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Originally Posted by valo403
I actually don't think there's anything wrong with the first swing.
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Its never OK to wrecklessly swing your stick like that...ever. Guys have lost eyes because of wayward sticks, and as a result it is explicitly forbidden under NHL rules.
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It's at his legs, it isn't going to do any serious damage and he's about to get his head caved in if he doesn't do something.
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Nonsense. Again forget about the Barry Bonds imitation, all Kessel had to do was take or 5 strides away from Scott to not be engaged with him.
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The follow ups from the back go too far, but honestly I'm fine with a guy like Scott getting taken out of the game in any fashion. I like fighting in hockey, but he's a joke.
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Be fine with it all you like, but that is not what is at the heart of the discussion here. This is about a player being completely wreckless with his stick and intending to injure another player who has every right to protection from the rules as any other. Whether or not people like the enforcer role in hockey is irrelevant. Fighting is an accepted and completely accepted part of the game, always has been and still is. If you dont want to fight someone there is nothing preventing you from skating away...what isnt acceptable is using your stick as a weapon.
Maybe you would have been OK with Kessell going right at Scotts head and taking his eyes out/concussing him/caving his skull in? Afterall that would have gotten Scott "out of the game in any fashion"....right?
I would expect that Buffalo players to a man have Kessell targeted each and every game the rest of this season for what he did lst night, and it will be compolete entertainment to watch it unfold. He will be held accountable.