03-13-2004, 05:45 AM
Quote:I feel for Steve Moore, and I understand what he is going through. I actually do! However, if I was to switch places with him, I would be embarrassed with my cowardice.
Oh, please. Is not responding-in-kind cowardice when you know the guy or his teammates are going to keep whacking you until you react or get an injury? Bertuzzi kept it up until, yep, down Moore went. If you do react, all that happens, usually, is that you lock arms, fall over and have the linesmen pull you apart. Which is safer?
(The rest is not a response to you specifically.)
For the record, Mr. B should get more than 21 games off without pay. What Bertuzzi did was worse than the little nudge that Dale Hunter gave to, uh Pierre uh or Sylvain uh somebody (Turgeon?), breaking the star forward's fragile little arm or shoulder or sumpthin'. Hunter got a quarter of a season off w/o pay, for a bump. Call it evenly, Bertuzzi's was worse, give him 25, 30.
It doesn't matter that Moore's coming back sooner than people expected, or that Moore got away with something in an earlier game.
I like the idea of an injury-based suspension time. Your victim misses x games, you miss x+2 or some such formula. And it wouldn't matter if you're a goon or a high-stickin' Harvard grad, whatever your style, you're out. (Tho I know it'll never happen...)
-V
Hockey credential: have played for years (scrub-level, retired now); have been in hockey fights; and was fanatical about NHL games for 17 out of the 25 years I've watched them. I don't follow it much any more, tho, it's just a game, ya know? And I ain't gonna pay fifty bucks for a frickin' nosebleed seat, and I got better things to do, ya know? Wait, what am I doing here?? Ack!