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But after reading a few articles from Minnesota media this morning, I couldn't help but get a bit agitated.
That entire team is crying like a bunch of little babies who had their soothers taken away from them.
In a StarTribune article, Derek Boogaard accused Cody McLeod of not playing with respect. Well, granted McLeod had issues earlier this year - and all the Avs bloggers condemned it - but he's been nothing more than a pest this series. And an effective pest apparently.
Said Boogaard:
"I'm going to laugh when the instigator [penalty] is out this summer because I'm pretty sure [McLeod's] ... going to be a lot more quiet next year," Boogaard said. "[The way he plays] is not hockey. That's not the way it's supposed to be played. It's supposed to be played with respect. He doesn't show respect."
First, the instigator penalty is going nowhere. Second, what did he do last night that could be considered disrespectful? I'll admit I was concerned that McLeod would do something stupid but he did nothing of the sort. Unless you consider getting mugged by Veilleux and Belanger as disrespectful.Boogaard also commented on the lack of people willing to step up and fight the giant baby:
"They have guys on their team whose job is to open their mouths and try to get us to take penalties on them, and I mean, it's just not going to happen,"
Did he seriously say "It's not going to happen" after he alone took 24 minutes in penalties? Yeah, sure didn't work out in the Avs favor you big buffoon.And when accused of being goons, the Wild's choir boy Chris Simon said:
"I think we're playing hard, we're playing fair and so is the other team," said bruiser Chris Simon.
Maybe you played fair because Colin Campbell has you under house arrest and if you so much as look at someone the wrong way, you'll be gone for good. As for the rest of your team, they did not play fair. They did not play hard. And they did not show any respect.Look, the end result is that you guys got your asses handed to you and it likely won't happen again.
So there's no point getting your panties in such a twist.
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I had no idea McLeod forced Boogard to slap the puck down the ice, elbow Jones in the face and rough up Foote after a whistle. That man uses the six degrees of Kevin Bacon to compose his hockey motivations. What an intellectual juggernaut.
unfortunately, the article is extremely deceptive. The Boogaard comments were made before game 3 (towards the bottom of the page but the article, by mentioning his game 4 performance, makes you think otherwise.
Ditto, I think, to the Simon and Demitra quotes in the article. I think all of those were from before the game and were responses to that stupid Kizlsa article. Now, the Wild look like complete idiots for complaining about the article and then going out and making Klizlsa look like a genius. But, Russo and the Star-Tribune are really making them look even more foolish than they did on the ice with that unintentional screw job...
That is extremely deceptive.
But they're still little bitches ;)
The Kiszla article really throws a whole monkey wrench into this doesn't it. I mean we all know it was hack journalism at it's worst, but then they go out and prove him right.
Now they look like fools and they accomplished something I didn't think even possible. They made Kiszla look smart, nay, downright prophetic.
But good for the Minnesota media for taking them to task for last night. That was as embarrassing as anything I had seen this year, and they deserve every ounce of shame that comes their way.
"I mean we all know it was hack journalism at it's worst, but then they go out and prove him right."
It was irony at its best right there. Hopefully he didn't get too swelled a head about the whole thing.
"But good for the Minnesota media for taking them to task for last night. That was as embarrassing as anything I had seen this year, and they deserve every ounce of shame that comes their way."
Yep. And I don't buy for a minute that the Avalanche would have acted the same way. I know it was the demi-god Forsberg himself who said that but it's flat wrong IMHO.
Sure, the Avs would have gotten a bit chippy but I doubt anybody - with the exception of McLeod - would have done anything like tossing a random elbow at the closest opponent or tag-teaming a downed player.
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