Prospal mouthed off to Brisebois. Prospal said afterwards he thought itr was just how people talked and he didn't mean to be offensive, and he's probably being honest.
I remember that. Prospal called him a frog and after that he made a comment along the lines of "I apologize to all French Canadians but not to that man (Brisebois)." It had something to do with Brisebois saying something about his wife if I recall.
But the point was if you want to "suspend" players for remarks like that then why not do it to all? Simon was suspended in 1997 for calling Mike Grier a N*gger. It was in the heat of the battle. Darcy Tucker was questioned once when he flapped his arms in a chicken motion to Peter Worrell (I think) and some idiot in the media made it out to be like he was pretending he was an ape, which was so far-fetched. Chris Gratton caused and uproar when during a pushing and shoving match some reporters read his lips and assumed he was saying "*****ing ape" to Worrell once when it was clearly "play the game."
So why is it that a black player or a European player cant be called a name without a suspension but a French player can? And by the way I'm from Ontario and I've posted a couple of things on this thread about how I feel some Quebecers are ungrateful so dont think I'm a separatist. I've neve been a fan of suspensions for words, I mean that's all it is, words, in the heat of the moment. Remember the saying "stick and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?" I believe in that so I think people are just whining when a player shouts a remark out like that - even though I know it isnt right its far from the worst thing that can happen in a game. But if you do it for one race/culture why not do it for all? Why was Sean Avery not suspended when he called out French Canadians last year?