News Article: Boston Bruins' Milan Lucic recently released anti-bullying book

[Inked87]

Wow is this real life?!? ahahahahaha You seriously cannot make this stuff up. Amazing.

 

[Video Coach]

Asked what his message is to parents about bullying, Lucic responded: “Teach them to respect everyone, respect themselves and respect your peers. I know that’s what I was brought up to believe in growing up. My parents did such a good job with myself.â€

 

[FF de Mars]

I would hope those 8-13 year olds are getting their parenting and life lessons from somewhere other than hockey games.

I actually think the opposite. Hockey teaches honour and perseverance.

 

[Braun]

This is also a guy who punches out people's lights for a living, and gets fined for spearing people, and showboats after fights and goals...is all of that okay? No, "that's just hockey", right? So why is this dramatically different? Because it was in the sacred handshake? I don't see it that way.



Just beer league. But I'm sure I missed out on some valuable insights by not making the NHL...

Has nothing to do with NHL, it has to do that when you play hockey all your life you learn sportsmanship and what makes hockey so awesome is that at the end of the day/game we can shake hands, accept the win or loss and turn around to your opponent and say "hey, good game, good luck." It ends at the whistle. To me, there is something special about hockey other sports don't have. Let's not lose it.

 

[Brainiac]

WhaaaaaaT? I saw the book's cover in another thread and I thought it was just a joke.

You just can't make that up!

 

[NativeHockey77*]

Dale Weise should order a copy and mail it to Milan. In case he hasn't read it yet

 

[hototogisu]

I actually think the opposite. Hockey teaches honour and perseverance.

Of course. It can also teach a lot of ugly things too. Like any sport.

Has nothing to do with NHL, it has to do that when you play hockey all your life you learn sportsmanship and what makes hockey so awesome is that at the end of the day/game we can shake hands, accept the win or loss and turn around to your opponent and say "hey, good game, good luck." It ends at the whistle. To me, there is something special about hockey other sports don't have. Let's not lose it.

I agree completely with everything you said.

 

[Laurent]

“I always feel like — and still to this day — that you should treat people the way you want to be treated,

I'm dying here

 

[Willis Jenks]

As dumb as he was yesterday, he wasn't bullying Weise or Emelin. Bullying implies being in a position of power and picking on the weak. Weise and Emelin are two grown men. To me there's a big difference between NHL competitors and schoolyard bullies.

Lucic is doing a good thing for the kids by releasing that book.

Btw, which message is more powerful, Lucic telling the kids not to bully or a guy like Daniel Sedin telling kids not to bully? Answer is obvious.

 

[Habs 4 Life]

This book keeps getting better and better

 

[Brainiac]

As dumb as he was yesterday, he wasn't bullying Weise or Emelin. Bullying implies being in a position of power and picking on the weak. Weise and Emelin are two grown men. To me there's a big difference between NHL competitors and schoolyard bullies.

Lucic is doing a good thing for the kids by releasing that book.

Btw, which message is more powerful, Lucic telling the kids not to bully or a guy like Daniel Sedin telling kids not to bully? Answer is obvious.

As you said, the answer is obvious. Lucic will bully the children into not bullying each other. Like, "Stop bullying, or I'll ******* kill you!"

 

[Deebs]

This is classic, love it.

 

[kassian]

Lucic has a hell of an agent who knows how to help a player with his image, gotta admit. That and a nice ghost writer

“I always feel like — and still to this day — that you should treat people the way you want to be treated

Lel.

 

[HabsRockBruinsChoke]

As dumb as he was yesterday, he wasn't bullying Weise or Emelin. Bullying implies being in a position of power and picking on the weak. Weise and Emelin are two grown men. To me there's a big difference between NHL competitors and schoolyard bullies.

Lucic is doing a good thing for the kids by releasing that book.

Btw, which message is more powerful, Lucic telling the kids not to bully or a guy like Daniel Sedin telling kids not to bully? Answer is obvious.

Could not disagree more.

Since when was bullying only applied to people of status that are picking on people that are lower? Bullying is simply harassment. It has nothing to do with class level either, for example:

I'm a billionaire who is 150lbs, you're a scum who is 250lbs and you see me walking down the street and start beating the **** out of me for no reason, what the **** do you call that? not bullying i guess because some jealous d-bag is trying to release his suppression on an upper class person?

Also, this may be unrelated to last night's game but I can't believe a lot of people don't know that bullying does not necessarily have to be a direct-negative confrontation. Even if you ignore someone when they are trying to talk to you, you're forcing a feeling of guilt onto another person, or if you ignore someone being bullied, then you're technically a bully as well because you've taken the side of the aggressor.

Lucic making death threats is taking bullying to a whole new level.

 

[Runner77]

I'm dying here

Lucic saves his teaching moments for ceremonial handshakes. Like last year, he graced a genital love tap upon Dion Phaneuf, you know, to make sure whether he has any balls:

 

[BaseballCoach]

Meh, I guess by bringing that up the goal is to brand him a hypocrite, but there's a pretty big difference between trash talking amongst adults in the context of a hockey game and little kids bullying each other in school. You can do the former and be opposed to the latter without being a hypocrite.

No, I don't think so.

Using a sportsmanlike moment of the teams' shaking hands to pass a message of "I'm going to kill you" - to more than one person to boot - is bullying.

You can't be against bullying of kids but not of 25 year olds. That's just ridiculous.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

This is actually hilarious...

 

[Le Tricolore]

The book is part of a series that encompasses this other Lucic gem of an incident:




Which led MiG to do this:

holy ****...

 

[Willis Jenks]

Could not disagree more.

Since when was bullying only applied to people of status that are picking on people that are lower? Bullying is simply harassment. It has nothing to do with class level either, for example:

I'm a billionaire who is 150lbs, you're a scum who is 250lbs and you see me walking down the street and start beating the **** out of me for no reason, what the **** do you call that? not bullying i guess because some jealous d-bag is trying to release his suppression on an upper class person?

Also, this may be unrelated to last night's game but I can't believe a lot of people don't know that bullying does not necessarily have to be a direct-negative confrontation. Even if you ignore someone when they are trying to talk to you, you're forcing a feeling of guilt onto another person, or if you ignore someone being bullied, then you're technically a bully as well because you've taken the side of the aggressor.

Lucic making death threats is taking bullying to a whole new level.

That's simply assault lol a criminal offence.

My point was in the NHL if you allow yourself to be bullied by an opponent then you're not suppose to play in this league. Obviously there can be bullying in the locker room, like the Incognito case in the NFL, but that's a different story.

To me there's a clear distinction between what Lucic does to our Canadiens than what happes in the schoolyard.

 

[MSLs absurd thighs]

Is this **** real life???

Oh my God. Milan Lucic. The joke that keeps on giving...

 

[Runner77]

The following is bang on:

If the accusations made by Montreal Canadiens player Dale Weise are true, Boston Bruins star Milan Lucic isn’t only a poor sport and a sore loser, he’s a vulgar cretin who makes threats during a time when sportsmanship is not only encouraged, it is expected.

Weise claims that Lucic was classless and disrespectful following Montreal’s series-clinching 3-1, Game 7 win at TD Garden as the two teams shook hands on the ice.

The handshake line, a time-honored and revered tradition in hockey, is a unique custom and is supposed to showcase how players can set aside their differences following a hard-fought series and celebrate the dignity of the game and the competitiveness displayed by fierce rivals.

Lucic, according to accusations made by Weise after the game, indicates that he has no time to honor the custom, instead using the opportunity to make violent threats.

 

[vtm26]

Leaving aside the anti-bullying book (which is funny because Lucic is a bully), I think the whole "Lucic threatening Weise"-thing is a non-story. Everyone knows how intense the game is and how much those guys like to compete. This was like 5 minutes after they had lost the series to their biggest rivals.

 

[Habaneros]

Milan Lucic controversy overblown, says Don Cherry
Coach's Corner star not bothered by Bruin's comment


http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/milan-lucic-controversy-overblown-says-don-cherry-1.2644479

 

[Phil Parent]

Ya know, those handshakes aren't always fun and sometimes, the "Good job, man!" is tough to get out. Animosity is easy in hockey. But I've never seen that kind of behaviour in any handshake line I ever saw or was a part of.

Now, sometimes, the only interaction between two guys will be a quick & silent handshake where the two guys barely can look at one another. That's okay, it's still in spirit of the thing. AT THE LIMIT, do you remember that time where Claude Lemieux and the Red Wings player he injured did NOT shake hand? They just skated by one another, didn't shake, shook the next guy's hand.

Ļucic's not right in the head. That, or he's too much into his act.

 

[Agnostic]

Ya know, those handshakes aren't always fun and sometimes, the "Good job, man!" is tough to get out. Animosity is easy in hockey. But I've never seen that kind of behaviour in any handshake line I ever saw or was a part of.

Now, sometimes, the only interaction between two guys will be a quick handshake where the two guys barely can look at one another. That's okay, it's still in spirit of the thing. AT THE LIMIT, do you remember that time where Claude Lemieux and the Red Wings player he injured did NOT shake hand? They just skated by one another, didn't shake, shook the next guy's hand.

Ļucic's not right in the head.

Bobby Dollas said this morning that he's seen guys give a firm handshake and fake a congratulatory nod all the while talking smack throug their teeth. Lucic just couldn't hide his poor sportsmanship.