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“This Is A Bailout”
by Paul on 11/22/09 at 08:44 AM ET
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So says Mike Milbury speaking about Patrick O’Sullivan of the Edmonton Oilers. Scroll to about the 2:20 mark on the video and David Staples of The Cult of Hockey chimes in…
I thought hockey fans could be tough and nasty in their player critiques on the Oilogosphere, but CBC announcers Mike Milbury and Kelly Hrudey just got as harsh as any anonymous Internet hater. The two CBC announcers thrashed and trashed Oilers forward Patrick O’Sullivan after the first period of the Oilers-Hawks game on Saturday night, bashing him for not going hard after a puck along the boards, evidently so he could avoid body contact with Hawks defender Duncan Keith.
At least that’s how it looked to me, and that’s certainly how it looked to both Hrudey and Milbury. Hrudey started off the hammering, then tagged off and Milbury utterly put the boots to the young Oilers forward.
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I hate doing this.
No he doesn’t,he lives for this stuff.
It was a bailout, so he’s right.
Milbury commenting on fighting in the stands? Hmmm 
What’s the old sayin’, “been there, done that”. 
Posted by Lindas1st from New England on 11/22/09 at 12:39 PM ET
Milbury has turned into a don cherry wannabe
Posted by FlyersFan on 11/22/09 at 05:21 PM ET
As Ron MacLean has become the “Crazy guy” in the MacLean-Cherry marriage, with Cherry far too often serving as the voice of *relative* reason, MacLean, his Alberta Hockey Network buddy Kelly Hrudey (nice how they said they’d “try to give” the Oilers that last-second goal via as favorable a review as possible), and Cro-Magnon Milbury together almost always involves some sort of character assassination and always involves ill-informed, plain old mean-spirited commentary.
By comparison, a Hotstove with Al Strachan and Don Cherry in the 1st period and after the 3rd in the early game equal a much saner Hockey Night in Canada[/i than the second game’s worth of intermission content.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 11/22/09 at 08:27 PM ET
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The guys were right, he bailed.
But, even if Keith had nailed him, he may have gotten hurt, a fight would have ensued, there would have been a big dramatic delay because of reviews, etc., etc.
A good, clean hit cannot be thrown in todays NHL without a fracas occurring immediately afterwards.
He did both sides a favor and backed off, like a good sissy should.
Posted by Goon Squad from The Penalty Box on 11/22/09 at 09:33 AM ET