Dude, calling people a "cancer" is just not cool.
Flippantly using the word "cancer" is not cool.
You just aren't getting it. We're done here.
So your post is suggesting that it's ok to call Evander Kane a cancer, but not Matt Cooke or Kadri?
That was rhetorical, please do not answer. What I think is happening here is that you are numb to certain uses of the term cancer due to it's frequent use, but take offense with it's use in other references, and you fail to see the hypocrisy of the situation.
I apologize if using the term cancer is upsetting to you. As a cancer survivor myself, I used to be a little put off when people would call everyday annoyances "cancer", but I quickly got over that, as it is everywhere, and it is pretty much a staple term on these boards to describe malcontents or brash personalities on teams. If we are going to use the term locker room cancer in everyday discussions, then I don't really see the problem of using the analogy on something I feel much more passionate about.
I'm assuming you never played the game. Playing in college, I hit a guy coming around the net hard. It was clean, but it had to hurt. I collected the puck, cleared it around the boards and turned to skate up ice when he two-handed me across the back of my helmet and broke his stick in the process. I am lucky it was a new (at the time) lousiville composite stick, and not an aluminum or a an old aspen sherwood, or I likely would have been seriously injured. It was not pleasant, but the fact that he broke a 120 dollar stick on my head was somewhat satisfying. I've been slew-footed, chopped on the back of the leg down inside of my skate's tendon guard, butt-ended on the seam of the pants right on the hip that actually chipped my hip bone, two handed across the forearm with enough force that it would easily have broken my arm had I been wearing soft pads instead of elbow pads with a long shelled forearm protector (still left a nasty bruise for weeks). And the recipient of dozens of other dirty plays. Way more than I can count.
I've been in a lot of situations where I could have retaliated on players, where I found them later in a game in an extremely compromised position, and I could have "accidentally" run into them, with a good chance of injuring them, but hockey is just a game. I want my opponents to respect my safety and I need to respect theirs. That is what kept me from trying to hurt them, even though my emotions were high and I was angry and I wanted to.
People that never played will often say "Hockey is a fast game, I don't think it was intentional", but growing up playing hockey, we all learn subtle dirty tricks and how to disguise them. Thankfully most players have respectable coaching at some level of their development along with solid morals, and they learn what is wrong and what is right, but a few never do.
Kadri does not have that filter. Some players never develop this control, and I do not believe he ever will.
