06-02-2004, 09:31 AM
Different perspectives I guess. I've seen the replays over and over again, trust me, in Calgary there's little else covered in the news these days more than the Calgary Flames. Nemo definitly had his arms up high on Vinny. Hit him from behind and deserved the penalty. The fans booed him as if he was faking because in their opinions he was. As soon as Nemo left for the dressing room Vinny got up and skated without any assistance to the bench where he sat and looked fine. That's why the fans booed, it looked like he layed on the ice until to draw a worse penalty than was deserved. There was never a question that Nemo just took a stupid penalty with less than 5 min. left. Tortorella didn't play him again because he would have been an outright idiot to do so. The Bolts had the powerplay all the way to the end of the game.
How can you take hockey out of it? Of course it'd be an outright ridiculous thing to do outside of a hockey game. It's also be a silly thing to do to check someone into a wall (legally within a hockey game) outside of a hockey game. I don't see how taking hockey out of it has any bearing on weather it was a stupid thing to do.
And the Flames did lose. They had a ton of chances, could have easily won it had 'Bulin not been so stellar in net.
And 17th ave. Well, BulletRiddled's account of cracked windows is the first I've heard about that. I have friends that live a couple blocks off of 17th and have seen the aftermaths of every game since the Vancouver series. I've heard a few stories about drunken idiots doing stupid things like climbing street lamps and trees and a couple of fights which I don't understand. But all reports from the police have said that 99.9% of the people down there are well behaved. There were over 40,000 people down there!! In about a 4-5 block section of a street, to celebrate a sporting event! In many cities in North America and around the world there would have been a riot and looting. In my opinion that's remarkable.
How can you take hockey out of it? Of course it'd be an outright ridiculous thing to do outside of a hockey game. It's also be a silly thing to do to check someone into a wall (legally within a hockey game) outside of a hockey game. I don't see how taking hockey out of it has any bearing on weather it was a stupid thing to do.
And the Flames did lose. They had a ton of chances, could have easily won it had 'Bulin not been so stellar in net.
And 17th ave. Well, BulletRiddled's account of cracked windows is the first I've heard about that. I have friends that live a couple blocks off of 17th and have seen the aftermaths of every game since the Vancouver series. I've heard a few stories about drunken idiots doing stupid things like climbing street lamps and trees and a couple of fights which I don't understand. But all reports from the police have said that 99.9% of the people down there are well behaved. There were over 40,000 people down there!! In about a 4-5 block section of a street, to celebrate a sporting event! In many cities in North America and around the world there would have been a riot and looting. In my opinion that's remarkable.