Quoting: hanson493
The fact you are getting this worked up over the initial "cross check" is whats wrong with society. Everyone is going soft. 15 years ago thats "clearing out the crease". That stuff was legal. The second one was over the line, theres no reason for that. But the first "cross check" was soft and a massive flop by arvidsson. stay on your feet, you go into the paint like that you have to expect to get hit. Also its plain statistics, hockey would still be at the "neanderthal age" of the sport if they werent facing extensive lawsuits over concussion and cte data. These guys CHOSE to play a VIOLENT PHYSICAL sport. They could have done literally anything else with their life. They signed up for this. Its naive thinking a bunch of injuries over your career and youll be magically fine when you stop playing. I also think the product in the early 2000's is a better product of hockey. The game is growing but its getting boring, dump and chase hockey without hits. a good percent of goals are powerplay goals usually on soft goals. Good goals are getting called back for a skate blade (naked to the human eye) being over the blue paint and being "offsides". Let me ask you this, how much flopping happened back in the early 2000s? vs how much is happening now to draw penalties. arvidsson diving directly caused bortuzzo to drill him the 2nd time. And yeah in the heat of the moment if im bortuzzo and this dude just dove into my goalies net, i probably do the same thing or something similar.
Why is it what Bortuzzo did is fine to do but slashing a player isn't? Or high sticking a guy? Or kneeing a guy in the balls or pretty much every single "violence" type penalty you can think of? Why doesn't Bortuzzo just two hand slash Arvidsson face while he's on the ground? Why is cross checking a guy in the back, that's no biggie.................. but slashing a guys head whenever he dives, is not okay? Like what is the pain threshold that allows one type of attack on a player okay but not another....... is the spine a part of the body that isn't important, kind of like a second kidney that you can live without?
You know what I remember as tough hockey? Dino Ciccarrelli full pin baseball bat swinging his stick against Luke Richardson's head. Personally I think cross checking a guy in the back is gutless, if you are going to try and inflict injury on a player go for the head. If you are lucky and manage to hit the player directly in the temple, they may even die. That's how it should be done.....
Frankly I think Arvidsson should be allowed to use his skate to slice Bortuzzo's neck next time they play each other. Since Bortuzzo felt Arvi dove, he got cross check him in the back as he deserved. Arvi felt Bortuzzo over exaggerated when he cross checked him so he gets to murder Bortuzzo. Makes perfect sense, no? because i know if anyone tried to break my back like Bortuzzo did in literally any situation in life, in the heat of the moment I would use whatever object I had at my disposal to end that person's life.
All that because Bortuzzo felt Arvidsson dove when he pushed him from behind into the cross bar and into the net..... pretty silly right? So why is Bortuzzo's assault on Arvidsson okay but not my scenario for Arvidsson on Bortuzzo.?