It looks like Big Georges Laraque writing career didn’t end with his RDS gig last year. He is now writing a weekly blog article with Sportsnet. Here are some excerpts his first blog entry:
In everything you do in life, especially in sports, there will always be people that love you and there will always be people that hate you. That’s life. As long as you understand that you don’t let those things bother you. I don’t read the papers or watch the TV shows or listen to the radio talk shows. What’s the point? In Montreal, a lot of people love to create controversy; you win and there’s still talk on some negative stuff, and you lose and it’s the end of the world. Negative stuff sells papers and increases ratings, so it will always be this way. If you listen and take seriously everything you hear you will go crazy because at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is what the coaches tell you – period.
I have being the subject of many negative stories as I expected, but this is how I look at it: I’m playing a game for a living. I feel fortunate and I feel blessed. I have signed a three-year guaranteed contract and if it doesn’t end up working here, it’ll work somewhere else. All you can do is work hard and not worry about the rest.
Later in Big Georges blog:
There are a lot of great players in this team and our captain, Saku Koivu, is definitely quite the leader. We feel that we can all accomplish something special this year. We started the year really strong and though we might be struggling a little bit now, I have no doubt that things will come into place. We’re too good a team with way too much character to lose for long.