Old School Hockey

Here is one question for you? Have you played any high level sports? This time honored tradition is one thing that has ALWAYS separated hockey from all other sports! What Lucic did is what we try to teach our 8 year olds not to do! RESPECT is something not in your and most of today's players vocabulary. That's why there's soooooooo many senseless injuries in today's game. No RESPECT! Next thing you'll be saying/hoping for is the WWE style after the match brawl! Bottom line! He was wrong it was and he is stupid for pulling that move. But opinions are like a-holes! But yours stinks and mine doesn't because I just got out of the shower!

Lucic had 3 choices! 1. Go through the line and act like a man 2. Don't even get in line 3. Go through the line and act like a F-ing moron He took 3 which makes an even bigger POS.

I take it personally because I played the game! I understand what's going on. As the old saying goes!!!!! Act like you've been there!

YOU and Lucic are a VERY small minority. And the other 99.9% are the majority.

You're part of the ME generation and it shows!

Major failure in understanding time honored tradition!

Major failure in understanding time honored tradition!

I've seen many people 10000x better than Lucic be gracious in defeat!

Well now we can go to hockey night in Canada and have Don Cherry kiss his ass! I was indifferent on the man until this year's playoffs. Please check to see if the referees were looking and then smack Danny Dekeyer in the balls and now this shows me one thing he's no better than Street thug playing in the NBA!

His post game interview (Lucic) proved what a punk he is. He had the balls to call Weise baby!

Watch the video of the handshake! You don't have to hear what he says! Watch the player reactions to what he says and does! He's a moron. This is what has separated hockey from the other sports! The thug dipshit it's all about me attitude that is in the other sports has to place in hockey! No sarcasm intended!

He showed tonight he is a classless idiot. If you don't want congratulate your opponent stay out of the handshake line. Classless sore LOSER!

My bigger point I noted long ago this is actually NHLPA vs NHLPA. It's not like NHL did any of this. All NHLPA need to take responsibility for their actions and stop looking at the NHL to stop their foolishness! There's absolutely no respect for each other! From Crosby to Lucic!

Point is the intent gets punished much more severely. i.e McSorley and Simon should have been punished more severely than (attempted murder) vs Bertuzzi (manslaughter). Again the while point in the real non sports world is a guy who attempts murder but by luck doesn't actually kill them gets punished more severely than guy with no intent accidental kills someone.

Or manslaughter vs attempted murder?

Man this is tough? Who gets a worse sentence? A man who comimits manslaughter or a man commits Assault in the first degree? Knowing of course manslaughter includes death and assault in the first degree did NOT end in death.

Why are different catagoires of murder?

Man O f-Ing alive! Take off the blinders! Who exactly had a worse INTENT! INTENT INTENT!!!!!!!! What was McSorley and Simon INTENT with a full two handed swing at a guys head? What happened with Bertuzzi/Moore was very bad result but you're being blind if you think Bertuzzi INTENDED the outcome! And I love how you ignored what Rocket Richard did. He sucker punch mother F-ing linesman in the nose. Not once but twice after two handing a player. Wonder what his INTENT was?

Yet all I mentioned or able to carry on a career without the persecution that we've seen with this case. Imagine the NHL without Rocket Richard? I'm sorry if you can't see you that McSorley and Simon were by far worse incidents that had very lucky outcomes.

My point still remains the same!!!!! The players I listed had much more intent to injury than Bertuzzi did! End of story on that front. Shore, McSorley, Simon and Richard could have easily killed the men they hit. Only luck stopped from killing someone with those hits! By not going to an agreed upon Doctor tells ME that there's something to hide! To quote a certain person (paraphrase): "those that don't want to disclose the truth have something to hide"

I think biggest problem with this and many other hits in the NHL is this! The NHLPA is out there knocking each other's heads off and wants the NHL to take responsibility for its members actions. Can't we see how absurd that is?

If this is the rule? Many players would be out of the NHL for long periods of time! And what do if in that hypothetical case of a player takes out another and said hurt player does not come (in the playoffs) and his team is eliminated? Does the guilty player not come back until next season? And I was hoping you would address the list of offenders that I listed!

How about you address my argument. Do we punish the action or the result! Just because what Scott Stevens did was within the rules at the time doesn't make it any less relevant! Every time he stepped to the ice his goal was to injure and/or intimidate the other players.

I've just grown very tired of the "Bertuzzi should NOT be playing and should be in jail" argument when much worse dirty plays have happened before and after the Bertuzzi/Moore incident go unnoticed (hypocritically) because the alleged injury didn't result!

Many refuse to acknowledge Moore was offered a contract. His legal team would not allow him to step anywhere a doctors office! That to me speaks volumes. Why not allow Moore to have a physical? I think we know that answer? Now on to Bertuzzi. He committed an offense during a hockey game. He served his league determined suspension. For years I've heard punish action not the result. For years I've heard he (Bertuzzi) shouldn't be playing. Well folks Bertuzzi actions are by FAR not the most violent or ban worthy in the history of the NHL. So let's look at some of the incidences that get swept under the rug when the Bertuzzi incident comes up. Hunter vs Turgeon blind hit well after a goal scored Suter vs Kariya cross check the neck of Kariya Simon vs Hollweg two handed swing to a man head MvSorley vs Brashear another slash to the head Clarke vs Kharlamov a slash so hard it broke the guys ankle Shore vs Bailey he came from behind and flipped Bailey smashing his head on to the ice All of the Flyers of the 70's should still be serving time in jail And the granddaddy of them all! Rocket Richard vs Cliff Thompson! Never heard of Cliff Thompson? He was the f@@king linesman Richard attacked after he gave Hal Laycoe a viscous two hander to His back which followed a high stick to his face. Richard punched Thompson in the face twice. All of the above were much worse than Bertuzzi vs Moore. So we punish the action or the result? Think about some of the players that would have served some very long suspensions if not career ending suspensions. Two bottom lines here. IMO Moore is NOT as hurt as his legal team wants YOU to believe. If so why not allow Moore to see a Doctor? Secondly and more important. NHLPA to the NHL! NHL what are you going to do to stop the NHLPA from bashing each other's brains in? Yes I'm a Wings fan but this nothing to do with the Wings! This has to with the hypocrisy that many have when it comes to Bertuzzi vs Moore and previous (and some later) incidences on the ice. And oh where's Marc Crawford in all of this? That f@@king spline less weisel? Ok jumping off of the soapbox!