12/21/24
May 01, 2004
Another vicious attack in a pro hockey game "(t)hat makes the McSorley-Brashear thing look like girl scouts.'': This crap is killing hockey. And killing hockey doesn't need the help right now.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey to hockey at 10:39 AM - 5 comments
What a stoopid fecking prat!
posted by billsaysthis at 01:17 PM on May 01, 2004
You're American. Deal with it.
posted by yerfatma at 04:51 PM on May 01, 2004
The victim, Garrett Stafford, swung his stick at Alexander Perezhogin's head only seconds before (striking a glancing blow off Perezhogin's helmet). If Stafford was a couple of inches lower, we'd be talking about how HE is the worst person since Charles Manson. Instead, Perezhogin retaliates (and does a better job of it) and Stafford is injured. I'm sorry he's hurt, but he's the one that initiated the stick-to-the-head incident so I can't build up TOO big a sympathetic feeling for him. That said, throw the book at Perezhogin anyway. Just don't waste too much pity on Stafford.
posted by grum@work at 08:34 AM on May 02, 2004
Yeah, I agree with grum. While Perzhogin does need to have the book thrown at him, the difference is that this wasn't a predatory attack in which he hunted the other guy down the ice... LIKE McSorley/Bertuzzi. It was a retaliatory in-the-thick-of-it strike. Does that make the result any less vicious? No. But the intent is different and it doesn't warrant comparison to the other two incidents.
posted by mkn at 01:04 PM on May 02, 2004
It would be interesting to compare Don Cherry's comments on this incident (if any) with his comments on the McSorley-Brashear ugliness, given the aggressor here is Eastern European. I completely agree about these incidents hurting hockey and killing it's chances for increased popularity. Of course, I also hate the third-man in rule, so I may not be much help.