Former NHL'er Andre Deveaux assaults player during warmups in Sweden

[Mad Brills*]

His comments about it were awesome. This guy is ****ing nuts.

Imagine if the guy he attacked got hurt really bad......

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Wow! That was pretty crazy stuff

Just gets off the bench and simply hacks at it like he's weilding a claymore!

He just went all barbarian on that guy out of nowhere

Bobby Clarke approves.

No, no that was different

That was during the cold war and it's fine if it's a good ol' Canadian boy who does it to some stinkin' Russian

The shame of a nation as far as I'm concerned, I was so gutted when I saw that we had to cheat to win that series

 

[Afino]

what the hell

 

[Subban signed e5]

i hope he gets a long suspension for that.

 

[pbgoalie]

You guys obviously never saw Billy Smith Play.

Darn millenials!

 

[Flaming Satan]

That begs prison time. His response was even worse, he basically said he felt no remorse and would do the same thing again if he had the chance to redo it.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Walk it off.

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

Let he who hasn't lumberjacked an opponent cast the first stone.

 

[Captain Creampuff]

That escalated quickly.

 

[bluesfan94]

He said words were exchanged....I wonder if it was something racial?

 

[Gene Parmesan]

What an idiot.

 

[Plub]

Supposedly it was revenge for a hit in the last game.

Deveaux had the following to say:

"It was messy during the warmup. Some words were thrown back and forth. Than that happens. No one got hurt so it wasn't a big deal"

When asked if he regrets doing it:

"No. He played. He was fine. I'll think of him while I celebrate with the team" (Rögle got promoted to SHL).

It's scary that he seems to feel absolutely no remorse.

 

[waffledave]

Of course, it would have been completely fine if he had skated towards, him, shoved him, given him 3 seconds to drop the gloves, and then slugged him in the face. But this was just...an assault is what it was.

 

[OutspokenMinority*]

gotta keep your head on a swivel, kid. welcome to the NHL. or the JASDKFLAADSFL or whatever league that is.

as for the other guy, 18 months in lockup for assault with a deadly weapon.

 

[Gormo]

No, no that was different

That was during the cold war and it's fine if it's a good ol' Canadian boy who does it to some stinkin' Russian

The shame of a nation as far as I'm concerned, I was so gutted when I saw that we had to cheat to win that series

Agreed.

Listening to the hockey legends who defend that action turns my stomach.

 

[vfactor]

This is the most wtf hockey incident in my personal repository. I don't have any excuse for the guy. Somehow it looks like he may had that very last moment instinct to hold back or he really just want to scare the guy? Either way, it's a ban for me for a very long time for that action alone not he consequence of it. You don't even see it in garage league or NAHL.

 

[Kale Hulls]

Strong hockey play.

 

[Machinehead]

He's just so big and fast, he can't stop.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

if that's not a lifetime ban i don't know what is

 

[PepperKeenan]

I remember his elbow on Fleischmann a couple of years ago. He's not right in the head this one.

 

[Del Preston]

He needs help.

 

[MaKi]

Before reading his comments my initial thought was that he was having an acid flashback and thought the guy was a dragon or something... lol

 

[Bending and Tending]

Not good at detecting sarcasm I reckon?

It can be difficult to read with sarcastic inflections on the computer.

Had it stayed true to the story and said:

This kinda stuff happens before games all the time. Its a heated game and people have arguments.
Not sure why everyone is making a big deal about it.
/HFforum

I may not have missed the sarcasm.

 

[Coily]

Probably has CTE.

 

[TOGuy14]

I don't understand the context of this at all.

The guy wasn't facing him and clearly not paying attention to him and then after a short delay he goes full meltdown in what appears to be an unprovoked action.