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To: sinkspur
Moore was dealt with in the first period of Monday's game.

Moore should have been suspended for ten games for injuring Naslund. In a case like that, the NHL has to send a very harsh message to teams and players -- otherwise, sending an inferior player on the ice in a lopsided game specifically to injure an opposing team's star player will become part of a team's strategy in the NHL.

If you think that's such a stretch, I'll point out that this was exactly what happened a couple of years ago when Scott Niedermayer of the New Jersey Devils (one of the best defensemen in the league) was laid out in a game by Toronto's Tie Domi -- whose annual challenge is to see if his point total will ever exceed his chromosome count.

I'll also point out that you can't get law enforcement involved in these situations because of the inherent bias involved. I've already heard several idiotic comments from Vancouver police officials laying the groundwork to explain why this situation is different than the one involving Marty McSorley a few years ago ("Well, the major difference is that McSorley used a weapon in his attack on Donald Brashear . . .")

What these @ssholes are doing is glossing over the REAL difference (in their minds) between the two incidents -- McSorley played for the opposing team, while Bertuzzi plays for Vancouver.

35 posted on 03/10/2004 7:52:46 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Coming soon to a decadent civilization near you -- Tower of Babel version 2.0)
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To: Alberta's Child
Whatever. Bertuzzi's a marked man for the rest of his dumb, brutish life on the ice.

And, deservedly so.

38 posted on 03/10/2004 7:56:23 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from an animal shelter! It will save one life, and may save two.)
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To: Alberta's Child
. . . sending an inferior player on the ice . . . specifically to injure an opposing team's star player. . . .

Hey, that sort of thing has been going on in the NHL for decades--at least to harrass the star player, if not injure him.

I remember being at the old Chicago Stadium back in the '60s when the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull, finally had had enough of Detroit's Bugsy Watson shadowing him and playing dirty with him. Hull just laid into him! Besides being the most talented player in the league, Hull was also one of the strongest. (I saw Hull shatter the glass one time with his slap shot.)

41 posted on 03/10/2004 8:05:11 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Hull and Mikita were heroes for lots of Chicago boys back in the '60s.)
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