Let me first start off by stating for the record, that I am not an NHL fan as of late. I haven't watched a game in about 5 years now, so before anyone reads this and goes off on me for being a Bruins fan, know your facts.
Injuries in sports are unfortunately an occurance that happens. Many a player has been injured by accident or by intention, and neither one is acceptable in the eyes of a fan. It is an easier pill to swallow when an injury is an accident of course, but you will always have those people who feel that is was intentional. Now I may be naive in saying this, but I would like to believe that even though a hit may be intentional, the serious injury that it may or may not cause was not the intention. Yes, of course there are the goons on the ice that are put there to man handle the other players, and to protect their star players, and while they are aggressive and there to be physical, I again would like to believe that they never intentionally plan out to end someone's career. In the end no one but the aggressor will ever truly know the real intentions, and who are we to judge? Who are we to say, out of anger, that someone meant to cause the injury that could possible end a career? Are we clairvoyant and all knowing? Last I checked you were a pissed off fan sitting on your couch.
Eric Lindros had his career ended in the semi-finals for the Stanley cup, did the city of Philly cause an uproar? Crosby is still recovering from a very serious injury, and he is just a kid, has Pittsburgh declared war against Washington? Koivu suffered an injury to his eye and did Montreal.. oh wait... I am sure we did do something stupid.
This city's hockey fans, and I use the term lightly, because in my mind if you were a fan who would not disgrace your city and your team the way that these so-called fans have done, time and time again. Win or lose somehow our city ends up in flames and riots. We actually have the odasity and the balls to boo a national anthem, holy disrespect batman. You should be slapped in the mouth for such outrageously disgusting behaviour. Twice. With a bat. And then the icing on the cake was when I heard that there were fans (again using the term loosely) that were actually calling the police emergency line to report Chara. ARE YOU FOR REAL PEOPLE? Have you actually become this retarded from the so called love of a game? Holy f**k get a life, get laid, get a hobby, do something with your life because you are spiralling out of control. This type of behaviour is dispicable, disgraceful, idiotic, insane, and these people should be fined for their stupidity and suspended from the game of life for their actions. Forget hockey people, you have gone to far here. Or better yet, the police should respond to their call with a house call and a smack in the mouth with a baton. Twice.
Now please, do not get me wrong. I think that it is awful what happened to this kid, at only age 22 he has his whole career ahead of him. I think that the NHL really needs to take a good look at what is going on out there on the ice because it seems to be a regular occurence these days, that someone is injured by a dirty hit. This is not MMA here, this is hockey. I am not familiar with the rules of the game anymore, but I can say that there seems to be something lacking in terms of consequences.
What I do think is wrong is the way that our city is reacting to this. I have to say that rioting, setting our city on fire, booing national anthems, and now calling emergency lines that are reserved for you know, emergencies, is downright embarrassing not only to our city as a whole, but to the team. Would you want to be drafted to a team, who's fans reacted in such a way? I'm going to go with no. Someone said "well you have to admire their passion" ya about as much as I would a husband who commits a murder suicide after catching his wife with his best friend.
You want to make your voice heard? Do it the right way. Go about the right channels to make it heard that these type of incidences, regardless of what team the player is on, are not going to be tolerated by the fans. Make the NHL feel it where they will feel it the most, their pocket. Boycott the sport if you have to. Do not humliate our beautiful city. But more importantly, do not humiliate those that are REAL fans of the sport.
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