This is a great post and is dead on about a lot of things.
What I, as a fan, have a problem with is dolts like Lemiuex crying about the protection of Crysby while one of his hired stooges almost ruined the kid in Ottawa. Or how Mario went to great lengths to try and hold Keith accountable when he corked Cooke. I understand the game is gonna change. I also understand the athletes now are bigger, stronger, and faster. What I have a hard time comprehending is how certain players seem to get away with almost cutting off a players foot, or Morrow pounding that one guys head into the ice repeatedly but a clean check suddenly draws a game when all it was is a clean check. Either call it right down the middle or let them play. This situation is gonna blow up one day and hopefully it isn't a Hawk player who gets the brunt of it.
Torres got a huge suspension for almost killing Hossa and rightly so, he deserved it. Cooke didn't even get a game for cutting Karlssons heel. That's bullshit to the utmost extreme and don't think for a second Cooke didn't do it on purpose. He did. He's a goon who obviously doesn't play anymore like my little buddy Hawkwriter has stated. Scott Stevens doesn't exist in this day and age of running and starting a pussy grab every time a player gets flattened. Either let them play the right way or call every single questionable hit and move forward. They brag relentlessly about the "War Room" in Toronto and how they have all these other camera angles that aren't readily available to us HD watching fans...well, fucking use them. Watch a CBC feed, you would swear they give away free blowjobs and a bear claw for how many times they mention it.
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