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by Paul on 05/03/09 at 07:52 AM ET
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from Pat Caputo of the Oakland Press via the Royal Oak Tribune,
There seems to be much pent-up resentment toward the Red Wings in North America because they feature so many European players, and that there is a lot of rooting going on for the Ducks as a result.
That appears to be particularly true in Canada, where the commenting on “Hockey Night in Canada” has clearly leaned away from giving European players their due. It’s been going on for decades, but has gotten worse recently with the Red Wings’ Stanley Cup triumph last spring. It will surely only grow now that all three finalists for the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s MVP are Russians — including the Red Wings’ Pavel Datsyuk….
Also Friday night, Jonathan Ericsson, a Red Wings’ defenseman from Sweden, dropped Anaheim’s Corey Perry, a forward from Canada, to the ice with a series of overhand rights.
Ericsson wasn’t wearing a face shield like Perry. Can you imagine the outrage if it were the other way around? Yet, you didn’t hear anything about the chippy North American player hiding behind his face shield, did you?
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The Wings don’t want your love.
They demand your respect.
Kiss it.
Posted by w2j2 on 05/03/09 at 08:59 AM ET
great observation on the face shield, as not infrequently do many Canadian elitists try to establish that the shield is a symbol of the soft euros (yeah, soft players like draper and cleary).
as i did grow up in michigan i used to have a sympathetic bent towards Canada and Canadian teams (heck who didn’t watch Channel 9 Windsor or listen to The Big 8 CKLW?), but that went out the window when they became insane some years ago. will be sweet if Chicago rubs vancouver right out of the playoffs.
vancouver is that proud city who booed all the American 18 year olds in the world juniors a few years ago and enthusiastically cheered their russian comrades against the terrible americans. so if vancouver as the last canadian based team gets bounced i won’t cry.
(that said, it seems like 1 or 2 franchises ought to move to Winnipeg and/or Hamilton, just sayin’)
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 05/03/09 at 09:32 AM ET
The Tronna MSM, who is perpetuating this sort of shit, can kiss my ass, suck it, and then STFU.
Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 05/03/09 at 12:28 PM ET
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Will heads actually explode if the final is Detroit against Boston (to take the remaining playoff teams with the best regular-season records)? Whichever team wins, the Cup will be handed to a European defenseman as the captain. Swede or Slovak, it won’t be a Canadian to touch it first.
I think it’s a very cool situation - but go back about three or four generations and my family is a bunch of “soft Euros” in the opinions of some, too.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/03/09 at 08:27 AM ET