I think its hilarious that some people are now up in arms about the Buchnevich cross check. Yes it was dirty, but he's got to defend himself from all the oafs on the other team. He's not a fighter, he was the one in a prone position getting cheap shotted by Wilson the previous game, and now he has to take the high road when Mantha is chasing him around the ice? The Caps players think they can just keep dishing out the dirty plays on him and not have any recourse? Laughable.
In a just league it'd be a $5000 fine and the league would recognize their part in creating this mess. But they will suspend him maybe for multiple games, because the league is run by hypocrites. If I was the NYR owner I'd pay his fine and missed salary for him and give him a good old pat on the back.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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