Why do fans boo subban

On one hand, the Predators star is a villain, booed at every opportunity by the Winnipeg fans, and a general pain in the behind for the Jets to play against. The award is given to the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community. While talking about the award in the Predators locker room on Thursday ahead of Game 4 of the series at Bell MTS Place, Subban was asked if he found it strange that fans still boo him, even though he is known as such a giving player.

Subban is both an offensive force and a defensive shot suppressor, who can mix it up physically with the best of them. You lose your focus for a second it can cost you. He has had his ups and downs in this series. He took the penalty that led to the Jets winning goal in Game 3, but he also has two goals and has averaged over 30 minutes per game of ice time.

As much as he irritates his opponents, Subban does the opposite with his teammates, inspiring them on and off the ice. There were seven reporters from Montreal covering the Nashville-Winnipeg games last weekend in Tennessee. Twyman postmedia. Just before Blake Wheeler scored the winning goal in Game 3, Predators goalie Pekka Rinne alerted one of the referees that a strap had come loose on his helmet and was hoping to get a stoppage in play.

He was denied and before he got get a chance to fix the strap, the puck was in the back of his net. Subban and Filip Forsberg celebrate Subban's goal against the Jets in the first period of playoff action in Winnipeg, Tuesday.

Hey there, time traveller! And yet for the past week or so, social media has been full of scolds clutching their pearls and urging Jets fans not to single out Subban for abuse in this second-round series between the Winnipeg Jets and Nashville Predators, lest the spectacle of a building full of white people dressed in white and yelling at a black man be confused with a Klan rally.

Yes, there really are people among us, with more Twitter followers than common sense, who are that laughably stupid. Now, make no mistake: there are plenty of good reasons not to spend your night booing P. Subban, beginning with the fact the man seems to thrive on the abuse that is directed his way every time the Predators play in Winnipeg. Tuesday night, the booing for Subban began in the pre-game warmup — he was booed off the ice — and then it continued for the entirety of his first shift and every time thereafter that he touched the puck.

And the effect of all that abuse? The final score — for the Jets — did not begin to do justice to what was an Italian opera of a game, with villains, heroes, wild lead changes and a pretty compelling redemption tale for a Jets team that had their hearts broken in a Game 2 double-overtime loss in Nashville on Sunday only to do some heart-breaking of their own Tuesday night and take a series lead in this best-of seven.

And in the middle of it all, as he usually is, was Subban, who now has two goals and two assists in three games in this series and a total of eight points in eight games against the Jets overall this season. The man hears your abuse, people. He wears an 'A' on his chest, and knows what it means to have a CH on his jersey. His ability to thrive in a market like Montreal is impressive to say the least. Subban is a diver. Tampa Bay on January. Subban was assessed a minor penalty for embelishment and Rangers forward Chris Kreider received a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct on the play, at of the first period.

Yes, Subban dives. Hey, guess what? So long as human beings i. If your issue with Subban is that he dives MORE than other players and let's be clear, he does not dive more than everyone in the league, he just gets called out for it more than everyone in the league , then your logic is flawed.

If 10 teenagers walk into the dollar store and all shoplift, but only one gets caught, that one kid will be singled out every time he walks into the store. It doesn't mean that his friends aren't shoplifting too, and it doesn't make them better than he is simply because they haven't been caught or reprimanded.

Subban is not overpaid. He leads the Habs in ice time this season, averaging per game seventh among all defensemen in the NHL. Defensemen of Subban's calibre eat up significant minutes in a hockey game on the powerplay, short-handed, and at even strength.

Here's how his salary stacks up amongst other ice time leaders in the league, heading into Wednesday night's games years left does not include the current NHL season :. Subban does have the highest cap hit among ice time leading defensemen, but most of those contracts were signed several years ago prior to the most recent lockout.

What Subban makes is the going rate for a defenseman of his calibre, and more contracts of that nature are what we'll see going forward. There's just something about him. There is indeed something about Subban.

He's black. He's flashy.