You know, we all saw the game last night. The way the Wild - and especially Stephane Veilleux - lost control is either pitiful or downright hilarious depending on your mood. (Lately, I’m leaning towards the latter). I figure the Wild fans must be all busy now trying to reconcile the fact that half of their team seems to think that “toughness” is defined by how often you can hit a guy without getting caught, or by how many guys you can get to fight an Avalanche player at once.
Or not. Instead, it’s all about Lappy.
Laperriere talked after the game about how much respect he had for Veilleux for knowing he had to “back it up” by fighting him. Funny though, Laperriere has never felt he’s had to “back it up” for using a star’s head as a punching bag in the regular-season finale. And I say that knowing Laperriere checks out this blog. Laperriere doesn’t feel he has to fight Boogaard, Fedoruk, Simon or even Voros. He chose Veilleux.
Seriously, are we STILL rehashing this? I know the Wild management felt the team was short on toughness after getting pushed around by Anaheim last spring, but surely Minnesota fans have seen some fights in the “State of Hockey”, right? A punching bag? Really?
Perhaps we should send Russo to Derek Boogaard’s fight school. If that was using a star player’s head as a punching bag, I’d hate to see how fearful they’d be if, you know, the combatants actually dropped their gloves.
If Wild fans want to put last night behind them, I’ll understand. It happens. Teams melt down. Heck, our color guy once climbed into the stands to take on some unruly fans. But please, can we put an end to the attempts to make the “fight” more than what it was - an irritant getting under the skin of one of your guys. No punching bag, no fight, no punk azz pu$$y or any of that other gobbledygook.
If it wasn’t cheap why did laperri-scared come out and say publicly that he won’t fight booguard? Isn’t he a little old to be affraid of the boogy man?
Have you seen the pictures on your presious lappy site linked above?
The 3rd picture is a classic example of a hooking call not called. One small example of the wonderfull officiating going on in this series.
Apparently you’re pulling Newspaper quality
tailtrolls now DD. Does that mean you’ve made it bigtime?I rather have the tail…
DD, you need to change that video to the Altitude video, it show Gabby shoving Lappy first. Gabby is not as innocent as the Wild ‘fans’ believe.
Let’s do a quick run-down of some of Lappy’s opponents through the past few years that were considerably bigger than him:
Chris Gratton
Jamie Pushor
Andre Roy
John Erskine
Andy Sutton
Derian Hatcher (!)
Bryan Allen
Shea Weber
Rob Davison
Doug Murray
Ryan Getzlaf
So he’s not a coward, obviously. But he is a middleweight, and the reason there are weight classes in every form of professional fighting is because a 6 foot guy who weighs less than 200 pounds doesn’t stand a chance against a guy five inches taller and 30-50 pounds heavier. Lappy usually only fights guys his size, like every other fighter in the NHL.
Minnesota keeps crying about it, but they’re the dumb ones for wasting spots on their bench on giant knuckle-draggers instead of stocking up with actual skill players.
The Avs know better than to sit a scorer in favor of Scott Parker. Nobody ever won a playoff game just by racking up the most PIM. Why is this difficult to figure out?
This is the biggest non-controversy I’ve ever seen.
This “controversy” is so far beyond ludicrous it’s gone plaid.
Lappy hit Gaborik (who by the way was frustrated and a little out of line that game) in the face with gloves on, and these Wild fans are acting like he Bertuzzi’d him.
The comparisons to Brad May are ridiculous too. Reading the comments on Russo’s blog made me vomit in my mouth a little. That and the continued insistance by many Wild fans that Veilliex’s hit on SoS was not penalty worthy, that the Avs ‘broke the code’ by not fighting EVERYBODY in the third period, and that hitting our star players in NECESSARY to win, but we shouldn’t even breathe in Gaborik’s general direction because it would be considered dirty.
I must be hard doing day-to-day activities with those dark-green colored glasses on all day.
Lappy and McLeod have done their jobs to perfection — and without crossing the line. If we win this series, I believe we can look back on the distraction they were for the Wild as a major factor.
Still, if we have one player most likely to take a stupid penalty that will really hurt the team, that is certainly McLeod. Plus, unlike Lappy, he is a horrible fighter.
I hope our only retribution for the goonery that took place is knocking these clowns out of the playoffs by Saturday night. Speaking of Saturday “night.” When will we know what time the game is Saturday. The Av website still lists it as TBD.
I thought I saw a promo (Vs, perhaps) that said 10pm. That may have been a dream or a hallucination though. This east-coaster has been a bit sleep-deprived lately.
10 it is. Eastern, of course.
heh, and this literally popped into my reader the second after I posted.
The Mild and their “Fans” are getting ever closer in my book to being my Most Hated Team, replacing the Flameouts. I never thought it possible but they are pushing it. God damn Neanderthals.