Bubbsy my friend... If u did make it to the game last night 1000 sorries... I just am coming to terms with it now...brutal game for the only one live this year
I've been thinking a lot about that hit and about all of the other stuff that JG is taking on the ice.
Maybe the coaches need to teach him stick up.
If someone lines him up like that he needs to put his stick up at throat level so the player has to go through his stick to make the hit.
Maybe at this point he needs to take some penalties. If someone slashes him across the hands he heeds to turn around and give him not a little half effort slash but an absolutely brutal slash.
We can argue that the other teams will just target him so he'll retaliate, but at this point, I'm convinced that we're seeing Johnny break down from all of the abuse. And maybe if Johnny goes out of his way to become a on ice surgeon, his team mates will be more willing to help him out.
I mean we've seen his game drop off, probably because when he takes off his gear he looks like he's been in the vietnam war.
but how willing would Komarov been to throw that hit if he had to go through 3 feet of stick aimed at his face?
Of how willing would a player be to slash him repeatedly if Johnny gave him a spear in the sack?
And how willing would the team be to defend him if he was trying to defend himself?
And maybe just maybe if Johnny high sticked one of these offenders and then laughed on the way to the box as his abuser lay on the ice bleeding the team would get a boast of energy.
