Re: SLU 2009-2010 Season
Thanks for the link. Not to belabor this but i thought the slew foot everyone was reacting to was in the US game.
Here's how I see it...Boyle gets cleanly thumped in 7-3 elimination game with >3 mins left. He over-reacts and dumps the guy in open ice. (Wasn't really a slew foot, more of a dumping, an eye for an eye, a "you hit me like that in my barn? with game all but over?...you're going down")
That's how hockey was...before we started over-protecting the players by empowering refs to take charge of nearly every game at every level.
Maybe its my advancing age but how does dumping a Russian make Boyle a bad guy on the medal stand after he and Canada beat us fair and square for gold?
And by the way, I was disappointed big time with the loss. Only consolation is it didn't go to a shootout.
It was definitely slew-footing. He came up behind the player, kicked his skate from behind and hauled him down with a high stick and then gets up and pretends like he is going to cross-check him.
If I was calling that game as ref I would not have called Semin and I would have given Boyle a major, or at least a double minor. Suppose it was a major, it is not out of the realm of possibility that a team with Ovechkin, Malkin et al could pop a few goals and tie it up in a hurry while on an extended PP. It was a selfish cheap shot. He was putting Dan Boyle before his team, which I don't like in players. I know why it happens and you can justify it all day.
Not the end of the world, just one of several plays that I saw from him throughout the tourney which makes me less enthralled with him and more enthralled with a Nick Lidstrom, or Chara or Brian Rafalski. I mean, the Olympic medal rounds are single elimination....if Russia was given a PP and came back and took the game he would have been a huge goat and for what??? To make himself feel better that Semin smoked him seemingly legally (albeit while he was vulnerable)???
Tom...good to know Nash is not a D-Bag. I have nothing but love for hard hitting power forwards that can score...Cam Neely is probably my all time favorite too. I don't see Nash play a lot. In this tourney, I was more fond of Crosby, Perry, Toews, Kane, Kesler, and some of the players that were dangling and skating like the wind. That is what I expect to see in Olympic hockey more than the smashmouth style we sometimes see in the NHL.
The outcome still sucks. Too bad one team has to lose when it was really so close. I am really happy the Canadian fans didn't boo the Americans. If they had, my sportsmanship would have declined rapidly! I reckon they might of had the US won instead.
By the way...anyone else sorry Martin Brodeur didn't choose to attend SLU after his visit in 1989?
Could have fooled me!!!