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| quote: | Originally posted by Rocco
pppft whatever Peter... all i know is accidental or not, he deserves what's coming cuz he's stupid. the league doesn't care about loosing ur balance. this is why u go through training camp. the league PA cares about the saftey of the players on the ice. If that means they have to suspend him till next season with fines, it's very understandable.
lets say i come over and "accidentally" pull a triger of a gun and i "accidentally" hit u, would the court look at it as "accidental" and not think of it as "big of a deal"? A stick could be used as a weapon and that's what makes hockey such a conterversial sport. Durring a physical game, u might get frustrated and so on. When u have a stick in ur hand, alotta bad things can happen. Due to the history of the game, i could understand why the league is strict when it comes to injuries envolving sticks. It's for the saftey of the players. |
actually, the league does care whether it's accidental or not. Thats why there's a penalty called "intent to injure". I think Bertuzzi got that. And training camp isn't there to make you a perfect, superhuman hockey player. Anyone can lose their balance, and once that happens you have little control over how you swing your arms. Would it be Belaks fault if his feet flew up and his skate hit a player in the face too?
If the league really cared about the safety of the players then it would've already changed the rules on the icing calls; and it would've enforced face masks for players so accidents like what happend to Jeremy Roenick don't happen again.
And you "accidentally" shooting me is completely different from someone getting accidentally hit in the head with a stick, like the Belak incident. You could tell he was off-balance. His team was up 3-0. There was no reason for frustration. And yes, a stick is a potential weapon, but it becomes a weapon only when the player chooses to do so (see: Marty Mcsorley hit on Donald Brashier).
Last edited by infinity HiGH on Mar-21-2004 at 22:30
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