happygobrokey
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- Joined
- Jul 24, 2006
- Location
- canada
what do you guys think?
personally, i think it's in poor taste what he did. i can understand a few seconds of deliberate screening when you happen to be right there, but hanging out all day there and raising your hands/stick in the goalie's face is unsportsmanlike.
and i don't feel the league needed to write up an amendment to the rules, because "unsportsmanlike conduct" is a catch-all, an f-u clause if you like. getting in the goalie's face all game, ignoring the actual play of the game to deliberately irritate and deteriorate the play of one of your opponents, is not sporting. and at the same time players doing this would be provoking a fight or intentional penalty from the team being screened to "teach" the screener to back off. this falls outside the spirit of the game imo.
anyone care to contribute?
personally, i think it's in poor taste what he did. i can understand a few seconds of deliberate screening when you happen to be right there, but hanging out all day there and raising your hands/stick in the goalie's face is unsportsmanlike.
and i don't feel the league needed to write up an amendment to the rules, because "unsportsmanlike conduct" is a catch-all, an f-u clause if you like. getting in the goalie's face all game, ignoring the actual play of the game to deliberately irritate and deteriorate the play of one of your opponents, is not sporting. and at the same time players doing this would be provoking a fight or intentional penalty from the team being screened to "teach" the screener to back off. this falls outside the spirit of the game imo.
anyone care to contribute?