Della Rovere: The stupidest player I have ever seen

Why does canada play this guy? he offers nothing in a hockey sense other than being a pest, and he is terrible at even that. He has no control and has failed in every game to walk that line between being a pest and being penalized. I do not understand why he gets any ice time. Overall he is a tool who i hope makes it to the NHL just so i can see him get knocked the F out.

Relax Colonel divealot got a penalty for doing his thing, Della Rovere had no choice.

talking about tournament as a whole, he has terrible hockey IQ (likely terrible IQ in general) and is a joke on an otherwise extremely impressive team.

Della Rovere is awesome, FACT.

Della Hollweg

Well if he's trying to piss people off he's doing a great job.

Honestly he's not a smart player and half the crap he's done in this tournament has not helped his team, but if Quinn hasn't benched him yet there must be a reason.

Della Rovere is awesome, FACT.

Uhhh, no. A player like him has to play right on the edge, but he hasn't yet learned when to stop so he's constantly crossing the line and hurting his team.

Della Rovere = Important piece to team Canada.

Is he daft... ehhh drafted I mean ?

Uhhh, no. A player like him has to play right on the edge, but he hasn't yet learned when to stop so he's constantly crossing the line and hurting his team.

And yet his team currently has the lead in the gold medal game.

Amazing how so many people here know how to build a team better than Pat Quinn.

Della Rovere = Important piece to team Canada.

True.

Better choice to represent Canada than Downie ever was. He absolutely does need to be a lot smarter, however. He's not going to have much of a pro career if he doesn't learn to control himself better.

Markstrom is my choice for stupidest player ever though. He's had an awesome tournament, and probably will be named top goaltender, but all anyone is going to remember after tonight is his litany of embarrassing dives.

Relax Colonel divealot got a penalty for doing his thing, Della Rovere had no choice.

Colonel Divealot? Seriously?

Della Rovere hit him on that play. No disputing that.

Is he daft... ehhh drafted I mean ?

Yeah.... 7th rounder, by the Caps...

IIRC.

He's definitely an idiot.

Embarrasing dives? Only 2 out of maybe 5 of them are real dives. You're players are way too aggressive.

Colonel Divealot? Seriously?

Della Rovere hit him on that play. No disputing that.

:laugh: Yes, it's Colonel Divealot and I only just started watching the game.

2 out of 5 are dives the other 3 are embellished, the guy acts like he's been shot ten times in the chest when a Canadian player touches him.

Nothing would make me laugh more then to see the next Canadian player to score a goal celebrate by going right in front of him and falling down.

I mean, he has some talent, but he steps over the line too often and it ends up hurting his team. Takes too many dumb penalties.

what i love about Della Rovere is the innocent little school boy look he has on his face after each penalty.

And yet his team currently has the lead in the gold medal game.

Amazing how so many people here know how to build a team better than Pat Quinn.



True.

they could have a blind kid sub in for della rovere and would still be winning this game, has absolutely nothing to do with his play.

Caps fan here, we're gonna love Della Rovere in Washington.

Caps fan here, we're gonna love Della Rovere in Washington.


the rest of the southeast division will like him even more, because della rovere= plenty of free powerplays...

the rest of the southeast division will like him even more, because della rovere= plenty of free powerplays...

I doubt he stays this undisciplined if he makes it to the NHL.

quinn benched the kid

Eager is dumber

Della Rovere = Important piece to team Canada.

Why? Because he gives his young teammates lots of valuable PK experience? :sarcasm:

He'll either mature into a good checker or he'll be one of those guys stuck in the minors his whole career.

Della Rovere = Steve Downie Jr :laugh:

Della Rovere = Steve Downie Jr :laugh:

He's not even close to being that dirty.

I don't think he was particularly successful in the playoffs here. He took a lot of penalties. He drew very few penalties. He physically didn't punish anyone. He didn't get anyone off his game. And when he doesn't bring that he doesn't bring much else.

Caps fan here, we're gonna love Della Rovere in Washington.

Maybe Semin can show him how to handle himself. :shakehead

Colonel Divealot? Seriously?

Della Rovere hit him on that play. No disputing that.

Rovere skated into him while trying to check the d-man and Markstrom went flying like he was shot out of a cannon.

what i love about Della Rovere is the innocent little school boy look he has on his face after each penalty.I think it's more of a "crap, Quinn is going to bench me again" look

quinn benched the kid
He did PK a bit in the third. But, yeah, he needs to work on the self-control obviously.

Della Rovere = Steve Downie Jr :laugh:

Unlike Della Rovere, Downie was actually useful on Team Canada in the WJCs.

Maybe Semin can show him how to handle himself. :shakehead

:laugh:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?season=20082009&type=CON

Caps place in the Standings>Semin's fighting.

The guy isn't that dirty, he just takes really stupid penalties. Hopefully the guy matures over the next few years, because he's a great player if you disregard some of his bonehead penalties.

Milan Lucic, Jordin Tootoo, Steffan Della Rovre.

Plays with an edge, reminds me a lot of Alex Burrows when he was first playing with the Canucks. Once he learns not to take boneheaded penalties he can turn out to be a very valuable checking line forward.

I liked the way he played, he gives the whole team the edge where if somebody on the other team does something stupid, you send him out to do something stupider. Thats how hockey is played in canada, the fact that they won, and almost always killed the penalties he took shows how much his team had his back.

Caps fan here, we're gonna love Della Rovere in Washington.

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At least he doesnt BITE!!!

I stand by my Steve Begin minus maturity comparison.

Della Rovere = Steve Downie Jr :laugh:

Downie was a much better junoir.

He's marginal, like Downie and Tootoo.

Sideshow players like that don't last in a league with a much higher calibre of play.

Tangling with the goalie at the time that he did was utterly stupid and he was stapled to the bench because of it.

what i love about Della Rovere is the innocent little school boy look he has on his face after each penalty.
I've noticed that too and I don't think it's an act, he truly is that stupid. The most useless player I've seen.

Milan Lucic, Jordin Tootoo, Steffan Della Rovre.

What?

He was taking a lot of stupid penalties at very important times in the tourny.

They say that it's better to try and reign a person in than try and light a fire under someone's butt but as he and others have shown, that's not always the case.

Amazing how so many people here know how to build a team better than Pat Quinn.


Seriously, it's incredibly easy to make this team win... The talent poll is like twice better than every other country, many players that didn't even made the team could've been an important part of almost all the other teams.

He's marginal, like Downie and Tootoo.


As detestable as they are now, both Downie and Tootoo have been key contributors on Gold-medal-winning teams. Which just goes to show you how inept Della Rovere's performance at the tourney was.

Quinn has now won Olympic gold, World Championship gold, U-18 gold, and U-20 gold.

Quinn has now won Olympic gold, World Championship gold, U-18 gold, and U-20 gold.

Did he ever coach the Spengler?

As detestable as they are now, both Downie and Tootoo have been key contributors on Gold-medal-winning teams. Which just goes to show you how inept Della Rovere's performance at the tourney was.

Quinn has now won Olympic gold, World Championship gold, U-18 gold, and U-20 gold.

Tomorrow he'll announce his intent to coach the Womens' 2010 team.

Did he ever coach the Spengler?

Yeah Quinn also won the Spengler Cup actually.

Yeah Quinn also won the Spengler Cup actually.

Holy crap.

I think Quinn *thought* Della Rovere would be a Downie/Tootoo like catalyst, but in general he made a fool of himself and put his team on the PK at some inopportune times. Nothing about him screams NHLer to me.

Yeah Quinn also won the Spengler Cup actually.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Della Rovere is one of the 10 eligible to return next year. Depending who's coaching (Desjardins?) you have to wonder if the foolish decisions he made will factor into whether they bring him back for the 2010 tournament. If it's me making that decision, and he's leading the OHL in penalties at the time of the selection camp, he starts the selection camp with two strikes against him.

I agree with the common sentiment that he is clearly a step below the Downies and Tootoos of previous WJC teams.

How the hell did he even make the team?

Almost cost the team with his antics.

Cant put a price on what he brought to team canada in terms of grit, well I guess a bad play. Their a reason players like him are picked every year. If he does make it to the show,he will be more refined on walking that line.

Couldn't agree with the original poster any more. Della-Rovere was like a retarded Steve Downie this tourney. He was very selfish, no control over his emotions, and no consequence analysis skills to speak of whatsoever.

I liked Della-Rovere's physical play, but I agree with the popular opinion here, he took too many stupid penalties. The funniest thing, though, was his regretful-on-the-verge-of-crying look in the box after each penalty he took.

Team divealot won this fair..alongside with the refs, who likley will get another job reffering in canada again after their "nice" work last night.

de la rov bert is one stupid human being! OMG.

Redneck from the hills.

In other news Tavares is not the MVP, gee..he´s the slowest laziest player since my granma

Della Rovere is awesome, FACT.

No way Canada gets its "swagger" without him:yo:

Wasnt this Della Rovere 15 minutes of fame?
I hope he never makes it to NHL and ends upp being a career AHL:er at best.

He reminds me of Alex Burrows.

His 15 minutes of fame eh? Sweden would kill for this type of player. someone to get in on the defensmen and make some hits.

Della Rovere is already the captain of his ohl team, he has skill or he would not have made the team. Every player on this team had a role and he knew his, he was not there to go out and score goals his role was to get in and forcheck and make it hard for the opposing teams. If needed he has the capability to go our and score because i guarentee team Canada does not just invite people to camp to go forcheck and hit the opposing players.

Wasnt this Della Rovere 15 minutes of fame?
I hope he never makes it to NHL and ends upp being a career AHL:er at best.

He's probably the worst player to make the Canadian World Junior team in recent memory. He was a liability every time he was on the ice. It got to the point where he was benched for a lot of the Gold medal game because he was still taking selfish, dumb penalties that somehow kept evening out.

It's funny how a lot of Canadian posters think he's awesome while all the non-Canadian posters think he's a joke. I'm kinda shocked that all the reasons some people think he's awesome didn't cost Canada more over the course of the tournament.

I expect this to be the last I ever hear from him until he does something stupid in the minors in about 5 years.

He was terrible, a guy like Cormier brought the same physicality without the penalties.

He was the worst player on canada.

It says alot when Pat Quinn benches you for most of Canada's 2 biggest games; USA and Sweden. Too much of a liability in big games.

I also hate how everytime he takes a stupid penalty or made a stupid play he had that innocent, 10 year old look on his face like he didnt know why he was in trouble.

Hes no where near Downie. Downie is skilled, and was a team Canada captain, and played on the 1st line. Della Rovere was a complete non factor besides his stupid plays.

It's funny how a lot of Canadian posters think he's awesome while all the non-Canadian posters think he's a joke. I'm kinda shocked that all the reasons some people think he's awesome didn't cost Canada more over the course of the tournament.

I expect this to be the last I ever hear from him until he does something stupid in the minors in about 5 years.

I don't think a lot of Canadian posters think he's awesome.

He is a disgrace to Team Canada. I dont know why he was on the team but he most definately did not deserve to be on it with his stupid antics.

I don't think a lot of Canadian posters think he's awesome.

Sorry to generalize. I just meant that Canadians are the only ones that think he's great...and it's not like a Jarkko Ruutu type thing either. Della Rovere had almost zero redeeming qualities is this tournament. He's gotta be someone's kid...because there were more deserving guys that could've gone and helped.

It's easy to say in hindsight that the kid shouldn't have been picked. I'd give him a D+ in filling his role. Some players just can't keep it in check under different ways of calling the game but he did contribute against Russia early on the forecheck while the other lines weren't keeping the game simple at ES. He wasn't on the level of Downie or Legein or Tootoo but nonetheless he wasn't purely a liability (he could have been had the opposition PPs been better).

Who else could have played a pest role for Canada? Kyle Beach? Ian Schultz? Danick Paquette? No one at the selection camp for sure. You could certainly argue that Canada didn't really need a pest at all but that wasn't believed to be the case. Those types are always risk/reward and this time around it was certainly riskier than usual. So much so that someone like Zack Kassian could well replace him next year if he doesn't show everyone that he can be more focused and toe the line.

As detestable as they are now, both Downie and Tootoo have been key contributors on Gold-medal-winning teams. Which just goes to show you how inept Della Rovere's performance at the tourney was.

Quinn has now won Olympic gold, World Championship gold, U-18 gold, and U-20 gold.

Did Tootoo win a gold? The only team I remember him being on was the silver medal team in Halifax.

SDR = Downie

Did Tootoo win a gold? The only team I remember him being on was the silver medal team in Halifax.
Correct.