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Originally Posted by dissentowner
I can't guarantee what others think, you are absolutely right. I can believe that the fact that Dennis Wideman is a Calgary Flame is effecting peoples judgement on a Calgary Flames message board though. Let's look at HF, a board that I don't agree with everything people say there but it is a board with fans of every team in hockey. Here is a thread on the Wideman suspension.
http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/sh....php?t=2023331
And because there is a poll here in this thread here is one there.
http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/sh....php?t=2023363
Let's see how the differ  ing of opinion turns out between the two boards, I bet it is vastly different. |
If there are Flames homers defending him because he's a Flame, I'm sure there are other fans willing to vilify him because he's a Flame as well. I also think there are even Flames fans who don't particularly like Wideman and are masking their dislike of him as an attempt to appear "fair and balanced" on this suspension.
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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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