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Hockey... now THAT is a WTF moment
ChadTower:
Sure, it is forgivable, once an appropriate punishment is meted out. Discipline is important. The image of the team is important. How the rest of the locker room feels about guys being a problem is important.
Saying a high stick slash is within the rules doesn't make it so. There is no provision for intent in those rules.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 03, 2009, 09:50:01 am ---Sure, it is forgivable, once an appropriate punishment is meted out. Discipline is important. The image of the team is important. How the rest of the locker room feels about guys being a problem is important.
Saying a high stick slash is within the rules doesn't make it so. There is no provision for intent in those rules.
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No punishment is needed. Punishment is used to deter someone from breaking the rules; Im sure the fact he hurt his teammate and forever having to live this down is punishment enough. Team image? The panthers are 11-12 this year. The team? They all accepted his appology and he isnt in bad standings with any of them. No one is pissed off at him except him (and you).
I guess your google searches on the subject didnt yeild you the interviews they showed on ESPN last night.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Malenko on December 03, 2009, 10:25:44 am ---Punishment is used to deter someone from breaking the rules; Im sure the fact he hurt his teammate and forever having to live this down is punishment enough.
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Disagreed. Punishment is a deterrent to others as much as it is to the offender.
--- Quote ---The team? They all accepted his appology and he isnt in bad standings with any of them. No one is pissed off at him except him (and you).
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So you talked to each of them, then? They were probably instructed by the coach to tell the media it's a closed issue. I guarantee you there are guys in the locker room that lost respect for the guy. As a player I would lose respect for a coach that put up with crap like that.
--- Quote ---I guess your google searches on the subject didnt yeild you the interviews they showed on ESPN last night.
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Yeah, because you can really trust what people say to reporters. :laugh2: Things in a locker room stay in a locker room, right? That's how good teams handle it. They don't talk to the outside. I guarantee you if that team has a kangaroo court he is going to face it and they won't be lenient.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 03, 2009, 10:58:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Malenko on December 03, 2009, 10:25:44 am ---Punishment is used to deter someone from breaking the rules; Im sure the fact he hurt his teammate and forever having to live this down is punishment enough.
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Disagreed. Punishment is a deterrent to others as much as it is to the offender.
--- End quote ---
Again, you ability to miss the point is borderline magical. So you feel there will be an outbreak of players hitting their own goalie? Its only the second time its happened as far as I can remember and the first time the goalie got hit in the leg. And that was like 15 years ago when we still had the Norris Division. Yet you really feel the need to make it against the rules and punishable to hit your own goalie with a stick. People like you are the reason for so many pointless laws that should be covered by common sense.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 03, 2009, 10:58:43 am ---So you talked to each of them, then? They were probably instructed by the coach to tell the media it's a closed issue. I guarantee you there are guys in the locker room that lost respect for the guy. As a player I would lose respect for a coach that put up with crap like that.
--- Quote ---I guess your google searches on the subject didnt yeild you the interviews they showed on ESPN last night.
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Yeah, because you can really trust what people say to reporters. :laugh2: Things in a locker room stay in a locker room, right? That's how good teams handle it. They don't talk to the outside. I guarantee you if that team has a kangaroo court he is going to face it and they won't be lenient.
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You are just proving how big of an ---uvula--- you are. The guy made a mistake and repented for it. If his team mates are good team mates they'll accept the apology and move one. Good teams look out for one another and dont throw their players under the bus because of simple errors in judgement. You are reacting to this as if he decapitated his goalie instead of cutting his ear. Again you are judging it on what could have happened instead of what did.
yeah, I obviously talked to each of them ::) Im pretty sure the majority of the players if not all of them have accepted it for what it is, an accident. And if they hold a grudge thats a flaw with that player, not the system.
Whats your big gripe with Ballard anyway? Not like he has a rep for being an ---uvula--- or anything
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Malenko on December 03, 2009, 11:25:53 am ---Again, you ability to miss the point is borderline magical.
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I didn't read the rest of your post. Just putting that out there. This comment is all I'm going to address.
You need to work on recognizing the difference between disagreeing with you and not understanding you. I get what you are saying. I disagree. That is fundamentally different from not getting your point.
I have no use for butting my head up against that wall anymore.
I also suggest learning to debate without personal attacks. Dillhole.
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