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Comment on Not So Big, Not So Bad, Not So Bruins by gonz

gonz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:02:31 +0000

If League Saviour Cindy Crysob ends up injured, it’s not going to lead to the Instigator Rule being struck down. I can foresee Bettman strictly penalizing any team that dare hurts He Who Must Be Exalted. I can also forsee the circus that could arise from said injury: Lemieux will weep on national TV about the many months he cleaved Crysob to his breast, the NHL Network will run hour-by-hour coverage on Crysob’s valiant struggle to regain his status as the Whiniest Captain In The League, and Colin Campbell will announce that Matt Cooke and Brooks Orpik have carte blanche to headshot, knee-on-knee, slew foot, and otherwise incapacitate every player in the league.

You don’t fuck with the Empire.

Comment on No Suspension For Cooke by gonz

gonz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:56:50 +0000

Going back to Edwards’ quote in the previous post, he’s right. It’s the stupid Instigator Rule that has led to this sort of crap. Nowadays, any two-bit ape can take a run at your stars. He’s said it, Grapes has said it, I’ve said it: the Instigator Rule has to go.

Comment on Not So Big, Not So Bad, Not So Bruins by nightfly

nightfly — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:32:59 +0000

Heheheh. You gotta understand, he’s hurt a lot, he winds up in the press box, these concessions folks come around… I have to double-check, maybe Hannibal Lector’s joined the training staff. It would explain why Bruno Gervais has forgotten how to play in his own end – the Isles made him eat part of his own brain.

Comment on No Suspension For Cooke by nightfly

nightfly — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:24 +0000

Ozzy has a great point regarding the Bertuzzi and Moore tilt. The league had their shot to handle their shit by suspending Cooke. To do NOTHING, especially to do NOTHING in light of what happened in Vancouver, is unconscionable. As in, a firing offense if this goes sideways and Cooke is seriously injured in retaliation. Damn, the league used to have stick-swinging fights and other back-alley bullshit going down because of stuff like this. Nobody wants to see it go like that, but they’re asking for it with this kind of two-way standard, where the scumbag who started it gets off scot free but the guy who protects his teammates gets instigator penalties and ejections.

Not only to I hope that Cooke gets pummeled, but I dearly hope that Boston comes right out and blames Campbell for making it necessary by being a gutless little puke. And if I was the team owner I’d gladly pay the fine for whoever decides to speak up about it. To give Cooke NOTHING is ridiculous. It’s like Little Bill not even whipping the cowboys in Unforgiven. Deserves got nothin’ t’do with it, Cookie boy.

Comment on No Suspension For Cooke by Ozzy McGurt

Ozzy McGurt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:04:30 +0000

I am so with ya on this Ken. As much as I am a fan of the physicality of hockey, I never wish severe injury on anyone. Except now. I hope the Bruins listen to the fans out here. They need to man up and handle this. I’ts almost unfortunate that they are in a playoff run, for if they weren’t it would be much easier to risk vigilanteism. Perhaps in this case the risk is worth it. I only hope they do it like men. I was livid over the whole Bertuzzi/Moore incident. I feel that if Steve Moore had delivered a cheap shot in a previous game he deserved retaliation, but not in the chicken-shit way that Bertuzzi accomplished it. I pray that the Bruins take every chance they get to get in Cooke’s face and pester the shit out of him, but do it in his face, not behind his back. I will be watching. As you say Ken, if the NHL won’t take the necessary measures, what choice is there? Barbarian Hockey at it’s finest. No holds barred, and no candy-asses.

Comment on Not So Big, Not So Bad, Not So Bruins by Ken Socrates

Ken Socrates — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:08:03 +0000

You’re avoiding my cannibalism question, aren’t you? That suggests to me the problem might be worse than I first thought. Those rumours about Doug Weight and the missing hot dog vendors…?

Comment on Not So Big, Not So Bad, Not So Bruins by nightfly

nightfly — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:55 +0000

I’d like to announce that I’m putting a personal bounty on the head of Tim McCracken. Five hundred bucks to the first one of my guys who really nails that sonofabitch!

Comment on Matt Cooke Strikes Again by brokenbrilliant

brokenbrilliant — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:54:13 +0000

That’s just plain stupid. And dangerous. And ignorant.

And it ticks me off.

http://brokenbrilliant.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/cheap-and-dumb-shots-on-the-ice/

Can we have our game back, please?

Comment on The Matt Cooke, You Dirty Fucker Page by James

James — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:21:31 +0000

I really hope the NHL will serve some “real” justice. Suspend him till just before the 18th so he can be back on the ice against the B’s next Thursday. I really don’t know how this guy is still playing hockey. If I was playing against him I wouldn’t be able to hold back from cross checking him to the neck….. literally.

Comment on Matt Cooke Strikes Again by Ken Socrates

Ken Socrates — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:43:44 +0000

I'm at the point, the more I see the video and think about it, that it needs to be more than just someone calling the guy out and having him drop 'em and then it's done, a la Ryan Callahan for the Anisimov thing. I'm thinking he needs repeated beatings and, more than that, a certain fresh faced young Canadian Gold Medal winner needs to have eyes in the back of his head that night. Right or wrong, there's something to be said about frontier justice. Back in the day, there was a reason you didn't target a team's star. Because it put a bullseye on your's. Maybe that's what'll get through to Cooke. That or electro-shock. I can't decide which right now.