2008/09 NHL Thread

Most accessible, too.

 

But you'd take a kid to a NASCAR race where there's always the chance someone might get killed?

I never said the league's marketing made 100% sense. I said that the league promotes its PLAYERS as wholeseome. Fighting is another issue.

 

Fair enough. Funny enough the fighters are probably the nicest of the bunch.

 

Since before, actually. Owen Sound was his first OHL team and he offended people here, too.

 

And didn't Owen Sound ship him off to Kingston?

My understanding is that's where the alleged notorius hotbox incident took place.

 

Nice assumption, JR. I wouldn't even go to a NASCAR race.

Your abject refusal to have a conversation with someone who disagrees with you without being snide or judgmental or calling people "cranky," to not just actually discuss what's on the table without going personal every time, is constantly awe-inducing.

 

The thing is, you prod a guy enough, embarrass him and his girlfriend in the media like that and some would say the honourable thing would be for him to run him through the boards. Both Iginla and Phaneuf will drop the gloves and have for I'm sure far less in the past. You throw emotion into it, and well, I know the best decisions I make are when emotion has no part of it. I'll let you draw your conclusion there.

Again it was a preventive move. Was something guaranteed to happen? no. But that is not a chance you want to take.

And I'm also having trouble trying to figure out why it's a bad thing the league appeared over sensitive towards disgraceful remarks about women, celebrity or not.

 

And some of the smartest.

Parros is a Princeton graduate.

There's a former tough guy who went back to school and get an MBA at Harvard.

There are exceptions, of course, like Tie Domi

 

You are right on the money about Kingston, JR.

And it's Ken Baumgartner who has the MBA from Harvard Business School.

Just like George W. Bush!!

EDIT: And another ex-Bruin, former No. 1 overall draft pick Gord Kluzak.

 

And that's why we're differing. It wasn't "disgraceful" in any way to me. If some baseball players call Alyssa Milano a Baseball Annie...well, guess what? She is.

If people on here call me an SportsJournalists.com whatever. Fine. I am. I made my bed.

She's dating another hockey player. To pretend like it's NOT happening is stupid. Was the comment necessary? No. Was it suspension-worthy? Not even in the same time zone.

 

Of course they have. The Moore-Bertuzzi incident is entirely indicative of the referees losing control.

That's why you recognize the situation, talk to the scheduled referees beforehand, and ensure they're empowered to control the game.

Rather than treating everyone like childish idiots incapable of doing the right thing.

After all, this isn't peewee. It's professional sport for adults.

Yes.

Yup ... wholesome. And when they step off the ice and run through a cloud of puckbunnies, they're always loyal to their wives and never touch a drink either.

 

Beef I see what you're saying but you don't think it would have been said on the ice anyway? You're kidding yourself if you don't think Phaneuf has heard it before. Like Ferraro said he would have heard in the warmup.