Butch Goring rejects Paul Bissonnette’s Islanders olive branch
Paul Bissonnette was in the holiday spirit and wanted to make peace with the Islanders but one of the team’s icons was just not having it.
During Wednesday’s pregame show on TNT before the Islanders’ 3-2 overtime loss to the Capitals, Bissonnette, 38, extended a literal olive branch and blue and orange flowers to the Islanders whom he’s called “boring” the past few years after he recently slammed the team’s fans for booing ex-captain John Tavares.
But Butch Goring, 74, a fixture on the Stanley Cup teams in the 1980s and a longtime analyst on MSG, did not accept the apology.
On the show, Bissonnette said the Islanders, who entered Wednesday night third in the Metropolitan Division, have turned things around to become more exciting, scoring goals and playing plenty of roller-coaster games.
This came after the former NHLer and current “Spittin’ Chiclets” podcaster said he was “declaring war” on the team for the fans booing Tavares, who scored his 1,000th career point at UBS Arena as a member of the Maple Leafs earlier in December.
It's official, @biznasty2point0 has offered a real olive branch to the Islanders pic.twitter.com/JnciMaFNo6
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) December 21, 2023Goring had called out Bissonnette, which escalated matters.
So, in the spirit of the holiday, Bissonnette tried to make amends Wednesday.
“You know, I was a little poopy pants, especially when you guys blew John T the other night when he hit 1,000th point,” the former pugilist said. “But, you know, it’s the season of being joyful and I actually have a peace treaty. I’ve called them boring in the past slow, non-electrifying.”
Paul Bissonnette tried to make peace with the Islanders.
Butch Goring and Bissonnette have had some beef this season. APHe then called in a person from the production crew to bring out an olive branch and the flowers.
Goring took to X and shot down the peace offering.
“There is not one Islander fan who cares about your feelings or apologies,” he wrote. “A couple of loses by the Isles and you will jump off the bandwagon.”
@BizNasty2point0There is not one Islander fan who cares about your feelings or apologies.A couple of loses by the Isles and you will jump off the bandwagon
— Butch Goring (@91Butch) December 21, 2023In response, Bissonnette fired back on X.
“The geezer is firing tonight,” he said with a crying laughing emoji. “TNT should bring you in for a demo to show the fans how to put dentures & diapers on you old fart.”
Bissonnette, who criticized the Islanders and general manager Lou Lamoriello in the offseason, jokingly took some credit for the turnaround.
“I don’t want to take full credit, but I definitely have lit a fire underneath their ass,” he said on TNT while admitting he and the Islanders GM are not on speaking terms and that Goring wants to “pump my eyes shut.”
It’s truly the beef that keeps on giving the whole season.
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