Thursday, April 19, 2007

Homerism sucks

I'm just watching the Anaheim/Minnesota game, and Francois Beauchemin and Marion Gaborik just got coincidental minors for roughing. Both deserved it. However, if you listen to the announcers, Gaborik is the dirtiest player in the game for reacting to two punches to the head by punching Beauchemin in the face (Beauchemin has a fractured jaw and is wearing a protective cage). I mean, it's one thing to criticize Gaborik for swinging at somebody with a broken jaw; it's another to ignore that the player with the broken jaw provoked the incident by playing dirty himself.

(Oh, and punching a player in the back of the head isn't a penalty, it's a good play by Chris Pronger to clear out the front of the net.)

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