Comments on: Lapierre the new Bernie Goetz? http://foolsandsages.net/2010/03/05/lapierre-the-new-bernie-goetz/ Life as viewed by a hockey fan Tue, 15 May 2012 00:49:23 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ann http://foolsandsages.net/2010/03/05/lapierre-the-new-bernie-goetz/comment-page-1/#comment-5988 Ann Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:11:48 +0000 http://foolsandsages.net/?p=869#comment-5988 I didn't say that the Sharks didn't answer that hit - they certainly did, in the way that hurts the playoff-bubble Canadiens the most - but I was just saying that maybe the Habs' fans reactions are a symptom of a different problem that's much bigger than just the Sharks. Hell, their wish for injury wasn't even about Nichol's play on the Sharks, because I can't remember one dirty hit he had this year. It was about how they felt that some players haven't been punished enough to their liking, and how Lapierre fulfilled their idea of retribution. Then again, it could just be Habs fans, I don't know. I didn’t say that the Sharks didn’t answer that hit – they certainly did, in the way that hurts the playoff-bubble Canadiens the most – but I was just saying that maybe the Habs’ fans reactions are a symptom of a different problem that’s much bigger than just the Sharks. Hell, their wish for injury wasn’t even about Nichol’s play on the Sharks, because I can’t remember one dirty hit he had this year. It was about how they felt that some players haven’t been punished enough to their liking, and how Lapierre fulfilled their idea of retribution.

Then again, it could just be Habs fans, I don’t know.

]]> By: Evilducks http://foolsandsages.net/2010/03/05/lapierre-the-new-bernie-goetz/comment-page-1/#comment-5969 Evilducks Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:47:17 +0000 http://foolsandsages.net/?p=869#comment-5969 I was commenting on another forum much earlier in the day and said the following: "I can't decide what about this incident irritates me more. A) That it happened and he didn't even get a penalty B) Habs fans claiming it was a clean play and that Nichol was embellishing (he didn't return to the game and is expected to miss at least the next two weeks). C) That Habs fans seem to think it's okay to do that to Nichol because he's also a pest. " I know better than to read internet forums when I'm emotionally invested in a topic, so I should have known not to go reading Puck Daddy and TSN comments today. So I tried to put myself in a habs fans' shoes and thought back to when Staubitz hit a player late into the boards (I believe in the first or second Kings game) and not defending it at all. It was a dirty hit and didn't make me proud he was a Shark. It didn't help that Ivanans proceeded to beat the living tar out of Shelley for the hit either (I guess Staubitz really learned his lesson). Which brings me to my rant of the day. The 4th thing that irritates the crap out of me is "Sharks fans" claiming the Sharks were soft and didn't stick up for their guy. I think that's total BS. First, the Sharks went and won the game, in regulation, denying the Habs 2 points they desperately need, if that doesn't stick it to them (to quote Malhotra) I don't know what does. Beyond that, there was a giant scrum after the play with a Shark (Leach) recieving a roughing minor. Heater later crush Plekanec on a great open ice hit. There was a ton of hits and gritty play to close out the game. Just because we didn't have a Shelley on the ice to fight some other version of Shelley on their team doesn't mean the Sharks just let them get away with it. Lets face it, there was no way LaPierre would drop the gloves, so a Shark could have taken an instigator penalty if anybody went after him directly. It's not like the Sharks even knew it was LaPierre, they thought it was Markov, so when somebody takes him out that makes things better? The Sharks responded to the hit in many ways, just because gloves weren't on the ice doesn't mean they didn't take care of their guy. I was commenting on another forum much earlier in the day and said the following:

“I can’t decide what about this incident irritates me more.

A) That it happened and he didn’t even get a penalty
B) Habs fans claiming it was a clean play and that Nichol was embellishing (he didn’t return to the game and is expected to miss at least the next two weeks).
C) That Habs fans seem to think it’s okay to do that to Nichol because he’s also a pest. ”

I know better than to read internet forums when I’m emotionally invested in a topic, so I should have known not to go reading Puck Daddy and TSN comments today. So I tried to put myself in a habs fans’ shoes and thought back to when Staubitz hit a player late into the boards (I believe in the first or second Kings game) and not defending it at all. It was a dirty hit and didn’t make me proud he was a Shark. It didn’t help that Ivanans proceeded to beat the living tar out of Shelley for the hit either (I guess Staubitz really learned his lesson).

Which brings me to my rant of the day. The 4th thing that irritates the crap out of me is “Sharks fans” claiming the Sharks were soft and didn’t stick up for their guy. I think that’s total BS.

First, the Sharks went and won the game, in regulation, denying the Habs 2 points they desperately need, if that doesn’t stick it to them (to quote Malhotra) I don’t know what does.

Beyond that, there was a giant scrum after the play with a Shark (Leach) recieving a roughing minor. Heater later crush Plekanec on a great open ice hit. There was a ton of hits and gritty play to close out the game. Just because we didn’t have a Shelley on the ice to fight some other version of Shelley on their team doesn’t mean the Sharks just let them get away with it.

Lets face it, there was no way LaPierre would drop the gloves, so a Shark could have taken an instigator penalty if anybody went after him directly. It’s not like the Sharks even knew it was LaPierre, they thought it was Markov, so when somebody takes him out that makes things better?

The Sharks responded to the hit in many ways, just because gloves weren’t on the ice doesn’t mean they didn’t take care of their guy.

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