My two latest gripes

Two things have happened in the last few days that are typical of the teams and players that are doing said things...

1. Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer came out with this gem today:

Penguins' Kunitz going unpunished; NHL rulings a joke

Wow....just wow.

Apparently what I said in an earlier post about the Flyers management players and fans should also include their sports reporters.
The Kunitz hit on Timonen was unreal, brutal, and nasty - but it was 100% legal. I don't know how some people can report this trash.
Hmm...what is the best way to put this.....how bout this:

Carchidi +Flyers fans = Total fucking Hypocrites

Just to be clear to Philly fans - my apologies for using large words

Hypocrite
-Someone talks trash about other people, but then does the same EXACT thing.

- a person who tells people not to do something, or that this it's is wrong, but this something, is something that he does or will do himself.

Anyway, because I wanted to educate this jerk, this was my response to his "article"

Posted by not_a _hypocrite 11:17 AM, 04/21/2009
(thats the name I created - lol)

Are you kidding? You sir are the biggest hypocrite in a city full of them.
The Kunitz hit on Timonen was unreal, brutal, and nasty - but it was 100% legal.
Of course no mention of Harnell's knee on knee hit on Letang was ever mentioned in your "article".
If Kunitz deserved to be suspended, what do you think should happen to Hartnell? Let me guess - you thought there was nothing wrong with that hit...?
Do you want to know why the league seems to be a little harder on the Flyers? Here you go..... The Flyers are a product of their own self made environment - they want to be the roughest team in the league. Management (always former players) thinks the game is still played like it was in the 70's - but generally they employee players that don't know the difference between hard play and intent to injure. Then they think the league is always against them. This ignorance by the management is "bought into" by the players (it has to, if they want to play there) and it trickles down to their fans, who are realistically probably the worst in professional sports, because they just don't get it. Because they are easily confused, they turn to conspiracy theories to help them sleep at night.

Carcillo was suspended - because he's a goon, and was taking a faceoff (which he very rarely does) with a few seconds left in the game. He was put out there to start stuff, which he did. Thats also why Stevens was fined - makes sense to everyone outside Philly, i guess.

Cammalieri didn't get suspended for the same action because he regularly takes face offs, and isn't a goon with a history of being a goon - big mystery solved.
So the "injustice" is your own fault people....sheesh

That should rattle the cages a little...LOL.....I'll post the "intelligent" responses as they come.

here's the link:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inqflyersreport/Penguins_Kunitz_going_unpunished_NHL_rulings_a_joke.html?posted=y&viewAll=y#comments

*UPDATE* - my account was instantly frozen (surprise)
Here are a couple of the responses:

not a hypocrite believes Jeff Carter has earned the right to stab Sidney Crosby. By his logic, a player's past reputation is the defining factor in interpeting his action. (By the way, with replay readily available, why does the NHL deny actions which fans can see with their own eyes) I have seen Carter's play from day one and while he takes a minor penalty from time to time, he mostly plays a gentlemanly game and rarely takes major penalties. In not a hypocrites world, then, he has built up enough good will "juice" to be able to commit felonious assault on another player. This isn't about hockey, it's about stupidity and after-the-fact denials.

here's another

Not_a_Hypocrite.... It would seem you are right about how easily I get confused. Forgetting for the moment that the hit on Timonen was not legal (more than 2 strides with direct intent to hit a player is charging, elbow to the face is elbowing, directly hitting any player who does not possess the puck is interference)- your point is that Carcillo should be suspended, not necessarily for the hit but for his or the Flyers' history, while Cammalieri should not even though the hits were identical because he does not have a history? OK- please educate me then. Is your point that if I steal your car I should be allowed to keep it because I've never stolen a car before? Or is it that I should be arrested because I'm a goon who has a history of DRIVING cars?

BAHAHAHAHA

that brings me to number two:

2. Spying Ovechkin asked to leave bench during Rangers practice


From TSN:


There was someone doing some "scouting" at the New York Rangers' practice on Monday, but the team wasn't very keen on the idea. And who can blame them?

After all, it was Capitals' winger Alex Ovechkin who decided to observe his opposition from the visitor's bench at Madison Square Garden, just hours before tonight's Game 3 of the Caps/Rangers playoff series. Underdog New York leads the series 2-0.

One of the Rangers' trainers complained to the Capitals, who had a public relations staff member ask Ovechkin to exit the rink. According to the PR man, Ovechkin was just looking for a place to relax.

That wasn't the story from Ovechkin himself, though, who joked that he sat in on Rangers practice to "tick off" head coach John Tortorella.

According to espn.com, Tortorella said afterwards he didn't even know Ovechkin was at the practice, saying, "Ask me a question about the game, not that [expletive]."

Ovechkin was asked why the Rangers wanted his removal, joking, "Because they're afraid of me."

Caps' coach Bruce Boudreau playfully dismissed the idea that there was anything mischievous behind the sit-in.
"I don't think he had a pen and paper and was writing down line combinations," Boudreau kidded. "I can understand (the Rangers asking him to leave). I've gotten into the same arguments with people when I've wanted privacy in my practice, so I can understand what John was going through."

You know, I'm getting pretty tired of Boudreau defending that clown. Yes, I know thats a coaches job, but its getting ridiculous.
And what is Oveckin thinking anyways......to me it's just another reason to bust a Russian nose "accidentally"

Go PENS