NESN Dallas News - Jack Edwards calls Stars Roman Polak’s collision into boards ‘bad hockey karma'

[Gordoff]

He's easily bottom third of pbp callers and is the #1 clown. You need to watch more teams telecasts and you'll change your tune.

Yaaaa, no thanks. I see enough of them. I'm just an old homer...

 

[Gordoff]

You don't touch Bergeron, you answer a question if he asks you and skate away.

It's sweet that two of those ****ing jokers got put out in the first game. Revenge is a dish best served cold and it wasn't even revenge it was KARMA sweet freakin' KARMA!

 

[KnightofBoston]

Blah blah blah more fake outrage by the land of misappropriated frustration.


There are actually tangibly horrible things happening every day to millions of people, Twitter and media losers. But carry on with your high horsery I guess

 

[Gordoff]

A review of Mr. Polak.

240 pound, 14 year veteran defensive defenseman. Most penalty minutes in a season, 72. Suspended once.

Doesn't sound like the all-time dirt bag cheap shot artist many posters here are portraying him as.

Some people are experts with getting away with ****. He IMO is one. If Marchand did the same thing and got injured he would still get the suspension before they wheeled him off the ice.

 

[LouJersey]

The only one of the Mtl fights i had any issue with was Boychuk/Spacek. Spacek clearly didn't want to go, Boychuk went anyway.
Moen (6'2 215) vs Ference (5'11, 185) - both guys wanted to go
Spacek (6' 210) vs Boychuk (6'2 225) - Spacek didn't want any, Boychuk mugged him
Hamrlik (6'1 205) vs Thornton (6'2 215) - Hamrlik didn't want to fight, Thornton push/jabbed him a couple times, then wrestled him down
Pyett (5'11 180) vs Campbell (6' 195) - Campbell was the aggressor, Pyett obliged willingly, Campbell's elbow pad come loose made it a beating
Polak(6'2 240) vs Krug (5'9 190) - They're hugging like everyone not involved in a scrap always do when Polak drops the gloves and gives Krug 2 cheapies right to the face.

But, no, you're right, apples to apples.

Yes when a Bruin who doesn't fight often gets picked on it's a crime against humanity where the perp deserves a serious injury (karma right?) but when the Bruins do it, that's old time hockey.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

He's easily bottom third of pbp callers and is the #1 clown. You need to watch more teams telecasts and you'll change your tune.

Do you value highly the unemotional broadcasters who either have zero passion/knowledge or are afraid to upset anyone?

That is the majority of the NHL's local broadcast teams. I watch games nightly on NHL TV and outside of Vegas most teams' crews are brutal to listen to.

 

[BlackFrancis]

Yes when a Bruin who doesn't fight often gets picked on it's a crime against humanity where the perp deserves a serious injury (karma right?) but when the Bruins do it, that's old time hockey.

Is the takeaway here the contrast between a rational, sane Canadien press and fanbase versus the neanderthals in Boston?

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Is the takeaway here the contrast between a rational, sane Canadien press and fanbase versus the neanderthals in Boston?

Neanderthals in Boston?

 

[DKH]

Neanderthals in Boston?

We Compared the Average IQ Scores in All 50 States, and the Results Are Eye-Opening

Massachusetts #1

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

We Compared the Average IQ Scores in All 50 States, and the Results Are Eye-Opening

Massachusetts #1

Well....The both of us live in Mass

 

[BlackFrancis]

Neanderthals in Boston?

The "rational and sane Canadiens press" didn't even register there? Really?

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

The player's history doesn't matter. What matters is that he got hurt attempting to throw a very questionable hit. He's lucky in that he didn't get hurt too badly and Wagner escaped injury. But regardless of that, he was throwing a hit he never should have attempted. It had bad results written all over it.

I don't understand how anyone can say he was attempting a questionable hit. He may well have been trying to slow down when he lost his balance and fell.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

The "rational and sane Canadiens press" didn't even register there? Really?

I apologize. Just finished 18 holes (ho hum 80) and one third through a bottle of Johnny Walker Black

 

[KrejciMVP]

I don't understand how anyone can say he was attempting a questionable hit. He may well have been trying to slow down when he lost his balance and fell.

narrative to explain the Jack Edwards comment

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

We Compared the Average IQ Scores in All 50 States, and the Results Are Eye-Opening

Massachusetts #1

Results compiled by fake news.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

I don't understand how anyone can say he was attempting a questionable hit. He may well have been trying to slow down when he lost his balance and fell.

It was a very clear shove to the lower back.i have no idea how some pretend it was not!

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

I don't understand how anyone can say he was attempting a questionable hit. He may well have been trying to slow down when he lost his balance and fell.

El wrongo

 

[WestCoastBruinsFan]

I don't understand how anyone can say he was attempting a questionable hit. He may well have been trying to slow down when he lost his balance and fell.

Seriously?

 

[LouJersey]

Do you value highly the unemotional broadcasters who either have zero passion/knowledge or are afraid to upset anyone?

That is the majority of the NHL's local broadcast teams. I watch games nightly on NHL TV and outside of Vegas most teams' crews are brutal to listen to.

Nah they are all emotional. Most also call the game and don’t go off on tangents or whine when their team is the victim or the nail after years of the opposite. I also like them to let the color guys tell the stories because you know those are the guys who played the game. I mean how many words can Brickley even get in during a period?

 

[LSCII]

I don't understand how anyone can say he was attempting a questionable hit. He may well have been trying to slow down when he lost his balance and fell.

Uh, because of where and how Wagner was positioned? He had a choice to make. Either hold up or throw a hit on a player in a vulnerable position, and he picked the latter. In this case, Wagner mostly avoided it and he ended up throwing himself into the boards.

 

[LSCII]

I apologize. Just finished 18 holes (ho hum 80) and one third through a bottle of Johnny Walker Black

Where'd you play?

 

[Troublesome 85]

7 pages on the Bruins board?

 

[LSCII]

Nah they are all emotional. Most also call the game and don’t go off on tangents or whine when their team is the victim or the nail after years of the opposite. I also like them to let the color guys tell the stories because you know those are the guys who played the game. I mean how many words can Brickley even get in during a period?

Jack is a lot to take. But in this case, he's not wrong.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Where'd you play?

Wentworth Hills Plainville

Brookmeadow tomorrow

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

7 pages on the Bruins board?

And you added to it

Anything else?