Comments on: Anyone Want to Stick Up for Sid? http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/35 :: BroadStreetBully.com - All hockey. All fights. All the time. :: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: jnacci http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/35#comment-26 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:08:39 +0000 http://www.broadstreetbully.com/blog/archives/35#comment-26 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. 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.

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