ELynah Forum

Yes, I did watch the replay.  The sucker punch was god awful, and I'm not trying to excuse it.  You could argue either way for whether Bertuzzi falling on Moore and pinning him to the ice was intentional--when I saw it, I didn't see Bertuzzi forcibly THROW him down on the ice, but I don't think he necessarily did much to stop himself from falling on top of him.

If YOU watched the replay, clearly you saw the dogpile, where players from both teams threw themselves onto the two of them with such velocity that Moore's head was scraped along the ice.  Bertuzzi didn't do that himself.

Yes, Steve Moore.

My understanding of the hit is compiled from a few different sources biased to both sides (I admit to being a Canucks fan, so read this with that in mind), and this is what I could come up with: Many, many Vancouver players challenged Moore, including Bertuzzi and May, and he didn't answer the bell until the littlest guy Cooke took him on.  He accepted  the only fight he knew he could win easily, and that pissed Bertuzzi off.  Does that excuse him?  Of course not, but to clear Moore of blame because he accepted a fight requires a few mitigating circumstances.

Also, it looks like most of the damage Moore sustained was due to the ensuing dogpile (which there's no excuse for....), and not Bertuzzi's sucker punch that knocked him down.

Prediction: 10 game suspension.

Is anybody out there going to make the trek down to Florida for the Everblades tournament this year?  Last year we had enough people to start a small jeering section, and I was wondering if we might be able to repeat that.