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Originally Posted by MarkGio
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 anything 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?!?
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This is the thing. You think this linesman restrained DeAngelo's hands needlessly.
DeAngelo was already worked up during the scrum and was looking like he was going to cause more trouble for someone if a ref or linesman didn't grab him. That was why the linesman restrained DeAngelo like he did.
And no, Deangelo didn't throw a punch or smack the linesman, but he shoved the stripes guy significantly twice when the linesman didn't even attack, nor cause DeAngelo to be physically attacked, or do anything to make that sort of aggressive response appropriate, and that was where the hockey player crossed the line and turned it into unacceptable conduct. Yeah, things like this happen, but it still has to be punished and that's the point it seems like you're missing.
Another thing you're not taking into account is that if there are no repercussions for something like this other athletes will also be pushing the envelope trying to get away with similar transgressions or perhaps even escalating these things into something a lot worse to get away with because of no repercussions for something that seems relatively minor.
Like I said, this is on DeAngelo completely for getting suspended.