PeePantz said:
TheDutchin said:
Im a canucks fan and i gotta say, id be rioting if i lived there. we were the better team but the refs had better have been bribed, because if that was them trying to call the game fairly i fear for future games with them reffing, and we were really let down. we care about our hockey up here and we are p-o'd that it went this way, we were so close, only to have it snapped away from us. we have waited for 40 years now and we had a great shot, we should have won, but we couldnt get a bounce, and the refs just grrr.
What the hell are you talking about? How was the reffing terrible? Because they tucked their whistles away, even with the dirtiness of the Canucks? Please, the Canucks are one of the dirtiest teams I've seen in quite sometime and there were hardly any calls against them in this series. Just face the facts, the big bad Bruins were just the better team. While Burrows is biting fingers (oh, Bergeron had a great game last night, didn't he?), Marchand is punching Thelma Sedin in the face. That's the difference from being dirty and tough.
If the Canucks really do represent Vancouver, I'm hardly surprised the city is burning down and people are stabbing each other.
Also, BRUINS WON THE CUP!!!!!
Alright first let me apologize for my little rant there, i was quite aggravated that night. Secondly, let's not go saying the Canucks are a dirty team because a Boston player jammed his fingers down a Canucks throat. Especially when you take into consideration the Chara hit that could have ended (I forget his name) the Montreal players career, that was a blatant dirty hit but because the man in charge of the discipline in the NHL's son is on Bostons team no action was taken. And then there is the Raymond hit. Let's just compare the Rome hit (which garnered the longest suspension in stanley cup final history) and the hit on Raymond. Romes hit was late, I'll admit to that, it was late by about half of a second. What happened to Horton was sad, it sucked, hate to see a guy go down like that. But the league assessed a four game suspension in the finals. When I heard that I thought "okay they are making an example of him, they are showing the players that stuff like that wont be tolerated. Sucks that it happened to a Canuck, but it really is for the betterment of the league." The league even admitted that they gave him the suspension because of the extent of the injury, not because of the hit itself, I thought that was brave of them to say. Then, Mason Raymond is driven into the boards while hes folded in half. He hadn't touched the puck in a long while (I don't know the exact stat but it was at least 10 seconds) and the Boston player had at least 2 "steamboats" to notice that the player who is half his size was in a vulnerable position. But instead of stopping, or even easing up, he drove him into the boards with enough pressure to cause a compression fracture. That means the Boston player applied enough torque to squeeze his vertebrae together so tightly that one of them broke from the pressure. He won't play until at least November of next season. There wasn't even a fine. So I think to myself, "well now, lets try and look at this from an unbiased point of view. Hypothetical interview time!
So Mr. Shanahan, why was Rome suspended?
The extent of the injury to Horton left us no choice.
Fair enough, so why wasn't *whoever it is who hit Raymond* suspended? Raymond injury appears far worse.
Because Romes hit was late in comparison.
Romes late was 2 "steamboats" after Horton dished the puck off, you said that that was half a second too late. Raymond was hit 3-4 "steamboats" after the puck missed him, let alone how long it had been since he actually made contact.
The extent of the injury to Horton left us no choice.
We already went over this Mr. Shanahan.
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Nothing to say for yourself?
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Okay."
If you could please explain it to me I would be most grateful.
And also on the original topic, turns out the rioting was started by a group of anarchists, the same ones who held violent demonstrations to protest the olympics. And Canucks fans are the ones who cleaned up after the rioting, they had it 100% clean before noon the next day. Huh, how about that eh? Sorry, how aboot that eh? I suppose is the proper way for us Canadians to say it right?
CANADIAN AND PROUD!
