seems like I missed a lot when I decided to go to sleep yesterday instead of watching the 1st period as I had originally planned
my thoughts (pretty sure most of it has been covered though):
- I'm sure Hartley will get a fine, but I don't really agree with it. There's no rule that you can't start your fourth line, and having home-ice advantage, Tortorella could have reacted to it differently if he wanted to. He has four lines too, it doesn't have to be Sestito and his friends. Surely Hartley was baiting him, but not in a way that he wanted to have a full line brawl ... if he did, he would have put SOB out there instead of Butler, and maybe Bouma instead of Jones.
- I'm half amused, half in disbelief after hearing Tortorella say that he didn't put out the Sedins because "he doesn't want to put his players at risk". This quote is wrong on so many levels ... just look at the guys that McGrattan has fought this season: McLaren, Bordeleau, Gazdic, Barch, Bollig, McIlrath, Sestito, Bissonnette, Engelland, and Peluso. Westgarth only fought Malone. All big boys/grinders/goons. What did Tortorella think? That McGrattan and Westgarth would have jumped the Sedins? Come on. Nothing would have happened, except that McGrattan and Sestito would have fought at some other point during the game. Also, that quote is pretty funny when you have a guy like Sestito on your team who likes to jump other players for no apparent reasons.
- one more chapter in my book "Why I despise Kevin Bieksa". Stock's comments as to how this was leadership and protecting a teammate are utter BS if you ask me. Lain is a big boy, he can take care of himself and he didn't hesitate to drop the gloves against Westgarth afterwards. And of course, Bieksa refuses to drop them against Westgarth and instead chooses a different opponent. Luckily Smid kicked his ass.
- kudos to Butler standing his ground and dropping the gloves too, didn't expect that from him.
- P.J. Stock is ... I don't really know
agreed with most of his points this time though.
- Tortorella's actions in the hallway were despicable. I hope he gets suspended.
- Kassian is a punk. Not really news but it can't be stressed often enough.