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Originally Posted by Textcritic
We all have a bias because we are all hockey fans with particular affinity for specific teams. Pretending that you are somehow immune is an expression of the Dunning Kreuger effect.
For the record, I don't particularly care a lot about the opinions of former players and hockey media pundits. They get some things right, but also just as many things wrong. But then again, until every single player and analyst weighs in on this it is utterly premature to insist that I am on some deserted island.
But let's explore that opinion of yours, shall we?
Tkachuk's legal bodychecks in the Saturday HNIC game are "the most cowardly thing you can do on a sheet of ice."
Really?
More cowardly than Todd Bertuzzi's assault on Steve Moore?
More cowardly than Raffi Torres's illegal head-check on Jakob Silfverberg?
More cowardly than Brad Marchand's spear on Jake Dotchin?
More cowardly than Mike Matheson's interference on Elias Pettersson?
More cowardly than Darnell Nurse's assault of Roman Polak?
I don't believe that you honestly think so.
Please elaborate on this "questionable conduct." Beyond a handful of borderline hits—very similar to the sorts delivered by DOZENS of other NHL players—I am very interested to hear about this controversial resumé that Tkachuk is compiling.
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You're starting to ramble which is another way of saying that you are trying to swim uphill against the masses ...
Which is understandable given your position that every hockey fan has a bias, in your case and the few others who are arguing with you it's a bias that gets you in a tither when its the other teams players who are doing it but contort themselves defending their player whose doing it...
While I agree with Paul Stewarts blog on the incident,
https://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Paul...ule/196/103704, what bothers me the most about the incident is the cowardly nature of the hit followed by the turtle...