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Please Give Ryan O’Byrne A Raise

By oddJoe ⋅ February 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Times is tough, so tough in fact that it’s hard to make ends meet even if you’re a professional athlete. How else to explain Ryan O’Byrne of the Canadiens getting caught stealing $20 from a woman’s purse in Tampa the other night?

The Habs defender makes just $590,000 a year according to The Gazette, so you can see that he probably just needed some cash because he wanted to get something to eat. You can’t persecute a man who’s starvin, alone on the mean streets of Tampa far from home. If you want to blame anyone, blame Montreal owner George Gillette for not paying his players a decent, living wage.