Patrick Roy's son is not classy. Or a good singer.
After beating fellow QMJHL goalie Bobby Nadeau in a fight he clearly did not want a part of, Jonathan Roy proceeded to show the TV cameras and everyone in the crowd just how long his middle fingers can actually stretch. A susbsequent assault charge, and a guilty plea today has basically meant zilch – a $5,000 donation to his five favourite charities (one of must be the newly formed Nadeau Hockey School of Goalie Fighting) and an absolute discharge.
Honestly. Almost a non-story here, except if you listen to one of the key defence arguments put forward as to why he needed an absolute discharge:
Roy wants to be able to travel to the United States to continue his singing career.
WTF. Singing? Could this be the next big thing for the CBC after Battle of the Blades? Canadian Hockey Idol?
So, in all fairness, I had to take a listen. Being an amateur hack musician myself, I’m thinking “How bad can this be?”
Eccckkk….
Now you know. I’m pretty sure I could sing better than that, even I had spent most of my life having someone shoot hard rubber disks off my head.
My favourite quotes from the few english YouTube posters:
“An embarrassment to goalies/singers like myself everywhere. ”
“I think he should just stick to hockey?”
“You’re a horrible goaltender and an even worse singer [and thats saying something] ”
“Oh my f***ing god, this is brutal.”
Jonathan Roy, so not classy.
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If he wants to move to the US, he better do a better job at this. Or maybe he should sing in french to sound better??
Honestly though, what he did was horrible but don’t you think it was slightly blown out of proportion because of who his dad is?
@ Sens19 – Probably. But when you’re the son of a goaltending icon, you better know you everything you do will be scrutinized that much more. That’s what you trade off for the notoriety and added exposure.
It was pretty bad… I think crap like that gives hockey a bad name. Especially to the US who already don’t accept hockey (for the most part).
True true, he had a chance to be something big in hockey or at least respectable (don’t think he was a fraction of how good his dad was) but now he’s just a joke. I really like Roy but his son is just a bad reflection on him.
I respect Patrick Roy so much I’m willing to over look his son’s mistakes (could call it truculence??). In fact, I don’t really associate the two at all.