Downie tries to break Sids Leg

Droc · 03-16-2010, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Spezza Crosby Fan

I'm just afraid he'll cause another Bertuzzi/Moore incident on a star player. The NHL can't have another one of those.

Wrong.

Fills seats, sells magazines, increases viewer ship.
Like it or not, there is more money in people getting hurt.

Spezza Crosby Fan · 03-16-2010, 10:44 PM

No pretty sure there isn't. Nobody in any sport wants to see something like that again. Yeah it'll get attention for like a week or so but that attention will be bad and in the end it will be bad for the league.

Droc · 03-16-2010, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Spezza Crosby Fan

No pretty sure there isn't. Nobody in any sport wants to see something like that again. Yeah it'll get attention for like a week or so but that attention will be bad and in the end it will be bad for the league.

As bad as say....the punishments dealt out be the league?

Spezza Crosby Fan · 03-17-2010, 12:39 AM

Yeah pretty much.

SenatorArmy · 03-17-2010, 12:41 AM

why can't Matt Cooke take out a guy like Steve Downie instead

JoshLind · 03-17-2010, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by AK27ReLoaded

Throw the little prick out of the NHL,,, that is FULL INTENT to injure, Unsportsmanlike conduct, whatever you want to call it,,,

ONE day he is seriously going to hurt someone,,, or someone is going to catch him with his head down and he won't be waking up...

I'd seriously like to see him and Avery beat the shit out of eachother until they both sustain career ending injuries

Agreed man. I'd even go a step further - what Downie did to Crosby was full-fledged assault in my opinion, and precedent or not, assaulting another person is illegal and should be handled accordingly.

Matt the Aussie · 03-17-2010, 02:40 AM

Here's what I don't get.

You have 2 referees and 2 linesmen on the ice at any one time. Hockey is a very fast-pace game and sometimes people miss calls. They're human. It becomes a bit harder when there's 4 of them on the ice, but it still happens.

But then you have countless reviews, cameras in every corner of the rink, the players obviously say something, the fans are in uproar - and the best they can come up with is a fine? A measly fine?

Where is the accountability? Where is the discipline?

You know why Downie will do that again? Because he can, and he will get away with it.