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first of all, who the fuck spells Rich with a T
Agents of Change: Ritch Responds - The Press
he goes after bloggers in this post and a whole bunch of other stuff
anyways ... 2 points of interest for me ... the history of his client Cody Hodgson with the canucks and his feelings on Don Meehan
Although I live in Edmonton, I hear from friends in Vancouver that there is an ongoing dialogue, and in some corners a raging dialogue, about Cody’s ice-time in the media and more so on sports talk radio. After all, with a great team humming along, what else are you going to talk about?
Now, of course, I would love to see Cody play more. What agent wouldn’t? Point production would go up. His value would increase correspondingly. But I have been doing what I do for 20 years and it was easy to see that when Cody hired me while playing for the Vancouver Canucks, ice-time, for a center behind Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler, was going to be a challenge. You had to know that going in. These situations arise consistently when great young players are drafted by great teams. It’s been a never ending saga in places like Detroit. And Cody Hodgson is a great player on a very, very good team. In fact, I believe he will prove out to be by far the best player in his draft class and eventually be as good a center as the Canucks have ever had. His pace currently as a rookie will, if it continues, mirror that of Trevor Linden and Pavel Bure and exceed what the Sedins accomplished as rookies. But, because of those ahead of him in the depth chart, it will take time. We all know that. So my discussions with the Canucks, touched on, but never really focused much on ice-time.
I have been Cody’s agent for just over a year now after he became player number 2,338,523 to fire Don Meehan’s puppy mill at Newport Sports – known by all as the best recruiters and worst agents in hockey. Cody followed Jagr, Ovechkin, Bryzgalov, Weber and many, many others out the door at Newport in doing so. Our work together has, so far has worked out extremely well. Our 4sports & Entertainment AG (Startseite and 4Sports & Entertainment – Golf Division for more information) personal coaching department led by 4 Time Stanley Cup Champion, Claude Lemieux has done stellar work with Cody. The therapeutic treatment I arranged for him has healed him up 100% for the first time in three years and stronger than ever. And, most importantly, now that Cody is healthy, he is playing extremely well. As an advisory team, we have achieved all of the goals Cody set when we met last year. But not mine. I predicted he would score the Stanley Cup winner last year. So we have one mountain to climb yet.
Laurence Gilman, Mike Gillis and I have had many, many conversations about Cody, since Cody retained us. We have collectively worked on his injury issues, talked about his future and invested an incredible amount of time righting the ship that got a bit off course following Cody’s first serious injury two years ago.
Issues that grew largely out of a series of miscommunications or lack of it that eventually led to our involvement. Things just happen. All of us have talked about a lot of things over the last year and have worked hard to provide Cody with the foundation he needed for the success he is having now. Success he is having, in large part because of his own dedication and commitment to hard work under Gary Roberts' tutelage and Claude’s guidance. Cody is now achieving what we all thought he would have done before now. And he would have performed at this level had it not been for an unfortunate and untimely injury before camp a few years ago that took time to diagnose and address.
Agents of Change: Ritch Responds - The Press
he goes after bloggers in this post and a whole bunch of other stuff
anyways ... 2 points of interest for me ... the history of his client Cody Hodgson with the canucks and his feelings on Don Meehan
Although I live in Edmonton, I hear from friends in Vancouver that there is an ongoing dialogue, and in some corners a raging dialogue, about Cody’s ice-time in the media and more so on sports talk radio. After all, with a great team humming along, what else are you going to talk about?
Now, of course, I would love to see Cody play more. What agent wouldn’t? Point production would go up. His value would increase correspondingly. But I have been doing what I do for 20 years and it was easy to see that when Cody hired me while playing for the Vancouver Canucks, ice-time, for a center behind Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler, was going to be a challenge. You had to know that going in. These situations arise consistently when great young players are drafted by great teams. It’s been a never ending saga in places like Detroit. And Cody Hodgson is a great player on a very, very good team. In fact, I believe he will prove out to be by far the best player in his draft class and eventually be as good a center as the Canucks have ever had. His pace currently as a rookie will, if it continues, mirror that of Trevor Linden and Pavel Bure and exceed what the Sedins accomplished as rookies. But, because of those ahead of him in the depth chart, it will take time. We all know that. So my discussions with the Canucks, touched on, but never really focused much on ice-time.
I have been Cody’s agent for just over a year now after he became player number 2,338,523 to fire Don Meehan’s puppy mill at Newport Sports – known by all as the best recruiters and worst agents in hockey. Cody followed Jagr, Ovechkin, Bryzgalov, Weber and many, many others out the door at Newport in doing so. Our work together has, so far has worked out extremely well. Our 4sports & Entertainment AG (Startseite and 4Sports & Entertainment – Golf Division for more information) personal coaching department led by 4 Time Stanley Cup Champion, Claude Lemieux has done stellar work with Cody. The therapeutic treatment I arranged for him has healed him up 100% for the first time in three years and stronger than ever. And, most importantly, now that Cody is healthy, he is playing extremely well. As an advisory team, we have achieved all of the goals Cody set when we met last year. But not mine. I predicted he would score the Stanley Cup winner last year. So we have one mountain to climb yet.
Laurence Gilman, Mike Gillis and I have had many, many conversations about Cody, since Cody retained us. We have collectively worked on his injury issues, talked about his future and invested an incredible amount of time righting the ship that got a bit off course following Cody’s first serious injury two years ago.
Issues that grew largely out of a series of miscommunications or lack of it that eventually led to our involvement. Things just happen. All of us have talked about a lot of things over the last year and have worked hard to provide Cody with the foundation he needed for the success he is having now. Success he is having, in large part because of his own dedication and commitment to hard work under Gary Roberts' tutelage and Claude’s guidance. Cody is now achieving what we all thought he would have done before now. And he would have performed at this level had it not been for an unfortunate and untimely injury before camp a few years ago that took time to diagnose and address.
