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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I said there is a difference between the two. I never said I was shocked by it.
The quoted poster attacked the player and implied he was stupid for complaining about being bullied because (according to the poster) he was a bully on the ice.
I pointed out that those are two different things. Pretty straight-forward.
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Okay, I get what you were trying to say. I just don't agree that what Parker was saying = bullying in the same sense of the word for the NHL.
Like FlashWalken says though, it's terrible that the culture of the league is like that, where it's acceptable and encouraged to hide your injuries, but at the same time, there are plenty of injuries that players could complain about that you should be able to play through (sore ankle is definitely one of them).
I think what Parker wrote is pretty ridiculous and whiny, so that's probably why I'm a little more defensive about this than I should be. The point I tried to make with that last post was just that what he said Hartley did was hardly bullying compared to what an NHL coach could actually do to bully someone, in fact what Hartley did seems more the norm of the NHL than the exception.