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Chad Johnson Not Happy With Tanking Topic From TSN

03/03/2015 at 4:13pm EST

from Mike Harrington Of The Buffalo News,

New Sabres goalie Chad Johnson was quite a punchline yesterday and he's not happy about it.

The Sabres traded Michal Neuvirth to the New York Islanders for Johnson, and it's obvious to anyone in hockey it was because the red-hot Neuvirth -- and not any opposing player -- was the biggest threat to the organizational goal of finishing in 30th place.

TSN, the Canadian media giant doing wall-to-wall trade deadline coverage, called Johnson when the trade was completed and bombarded him with questions about tanking. Johnson immediately shot them down by pointing out players are paid to compete and try to win.

Unprompted today, Johnson brought up the interview again with Buffalo reporters and was not happy with how the network orchestrated it.

"That whole TSN thing bothered me a little bit," said Johnson, 28. "I was asked to do an interview with them, they called me and I'm sitting on hold while they're saying what they have the right to say. But it was obviously a little disrespectful for them to have me on hold listening to what they have to say and then bring me on line to ask me these questions while they sort of bash me or whatever it is.

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