Jarrko Ruutu Responds to his hit on Jagr in his Olympic Blog

[True North]

Ruutu is the best player of his kind. He does nothing wrong. Maybe he is abusing how bad referees really are sometimes but thats ok since it helps his team to win games. And thats what its all about? people who really think Ruutu is out there trying to hurt people is just Pejorative Slured...he is just playing the game.

And that was a clean hit on Jagr if there ever was one.

Exactly. Ruutu is an agitator, that's just how he plays the game, and he does it to perfection. If every non-Canuck fan on these boards comes in and says how much they hate Ruutu, that's a GOOD thing. That's what he wants. He wants other teams to hate him, because when other teams hate him, they go after him and take stupid penalties.

And the hit WAS clean. I said that as soon as I saw it, and I stand by that now.

 

[romba]

What bout the big grin he had on after? Jagr's on the ice bleeding and he's smiling?

 

[True North]

What bout the big grin he had on after? Jagr's on the ice bleeding and he's smiling?

He always smiles...it pisses the other team off even more and again, makes them more likely to get aggressive and take stupid penalties.

Watch a Canucks game. Ruutu always has that ****-eating grin on his face. It had nothing to do with Jagr being injured.

 

[NFITO]

I lost whatever little respect I had left for Jarkko Ruutu the minute I found out he has a blog.

you do know that it's not Ruutu's own thing here... Canucks organization have asked players to do this as - I'd guess - a way to get more involved with the fans... it's all hosted on their own site. My guess is that they'd write some stuff to canucks.com, and they'd post it as a blog.

Steve McCarthy did this at training camp, and basically did a "blog" reporting every couple days his experiences at training camp.

I'm sure the team's asked Ruutu for something similar... just reporting from the Olympics... gives him more exposure, and lets the fans feel like they're interacting with the team more.

If you lose respect for this - do it towards the canucks PR braintrust... losing respect for Ruutu for providing some commentary for the team, I don't understand??

 

[HockeyCritter]

I think part of what made that hit so bad was the the dasher in the olympic rinks looked higher to me - Jagr bends like that in an NHL rink, his head is not even with the dasher line and he doesn't get as hurt I bet. Just a thought.

The boards are quite a bit higher and the glass is shorter ..... kinda wierd looking now that I think about it.

 

[fism]

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/6152/partyriuutu5lo.png

Does Ruutu look like Jaques Villeneuve or what?

 

[Epsilon]

you do know that it's not Ruutu's own thing here... Canucks organization have asked players to do this as - I'd guess - a way to get more involved with the fans... it's all hosted on their own site. My guess is that they'd write some stuff to canucks.com, and they'd post it as a blog.

Steve McCarthy did this at training camp, and basically did a "blog" reporting every couple days his experiences at training camp.

I'm sure the team's asked Ruutu for something similar... just reporting from the Olympics... gives him more exposure, and lets the fans feel like they're interacting with the team more.

If you lose respect for this - do it towards the canucks PR braintrust... losing respect for Ruutu for providing some commentary for the team, I don't understand??

It has nothng to do with Ruutu personally, it's just my general hatred of blogs and everything associated to them.

 

[Joe MacMillan]

What bout the big grin he had on after? Jagr's on the ice bleeding and he's smiling?

I believe he smiled at Straka and Malik, who went after him after the hit.

 

[Towelie*]

Ruutu eats babies as well.

 

[Kickassguy]

Ruutu eats babies as well.

He killed my kitten.

 

[Pete Rock]

He killed my kitten.

I heard he also performs abortions in a Catholic Church.

 

[obscene]

I'm amazed by all the comments on that blog kissing up to jarko. I guess all the real ones were deleted.

 

[DRL]

...and here we go again.

The hit was clean, just get over it. It just looked bad when a star gets smashed by agitator. Vice versa it wouldn't be a news!

btw the blog is Canucks'

Nieminen's comments were too that it was clean. He also said Jagr would'nt never put his head down like that in the NHL and said the Jofa helmet is a joke. Jagr changed the helmet afterwards and haven't commented about "how dirty" hit it was cos he knows himself the truth.

You guys just can't handle the truth!

(keep ya head up)

tell that to the people who think moore on naslund wasn't clean, ie canuck fans who now defend ruutu

 

[hockeyfan125]

tell that to the people who think moore on naslund wasn't clean, ie canuck fans who now defend ruutu

the Moore hit itself was clean. No elbow, anything. The ONLY part I take issue with compared to the Ruutu his was the fact that Naslund never had puck control, and Jagr did.

 

[BigCanada77]

He always smiles...it pisses the other team off even more and again, makes them more likely to get aggressive and take stupid penalties.

Watch a Canucks game. Ruutu always has that ****-eating grin on his face. It had nothing to do with Jagr being injured.

He was kicked out, so getting them more pissed at him to take stupid penalties was not the reason... It was a hit man smiling at his dirty work. Classless.

 

[El_Loco_Avs]

the Moore hit itself was clean. No elbow, anything. The ONLY part I take issue with compared to the Ruutu his was the fact that Naslund never had puck control, and Jagr did.

As off topic as this is (and that this shouldn't be continued in this direction lest all hell break loose again).

Thanks for restoring my faith.

 

[True North]

He was kicked out, so getting them more pissed at him to take stupid penalties was not the reason... It was a hit man smiling at his dirty work. Classless.

Ok, first of all, Ruutu was smiling IMMEDIATELY after he was pushed and jumped by Straka. He didn't know he was getting kicked out yet. And even as he was getting escorted off the ice, I really doubt the referree was going to skate over and tell him exactly what his penalty was amidst all the chaos. Ruutu smiles whenever he causes ****. And who knows, what if they faced later in the medal rounds?

Ruutu is a "hitman"...yeah right buddy. He's an agitator who plays the game hard and plays the game well, and he put a hard, CLEAN hit on Jagr which due to Jagr's position, his helmet, and the position of the boards, wound up injuring him. Get over it. Every hard hit that causes an injury doesn't equal a headhunter.

 

[aylib]

Ok, first of all, Ruutu was smiling IMMEDIATELY after he was pushed and jumped by Straka. He didn't know he was getting kicked out yet. And even as he was getting escorted off the ice, I really doubt the referree was going to skate over and tell him exactly what his penalty was amidst all the chaos. Ruutu smiles whenever he causes ****. And who knows, what if they faced later in the medal rounds?

Ruutu is a "hitman"...yeah right buddy. He's an agitator who plays the game hard and plays the game well, and he put a hard, CLEAN hit on Jagr which due to Jagr's position, his helmet, and the position of the boards, wound up injuring him. Get over it. Every hard hit that causes an injury doesn't equal a headhunter.

Ruutu is classless, maybe you are the one that should get over it.

 

[True North]

Ruutu is classless, maybe you are the one that should get over it.

Try reading my post, before you answer. Did I ever say anything about Ruutu having class? No. He acts without class, and that's why he's so effective.

 

[aylib]

Try reading my post, before you answer. Did I ever say anything about Ruutu having class? No. He acts without class, and that's why he's so effective.

I did try reading it, but it wasn't formulated too well, I guess.

 

[True North]

I did try reading it, but it wasn't formulated too well, I guess.

It was poorly formulated because I didn't comment on his class either way? Nice try. The next time YOU **** up and misread someones post, don't try to pass it off as their fault. It just makes you look stupid.

 

[lennie]

It has nothng to do with Ruutu personally, it's just my general hatred of blogs and everything associated to them.

You should start a blog on that

 

[SopelFan*]

Ruutu = Silver
Jagr = Bronze

Silver > Bronze

Therefore:
Ruutu > Jagr.

 

[Zaddik]

the hit was clean. people are only evaluating the hit from the aftermath and the character of the person hitting the guy. give it a rest.

 

[aylib]

It was poorly formulated because I didn't comment on his class either way? Nice try. The next time YOU **** up and misread someones post, don't try to pass it off as their fault. It just makes you look stupid.

What was Canada77 stating? That Ruutu is classless. Is that right, or not? And if you chose to blabber about something else in reply- thats on you.
Please don't insult, if you want to discuss- let's.