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Originally Posted by UnderWorldAquatics

my 2 cents...
I think what bertuzi did was wrong and he got punished for it, I think the punishment was more than severe enough and if they go any further its getting ridiculous. If you think its Bertuzi's fault, as well as Crawford's fault, then it also has to be the fault of Moore for the cheap hit that he pulled earlier and "should" have been pummeled for(thats how the NHL works), also it is the ref's fault for letting the cheap shots go unpunished, and the leauges fault for not doing something about the way the game is played and letting things go unpunished. An NHL team could be compared to a big family and they protect their own, if your family member was taken out by a cheap shot you would probably want justice, or repercussions to be seen and felt by the one that took out your family member with a cheap shot,(especially if the "moderators" did nothing about it) thats what Bertuzi was trying to do and it went a little too far and a bad fall didnt help either, I blame it more on the NHL and the ref's of the previous Moore/Naslund incident, than I blame it on Bertuzi, he was protecting his family. I know if someone KO'ed one of my family members and the"law' did nothing about it, I would be steaming mad and want some repercussions to be felt by the culprit.... Thats what happened, but circumstances led to a more serious injury than the momentary pain that was intended to be inflicted. I don't think the injury was intentional but the pain factor was, Bertuzi is far from the only one to blame in this incident, people are looking at it like nothing else was involved other than a player momentarily ticked off, dishing out more than he should have. I don't like violence but when cheap shots go unpunished, you know mob justice will insue, its human nature to protect the ones we care about.

Are you serious? Moore paid for it in the first period. He fought. What he did was not a cheap shot (I don't believe), and you are saying that it's the NHL and the ref's fault more than Bertuzzi's? You seem to have a twisted view of the world. Burtuzzi chose to do what he did, if Moore decided to fight Burtuzzi and got his royal a$$ kicked (which would happen!) then that would be fair, but he got suckered. It's NO ONES fault but Bertuzzi's. No matter how "fair/unfair" you think Moore's hit was he didn't deserve that.

Walter