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<blockquote data-quote="Geoff" data-source="post: 7981"><p>Sorry, I don't quite get what you mean when you ask if I am "proud". </p><p></p><p>The Bertuzzi-Moore incident is an arguement for MORE fighting in hockey, not less. That was not a fight, that was a sucker-punch. What Bertuzzi did was <strong>totally wrong</strong>, but Moore and the NHL should not have let it get to that point. If the NHL had not instituted the instigator rule, then Brad May would have fought Moore right after the Naslund hit, and that would have been that. Instead, the entire thing was allowed to simmer, nothing happened to Moore(very questionable IMO), and then 2 weeks later, Moore refused to fight anyone save Matt Cooke. And that fight with Cooke was garbage, and Moore should have known that and not been at all surprised that all of the Canucks who aren't the smallest player on the ice wanted to fight him too. What gets me is that Moore seemed surprised by all of this. When the actual incident with Bertuzzi occured, Bertuzzi was obviously trying to fight him, but never can you hit someone from behind like that. </p><p></p><p>After the game, the media blew the entire thing way out of proportion and there was writers all over the world who know absolutely nothing about hockey spewing sensationalist bullshit like the above. Pierre Lacroix, the General Manager of the Avalanche came out and said that Bertuzzi broke Moore's neck, which was absolute garbage. At that point even the Doctors didn't know the extent of the injury, and some of Moore's injuries were caused by the other 3 guys who jumped on his back. Even though that "broken neck" turned out to be a false, misleading statement, once it is out there people here it and assume its truthfullness. This helped lead to the NHL bowing to public pressure from non-hockey places and giving Bertuzzi a rediculasly long suspension by league standards and past precendent. For Example: Matt Johnson was given 10 games a few years ago for a very similar incident that ended Jeff Beukaboom's career; and Beukaboom was twice the player that Moore is/was.</p><p></p><p>Just curious, all of the people here discussing hockey: Are we having a Canadian invasion?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geoff, post: 7981"] Sorry, I don't quite get what you mean when you ask if I am "proud". The Bertuzzi-Moore incident is an arguement for MORE fighting in hockey, not less. That was not a fight, that was a sucker-punch. What Bertuzzi did was [b]totally wrong[/b], but Moore and the NHL should not have let it get to that point. If the NHL had not instituted the instigator rule, then Brad May would have fought Moore right after the Naslund hit, and that would have been that. Instead, the entire thing was allowed to simmer, nothing happened to Moore(very questionable IMO), and then 2 weeks later, Moore refused to fight anyone save Matt Cooke. And that fight with Cooke was garbage, and Moore should have known that and not been at all surprised that all of the Canucks who aren't the smallest player on the ice wanted to fight him too. What gets me is that Moore seemed surprised by all of this. When the actual incident with Bertuzzi occured, Bertuzzi was obviously trying to fight him, but never can you hit someone from behind like that. After the game, the media blew the entire thing way out of proportion and there was writers all over the world who know absolutely nothing about hockey spewing sensationalist bullshit like the above. Pierre Lacroix, the General Manager of the Avalanche came out and said that Bertuzzi broke Moore's neck, which was absolute garbage. At that point even the Doctors didn't know the extent of the injury, and some of Moore's injuries were caused by the other 3 guys who jumped on his back. Even though that "broken neck" turned out to be a false, misleading statement, once it is out there people here it and assume its truthfullness. This helped lead to the NHL bowing to public pressure from non-hockey places and giving Bertuzzi a rediculasly long suspension by league standards and past precendent. For Example: Matt Johnson was given 10 games a few years ago for a very similar incident that ended Jeff Beukaboom's career; and Beukaboom was twice the player that Moore is/was. Just curious, all of the people here discussing hockey: Are we having a Canadian invasion? [/QUOTE]
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