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Wrong Guy Handed Down The Avery Suspension
by Paul on 12/05/08 at 05:48 PM ET
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from Al Strachan at Fox Sports,
Hockey players take great pride in never shirking their responsibilities to the sport. They’d rather crawl off the ice dragging a broken leg behind them than writhe around like an Italian soccer player with a hangnail. As the superb Orange County Register columnist Mark Whicker once wrote, “If Abraham Lincoln had been a hockey player, the day after the Ford’s Theater incident, he’d have been listed as ‘slight headache; will play.’”
So when Avery made his senseless remark — the latest in a series — he broke no laws, but he absolutely shattered hockey’s code.
This was his transgression and it was certainly deserving of the league’s action.
But the question that remains unanswered is this: Why was Bettman involved? This was a matter concerning hockey’s code of acceptable behavior, and where is there the slightest indication that Bettman has even the most cursory familiarity with that?
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