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Originally Posted by opendoor
There's a very large gulf between attacking them and doing nothing. There are a lot of ways the Sedins could've gotten roughed up that don't involve fighting. Bottom line is you don't send out your 1st line where your center has a rib injury and your winger is in his first game back from a broken jaw up against a 4th line who is out there to set a tone and fire up their team.
And I suppose Dave Tippett must be a dirty coach as well as he seems to agree with Tortorella's reticence to send out his skill players against that line:
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=441708 |
Yeah it's pretty clear that you don't need to do much to "rough up" a Sedin. Apparently a little shove can end the greatest Ironman streak in the league.
OH, what was wrong with your 2nd line? or the 3rd line?
Torts wanted a fight, he got it, stop playing the victim card.
Also, the pre-emptive strike wasn't Hartley's line up, it was the Canucks calling up Lain and all the shenanigans they got up to on the Cali road trip. Hartley was responding to the new and improved tough Canucks.