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Before I continue: I am greatly amused by the Sabres fan that not only took umbrage at my unwillingness to declare Alex Ovechkin Public Enemy #1 in this post here, but then turned around and effectively called his own co-captain a diver while bitching at me for using the term “a not-inconsiderable dash of embellishment”. Note that I at no time in that post do I laud Ovechkin for being foolish. Should he have gotten a suspension? No–Briere missed what, a shift of ice time? How is that suspension-worthy?
Had the little emo-kid left the game and wound up being diagnosed with a compression fracture of his third cervical vertebra because he was pile-driven at speed head-first into the boards by somebody with a long history of making such callously careless hits, then of course Ovechkin should have gotten a suspension of much longer than three games (not that Clownshoe Colin would ever dole out such a suspension, mind you).
Get over it, you whining crybabies–Briere wasn’t hurt, the refs made the correct call in the game, and life goes the fuck on. I’m officially done with this topic.
MOVING ALONG TO FAR MORE IMPORTANT (to me) THINGS:
The Hurricanes beat the Tampa Bay Lightning last night, 3-2–a few more games like that and Marc Denis will officially be the Hurricanes’ bitch. Cory Stillman gave me (and ChuckandtheletterK) a scare in the first period when he took a hit and went to the bench wincing. Did he re-injure his shoulder? Oh noes!
Personally, I think he did tweak it a mite and just played through it. I suspect we’ll know more come Tuesday in Philadelphia–where Peter Forsberg came back for a whopping 5:39 before Alex Ovechkin and Dainius Zubrus’ right knee sent him right back to the IR with a clean, legal open-ice hit and an unfortunate circumstance of time and place that combined to give Peter the Great a concussion.
(I note at this point that there is great irony in a Swede being given the nickname of a Tsar that went to war with Sweden, and also in that Swede being undone by both a Russian and a Lithuanian.)
Tuesday night, I more than likely work (since I’m off vacation as of 3 PM tomorrow). But I’ll be DVRing the game and will have lots of lovely anger to spread around, I’m sure.
Happy Sunday, kids.
Basing suspensions on the resulting injury is foolish. Use your brain. The league needs to clean up this sort of behavior, not wait for someone to get injured before acting.
Basing suspensions on the resulting injury is foolish.
Were the situations reversed, would you be saying that?
Somehow, I doubt it.
Yes, I would. Whether you “doubt it” or not has no bearing on the issue. The league needs to clean up this sort of behavior. See if you can follow the logic chain here: suspend Ovechkin, no spear. Fail to suspend Ovechkin, Ovechkn gets speared because of the “hockey code.” If you want to eliminate that sort of thing, you have to put your foot down. But don’t rant on about how Briere got away with a spear when Ovechkin wasn’t punished, because your sort of thinking (wait for someone to get injured, otherwise do nothing) is what leads to on-ice retaliation.
Ovechkin was called for a penalty by the refs for his hit, and it was the correct call. Had there been injury as a result, then of course he should have received a suspension. There was no injury, thus no suspension.
Hate to break it to you kid, but the correct call was made in this instance–admit it, you just don’t like it because you’re a Slugfan.
Again, you’re making a bad point–[i]results, not intent, dictate suspension[/i]–and you’re hiding behind name-calling.
Watch how easy this is:
[i]Were the situations reversed, and Brindamoron was the target, would you be saying that? Somehow, I doubt it[/i]
I only hope that it isn’t a Sabre who gets hurt when someone sees what Ovechkin did, notices the lack of any league response, and takes it to the next level. If it’s a Capital who ends up the target–or a Hurricane, I’m not picky–so much the better.
Congratulations, kid.
By wishing injury on a non-Sabres player, you pretty much just rendered yourself forever ineligible to hold any sort of high ground on this issue.
Hope you’re happy.
Whatever. As usual, you’ve managed to say a lot without adding anything to the conversation, after which - having previously tried to put words in my mouth - you’ve decided to latch on to one comment rather than debate the issue.
Stop the name-calling. It really adds nothing. “Slugfan,” “emo-kid captain,” and the rest of your immature shtick forever make you ineligible to say who gets to claim what ground.
“Slugfan,” “emo-kid captain,” and the rest of your immature shtick forever make you ineligible to say who gets to claim what ground.
And wishing injury on another team’s players is so much more “mature”, of course.
Thanks for stopping by, have a nice day.
hey fag boy or dyke bitch, either way, I hate the new logo, but as long as we get to kick your asses id rather talk about that. Everyone thats a hockey fan wants to tag our players as divers and come up with excuses as to why their team got spanked. Oh yeah why dont you go ahead and use the, “we have a cup, what do you have” comment. Like i havent heard that before, thats like saying, “youre not invited to my birthday party.” If were gonna talk about immaturity, there are no excuses. So lick my gigantic hairy Buffalo Balls and you have yourself a good day.
And the wonderful class of the Slugfans comes shining through yet again.
Come back when your team does something other than choke when it counts, kid.
Better yet, don’t come back at all.