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[vazman05]

big bad tough guy lol....what a idiot....somebody should of beat the **** out of him....

[Angelus]

That was bizarre. I could understand if he had played the whole game and was being hacked, whacked, and run all game...but to come off the bench and react like that...I just don't get it.

He'll be suspended, no question.

[vazman05]

it almost looks like playfair put him in for that very reason lol

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

it almost looks like playfair put him in for that very reason lol

That's what I was thinking....what does it matter if he gets suspended?

Was Iginla ever looking to get his nose dirty... LOL

[vazman05]

lol the more i think about it, i think playfair put him out for that very reason...you see the one guy give mclennan congrats on the way out lol

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Playfair wasn't exactly playing fair.

LMAO...sorry had to say it...

[FlyersFan]

i think Iginla should miss game 6 as well...just bizarre behavior that has no place in the game

[FlyersFan]

nationally televised game and that is what the NHL shows the world..really nice

[vazman05]

FF i agree..

[FlyersFan]

apparently we've replaced fighting in hockey with thuggery and goonery....the league needs to send a harsh message ASAP that this stuff isnt part of the game....i would love to see iginla suspended for game6 and have is team get pounded and he would have to think all offseason of what he cost his team.

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Well...right or wrong, Iginla will be praised in Calgary for "sending a message"...you can bet on that. That stuff has been going on in playoff hockey since the ice was blue....and will probably never change in the 3rd periods of these "out of reach" playoff games...

But I know what you mean, FF... although many American NHL fans would love that stuff that went on (Joe Louis arena went wild everytime a scuffle started), it's pretty hard to sell that to a family watching in say Albuquerque, New Mexico....

We've been through this point before, and you've made very valid points from a US fan's perspective....because it's hard to get that perspective in Canada where the league is, and will always be the #1 sport regardless of an individual's view on the violence aspect of the game...

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

i would love to see iginla suspended for game6 and have is team get pounded and he would have to think all offseason of what he cost his team.

That would definitely send a message....and Calgary would do their best impression of the "Richard Riot" of 1955. LOL.

[FlyersFan]

JML- the cheap stuff has gotten more and more a part of the game. It's one thing to start a scrap late in a game, it's another when you start wielding a stick and hitting people. I don't understnd how that is different from a US or Canadian standpoint. I am a huge hockey fan, whether i live here or in Canada. I don't understand what you see in that. It has nothing to do with good hockey or even sending a message. It is just short of what bertuzzi did...he was basically doing the same thing.....just hit the guy in the wrong spot...don't justify it as hockey. It's garbage. It has nothing to do with being a canadian....you're right it has been going on, but not like the stuff we've seen in the NAS series and now this one. This has gone over the edge, IMO

[FlyersFan]

we used to just have fights, now we have chicken **** stuff like attacking people from behind....i don't midn the big scraps, at least you can see it coming...this stuff is just goonery

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

I agree with you regarding the cheap stuff. I was mostly responding to your "especcially on a nationally televised game" comment when I said the Canada/US thing. I was agreeing how I could see how that could turn off potential family viewers in the US....where as maybe in Canada, it is such a part of the culture, it might be overlooked a tad bit more. But that comment was more refferring to fights, "sending messages" with late fights, or tough hockey in general, but clean tough hockey....not the cheap stuff you also reffered too.

I agree with you...it is bull****...if Iginla and someone would have scrapped in the third, with Iginla trying to "send a message" (as if it really does, LOL), then went their seperate ways...I would have no problem with that. It's all about respect I guess...and that is the point you are making IMO...and I couldn't agree more. Ask any oldtimer...and he would preach that even further I bet.