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Originally Posted by AcGold
What's hyperbole to you is rational to another. I disagree that it's worse because he's our player, Johnny said what he did because he's Johnny and doesn't get mad. There's nothing he could have done, he played it perfectly, had his head up and avoided the check. He didn't get caught and didn't make a mistake. Watch again more closely, I'm not being biased because it has nothing to do with pro vs. college speed.
Johnny sees the hit, turns on the breaks, Corrado completely misses the hit and targets his head with a flying elbow. When I see a players head targeted on a dirty play it makes me like the game less, despite whatever team it's on and your argument that because he's on our team it's more emotional is outright false. When I see Chara gooning it up doing things that would land him in jail on the street and the announcers celebrate it like it's a good hockey play I'm a little disappointed that the one sport I love so much allows utter garbage like that to happen.
Same thing when Gaudreau plays it perfectly and gets assaulted. It's not hockey, it's not fun and there's really no logical defense for it. Lindros and Savard had their careers cut short because the discipline in the league is embarrassing, honestly, I'm embarrassed sometimes to be a hockey fan. It's an opinion, you might not like it but calling it hyperbole is just cheap rhetoric. If it were my way a flying elbow gets you an instant 10 games, crosscheck the numbers and the player goes face first into the boards 15, punching a player after a clean hit repeatedly when he's defenseless should get you 20, cheap blindside that leaves a player knocked out 40. Each time it doubles. The discipline needs to be way more harsh because as it is clean hits are nearly always retaliated upon, you want to defend Corrado attacking Gaudreau for a hit that one of his teammates through? That's hyperbolic to me.
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You need to cool it…I never defended Corrado, not once. It's dirty but it is simply not as bad as you're making it out to be IMO. I watched it multiple times and my opinion won't change…I wasn't attacking you so i don't know where this junk is coming from..and you keep bringing up other incidents like they matter to the conversation.
Johnny quote…. “You’re going to get hit. I mean, it’s hockey. Being a smaller guy, you’ve gotta keep your head on a swivel and make sure you’re aware of your surroundings and aware of the players around you.
I had my head down there. I should have kept my head up there, but it happens.”
I love how you can tell us what Johnny is thinking, we should trust you because "he's Johnny and doesn't get mad"…and yes, absolutely having it happen to one of our own makes it more emotional…what planet are you from? If you think that was an attack then I don't know what to say to you, you're probably watching the wrong league. And your post is absolutely riddled with hyperbole btw.