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hopefully this works out better than the Forsberg fiasco
hopefully this works out better than the Forsberg fiasco
It's probably not going to be a very good 1st pick for you, though. Especially if we do get into the 2nd round.
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Oh, that wasn't a fiasco. What happened afterwards was a fiasco.
For a third-line centre making over 4 mil/season? I'll take it.
Predators win! Whooo!
Mario's pretty pissed about the ref's allowing this to go down.
"Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be," the Penguins owner and Hall of Famer said in a statement released by the team. "But what happened Friday night on Long Island wasn't hockey. It was a travesty. It was painful to watch the game I love turn into a sideshow like that.
"The NHL had a chance to send a clear and strong message that those kinds of actions are unacceptable and embarrassing to the sport. It failed."
"If the events relating to Friday night reflect the state of the league, I need to rethink whether I want to be a part of it."
That's the part of the quote that really reads like a pouting child, to me. And coming from the (co)owner of the team paying Matt Cooke, who throws worse hits with more blatant attempt to injure on a regular basis.
That's the part of the quote that really reads like a pouting child, to me. And coming from the (co)owner of the team paying Matt Cooke, who throws worse hits with more blatant attempt to injure on a regular basis.
Lemieux's tantrum certainly could have used a little self-flagellation over his own dirty team and, in particular, the antics over the past few years of Pittsburgh's serial offender, Matt Cooke. But simply to dismiss the Penguins owner as a hypocrite is too easy, too convenient for those who use ridicule to butt-end every mouth that opens against violence in hockey.
The man is respected in the league and his opinion matters. The Pens finished the fucken game with 7 players on the bench. There was a problem with the way the game was handled, as they could have slapped a 5 or 10 minute long powerplay after the dirty hits but they didn't. They could have suspended players for far more than 4 or 9 games as they CLEARLY intended to injury, the act of what the Islanders were doing was flagrant. Godard got 10 games for jumping on the ice when an Islander player went after their goalie after he was removed from another fight on the ice. This is a clear indication that the game went out of hand and that player should have gotten suspended as well. Did he? No.
In the end, the league weren't harsh enough and didn't pass a message.
Fighting is part of the sport. Throwing your gloves for the the whole game distracts from the game and isn't what hockey is all about.
Matt Cooke is a piece of shit and I wished he was the one who would have been on the receiving end of one of those cheap shots but seriously, Tangredi didn't do anything to deserve what he got to him. To even consider, "Well, he's Matt Cooke's teammate, he doesn't deserve any sympathy, shut up mario, matt cookie is a POS" is asinine and mentally retarded.
No offense.
The man is respected in the league and his opinion matters. The Pens finished the fucken game with 7 players on the bench. There was a problem with the way the game was handled, as they could have slapped a 5 or 10 minute long powerplay after the dirty hits but they didn't. They could have suspended players for far more than 4 or 9 games as they CLEARLY intended to injury, the act of what the Islanders were doing was flagrant. Godard got 10 games for jumping on the ice when an Islander player went after their goalie after he was removed from another fight on the ice. This is a clear indication that the game went out of hand and that player should have gotten suspended as well. Did he? No.
In the end, the league weren't harsh enough and didn't pass a message.
Fighting is part of the sport. Throwing your gloves for the the whole game distracts from the game and isn't what hockey is all about.
Matt Cooke is a piece of shit and I wished he was the one who would have been on the receiving end of one of those cheap shots but seriously, Tangredi didn't do anything to deserve what he got to him. To even consider, "Well, he's Matt Cooke's teammate, he doesn't deserve any sympathy, shut up mario, matt cookie is a POS" is asinine and mentally retarded.
No offense.
I've seen quite a bit of it outside the forum.
So have I, and I'm sure that's what made Jay go off like he did.
As I said before, the Isles were out of line, and Gillies and Martin are probably both lucky they didn't get more. At the same time, Mario isn't really convincing anyone that he's worried about the state of the game by speaking up when his players are on the receiving end and conveniently staying quiet when they're the ones trying to knock other players' heads off from behind.
And that, in case Jay hasn't picked up on it yet, was the point I was making in the first post.
As I said before, the Isles were out of line, and Gillies and Martin are probably both lucky they didn't get more. At the same time, Mario isn't really convincing anyone that he's worried about the state of the game by speaking up when his players are on the receiving end and conveniently staying quiet when they're the ones trying to knock other players' heads off from behind.
And that, in case Jay hasn't picked up on it yet, was the point I was making in the first post.
That's going to make for an interesting Thanksgiving conversation.
Isn't the youngest of the four brothers trying out for the NHL soon?
*whoop* nevermind he's on the Canes AHL team.
Jared is under contract to the Hurricanes and playing for their AHL and ECHL affiliates.
Weird, because he was supposed to be the best of the bunch.
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