jiggs 10 said:
Yeah, Finns like Esa Tikkinnen and Jerko Ruutu are REAL classy! 2 of the worst offenders in the last 20 years of hockey. I'm North American, I'm well over 40 years old, and I watched the highlights of that 1987 game. It SUCKED! All the chest-pounding clowns who thought that's the way to finish a game needed to be forced to watch REAL hockey for a few years to rid themselves of that idea! Sure, sometimes the Russians have been silly, but come on, look at Don Cherry every week! He's the worst bigot I've ever seen in sports, and a small group of people think he's the smartest guy in the world.
BTW. Euros are better than NA players in almost every aspect of the game, except sometimes having grit. And I don't mean crap like fighting! THAT'S not grit, that's being a poor player having to hang on somehow! Skill-wise, the Euros are usually better than NA players.
brrrp............wrong.
O.K: you're telling me that Canada started a brawl in a game with gold medal implications if they won by a certain amount of goals where they were currently ahead by 2-3 goals(can't recall) Really?were they all smoking crack on the bench jiggs? This just does'nt have any logic at all.Post that replay man,i wanna see it!!! Good God.
Second,you say in your post that Russia Would have won that game no question.Again,Canada was leading and putting the boots to them but you somehow KNOW Russia would have won that game? You must clean up at the track.
Amd what side of the North American border do you fall under anyway,if it's the North side then i wonder if you are getting paid to kiss up to these guys or it's a free service.Whatever it is, the perks are hardly worth it.If you reside south of it,i can only conclude that your "slant" and conclusions on that incident are colored by the same animosities Euro posters would be concerning this and thus your views are to be taken with a grain of salt,sort of like a Montana rancher at the bargaining table in a beef dispute with Alberta.
Regardless,The Soviets started that brawl and we finished it.They got exactly what they asked for and any canuck who does'nt stand behind those boys needs to get their head examined pronto IMO.
And one last question,are you really Brian Williams?
As far as the Finn players you mentioned,every country has it's pain in the *** players,but as a rule...................the Finns are'nt into diving,and i respect that.I won't even go into the Euro's are better in almost every aspect foolishness.Just posting it makes you look like you don't watch hockey very much.