau des sports (RDS) is reporting that Matteau has quit the Armada, who are down 2-0 in to Baie-Comeau in a QMJHL semifinal series. It's understandable that a 19-year-old could have trouble working through frustration, but he has created a spectacle.

Talk about a player whose season has gone sideways. It's a soap opera and it's too early to say whether this does irreparable harm to Matteau's hockey career. Drawing conclusions about the Devils' decisions is fairer game. The franchise, which was stripped of a first-rounder after the NHL ruled it circumvented the salary cap while signing Ilya Kovalchuk, was widely questioned for even using its first-rounder in 2012. What was the point of hanging on to second-last pick of the first round in a weak draft year, then rushing him to the NHL to perform in spot duty, disrupting a crucial development season?
Taking Matteau also painted the Devils into a corner where they likely going to have to give up their first-rounder in the fecund 2014 draft.

 
Matteau family continuing to fuck the Devils. 

 

[Teagz]

Matteau!!!!! Matteau!!!!! Matteau!!!!!



Sorry I had to.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

I don't blame you haha. I was thinking the same thing.