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Hit a sore spot eh? This blog is in regards to the recent Todd Bertuzzi incident. This wonderful piece is by a fellow co-worker.I have no comment on the bombings as I haven't seen all the news. But I do want to comment on the Todd Bertuzzi posting you made the other night... I feel like I'm in a fan "call in" show.... Although Bertuzzi should receive all the punishment he is getting and more, I want to take exception to your comments on Danny Heatly. Yes he was driving a weapon that killed his best friend, but there was no intent. These are children with the income of kings, and his supped up Ferrari is something that shouldn't be in the hands of children. They don't have the maturity to deal with it, even someone as level headed as Heatly, according to his junior coach, who I know very well. His was a very different type of mistake that has nothing to do with what Bertuzzi did. There were a few weeks leading up to the Bertuzzi incident that included statements from people all over the NHL asking to get rid of the instigator penalty so that the "goons" could police the Nazlund hit the way it used to be done. The Canucks were hinting at payback since the Nazlund hit happened. Bertuzzi's hit was pre-meditated, it was meant to injure, and it deserves as stiff a penalty as he got, if not more. Some people say that this type of thing happens without injury all the time and the suspension was too severe, but think about it in terms of what I call the bullet theory. If you shoot at someone and miss or graze them, it's attempted murder. And the penalty is quite minor. Minor in comparison to what it would be if you actually hit the person in the heart and killed him. The extent of the injury should, and did, come into the decision for the punishment Bertuzzi received. He is out indefinitely, and at least through the end of the year and the playoffs. When you think about it though, almost every play in an NHL game could be considered assault in the real world, so it's hard, in my opinion, to put the same rules of the street on a hockey game. His crying on TV may have seemed contrived, but I think Bertuzzi is sincerely sorry for putting another player through what he put him through. I hope it is a wake up call for the entire league, but as with the McSorley incident, tempers and emotions will simmer down and we will look at this with a little more of an objective perspective in a few months. All this being said, Bertuzzi probably won't play again for a long time since there may not even be a season next year with a strike looming very large. And Megan, when we play hockey...You're going down, Girl!! :) Sure. Right. I'm tougher. - Megan Posted by Bella at 8:22 AM# 0 Comments:
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