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Neil blasts ‘gutless’ Franzen: ‘The guy has never fought a day in his life’


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http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/28/neil-blasts-gutless-franzen-the-guy-has-never-fought-a-day-in-his-life/

 

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Apparently less than 24 hours after Franzen said Neil “tried to be the hero” by picking a fight in the late stages of Detroit’s 6-1 blowout win, the Ottawa tough guy fired back.
 

From the Ottawa Sun’s Don Brennan:

“I’m there first shift and any shift he wants,” said Neil. “He wants to drop his purse, take the lipstick out, put it on his lips and ‘Let’s go.’ Anytime. Any day. Anywhere.

“I’m 6-foot-1, 215 lbs. He’s 6-foot-4, 240 lbs. I’m giving up height. I’m giving up weight. I’m not scared of him. Bring it on.”

 

And more…
 

“He was chirping about my cape or something…I will take my cape off whenever he takes the yellow streak off the middle of his back,” Neil said.

“You know that streak? It means a gutless streak,” said Neil. “When a guy comes across the blueline and pokes you in the groin with his stick in a 6-1 game and chops guys that’s a no brainer. He’s going to get it.”

 

 

Still more, from the Citizen’s Ken Warren:

“The guy has never fought a day in his life. I go out, stick up for my teammates day in day out, he just goes out and causes problems for his teammates.”  
“It doesn’t go unnoticed, we will be playing them again,” he said. “For a guy of his stature, who has won Stanley Cups, a gold medal (for Sweden)…I have respect for the good players in the league, for all the players in the league, and for him to go out and play like that, you lose some respect for him.”




 

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  I watched the game last night and saw Neil trying to goad Franzen into a fight and Franzen simply chirping away in Neils face and refusing to be drawn into a meaningless battle late in a 6-1 game. I thought at the time it was classless of Neil. Still kind of do.

  But truth is, I see his point with the mule. He has been known to play a little physical and hardly ever gets into a fight. Not saying he is a Matt Cooke, or dare I say it, Nick Kronwall, but yeah he has been known to dish it out and then simply yell back and forth. He is not the toughest player in the game but as Don Cherry would say, what do you expect, he is a Swede.

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