Added Quotes: Willie Mitchell

BoF Exclusive: Willie takes to the ice on Aug. 24th to prove he can still skate.

Maybe I’ve been inspired by Down Goes Brown’s ability to churn out high quality posts in a high pressure journalistic situation IN FREAKIN’ AUGUST! Or maybe, I just stopped smoking pot this week (kidding…why would I stop?). Whatever the case may be, here’s another post to keep my name in lights!

This is a new feature! Its tentative title is “Added Quotes” and consists of me taking actual quotes and then adding an extra sentence or two.

Let’s try a sample run. Quotes are by Willie Mitchell, taken from this Province article.

Actual Quote: “Who’s kidding who? Everyone knows I love playing in Vancouver”
Added: “But everyone knows Los Angeles has better weather, hotter women and a coach that I don’t despise with all my heart.”

Actual Quote: “The economics of the game got in the way of a lot of things”
Added: “That’s why I had to try my best to trick a team into believing the whole concussion thing is no longer a problem.”

Actual Quote: “Did the Vancouver Canucks or Willie Mitchell foresee me getting hit on Jan. 16 and this happening? No, we all didn’t.”
Added:: “It’s always hard to foresee getting cheap-shotted. In hindsight, though, you always have to be prepared for a cheap shot when there’s a Russian on the ice”

Actual Quote: [On wondering if he'd ever be back] “I’d be lying to anyone if I said I didn’t feel that for a little bit.”
Added: “Especially when that bastard Gillis wouldn’t return my phone calls until I could leave a coherent voice mail message.”

Actual Quote: “But then you start gradually getting better and you see that carrot and that light at the end of the tunnel.”
Added: “Then that carrot turns into $7 million and you’re like, ‘OK, things are back.’”

Actual Quote: “You talk to anyone who has been through that experience like me and, of course, you have that thought run through your mind for a little bit.”
Added: “Especially when you can’t understand what the other guy is mumbling over the phone.”

Actual Quote: “But negative energy can kill you.”
Added: “You know what else can kill you? That bastard f*ck Malkin.”

Actual Quote: “I think I’ve gotten better as a player, especially in years three and four in Vancouver. I started evolving my game.”
Added: “Once, I actually crossed into the offensive zone in a game. It was surreal.”

Actual Quote: “I started to become a better offensive player.”
Added: “Sorry, disregard the last sentence, that’s just my post-concussion thing acting up again.”

Actual Quote: “I’m looking forward to going to a team which, I get the feeling, is really passionate about having me there.”
Added: “As opposed to the Canucks, who didn’t really give a rats ass about me until Salo got hurt.”

Actual Quote: “They are a good young team maybe following in the footsteps of Chicago.”
Added: “I look forward to us tormenting the Vancouver organization like the Blackhawks did the last two years.”

There you have it!

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