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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
but are so you're saying laying smyth out like this was ok because he's a former NHL player and it's not fair he's better than many of the players?
that's the impression you're giving. it's ok for poor sports take out their frustrations on the former pros.
this isn't a league of some old plonkers playing for fun. it's pretty high level competitive hockey. not like Smyth joined a beer league to show some 50 somethings up.
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No, not what I meant at all, and 'taken out' in soccer is a lot different from 'taken out' in hockey, you get a bruised ankle or scraped knees at worst.
I was wondering though if Smyth was immeasurably better than the other players he was playing against, whether him being on the team makes that team 'unstoppable' because if that is the case while it doesn't excuse the hit it makes the frustrations that lead up to this kind of goonery more likely,