Habs Get Spanked

Video Blog Click Here - The Habs were in Boston to play the Bruins for the first time since the Chara on Pacioretty incident. The Habs were dominated on the ice tonight, loosing 7-0. We all know you can't win if you don't scrore and on a night the Habs couldn't even get a decent scroing chance they wanted revenge but they got into penalty trouble and they had life tonight. They looked flat and the Bruins looked tough. The Bruins could be a front runner for the stanley cup. Tim Thomas looks on his game and the bruins power play is very efficient. The habs took too many bad penalties. I couldn't watch much more of the game. So I decided to switch channels and watch Arizona upset the #1 seed Duke in the NCAA March Madness. Arizona will now play UCONN in the Elite 8. My bracket is a little out of whack with some of the recent upsets but I still got hope for Ohio to beat Kansas in the final.

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Good news Pacioretty is alive, but who knows when and if he will ever play again

Inconsistent or Insensitive, or is the NHL both?

Here's the story,

Biggest guy in the league, Zedeno Chara pulls a interference check on Max Pacioretty. Pacioretty ended up hitting his head of a station of glass, dividing the player benches. The glass divider looks like turnbuckle, like in the WWF - George the Animal steal used to take off the padding, eat the innards of the padding and then drill his opponent into to the bare turnbuckle. What a mess it was. But George was one of my favourite wrestlers, as were the Bushwakers and other zany goons.

Back to Chara

Chara is real. The NHL is real, George than Animal steel is fake. Max Pacioretty fractured the 4th vertebrae, luckilly, luckilly its not displaced or he could be paralyzed or even dead. He has suffered a severe concussion as well.

I don't know why Chara decided to finish his check like that. Did Chara not notice the stationment of glass in the middle of the ice, he was skating towards the boards, i'm sure he saw it. From the replay, we see Pacioretty dump the puck past Chara, and as Pacioretty tries to go around him and after the puck, Chara interfere's with him and finishes the check late, taking a major penalty sending Pacieortty head first into the bench post. I can't but think of the Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvil who lost his life in the luge incident that took place in training the day before the Olympics started. The NHL will probably have to make the ice rink bigger. Players are too fast, too big and the ice surface is becoming to small. Players are getting hurt too often. Many times because players are just caught up in the same area and collide either by accident or on purpose. Hitting is part of the game, but its getting to a point with the size of players and the evolution of pro-atheletes who are much stronger and lets be serious there are steroid drugs and the equiptment has become like armour. Just ask Don Cherry, he has been talking about this for years.

The Chara-Pacioretty hit was hard to watch. No matter how many all replays the television shows I see a late hit and deserving of a suspension. I would of given two games. Pacioretty was skating with great speed and was trying to go inside on Chara. Chara with his 6'9" frame, is never easy to go around, but Chara went to far, instead of only holding the man up he finished a late check where he should of let up. Did Chara know where he was on the ice? I think so, he was able to turn around and skate up ice towards the becnh and I think he knew what he was doing. The NHL has issued no further penalty.

A player for the Islanders Gilles bumped a player from the side and into the boards last week and was given a 10 game suspension. Gilles hit was less dagerous and far less violent than that delivered by Chara. Gilles was sticking up for a teamate who was drilled on a bad angle into the boards.

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Many NHL analysts are shocked there was no further suspension or fines issued by the league.

Bob Mackenzie spoke to Pacieortty who was on the phone from the hospital in Montreal. Pacieoretty couldn't believe there was no suspension.

and More NHL News... Matt Cooke is a PLUG

This Just In,

With his team ahead 2-1 and 31 seconds left int the game and Matt Cooke goes for the open net goal. Cooke who we can nickname "captain elbow" to the jaw, is an idiot. He shoots for the open net and Kaberle (who is now a Bruin) blocks the shot and the Bruins coral the puck and head back up the rink and into the Pittsburgh end. With only 10 seconds left on the clock the Bruins pull their goalie and tie the game 2-2 with the extra attacker. The game would go to overtime and the Penguins would eventually secure the win.

The Leafs lost to the Blackhawks. They have been on a winning streak as the league enters the final stretch before the playoffs. The Leafs are 4 points behind the Huricanes for the 8th spot in their conference standings. Listening to sports talk radio, all of Leafs Nations is split. With their recent win streak. Some fans want them to keep winning and hopefully make the playoffs. Other fans want them not to make the playoffs but also lose and and have a better draft position for next year. Either way you look at it,the average Ontarian and every fanatactic who says stuff like "we lost a tough one last night" at work and pretend they are on the team, those are the Leafs Nation. If the leafs won the stanley cup, Grant from my old job would be jalosimated -(look word up in the Dictionary,if you have no diction than Jalosoated: a noun; a feeling of supreme exultation) Jalosimated is not to be confused with jubilation also a noun describing great triumph....anyways, The Habs kicked ass in Tampa tonight - defeating the lightning 4-1 Check out this blog Habs inside out

Bee bid dee, that's all folks