Guest micah Report post Posted January 21, 2009 Lemieux got the nickname "turtle" for a reason...Did McCarty jump Lemieux? Yes...Would've Lemieux accepted McCarty's invite to drop the mitts? No. I personally have nothing against what McCarty did, nor did the league at that time. He may or may not have - heck, he agreed to fight Chris Simon who was a hell of a lot tougher than Darren McCarty ever was. He also agreed to fight Mac the following year and embarassed the so-called "tough" McCarty by hanging with him pretty well. He didn't win the fair fight, but he did far better than a skilled guy should have been able to against an enforcer. It always bothered me a little bit that Kris Draper had so little respect for himself that he never once went after Claude himself. I can see why Draper might have resorted to cheapshotting Claude in return, but I don't get why Mac felt like he had to - unless (as the results of their later fight suggests) he didn't think he would be able to dominate Claude in a fair fight, so he had to resort to goonery in order to win. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
