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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 1741837" data-attributes="member: 264">They most certainly were not.I suspect I'm a little closer to the story, so I'll bring you up to speed.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The whole thing was related to Moore's cheapshot on Leading Goal Scorer, Canuck Team Captian and all-around nice guy, Markus Naslund (I suspect you know this, but it is included for the sake of completeness) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moore was tapped by Brad May who wanted to go...Moore gutlessly declines. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He is tapped by Ed Jovanovski for the same reason. Same pussy behaviour. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moore is tapped by Mathias Ohlund(!)(Uber-niceguy)...absolutely will not go.</li> </ul>So it looks like Moore doesn't have a taste for his medicine, right? Fair enough. The world is full of pussies.Until...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moore is bumped, not called out, just bumped by Matt Cooke, --the smallest Canuck--Suddenly, Moore is a born gladiator!!!!!.</li> </ul>So after Moore decides to sack up :\  and beat on the smallest guy on the team, he is tapped by Bert...can you guess what his reaction is? You should be able to guess that he goes back to being a pussy (this is the footage you've seen)Bert is (to my mind, and I susepct from having talked hockey with you in the past--yours) understandably wound up by this. He presses the issue.If you've seen the footage (and you have) you can see Bert following the guy up-ice trying to get him to drop the gloves. Moore is such a pussy that he literally trys to skate off. Bert suckerpunches him. moore is out before he hits the ice and both of them (Moore and Bertuzzi) are dogpiled by Moore's teammates.So choose the most likely occurence from the following list...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tood Bertuzzi punched a professional athlete so hard it broke his neck, or... </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A half-dozen guys piled onto an unconscous guy and his neck was broken in the crush</li> </ul>I would also feel a lot more sympathy for Moore if he was a Naslund-esque, total class player...but the simple truth is that he is a cheap-shot artist.The week previous to the incident with Bertuzzi, Moore engaged in identical behavior toward The Tampa Bay Lightning's Martin St. Louis (the smallest guy on that team)...chasing his down the ice and sucker-punching him from behind.Did he deserve to die? No. And he didn't die.He could've taken his medicine and fought Brad May, and you know the game well enough to know that that would've been the end of it.He could've gone with with either Ohlund or Jovanovski with the same results.But not only did he decline those worthies, he then picked a fight with the team's littlest guy (Cooke).This is after cheap-shotting the captain in a run-up to the playoffs.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Steve Moore.We'll just have to disagree.</blockquote>

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