Matheson/Pettersson Incident | Matheson Receives Two Game Suspension Pt. II

[pcruz]

Your editorials are really bad.

Gretzky would have been killed by the goons of his era. He was always slight and skinny. But he had the likes of Dave Semenko and Marty McSorley to beat the cap out of anyone who dared to bother Wayne. Just wait until the rematch when your dimwitted pylon of a defenseman Matheson becomes the meat puppet to some bigger goon.

Peterrsson may be slight, but similar undersized players have become popular in the NHL. Gaudreau, Kane, Krug, Arvidsson and even your discarded Marchessault are small and light and still score.

And you are still in denial about the legality of dim bulb Matheson's hit. The can opener and pile driver are dangerous and illegal. Doing that in a bouncy castle could be okay. Doing that on a hard surface isn't.

And you can trip and concuss even the biggest of players. Ever wonder why Lindros had to retire early? He was bigger than everyone else.

This post is an absolute mockery of hypocrisy.
This person is simultaneously saying that players now have to:

• Play a new style of hockey where speed and skill are the premium and that unnecessary roughness is not only to be discouraged, but worthy of suspension by the league
  
• And
• Prepare for retribution the same way players did in the past when it was a rough and tough league and the players had to police themselves

So, which set of rules are you advocating? Is it the "players police themselves" of yesteryear, or is it the "league to protect all players from unnecessary body contact" of these last few years?

 

[Ratsreign]

This Matheson guy makes Luca Sbisa look like Bobby Orr.

Inanimate carbon rod > Matheson

No wonder he got angry and went WWE.

You've been spouting a lot of over the top crap about this incident. I get you are offended and are really thrown off kilter, but you're off base disparaging Matheson's skills as a hockey player, and painting him as a perpetual cheap shot artist shows how little you really know of him. Look into Matheson's history, he's far from the plug your hyperbolic, over-dramatic comments portray. Give it a rest, you've said it all a hundred times

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

When did Matheson become a plug? Vancouver would gladly take him on their defense

 

[BigTruzz]

When did Matheson become a plug? Vancouver would gladly take him on their defense

Panthers fan are the ones calling him a plug more than us.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

This thread has degenerated into crap. Closed.