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Originally Posted by Karl
Although this is definitely true in some cases, there is no grounds for this argument in this particular incident here.
In this DeAngelo situation, do you see the linesman shove, punch or hit DeAngelo or do anything aggressive towards him (other than hold him maybe too tightly and too long) before DeAngelo loses his poop and acts like a baby? Nope.
This incident here is all on DeAngelo as far as I'm concerned and he deserves every bit of the suspension he got from this, if not more. Hopefully he realizes that and can own up to it and become a better person for it. I don't understand anybody who seems to be either trying to absolve this player of blame or citing reprehensible behaviour of game officials in other examples to minimize or excuse DeAngelo's actions in this.
And even if DeAngelo has had rather bad experiences with referees in other hockey games, it does not excuse him for his actions here.
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Act like a baby? You make it sound like DeAng threw a punch or something. He's telling the linesman to let go and complies with the linesman in directing him to the box. DeAngelo doesn't try to stay in the scrum, ignore the linesman in going to the box, or continue the conflict in anyway, and once the linesman stops trying to hold his arm everything settles down. He's skating away from the scrum but the linesman is still grabbing both his hands for some reason.
What do you think is going to happen when you provoke an angry steroided athlete by restraining their hands needlessly? The linesman didn't even get hurt? If you want to be a bouncer, be prepared for a little conflict. The baby is anyone who gets worked up over these types of things. It's a physical and emotional sport where fighting and stick attacking and cross checking and other acts of violence happen on a regular basis, and one overzealous bouncer gets some love chops on his arms and people are calling for DeAngelos head?!?