Susie Q wrote:
Bettman's golden boy cheapshots Valabik:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAle37zwhyANice going Cindy, real brave.
It really is amazing how everyone has ignored this. I didn't even know it happened until Tuesday. He sucker punches the guy in the back of the head when he's down (and not fighting or aware of Sid) and then he tries to punch him either in the nuts or to fist the guy's asshole ("Sid takes the lower half"). No media outlets show it because they've bought into the golden boy image...
The lack of coverage of this shows the complete divisiveness in the coverage that has followed Crosby since he was 16... the Canadian media views him as the saviour of Canadian hockey skill, the Gretzky heir apparent, etc. The American based media tends to view in a similar light, just replacing Canadian hockey with the NHL (and the league promotes this). Then there's the Don Cherry school of fan based revolt against him. The pro vs. anti just ignore each other completely... the anti grumble when he achieves great things while the pro takes the opportunity to fellate Sid... the pro crowd ignores this incident completely and instead talk up the useless stat that he's set the all-time record in All-Star voting, while the anti has to spread this via word of mouth. There's just no middle ground in the Sid coverage.
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