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I think he should get a calendar year. Colin Campbell needs to set a precedent for actions which negatively reflect the entire sport. As I stated previously, this is the kind of thing which makes it on the nightly news, the same news stations which often do not even show highlights from NHL games on a regular basis. Bertuzzi's actions are embarassing to hockey fans everywhere. The ball's in Campbell's court, but anything less than the rest of the season and at least the entire playoffs will be an incredible disappointment for me because I know the league will never have the guts to make a guy sit out a whole year*. Additionally, I think Bertuzzi should be criminally prosecuted as well. edit- *besides McSorely because Bertuzzi is a "star" player and I doubt the league is willing to lose him for that long, despite my belief that they should suspend him regardless of his "stardom"
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well, the entire sport is going to get "suspended" for a calendar year, so i guess they may as well knock him out just for playoffs at this rate
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I don't think he should be suspended for a year, or criminally prosecuted... if Moore wasn't punished for a hit that resulted in a concussion, then how can Bertuzzi be suspended for a year? What Bertuzzi did was horrible, but the NHL should've punished Moore for a good number of games as well. |
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Well then we respectfully disagree, sir. Moore's hit did result in a concussion, but he was not penalized on the play and the tape went to the league and Campbell did not act on the hit because he did not deem it to be a dirty hit. There's a big difference between hurting a guy with a hit (intentional or otherwise, although Moore had his day in court and Campbell opted not to suspend him because it was a clean hit) and sucker-punching a guy from behind. One is an accident, the other cowardace.
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Nope. Not so much as a two minute minor for roughing. It was a "clean" hit by all accounts. Just caught Naslund with his head down. I hope Moore is ok. If he smashed his face and requires surgery, his career could be in jeopardy. Look what happened to Kevin Stevens. His face got smashed and just like that, he went from a 50 goal/200 PIM power-forward extrodinare on a Stanley Cup winning team to a poor journeyman forward who spent his off-nights smoking crack with hookers in East St. Louis. |
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Moore's hit was clean. If that hit was against a 3rd line winger, no one cares. But because Moore didn't hold up against one of the game's elite, the Canucks cry about it. Sami Salo in last night's game hit Alex Tanguay on a very similar play - you see hits like that in almost every game.
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Kevin Stevens is the first thing I thought of when this happened.
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My "sources" (I do have sources, dammit) say DeVriest to Ottawa, although it's not being reported yet.
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After watching it myself, I don't think what Bertuzzi did is as bad as everyone seems to be saying. He wanted to fight Moore, chased him all over the ice, Moore wouldn't do it (cuz of course Bert would slaughter him). So in frustration Bertuzzi hit him anyways. There is no way Bertuzzi intended for everything after to happen, just as Moore didn't intend for Naslund to be so hurt when he hit him.
Bert should be suspended for the sucker punch, but no way should he get anything close to what McSorely got. I'd say 10 games, and only because he is a past offender.
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Sportsnet is reporting that Bertuzzi broke Moore's neck.
My god...
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So stalking someone down the ice and sucker-punching them from behind, then slamming their face into the ice after tackling them is only worth ten games, and then only because Bertuzzi's a repeat offender? You're kidding, right?
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It looked like the ice broke his neck, but regardless...ick. |
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Morris hasn't been terrible, but he hasn't quite turned into the player they thought he would be when they gave up Chris Drury for him. I think it's less a matter of wanting to get rid of Morris (like the Skoula trade) than it is about Lacroix using Morris to get a player (Gratton) he needed. John-Michael Liles had been eating up more and more of Morris's ice time on the power play, and with the acquisition of guys like Sauer and Boughner, Morris was essentially expendable. Morris is only 25, and this does look like a nice, nice trade for Phoenix. But the thing about Pierre Lacroix is this - he doesn't micromanage each individual trade to get the best deal; he is always looking at the big picture. So, he has to give up more than he wants to get Gratton, but he gets Vannanen also. Then he pulls off a trade for Salo which makes him look like a genius. He traded Radim Vrbata last year to get Bates SUCKY Battaglia...but then turned Battaglia into Steve Konowalchuk this year...as good a trade as you'll see a GM make. If you look at Locroix's moves on a trade-by-trade basis, some will look bad. If you look at his overall team management...I'm not sure you'll find a better GM in hockey. Except for when he canned Bob Hartley. That was rank.
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Do you have a link?
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yikes. link?
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Dallas Stars have signed FA defenseman Lubomir Sekeras for the remainder of the season.
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I'm no doctor, but I can't imagine it's a broken neck in the "never walk again" sense. We would have heard something before now if he hadn't moved since last night, wouldn't we? In other news, Francis is a Leaf.
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he was definitely moving his legs on the ice after the hit. Francis would have been a better fit for the Canucks.
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Here's a link on the Moore story:
http://wwww.sportsnet.ca/hockey/show...ntent=s030935A (Apparently he's from Thornhill, the town I grew up in.)
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No, I wasn't kidding. And watch that video again, he doesn't tackle, nor slam his face into the ice. He falls because of momentum and his weight on Moore. When Moore gets hit his legs give out and they both collapse. I'm positive Bertuzzi didn't intend to smash his face into the ice (which is what does most of the damage I'd guess). I'm not saying what he did was ok, which is why I agree he should be suspended. But it isn't as bad as the outcome makes it look. Sucker punches in hockey are not new.
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If you are going to sucker punch someone like that, you are responsible for the consequences. Moore didn't trip over a cat - he was sent face-first into the ice with a great deal of force by a punch he didn't even see coming. It doesn't matter what Bertuzzi intended to happen to Moore.
If Bertuzzi was a man and was not hitting a guy skating away from him...Moore would not be lying in a hospital with a broken neck right now. I wonder...do you think Marc Crawford is still laughing about the hit?
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Well you can choose to blame it on physics or you can hold the man accountable for his actions. Yes, we all agree Bertuzzi should be suspended, but I disagree when you blame most of the damage on the physics of the attack. Moore wouldn't be in surgery now if it weren't for Bertuzzi and that's the bottom line.
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Looked to me like Bertuzzi hits Moore.....Moore is out on his feet....Bertuzzi's momentum has him land on Moore.Moore being knocked out cannot get his hands up to break his fall and goes face first into the ice.
I would say end of season for Bertuzzi...including play-offs. How could it not be?
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at first I thought through the regular season. with the broken vertebraes...I think we are talking about playoff time as well.
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Hmm, it could be argued that if Moore was a man and hadn't fled all over the ice to get away from Bertuzzi he would simply have a black eye right now... ok, now I'm just going too far
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I've seen the video. It looks to me like he clearly slammed Moore's head to the ice, and clearly meant to. I don't find the reports sexed up at all. The radio reports all made it sound very bad. But not nearly as bad as it was.
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Watch it in slow motion. I see Bertuzzi's legs extending to launch himself onto Moore. During the fall his left arm is clearly on the back of Moore's neck and extending, obviously trying to add force to the impact of Moore's head with the ice. I agree different poeple will interpret the video different ways, and that was my point to begin with. You can argue intent (which neither of us will ever truly know) and the cause of Bertuzzi falling, but not seeing his left arm clearly aiding the descent of Moore's head is ignoring the facts.
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It couldn't have helped that the Colorado guy jumped on top of Bertuzzi , and continued to let Moore's face slide across the ice... and for Moore to run away all game after he gave Naslund that consussion... well, he had to know that they were looking to rough him up to say the least... I'm not saying he deserved what Bertuzzi did to him, but he was building up the Canucks players' hatred for him everytime he was on that ice and didn't get hit...
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Since I don't recall seeing it at the time (or since for that matter), I'll ask ...
Did Moore cheapshot Naslund ? Or was it just a course-of-play hard hit? |
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watch it again. http://www.hockeyfights.com/cf277/04...hots_moore.wmv Bertuzzi was forcing him down and putting pressure on him the whole way down.
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just a hard hit. not a cheap shot in the opinion of most - it's a hit you see almost every day in the NHL. Vancouver was upset because 1) Naslund was hurt on the play and 2) he is a star player, and there's supposed to be a code to let up a bit on star players.
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Still, Bertuzzi's reaction was out of of all proportion to what Moore did.
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What a boring trade deadline.
Can't wait to see the tv ratings on this.
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Well, I have to say right now that I didn't see any of the game, and I saw somewhere in this thread that Moore was running all game.. so I assumed that he was ducking all Canucks players for the entire game... you can see why I made my comments now.
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The hurt does'nt stop in Motown...Robert Lang out 3 weeks with cracked ribs.
How ya feeling H_B....any injuries in Belgium?
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Hnidy to Nashville for a 3rd roundpick..woohoo
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Well, again, as they are falling, Bertuzzi's arm is extending. Try to explain it away if you wish, but his arm starts close to he chest as to fall and is almost fully extended as they hit the ice. I do think that the damage caused here is more than Bertuzzi likely intended. Of course, it is not like the decision to take this action resulted from rational thought to begin with.
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No. We're doing ok here in the land of frites, beer, lace, and chocolate. Though, with a couple of phone calls to the right people there could be a certain shoe salesmen in Canada who may have an injury or two... Seriously. Draper, Datsyuk, and now Lang? This is getting out of control. Datsyuk is due back in 2 weeks, Draper 4, Lang 3. This is not good. Assuming they all do make it back in time for the begining of the play-offs, it will be highly unlikely that Draper or Lang will be fully healed. A shoulder injury (Draper) and rib injury (Lang) aren't the kind of injuries you can effectively play through. You just can't. Your ribs will ache every time you breathe and the shoulder with each nudge. Hrmmm... |
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and the clock ticks.....tocks....ticks.....
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