Carman

I agree with everything you are saying Gordie.

Unfortunately I attack immaturity with immaturity, so it takes away from my credibility.

I just don't see the big deal about the candy-cane s*** Crosby does, when there are players out there who are potentially ruining lives (Cooke, Torres, Ruutu etc.). Yet Crosby cross checks someone at the end of the game and it's the end of the world and has less class than Bertuzzi who paralyzed someone. It's mind boggling to me.

Should of been assessed 2 minutes for crosschecking and 2 minutes roughing.

Cool story.

Because penalties at the end of the game need to be nitpicked to the end of days, right?

This is what gets me:


20:00
PIT
Sidney Crosby : Roughing  - 2  min
20:00
DET
Jimmy Howard : Roughing  - 2  min
20:00
DET
Henrik Zetterberg : Roughing  - 2  min

Looks like Crosby's crosscheck to Z went unnoticed...

Or they just gave him a roughing in place of a cross checking?
Same way the give a hooking class instead of a slash. Sometimes penalties overlap.

I'm sure if Zetterberg took a swing, he'd be the one to get punished by the League, Crosby probably knew it too. Z did the right thing.

Well considering I doubt Zetterberg has the heart to fight a very physical player like Crosby I doubt we will ever know.

guys, maybe we're missing something here.  after all, when it comes to things like this, i always felt that the retaliation should be measured against the offense...

maybe carmen is right, and howie was out of line....after all, its not like it was a MAN doing all that cross-checking on Z...

Well that could explain why Zetterberg refuses to man up and defend himself...

ya guys ever see any of our guys start cross checking or hitting someone at the end of a game that we didnt win? i dont recall any

Just two recent examples.

Rivalry games tend to incite frustration at the end of games. I think it's a good thing. And it doesn't just happen when Crosby is on the ice.

i love how nhl.com says "sid scraps with wings goalie howard" howard took him out sidney didnt even touch howard, therefore title should say howard handles crosby

Or Crosby decided not to unleash his superior fighting skills against a young rookie.

What a citizen that Crosby fellow is.

From Lets Go Pens:

"It's Detroit...the worst city in the world forever.

Detroit fans feel that they're entitled to all things hockey related. They also think that they are hockey gods, incarnated in a horrible town, in order to revive Northern America. People from Detroit aren't the brightest of the bunch. Most are unemployed, and in a state of perpetual drunkenness."

I'm glad that this site is classier than that...

Every website has idiots. Hell there are idiots everywhere. It's best to just ignore comments like those.

I've gotta say... I was hoping when I saw Bertuzzi spit out the mouthguard and charge at cindy there was going to be another moore type incident.. way to get my hopes up Bert.

Classy.

This would be true if there were 100 or so Red Wings fans.  Not every single Wings fan called into the station to give their opinion.  It's a silly radio bit and has zero bearing on anything.  Using it as some sort of justification is idiotic.

I just used it because someone said there wasn't one Wing fan that had that opinion. And it seems there are more then one that's all.

It's not fair to dismiss people's bitching about Crosby's dirty plays simply because Ovechkin does it, too.

Why?

Because Ovechkin actually gets punished for his transgressions. The league wouldn't suspend Crosby if he intentionally jammed his skate into a player's throat. They'd just call him "competitive."

Let me know when Crosby ends someone's season. Ok?

You're right.  A radio poll is great evidence of such and an excellent cross section of the majority opinion.  Are you kidding me?

Considering it's Detroit's biggest radio station? I'm by no means saying it's a scientific fact, but I was just using it to show that there are some people that hate Crosby so much that they would go against Yzerman...

Crosby was taking cheap shots at Z's back.  We all know that Z doesn't have the best back in the world and Crosby knows that too.  It was completely intentional and was beyond showing emotion.  It was intent to injure and being a giant *****.

Oh. My. God. You really think Crosby was trying to severely debilitate Zetterberg? Wow.

Have you people never watched a hockey game before? It's not like scrums at the end of the games only happen when Sidney is on the ice...

I love how people are more impressed with him losing with composure at the end of the game than his actually great effort in the game. 26 out of 27 verse a defending Stanley Cup team? Great job Jimmy!

What do you expect Yzerman to say when asked about Crosby?

Is he going to say, "I think Crosby is a whining douchebag who gets too much exposure"?


Yzerman has never been an outspoken guy who speaks his mind.  You need to stop playing this card because it doesn't matter what Yzerman said about him.

Just because you don't like Yzerman and don't respect what he says doesn't mean other people share the same viewpoint on the best captain in the history of the NHL.

the difference is, crysby is the face of the nhl, he should act like it.  quoting Ben Parker, "with great power comes great responsibility..."  cindy has proven time and time again that he is a whiney little spoiled brat.  Ya, thanks gordie, sure everyone loses their cool, if you remember that entire game, their was a lot of coolness lost the entire game between both of the teams.  What I found comical about that video is the announcers were such homers, "Detroit has set hockey back 30 years here tonight..." that was hilarious! Little did he know what Detroit would do from that season on compared to  how many Cups for the Bruins? Ya, ok... The one other thing I learned from that video is I wish that was cindy lying on the ice instead of Lazzaro...

Then why does Yzerman say he is impressed with how Crosby is playing, and how he is carrying himself?

He's a competitor. He was frustrated, I'd much rather see him do candy-cane s*** like this then almost end careers like Ovechkin.