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JR Boucicaut

Crosby's nut shot

By JR Boucicaut, in NHL Discussions

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HattrickSwayze    3

HattrickSwayze
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Crosby in a fight today. Although it was more of him jumping a guy with no warning right off the face-off. It earned him a total of 17 minutes for fighting, instigating, and a misconduct. I guess that's what happens when you pull the guy to the ground with no warning? I'm not sure he got any punches in though. It looked more like he just pulled him down by his jersey and then just drug him around.

I guess he's trying to solidify his bad boy persona now. Maybe he's sick of being called Sid the Kid and wants to be called Sid the Man instead.

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PBRyan    0

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not often do you see one guy jumping another off a face-off without mutual acknowledgment or even faintest indication by the instigating party about what's going down. Especially when it's centers taking the face-off, one of whom is attempting to win it. It wasn't even that Mclean didn't want to fight - he didn't seem to get a chance. Crosby didnt just wrestle him down he landed a few and McLean left bleeding. It showed in the 19 penalty minutes assessed to Crosby. I get he is frustrated (and has been called out by his coach) but a blatant attack like that without indication is very weak.

The kid is under a lot of pressure, is still young, and is just showing his human side (again). Still highly unnecessary and much too pre-meditated for my liking (finds very small non-fighter, jersey moves him off the face-off, and really gives McLean no chance for at all), which to me dismisses the excuse he was caught up in the heat of the moment/overly frustrated.

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Rick    0

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I think it's funny how the league sets the focus on a young player and all of a sudden he can do no wrong. Even the play by play guys buy into it and make excuses for them when they mess up or have a bad game. The average player misses a shot and they say he fanned on it but when one of the chosen few does the same thing it was a bad pass or the condition of the ice is poor so on and so on. I just don't get it. Let the numbers speak for themselves and the cream will rise to the top. Why promote one guy over another.

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kosydar    0

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Can't wait to see someone pound the living shit out of Crosby. It will happen sooner or later, you can't convince me that everyone in the league loves him.

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chippa13    1844

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Mario got away with an awful mugging of an Isle player back in the day. Noone will care about this indiscretion by Sid, either. The Isle player had a great line about it after, something to the effect of, "He's Mario and who am I? I guess that is just the way it goes in this league."

Edit: After some searching, I think it was actually Todd Krygier of the Caps that Mario mugged.

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PBRyan    0

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After Crosby's spaz out I think both teams were a little shocked. His actions were almost comical.

I mean this was what a 5 or 6-1 game throughout most of the third period and not much was done on either side. If it was going to get ugly then that was the time. As the NHL sees it, it comes down to McLean taking a couple shots to the chops for the NHL. I don't think the Panther's tough-guy Tarnasky was playing for the Panthers, not like that would've made a difference. The players know what's up. If there had been retaliation (I think any direct targeting of Crosby was moot as he had an early trip to the showers), there's no doubt the book would've been thrown at the player who so much as scratched the face of the NHL.

This one will be swept under the rug by the league as many before.

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camhockey16    5

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they interviewed crosby on the post game show and crosby said he asked the guy if he wanted to go - and the guy said "yes" - so then as soon as they dropped the puck he assumed the guy was actually going to fight

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HattrickSwayze    3

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If he agreed to a fight he probably assumed that they would square up and make it fair. He had his head down from taking the face off when Crosby hopped on his head. I'm curious to see if Don Cherry has anything to say about this tonight on HNIC.

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BMcDonald19    0

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If he agreed to a fight he probably assumed that they would square up and make it fair. He had his head down from taking the face off when Crosby hopped on his head. I'm curious to see if Don Cherry has anything to say about this tonight on HNIC.

he left his visor on grapes will have something to say

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adam14    182

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obviously, no harm will come to crosby. makes me sick to be honest. why doesnt crosby just go rob a convenient store, he could probably get away with that just as easily as the shit he gets away with in the NHL.

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Larry54    243

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I'm curious to see if Don Cherry has anything to say about this tonight on HNIC.

Cherry did have something to say, but it was against Penguins management for getting rid of Laraque and Roberts, allowing opposing players to slewfoot and take other liberties with Crosby. Cherry predicted that it would make Crosby go ballistic one day and it happened tonight.

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bheidepr    0

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"I asked him to go, and he said yes. And usually, yes means yes," said Crosby, who fought Boston's Andrew Ference last season. "I mean, I wouldn't have wasted 20 minutes in the box for that. I guess he didn't take me serious. I don't know, it wasn't worth 20 minutes, though, that's for sure."

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McLean, who said he did not hear Crosby ask him for a fight, took the incident in stride.

"Everybody can kind of understand what he's doing for their team there," McLean said. "He's their leader."

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Chadd    916

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Can't wait to see someone pound the living shit out of Crosby. It will happen sooner or later, you can't convince me that everyone in the league loves him.

If someone did that to Sid, the suspension would be Avery-esque.

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habsfan87    0

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I always heard the talk about gretz in his day and how nobody could do anything to him, me being too young to see most of that era, is there anyone that was that could enlighten us on the similarities/differences of the two players. I'm assuming it was more of his teamates protecting him back in the day, but did the league let him have a ridiculous leash to get away with things (if he did at all)? With instagtor rules and whatnot in this era its obviously a different game but I sure hope Gretz didn't look that ridiculous so many times, and get away with stuff that no other player would. I don't have too much respect for Sid, I'll give him the props he deserves for his accomplishments, but I just felt like he's been spoon fed too many times and he hasn't had to work as hard as most players coming into the league.

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Trooper    8

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Can't wait to see someone pound the living shit out of Crosby. It will happen sooner or later, you can't convince me that everyone in the league loves him.

If someone did that to Sid, the suspension would be Avery-esque.

Keep bringing up Avery, it only took the NHL how long to actually dish out a meaningful suspension to him? So many whiners on this board.

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