Open letter to all the whiners in the NHL
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/stephen_cannella/10/27/inside.nhl/index.html
STFU!
"The reason nobody is hitting is because if you run at a guy and miss or he slips past you, you can't put your stick on him to hold him up," Avalanche forward Ian Laperriere said after a surprising gentlemanly 6-4 loss to the Canucks last week. "That and nobody knows yet what is a penalty and what isn't."
People aren't hitting because clutching and grabbing is actually being called?
For shame!
Seriously, all this whining about too many penalties, not enough hitting, and the style of play in the "New NHL" has got to stop. The league has seen little to no backlash due to the lockout, so I don't see why people in the game should be complaining. I'm betting MLB would like to know how the NHL has avoided the same sort of backlash that they felt after merely cancelling the playoffs.
I'll take wide open, skating hockey every day of the week over the clutch and grabfest that the NHL had become. I won't miss the fighting and the battling in front of the net as long as the skilled guys in the league are allowed to do what they do best.
And I hope everyone else sees why guys like Laperriere really are crying. To me it sounds like Ian is figuring out that he doesn't have much of a future in the "New NHL".
For that I have to say: Too Bad.
STFU!
"The reason nobody is hitting is because if you run at a guy and miss or he slips past you, you can't put your stick on him to hold him up," Avalanche forward Ian Laperriere said after a surprising gentlemanly 6-4 loss to the Canucks last week. "That and nobody knows yet what is a penalty and what isn't."
People aren't hitting because clutching and grabbing is actually being called?
For shame!
Seriously, all this whining about too many penalties, not enough hitting, and the style of play in the "New NHL" has got to stop. The league has seen little to no backlash due to the lockout, so I don't see why people in the game should be complaining. I'm betting MLB would like to know how the NHL has avoided the same sort of backlash that they felt after merely cancelling the playoffs.
I'll take wide open, skating hockey every day of the week over the clutch and grabfest that the NHL had become. I won't miss the fighting and the battling in front of the net as long as the skilled guys in the league are allowed to do what they do best.
And I hope everyone else sees why guys like Laperriere really are crying. To me it sounds like Ian is figuring out that he doesn't have much of a future in the "New NHL".
For that I have to say: Too Bad.
posted by James W at 6:22 AM
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