Anyone Want to Stick Up for Sid?
If I was a Penguins fan, I’d be steaming. Grant it they beat Philly in OT last night but in a rather gutless fashion. Crosby was treated like a rag doll by Hatcher not once, but twice and the kid lost parts of some teeth and required a few stitches and all that went unanswered. Vandenbussche? Odelein? Get fucking real. Go out and pick up Oliwa …
Congrats to Eddie O: You just announced to 28 other NHL teams that is is ok to take runs at the league’s No. 1 draft pick … which is fine with the Bully but probably sent Mario over the edge last night sitting at home in Pittsburgh.
Hell, he probably dribbled some champagne on his ascot or smoking jacket while watching from his “flu” bed.
Flyers vs Pens in a couple days. Maybe the stocky, mean-looking equipment guy on the bench for the Pens could suit up.
November 21st, 2005 at 2:08 pm
No kidding. Hatcher did a number on Crosby and no one on the Pens said squat to him. BLAME THE INSTIGATOR RULE for that one of course.
Mario dribbling champagne on himself from his flu bed … I can actually picture that quite easily.
With UFC-type action being shown regularly on TV now, with the WWE’s explosion in popularity in the past dozen years, with a new 24 hour “Fight Network” up and running, with an entire generation of youth becoming desensitized by pictures and clips of violence on the news AND on the unregulated internet … why is the NHL brass so damn sensitive about the their sport’s image being one of violence and thuggery. Hell, seems to me like there is growing market out there for that sort of stuff.