By: M. Patton
Baltimore, MD - Not 48 hours after Ottawa head coach Brian Murray complained that Buffalo head coach Lindy Ruff sent out his enforcers to attack the Ottawa scorers, a game from Murray's past has surfaced to haunt him. During the second intermission of tonight's game in Ottawa, the MSG network played a video from the December 8, 2001 game between the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, of which Murray was the head coach at the time, and the Calgary Flames. An incident occurred where a Calgary player made contact with Anaheim goalie Jean-Sebastian Giguere that Murray felt was not incidental. Minutes later, a player from Anaheim intentionally took out Calgary goalie Mike Vernon while another Anaheim player instigated a fight with Flames captain Jerome Iginla.
It is very ironic that a man would complain about an alleged action that he himself engaged in a few years ago.
Incident details: http://www.hockeyfights.com/games/4840
Baltimore, MD - Not 48 hours after Ottawa head coach Brian Murray complained that Buffalo head coach Lindy Ruff sent out his enforcers to attack the Ottawa scorers, a game from Murray's past has surfaced to haunt him. During the second intermission of tonight's game in Ottawa, the MSG network played a video from the December 8, 2001 game between the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, of which Murray was the head coach at the time, and the Calgary Flames. An incident occurred where a Calgary player made contact with Anaheim goalie Jean-Sebastian Giguere that Murray felt was not incidental. Minutes later, a player from Anaheim intentionally took out Calgary goalie Mike Vernon while another Anaheim player instigated a fight with Flames captain Jerome Iginla.
It is very ironic that a man would complain about an alleged action that he himself engaged in a few years ago.
Incident details: http://www.hockeyfights.com/games/4840
Another interesting observation about the game tonight in Ottawa was the crowd's reaction to Chris Neil's first possession of the puck. As soon as Neil carried the puck for the first time, they roared with cheers. I found it to be very interesting that Canadian hockey fans, who claim to be the purest and most informed, would cheer a guy because of his actions from Thursday. Don't let anyone say that Canadian fans don't have class.
Ottawa did win the game (6-5), but did blow a 3 goal lead, and needed a power-play combined with a favorable bounce off the back boards to win it. Of course, we don't even need to mention that Buffalo has 8 regulars out with injury.
During the first intermission of the game in Ottawa, MSG interviewed Bruce Garrioch from the Ottawa Sun. Garrioch discussed what he had expected to happen during the game based upon the various NHL officials who in attendance tonight. He then proceeded to declare Tom Golisano's letter to Gary Bettmen as whining, drawing the criticism from Rob Ray and the interruption of Kevin Silvestri.
First off, the Ottawa Sun is the equivalent of the New York Post, which essentially means it's a rag. Secondly, I find absolutely hilarious that a 350 lb, $35K a year, sports writer from Ottawa is insulting a man who could himself finance a military takeover of most of Canada. I'm no Bob Woodward, but at least I know not to insult people who are way out of my league.
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