Around the League 4 - y u do dis ekano?

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Bleedgreen taking matter into his own hands here.

http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/hoc...ches-player-tackled-trainer-article-1.2500773

 

[RodTheBawd]

What the hell was he thinking? The kid wasn't fighting him or anything, yet he's spinning and throwing him around, then sucker punches him. Good on that trainer, too bad the ref saw and avoided what would have been an awesome Goldberg spear.

 

[Ole Gil]

Stick tap for the trainer.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

You fav your own tweets. Should we interpret that as a cry for help?

I also "like" my own posts on facebook. You can ask anyone here, I'm friends with half this board lol

 

[Sens1Canes2]

What the hell was he thinking? The kid wasn't fighting him or anything, yet he's spinning and throwing him around, then sucker punches him. Good on that trainer, too bad the ref saw and avoided what would have been an awesome Goldberg spear.

To be fair, we don't see what's going on at the bottom of the pile. But, absolutely, linesman has no business hitting a player.

But the trainer has no business doing THAT either.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Yeah, the linesman should have just let it go no matter what happened. If you watch it closely though, the player (73) was a punk as well. Cheap shot on the goalie, trying to hit a guy while the linesman held him down, etc...

 

[bleedgreen]

Oh sweet baby jeebus how many times I wished I punched a kid dead in the face.

To be honest I'd like to see a side angle there, it didn't look like he hit him very hard. The shove seemed to have knocked the kid over. That's a tough angle to judge the blows there.

And while I get why we applaud the trainer, he should be banned permanently from the rink and his league. The linesman will I assume have to stick to his day job as well. Hopefully he's better at it.

I didn't realize the kid that hit the goalie and started the fight was the guy the ref hit. He's a dbag. Not that the linesman can justify it. The kid deserved his shots. Looks like the original player that took him on landed a haymaker! Maybe why the kid looks woozy and went down easy.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Oh sweet baby jeebus how many times I wished I punched a dead kid in the face.

This is how I read it the first time through.

 

[bleedgreen]

That would probably be a little overboard, but until you reffed.....

 

[Sens1Canes2]

That would probably be a little overboard, but until you reffed.....

Yep. I reffed from age 14-20 and it runs the gamut on what you experience. Hockey coaches and parents can be absolutely inhuman sometimes. You just have to take it with a grain of salt.

My two most memorable experiences were:

1) stopping an Atom (maybe ages 9/10) game mid-play to turn around to the bench and give an unsportsmanlike penalty to the coach - who was also my next door neighbor.

2) having to handle a bench-clearing brawl between two teams, one of which was guys from my high school and most of whom were my good friends (while we were the same grade, I was 1 year behind in hockey because I skipped the 2nd grade). I was a last-minute replacement linesman because the other guy was sick or something. Probably shouldn't have a 15 year old reffing 16/17 year olds.

That brawl was amazing. One of my best friends had been kicked out of the game earlier, and came back on the ice in street clothes. I was basically pleading with him "Bryan could you please just get off the ice....."

I'll never forget the image of another guy kicking the helmet of a guy who was lying on the ice. Kicking him in the head. Truly amazing.

 

[Ole Gil]

Youth sports: giving kids all the life tools they need to become sociopaths.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Youth sports: giving kids all the life tools they need to become sociopaths.

House leagues, man. When it gets to 15, 16 year olds playing house league....it's dangerous.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I like how the ref pretends to be completely unconscious for a second after the trainer knocks him down.

 

[bleedgreen]

Yep. I reffed from age 14-20 and it runs the gamut on what you experience. Hockey coaches and parents can be absolutely inhuman sometimes. You just have to take it with a grain of salt.

My two most memorable experiences were:

1) stopping an Atom (maybe ages 9/10) game mid-play to turn around to the bench and give an unsportsmanlike penalty to the coach - who was also my next door neighbor.

2) having to handle a bench-clearing brawl between two teams, one of which was guys from my high school and most of whom were my good friends (while we were the same grade, I was 1 year behind in hockey because I skipped the 2nd grade). I was a last-minute replacement linesman because the other guy was sick or something. Probably shouldn't have a 15 year old reffing 16/17 year olds.

That brawl was amazing. One of my best friends had been kicked out of the game earlier, and came back on the ice in street clothes. I was basically pleading with him "Bryan could you please just get off the ice....."

I'll never forget the image of another guy kicking the helmet of a guy who was lying on the ice. Kicking him in the head. Truly amazing.

Good times.

As a paramedic I get asked occasionally what was my best life experience that helped me prepare for a life in EMS. My honest answer is "hockey ref". Ive had change thrown at me during game play, had a kid get suspended for a year for intentionally using his stick to slew foot me (another coach videotaped it and turned in the tape, I didn't know what had happened - my partner tossed him), had a car gun it and try to run me over as I walked by in the parking lot, more parents than I can even count try to fight me right in front of their kid. All the emotion I see every day at work frequently parallels and at times is overshadowed by all the emotion I saw on a daily basis at the rink. As a medic you'd be shocked at how often I am hated and unwanted, and have insults/vulgarities/spit thrown in my direction. I was already completely used to it.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Probably my favorite when coaching was during a Pee-Wee tournament, two Moms got into it in the stands to the point where the police had to be called. This was in down here.

In a men's league I played in (not in Raleigh), I also saw a guy go up into the stands an punch the mother of a player of the opposing team.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

So it looks like Drouin gets suspended for not showing up at an AHL game tonight. He may turn out to be a fantastic player down the road, but I don't think I'd touch him with a 10 foot pole.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

So it looks like Drouin gets suspended for not showing up at an AHL game tonight. He may turn out to be a fantastic player down the road, but I don't think I'd touch him with a 10 foot pole.

Cancer. Not interested.

 

[Novacane]

Lol. He's 20 and he feels like the AHL is below him? Yeah, good luck dude.

 

[Havoq]

Not sure where these guys get this sense of entitlement, especially with his recent lack of production. Only going to delay the process as trade value just went even lower while Yzerman still has sky high expectations for a return on him.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Drouin is either acting like a baby, or taking bad advice from his agent. He'll likely get dealt, but hopefully not here.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I'm sure he gets it from his agent (although I'm not excusing Drouin because he owns his choices so he's equally to blame). Walsh is looking at a guy that he thought would be a superstar in this league and rake in huge money for him. That's not happening, so he's now using a nuclear approach. I doubt he gives a rats ass about Drouin, but only cares about the % of contracts he might get.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Wow. Mike Milbury on NHL Tonight basically just said that fighting no longer has a place in the game.

When you've lost Mike Milbury, who's left?

 

[bleedgreen]

Drouin is just following his agent, for better or for worse. I dont think he thinks he's above the ahl.

We'd be dumb not to look at him.

 

[bleedgreen]

Wow. Mike Milbury on NHL Tonight basically just said that fighting no longer has a place in the game.

When you've lost Mike Milbury, who's left?

Et tu, mike?!?

 

[A Star is Burns]

I'd still be looking at Drouin personally. I don't like what he's doing, and there'd obviously be risks, but I'd still try to get him. I get all the negatives with him, but it's not impossible to say that he can grow out of it. I'll take a chance with him and his baggage rather than some of the talentless character players we trot out there on offense on a regular basis. Of course it still depends on the price, but I'd still give valuable pieces for him even with the way things have gone down.