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Napsal: stř 19. zář 2018 2:01:48TEMPE Doug Martin Jersey , Ariz. (AP) — A day after he returned to work from a five-week suspension, Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim apologized to the organization, the team’s fans and “most of all” his family for the DUI arrest that forced his absence.
“It’s an honor and privilege to work in the National Football League” and the Cardinals organization. “I failed to live up to the standards and expectations and I’m sorry,” he said at a news conference Wednesday at team headquarters.
Keim said his five weeks away from the game, just as training camp was beginning, have “been torture.”
“The two things in my life that I love the most are my family and football. I put both of those things in a major disadvantage and tough place,” he said. “To be away from the people I care about, the organization that I love so much, was extremely difficult. But at the same time I don’t know that it was a bad thing to be able to take that time to self-evaluate and to get stronger and grow as a man.”
Keim was arrested July 4 in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler a short distance from his home. He pleaded guilty to extreme DUI on July 17, the same day he was suspended from his job by Cardinals President Michael Bidwill and fined $200,000.
Keim’s voice broke with emotion when he talked about the impact the incident had on his family.
“After the reports came out, my 12-year-old son was texting his buddy Rex Burkhead Jersey ,” Keim said, “and he said, ‘They keep showing your dad over and over again on TV. I’m so sorry he’s having to go through that.’ My son said, ‘I’m not. He shouldn’t have been doing it.’ And my son was right and I don’t think there’s any feeling that’s worse, if you feel like you let your children down.”
Keim was asked if he felt that, beyond this one incident, he thinks he has a problem with alcohol.
“Going back and looking at behaviors and going through all the different steps that I went through, I think we all would be able to take advantage at some point of our lives of a self-evaluation process,” he said. “I don’t want to get too deep into it and personal but I can tell you that coming away from this that this has made me a better man.”
Keim said his “No. 1 takeaway” from the experience “is you are held accountable for all your actions in life.”
“I’m in a leadership position in this organization,” he said. “Looking back on it, it’s so humbling. You think about you go through the draft process and you look for guys who have great character. We talk about it all the time, the person vs. the player. I made a major poor decision. It’s not a mistake Bruce Smith Jersey , it’s a poor decision and it’s humbling. I’m very remorseful.”
Keim is entering his 20th year working for the Cardinals, the last six as general manager.
He and first-year coach Steve Wilks embraced as Keim left the interview room following the GM’s news conference.
“This organization, as Michael has stated, does not condone that kind of behavior,” Wilks said. “And Steve has accepted the consequences, he’s dealt with it in the right way. I can’t commend him enough in how he has handled this situation. He spoke to the organization yesterday, he spoke to our players this morning.
“He’s learned from this, he’s grown from this. We have embraced him. He is a part of our family and we’re excited to have him back.”
Veteran safety Antoine Bethea said he went through a DUI.
“So I understand what he’s going through,” Bethea said. “It’s definitely a learning experience. So for the guys that were sitting in the audience listening to him, it was definitely a teaching moment. You can learn from other people’s mistakes.”
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Even the simplest of tasks like breathing and eating were painstakingly difficult for Logan Couture heading into the playoffs a year ago.
An errant puck had shattered his face and the injuries hampered Couture during San Jose’s first-round loss to Edmonton. They weren’t fully healed until the summer. The Sharks are counting heavily on a now healthy Couture to anchor a long playoff run this year starting Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round series at Anaheim.
”It was tough,” Couture said about playing through the injury a year ago. ”It was very difficult. I went from playing to not knowing if I would be playing in the playoffs. The injury, it affected my life more than hockey. It was difficult just waking up and dealing with day to day stuff. But I’m happy Patrick Onwuasor Jersey , happy to be healthy.”
Couture was hit in the mouth a year ago by a shot from teammate Brent Burns and missed the final seven games of the regular season with two fractures in his face. He came back for the playoffs with plastic and wiring to keep his teeth in place and played all six games, scoring two goals in a Game 4 victory, but he was far from his usual self.
Couture was a main factor in San Jose’s run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016, leading the NHL with 30 points that postseason before the Sharks lost in six games to Pittsburgh. He’s hoping for the same type of spring this year.
”That was probably the most fun I’ve ever had playing hockey,” he said. ”Just a blast to go to the rink every day. That was a special group that we had that year. It’s different each year obviously when personnel changes. I think about that run quite a bit, just how much fun it was. Just hoping to relive it.”
As well as he played during that run, Couture might be at his peak heading into this year’s playoffs after scoring a career-high 34 goals this season, posting 61 points and having the usual responsibility of trying to slow down the opponent’s top scoring line.
That performance helped the Sharks overcome the loss of Patrick Marleau to free agency last summer and Joe Thornton to a knee injury in January and helped Couture win the team’s MVP award, although he has loftier goals still in mind.
”I’ve felt good. The puck’s gone in for me. That’s the big thing. Just capitalized on opportunities. Scoring 34 goals is pretty cool. Definitely to be up in the top 20 in goal scorers in this league, in the best league in the world, is special for sure,” Couture said.
”The season’s not over. Obviously the goal for myself Anthony Sherman Jersey , and as well as our team, is to win it all. It’s tough to say it’s been a successful year until the year’s done.”
Couture will have plenty of responsibility this series to make sure the season doesn’t end too soon.
He’ll be a main part of the top power-play unit, one of the team’s most important penalty killers, tasked with slowing down Ryan Getzlaf’s line and provide offense of his own.
”The one thing about Logan is he has the ability to raise his level in important moments, in important times of the year as he’s shown in my time here,” coach Peter DeBoer said. ”I expect the same thing. I think we kind of take it for granted but that’s what he is. He’s a great player and he has that ability.”
NOTES: DeBoer would not rule Thornton out for the series, saying only he wouldn’t play Game 1. … Eric Fehr and Melker Karlsson, who missed time late in the season, worked on the fourth line at practice Tuesday.
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“It’s an honor and privilege to work in the National Football League” and the Cardinals organization. “I failed to live up to the standards and expectations and I’m sorry,” he said at a news conference Wednesday at team headquarters.
Keim said his five weeks away from the game, just as training camp was beginning, have “been torture.”
“The two things in my life that I love the most are my family and football. I put both of those things in a major disadvantage and tough place,” he said. “To be away from the people I care about, the organization that I love so much, was extremely difficult. But at the same time I don’t know that it was a bad thing to be able to take that time to self-evaluate and to get stronger and grow as a man.”
Keim was arrested July 4 in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler a short distance from his home. He pleaded guilty to extreme DUI on July 17, the same day he was suspended from his job by Cardinals President Michael Bidwill and fined $200,000.
Keim’s voice broke with emotion when he talked about the impact the incident had on his family.
“After the reports came out, my 12-year-old son was texting his buddy Rex Burkhead Jersey ,” Keim said, “and he said, ‘They keep showing your dad over and over again on TV. I’m so sorry he’s having to go through that.’ My son said, ‘I’m not. He shouldn’t have been doing it.’ And my son was right and I don’t think there’s any feeling that’s worse, if you feel like you let your children down.”
Keim was asked if he felt that, beyond this one incident, he thinks he has a problem with alcohol.
“Going back and looking at behaviors and going through all the different steps that I went through, I think we all would be able to take advantage at some point of our lives of a self-evaluation process,” he said. “I don’t want to get too deep into it and personal but I can tell you that coming away from this that this has made me a better man.”
Keim said his “No. 1 takeaway” from the experience “is you are held accountable for all your actions in life.”
“I’m in a leadership position in this organization,” he said. “Looking back on it, it’s so humbling. You think about you go through the draft process and you look for guys who have great character. We talk about it all the time, the person vs. the player. I made a major poor decision. It’s not a mistake Bruce Smith Jersey , it’s a poor decision and it’s humbling. I’m very remorseful.”
Keim is entering his 20th year working for the Cardinals, the last six as general manager.
He and first-year coach Steve Wilks embraced as Keim left the interview room following the GM’s news conference.
“This organization, as Michael has stated, does not condone that kind of behavior,” Wilks said. “And Steve has accepted the consequences, he’s dealt with it in the right way. I can’t commend him enough in how he has handled this situation. He spoke to the organization yesterday, he spoke to our players this morning.
“He’s learned from this, he’s grown from this. We have embraced him. He is a part of our family and we’re excited to have him back.”
Veteran safety Antoine Bethea said he went through a DUI.
“So I understand what he’s going through,” Bethea said. “It’s definitely a learning experience. So for the guys that were sitting in the audience listening to him, it was definitely a teaching moment. You can learn from other people’s mistakes.”
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Even the simplest of tasks like breathing and eating were painstakingly difficult for Logan Couture heading into the playoffs a year ago.
An errant puck had shattered his face and the injuries hampered Couture during San Jose’s first-round loss to Edmonton. They weren’t fully healed until the summer. The Sharks are counting heavily on a now healthy Couture to anchor a long playoff run this year starting Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round series at Anaheim.
”It was tough,” Couture said about playing through the injury a year ago. ”It was very difficult. I went from playing to not knowing if I would be playing in the playoffs. The injury, it affected my life more than hockey. It was difficult just waking up and dealing with day to day stuff. But I’m happy Patrick Onwuasor Jersey , happy to be healthy.”
Couture was hit in the mouth a year ago by a shot from teammate Brent Burns and missed the final seven games of the regular season with two fractures in his face. He came back for the playoffs with plastic and wiring to keep his teeth in place and played all six games, scoring two goals in a Game 4 victory, but he was far from his usual self.
Couture was a main factor in San Jose’s run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2016, leading the NHL with 30 points that postseason before the Sharks lost in six games to Pittsburgh. He’s hoping for the same type of spring this year.
”That was probably the most fun I’ve ever had playing hockey,” he said. ”Just a blast to go to the rink every day. That was a special group that we had that year. It’s different each year obviously when personnel changes. I think about that run quite a bit, just how much fun it was. Just hoping to relive it.”
As well as he played during that run, Couture might be at his peak heading into this year’s playoffs after scoring a career-high 34 goals this season, posting 61 points and having the usual responsibility of trying to slow down the opponent’s top scoring line.
That performance helped the Sharks overcome the loss of Patrick Marleau to free agency last summer and Joe Thornton to a knee injury in January and helped Couture win the team’s MVP award, although he has loftier goals still in mind.
”I’ve felt good. The puck’s gone in for me. That’s the big thing. Just capitalized on opportunities. Scoring 34 goals is pretty cool. Definitely to be up in the top 20 in goal scorers in this league, in the best league in the world, is special for sure,” Couture said.
”The season’s not over. Obviously the goal for myself Anthony Sherman Jersey , and as well as our team, is to win it all. It’s tough to say it’s been a successful year until the year’s done.”
Couture will have plenty of responsibility this series to make sure the season doesn’t end too soon.
He’ll be a main part of the top power-play unit, one of the team’s most important penalty killers, tasked with slowing down Ryan Getzlaf’s line and provide offense of his own.
”The one thing about Logan is he has the ability to raise his level in important moments, in important times of the year as he’s shown in my time here,” coach Peter DeBoer said. ”I expect the same thing. I think we kind of take it for granted but that’s what he is. He’s a great player and he has that ability.”
NOTES: DeBoer would not rule Thornton out for the series, saying only he wouldn’t play Game 1. … Eric Fehr and Melker Karlsson, who missed time late in the season, worked on the fourth line at practice Tuesday.
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