Arizona Coyotes: Shane Doan Responds To Toronto Shock Jock’s Criticism
Arizona Coyotes Captain Shane Doan responded to radio host Dean Blundell’s criticism that he “likes losing”.
If there’s a list of athletes that have built up enough clout to have unassailable character, Arizona Coyotes Captain Shane Doan is on it.
That didn’t stop Toronto “shock jock” Dean Blundell from going at the 39-year-old winger.
Blundell went on a tirade about Doan re-signing in Arizona, raising the question of whether people have ever “seen a guy in any professional sport that likes losing as much as Shane Doan?”
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The producers of First Take would’ve been proud.
His bloviating did not go over well in the desert, but we hadn’t heard from Doan himself regarding his opinion on Blundell’s criticism.
He took to the airwaves with Jeremy Roenick and Billy Jaffe on the RoenickLife Podcast and gave his thoughts.
He threw in a few quips about Toronto’s own penchant for losing, saying that “he (Blundell) knows what losing is because he’s been doing it in Toronto for a while now.
Naturally, the captain gave his reasoning for continuing his stay in the Valley.
“It’s not worth it to move. For me, the collateral and everything I’ve built up here … it doesn’t change my competitiveness one bit,” Doan added. “I don’t really get my identity wrapped up in (winning Stanley Cups) too much because it goes by, I think, your day-to-day and the way you approach the game. The overall: Hey, you’re going to be a winner or loser in the way you approach life.”
It’s hard to argue with his logic.
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Look at Jarome Iginla. He’s chased a Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh and then Boston before settling in Colorado with the Avalanche’s mismanaged and under-achieving roster.
Though he, like Shane Doan, continues to produce at a remarkable clip for his age, it’s hard to argue that he wouldn’t have been better served to end his career in Calgary where it started.
We see players leave to chase a cup all of the time.
Rarely does it end up in the scenario of someone like Antoine Vermette, who not only got to have his cake in Chicago, but to eat it too when former Arizona Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney brought him back in the offseason.
There aren’t a lot of Ray Bourque-esque happy endings compared to moves that whiffed.
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Hockey has too much variance for anything concrete.
Just ask several incarnations of the Washington Capitals over the last decade.