[tigerthelion]

I want to know how it's different. Brian Burke gave a good explanation of the event. Two guys were hitting Holmstrom. It's not completely unreasonable to think that Rob's hit had something to do with the way Holmstrom's head went into the boards and it wasn't just some simple smashing into the glass from Pronger. Alfie hit a guy from behind and the guy went down. Pronger hit a guy, not from behind, and the guy went down but wasn't hurt bad. Like Burke said, if Holmstrom had his helmet on properly, he probably wouldn't have been cut. The bleeding was nothing anyway. It's ridiculously easy for a cut to form on the forehead.

Haha yeah but come on, it's Brian Burke. Nothing he says is taken seriously. In fact, on TSN they just called out his bullshit "height" excuse. Anyway, the intent was different. Detroit was up 4-0, Pronger was frustrated, and he had more malicious intent. And if intent isn't enough for you, it was also a direct head shot with an elbow, combined with the impact of Holmstrom's head being driven into the glass. Just because a guy isn't bent over, digging for the puck, doesn't mean it isn't from behind. Pronger's hit was just as "from behind" as Alfredsson's hit was.

"if Holmstrom had his helmet on properly..." - is this the shit Burke is spewing today? Interesting, blame the victim never fails.

"it's ridiculously easy for a cut to form on the forehead..." - the same way it's just, just so RIDICULOUS and, just so, just so OUTRAGEOUS that politicians were trying to score points off of Doan. Just, so....RIDICULOUS.

I don't know what you are implying here. It was assinine that politicians brought up Doan's incident, if it even should be called an incident. Do you not like my use of the word 'ridiculous'? Whatever. :? Pronger got a suspension. Nothing I can do about it. That doesn't change the fact that Alfie has a history of dirty play.