I ain't letting this hypocrite POS off!

[Bundbuster]

So after thug-coward Todd Bertuzzi viciously assaults Steve Moore of the Avalanche from behind, without provocation or warning, slams his head into the ice and breaks his neck, then pummels Moore until pulled off, he has the nerve to show up at a press conference and say: "I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to do it," with TEARS in his eyes.

YOU DIDN"T MEAN TO DO IT? I hope you lay awake with nightmares of being assaulted from behind every night of your life, you two-faced, lowlife, scumsucking piece of excrement.

Crocodile tears & hypocrisy from $500,000 fine and season banishment -

[Dookus]

1. he should have a lifetime ban

and be charged criminally. f***ing asshole.

[SmileyBoy]

2. He still deserves to be punished, but I'm glad he showed remorse.

It's not going to be easy to forgive, but once his penalty (suspension/jail) is complete, I will be willing to forgive him.

Just my opinion.

[Bundbuster]

7. Is it really remorse?

Or did the reality of losing half a million in salary/rest of season play, and being publicly ostracized and humiliated bring these tears about? I'm tired of such thugs - in football too - assaulting opponents with PRE-MEDITATION and then claiming they didn't mean to. BULLSHIT!

As for legal prosecution which virtually never follows, there seems to be an implicit agreement that upon entering the NHL, a player signs away all rights to legal recourse in the event of life-threatening attacks by goons. The bottom line is that the NHL not only does nothing to discourage violence, they feel that it's needed to prop up their falling attendance & viewership. They lost this former college hockey player years ago with their endorsement of bloodsport.

[HEyHEY]

14. Calling BS on the last one Bund

The NHL has gone to great lengths over the years to get rid of violence. When I was a kid it was way worse.

[Bundbuster]

20. Calling BS on that one, HEyHEY

I grew up in Boston in the 1950's, when there were 6 NHL teams, used to go to Bruins games 20 times a year. Sure, there's always been fighting, every team had a designated goon, and there were even more intense rivalries and "retributions" than today. But the stick-swinging attacks and bodily damage assaults which have been on the increase in the last 15 years was NOT prevelant back then. Players would usually call out the rival for a one-on-one fight, NOT using a stick as a weapon or attacking from behind. Anyone who's followed hockey for the last 30 years has seen an obvious lookaway by the NHL authorities, mainly because they know that with 28(?) teams and ever-increasing competition with other sports for a TV audience, more people who are not real hockey fans can be lured in by the potential for violence, not at all unlike the absurd levels to which "pro" wrestling has gone to lure in the bloodlusters.

Why is it you almost NEVER see serious fights or assaults in the playoffs?

[HEyHEY]

21. Yeah but the reason the cheap shots occur

is because the NHL has made it hard for two goons to go....so they resort to this kind of junk.

[MrSlayer]

3. I don't think he meant to break the dude's neck.

He just wanted to fuck him up a bit. There was a right way and a wrong way to handle it and he went the wrong way. You turn the guy around and offer him out in a head up fight or at the very least sneak him to his face. This does not excuse what he did, it was cowardly and completely wrong but I don't believe he meant to hurt him that badly. The suspension and fine are sufficient punishment.

[Mick Knox]

4. I feel sorry for both of them

its a terrible situation.. I was angry yesterday.. but I think his apology was genuine.. I think he meant to beat his ass in the wonderful Hockey tradition.. not break his neak... After his apology.. I cant help but feel sorry for em both.

I agree with the punishment.. I dont agree with any charges.. but I'm sure they will happen.

[DS1]

5. Is the guy he did that too paralyzed?

[MrSlayer]

6. No, he's going to be fine.

Full recovery within a few months.

[zbdent]

8. No. But it could easily have been so

I saw the tape. After the initial hit, the guy went down, head-first.

This guy kept hitting him on the head after he was down. After the initial hit, he could have easily made a bad situation fatal.

[Bush_Unemployed_04]

9. The real reason he's crying....

He just realized that he's unemployeed in Bush's economy....

:spank:

[HEyHEY]

13. he lives in Canada and makes 5 mil a year

I don't think the money concerns him

[DrWeird]

10. It was certainly cheap shot.

But I've seen worse.

[nini]

11. If this fighting crap wasn't so allowed in hockey this guy wouldn't ..

..have done this in the first place.

The NHL needs to accept some of the blame for this one.

this guy probably never intended to hurt Moore the way he did. Unfortunately these things happen when you do dumb crap like that which is why you shouldn't do it in the first place. He deserves to be punished but like I said the NHL has allowed the type of environment that makes this kind of stuff ok to consider at all.

[HEyHEY]

12. A 235 pound jock man cannot fake cry on que

He honestly feels bad about what he's done. He never meant to break the guy's neck. It was a cheap shot. But it was just a that....it came to a terrible end. Such thiings happen in the league all the time.

I agree with Burke's statements today.

[HEyHEY]

15. How about Moore's elbow to the FACE of Naslund?

Moore said he didn't mean that.......

[MrSlayer]

16. Looked like a clean shoulder hit to me.

Naslund had his head down and got blasted with the shoulder ala Scott Stevens. Keep your head up.

[HEyHEY]

17. I think what happened was naslund fell

As they hit...however..the media considered it a dirty hit, and Moore didn't get nearly as much crap for it. Why? Because Naslund wasn't as seriously hurt.

[MrSlayer]

18. It was a clean hit. Damage doesn't matter, ask Eric Lindros.

There was no penalty on that play because it was a clean hit. Brutal and devastating yes but clean, that's hockey.

[HEyHEY]

19. the point I'm making

Is the media has percieved it as a dirty hit. Yet, Moore was not beaten down by them because Naslund was not injured as seriously. However, it could have easily gone the other way.

[MrSlayer]

22. Maybe the local media in Vancouver....

reported it that way but the refs in the game and the league did not see it that way. When I saw it on NHL tonight and ESPN it was reported as clean as well. Even if Naslund had died from the shot it wouldn't be less clean.

[Skittles]

23. steroids

he is practically growing a third eye

[Bundbuster]

24. Hey Skittles, I hadn't thought about that factor

the 'roids sure do increase one's aggressiveness. Bodybuilders' wives tend to steer clear of their roid-raging hubbies in the weeks preceeding a competiton.

Thanks for your perception - if you were in the NHL, Lord have mercy on mr. bertuzzi, cause I know you'd KICK HIS ASS!