Funny, but doesn't Joe Thornton have a "plate in his face" from Eric Lindros?
He's still playing without a shield and dropping the gloves when need be. His fight with Jamie Benn was excellent.
Emelin is a joke. I don't except his or habs fans excuse for his cowardly play.
Bergeron plays like a player who had a major injury. He doesn't even plant guys anymore like he did from 2003-07. He makes sure not to raise ire, all while playing hard. Emelin doesn't do that, and he can suffer the consequences. Horton didn't do that today and it wasn't too smart.
True, he does. He gobbled all of that uppercut.
Want nothing to do w/ a Horton that's going to drop the gloves going forward. I know he disappeared a lot before getting hurt. But some of the stuff you see w/ him tells me he's still waiting for all the cylinders to be firing in regard to his coordination.
People say Bergy is back to what he was before he got hurt. I don't think so. It took something out of him. His hands sometimes. He even had a fair one-timer back then, something we rarely see from him anymore. His decisions seemed so much quicker, or perhaps it was his anticipation. Hard to put your finger on it. Most especially, as you say, those hits. Even when he was 18, guys would put the body on him going into a corner, and he'd send them flying by exploding into them. When he lined someone up, he destroyed them. Seriously, is there any team that's suffered more than us when it's come to injuries resulting from dirty hits? It's infuriating to have to listen to the whining. As if they didn't have good reason, if not pure necessity, to harden the **** up and beat the bag out of people.
