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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
You gotta take off your homer glasses.
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Ah, the old ‘homer glasses’ argument. It's funny how a guy can go for years and years without ever wearing homer glasses, and suddenly, wham! there they are stuck on his face. And then, as soon as the debate is over and the other party is no longer interested in scoring cheap rhetorical points, pop! off go the glasses, never to be seen again… until the next time when an accusation of homerism comes in handy.
It's a weak insult, and no substitute for an argument.
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That was not intentional,
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He skated directly into Hamonic, raising his elbow as he approached, and smashed him right in the nose. You don't put your elbow up there unintentionally.
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Kunitz has never been a dirty player by any stretch as I recall,
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He's got a fairly substantial rap sheet. Among other things, he has achieved the fairly difficult feat of getting suspended in the playoffs.
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and truly if you start suspending or issuing fines for plays like that you set a terrible precedent.
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What, a terrible precedent that you're not allowed to smash guys' faces with your elbow?
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And they thinking is you punish the player because he doesn’t get to play the rest of the game.
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A sound way of thinking in recreational hockey. The pros aren't playing just for the fun of it, but for the money, which is why I say they should hit serious offenders in the pocketbook.
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The fines don’t cost the players more than an expensive night out and are hardly noticeable to a vet like Kunitz.
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That just says that the fines aren't big enough. I would suggest he ought to be fined about $12,000, which would cancel out his pay for that game.