Re: The 2010 Beanpot: Featuring One Team Under Consideration
He hits him first in the left shoulder, then follows through and hits him in the chin with his glove.
*DISCLAIMER* The following is intended primarily for bringing some blatantly biased, potentially humorous insight into the conversation. If you lack the human capacity for understanding, accepting, and/or appreciating lightheartedness, and are going to take the following analysis completely seriously, please skip ahead to the asterisk that succeeds the wall of text.
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after watching the videos many many times, i keep coming up with the following: (this is going to be a little dense, but i feel the situation calls for it. bear with me)
1. play is blown dead after warsofsky corrals the puck behind the blue line and drags it back in offsides.
1a. I don't know what compels andy brickley to call it obviously offsides, the puck
barely creeps out of the zone. from my vantage point in the garden, i saw the puck leave the zone, but it was awful close, waddnit?
2. warsofsky decides to unload a shot (whether it is to try and disguise the offsides or because he was under the impression it was onsides... depends on your interpretation of item 1a.)
3. macleod skates up to warsofsky, evidently uttering some pleasantries (again, i'll leave speculation as to what was said to personal judgements of how rivaling college hockey players might treat each other on the ice) let it be noted that if you watch macleod's skates, he at no point even intends on stopping himself from gliding into warsofsky. this is
inviting a response from warsofsky, or as one may stretch a definition of an item out of a hockey rulebook (again, personal interpretation, mind you) known as
instigating
4. now, visibly incensed at macleod's language (body, and potentially verbal), warsofsky's animal instincts take over and he raises his arms, stick firmly grasped with the wide grip common to penalized cross checking, and directs his blow towards macleod's chest. aiming upwards, warsofsky's left glove makes some (considerable) contact with the bottom of macleod's helmet cage. macleod responds by whipping his head back and flailing his arms up above his head as he falls to the ground as if he were just shot in a gay western. (not that there's anything wrong with that)
5. doghouse embarasses itself as it (vulgarly) ((is that even a word?)) compares an act of self defense to the malicious and vicious and nutritious hit from behind the audience witnessed 4 minutes and 34 seconds earlier.
* If you were one of the SUPERSERIOUS readers from before. I am all done. You didn't miss much. Carry on.
