Comments on: Mario Lemieux’s message to the NHL both right and wrong all at once

By: Rosenthals Speling Instrukter

Rosenthals Speling Instrukter — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:48:29 +0000

Why was the Habs and Bruins WWF match last week no problem and healthy for the league?

Campbell hit a sweet leg drop on Suban. After that Suban nailed him with the Peoples elbow and finally the refs broke it up by giving each the Million Dollar Dream.

By: skimmer0220

skimmer0220 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:06:47 +0000

“If the events relating to Friday night reflect the state of the league, I need to re-think whether I want to be a part of it.”

Good take you’r sunglasses and get the hell out of the league, your entire team is dirty starting with the cry baby of captain you employ

By: joepags

joepags — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:46:09 +0000

really mario??? didnt the pens lead the league in PM for fighting? or in PM period? $100 thousand is a huge fine for a team, especially for the islanders!! i wonder if the pens got the fine if he would consider it hefty? i watched that game and find it hard to believe the pens got away scott free. mario, you have been hanging around crosby too much!

By: facemaskplease

facemaskplease — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:38:12 +0000

Aside from your reference to the Talbot hit on Comeau, I agree with everything you had to say, totally. I think the retaliation, however, was for the injury to DePietro that occurred in a fight with Johnson during the previous game, which was more reminiscent of Johnson vs. Willard than anything else, but in this case DiPietro is about 5’6″ and not 6’6″, hence he got clocked, big time. I am a hockey fan for over 50 years, and I still don’t understand why fighting is allowed in hockey, period. If Mario Lemieux is a hypocrite and selfish, this makes Mr. Bettman and Mr. Campbell, Claude Kirshner and Clowny. More than a wake up call is needed for these two and the League in general.

However, your article does not go far enough, and perhaps you will follow up with what the league “needs to do.” I will look forward to that, since something needs to be done now. The game was changed for the better, after the strike, but something has happened. The refs can’t keep up with the game or they too have been confused by Campbell. No one seems to know anymore what a “charging” penalty is, or a “boarding” or “checking from behind.” When the “Face of Hockey,” Mr. Crosby, is on the side lines with concussion symptoms, and any sympathy for him almost seems undeserved due his own chippy play, we only can wonder if things could be worse.

By: PCa Survivor

PCa Survivor — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:38:22 +0000

I find it unconscionable that two players whom the league found guilty of “deliberate attempts to injure by delivering blows to the head of players who were unsuspecting and unable to defend themselves” received less punishment than a player who was guilty of a technical rules violation. I support a 10-game suspension for Godard because “rules are rules” but the heinous actions of the two Islanders call for more than a player who came to the aid of his teammate.

By: logi82

logi82 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:38:39 +0000

Good Mario sell your shares of The Penguins and go back Canada get yourself a pee wee hockey club. Your team has some of the worst offenders of cheep shots and dirty play in the NHL and your club is protected by the evil empire Bettman, Campbell, plus every two bit referee in the league.

Just to recap: Your coach plays Johnson who injured the Islanders DiPetro a week earlier most likely to stir the pot; plus your coaching staff could not keep a player from jumping off the bench to engage in a fight and your franchise receives no monetary punishment. Now you have the balls to cry about Friday nights game as if your beloved Penguins were some how wronged?….puke.

Your bellyaching against the team with the most man games lost to injuries in the NHL. Let’s make a deal If you renounce your ownership and sell your team I will stop watching NHL Hockey. After all I don’t want to be a fan of a league with an inept officiating staff. upper management with selective bias to it’s playoff birth teams and owners who cry about punishment’s in or not in their favor.

Come to think of it Mario doesn’t putting your two cents into Bettmans punishments warrant a $50,000 fine? L.A. Kings GM ring a bell? Oh that’s right… punishment for all just not for the Penguins. Way to set up a consistant precedent NHL brass. Why was the Habs and Bruins WWF match last week no problem and healthy for the league?