Rick Rypien got 6 games for his little tussle with a Wild fan this week. I had guessed 5, but even that to me was a little high. Mike Milbury got 6 games for beating a man with his own shoes. You can see it here Fun with shoes So seeing the Rypien incident was way more minor than this, 6 seems a lot to me in a relative way. How ever this is Napoleon Bettman's NHL and turning the game into a passionless pussy fest is his goal. Or maybe it's society that is to blame.
That leads me to my main gripe with this whole situation. Sure Rypien should not have touched a fan, but the fact is it happened. And what about the victim? Well naturally, this kid did what any American would do. He got a lawyer.
This kinda thing makes me sick. No one can take responsibility for anything they do in life. It is always someones fault, and usually something they see as a lawsuit. We are always quick to blame the athlete for any such matter, but no one ever considers what the fan may have said or did to provoke an attack.
When someone is emotionally jacked up, it does not take a genius to know that it will not take much to set them off. Think about yourself in a moment of extreme emotion. I am sure everyone has snapped at some point during one of these episodes. It reminds me of some idiot that wonders why they got mauled by some wild animal. "I don't know why it attacked me, all I did was poke it with a stick a few times as it was feeding its baby it just birthed 5 minutes ago". All I am saying is it takes two to tango. We see it in all incidents involving players attacking fans. Usually the fan starts it. Go on Youtube and check some of them out.
Back to the lawyer thing. This weasel is gonna take this oppertunity to show the world what turd he is if he sues over this. It was a little grab of the shirt, and any judge that hears this waste of a case is also an idiot for wasting everyone's time. Give the little turd some free tickets and lets move on, and maybe an Ovechkin bobble head doll.
I had a similar reaction to the Vancouver couple that has decided to sue Leafs centre Mikhail Grabovski over a bar fight during the winter Olympics.
This story has lawyer scum written all over it. They claim all sorts of injuries and mental anguish over this fight.
Their version is that the husband was just sitting there, being a model citizen, when a boozed filled Grabovski attack this angel because he was wearing a Habs jersey. After beating the husband, this crazy man also beat the shit out of his wife.
Sure, that sounds like a reasonable claim. People attack people all the time for no reason at all. Fuck.
Keep in mind that Grabovski allegedly beat up a whole bar on his own with a broken hand mind you, which had kept him off the Belarus roster, as well as the Leafs roster at the time.
The couple claimed at the time that they did not know who this man was, but when they heard he was an NHL player it was like "Shit, I got whiplash now... call my lawyer".
Eddie Murphy has a funny bit on Raw about a bar brawl that ended with everyone suing him. Like he could kick a whole bars ass by himself.
The Police in the Vancouver brawl said there was like a dozen people involved in the fight, and all were too drunk to press any charges, as they could not get the real story of what had happened.
My guess is that this perfect angel started running his mouth and Grabo Decked him. Others probably stepped in to break it up, and a few more punches got tossed from everyone involved. I have seen many bar fights in my day, and that is usually what takes place.
But that is society these days. Next time you go outside, make sure you have a lawyer on speed dial. You never know when you need to sue someone.
I will leave you with this little story about how my buddy almost caused a player/fan altercation at an Oshawa Generals game. I went with my roommate, and band mate at the time, who's name shall go unmentioned for security reasons.
We lived within walking distance of the new arena, and walked over to the game after having a few um... "non" alcoholic beverages. We had really good seats. We were about 3 rows behind the visiting Pete's bench. The game was okay, but things didnt really get interesting until the final 2 minutes of the 3rd period.
It was about this time my buddy thought it would be a funny thing to toss his empty 'non' alcoholic cup over the glass, hitting the Pete's coach right in the head. The whole team looked supper pissed off and were scanning the crowd to see who did it. At the same time, a guy a few rows back did the same thing at the same time as my buddy. His cup did not go over the glass though. No one saw my buddy do it, cause he did it all ninja style.
Cops and security were all over the place. The game was delayed. The announcer made a statement over the PA saying not to throw shit on the ice. It was madness. Plus the team was still looking like they were all gonna hop over the glass. That would have been a lot scarier had the the team not been a pile of 16 year olds.
Anyways, Security came down and asked who did it, and the best part was, not one person would rat out the guilty. That was pretty solid. Security did ask a few guys to leave, but that was because they were lipping off at the fake cops. Actually everyone in the section was giving security a hard time.
Even the guys they kicked out didn't actually leave, as they just stood in the aisle for the last minute of the game. It was pure madness.
But had these 16 year olds climbed the glass and attacked my friend, they would have been in the right in this case, because what he did was stupid. It was fucking hilarious, but still would have been his fault.
And unfortunately, we don't know any lawyers.
Well that's all for now. Until next time...
Stay Angy!
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