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Wings Battling A Stereotype
by Paul on 05/03/09 at 08:52 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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