I fully agree that John Scott is a sideshow and Rob Ray is a punch drunk old fool. That being said there's been a lot of "goon" bashing in this thread, and in general since this debacle.
Those two are morons, but we have to remember that there also players like Colton Orr who fill a similar role and have comparable stats, but offer so much more to the team. There's no way we bring last years playoffs to 7 games without Orr playing the way he did against Chara. Yes he's also is a big part of the team and emboldens them and everything, but Orr can also play really hard and carry his own weight.
I'm not suggesting that anyone thinks the same of Orr as Scott, but I think that comparing the two proves everyone's point a little better and avoids the hypocrisy of just trashing Scott in a vacuum.