HTFN
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- Feb 8, 2009
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It’s easy to have no hard feelings when nothing came of it in the end, but that fight is one of the stupidest fights in hockey. If hockey fans want to debate whether a fight is the demanded and acceptable response to the actions of a skater we can do that all day, but for a star caliber goaltender to be forced into a fight he didn’t want to answer for... winning? What are we even doing here? How is this a debate people are actually having? Emery wasn’t making Holtby answer for anything in the code, he made an educated guess that he had the fighting edge (go figure) and decided he wanted a pound of flesh, no options given.No. This is defending my friend against Washington Capitals fans that are still offended that their goalie, who they don’t even want anymore because Samsonov, got his ass kicked from this guy. Btw the dropped assault charge is because someone he loved and thought loved him called him the N-word. I’m not saying it’s justified but it is understandable because, well, would you expect that?
And because I’m on my phone and can’t multi-quote, but JKG33 he was in the same vein as Billy Smith, Ron Hextall, Tim Thomas and other fiery goaltenders that basically said “this place is mine. Come take it”. Him punching out Holtby was that. And he and Holtby talked that over after the season ended. Holtby feels no ill feelings over it. And not because Rayzor is dead.
Two guys want to meet in the middle that’s fine, but you know as a starter that you’re risking a lot of your team’s future success in that moment. Anything else is some grade A bull****. You can’t take a crack at another team’s season just because you want to.