\u201cThat\u2019s the stuff we need, we’ve got to be harder when we get opportunities,\u201d Kirk MacDonald<\/p>\n
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I’ll, let’s stay on the Mem Cup.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if, you guys both saw this.<\/p>\n
Hopefully you did.<\/p>\n
But, Jordan Turney’s, was stomping on Kitchener’s Christian Humphreys leg during a, I don’t know what you call it, just kind of trying to- Drum.<\/p>\n
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Board battle board battle.<\/p>\n
You’re just trying to- kill some time off the clock.<\/p>\n
human run- rain delay as they say.<\/p>\n
Ryan, what did you think of that?<\/p>\n
Was that just vicious and dirty or is there any explanation?<\/p>\n
I, yeah, it was pretty gross.<\/p>\n
And, and actually just before we started filming, it came out that he is suspended for the rest of the tournament, which may be one game, it might be zero games- I’m not sure, with Chicoutimi.<\/p>\n
But the NHL actually, takes care of discipline for the Memorial Cup, and so they’ve decided that he will not return.<\/p>\n
yeah, it’s just a very unnecessary thing, ’cause it was multiple stomps.<\/p>\n
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It’s not like you could say like, “Oh, he was trying to like step on the puck and missed.”<\/p>\n
Like, it was like three or four.<\/p>\n
So yeah, just pretty gross.<\/p>\n
Drew, what’d you make of that?<\/p>\n
And like, how, like, when players are in vulnerable spots like that, and there was a spot, play like that in the Montreal game in game three where Jake Evans, you know, blocked a shot and the puck was kind of like in his midsection and he just tried to like fall on it, and then obviously everyone was just stabbing at the puck- and Jake Evans’ stomach area.<\/p>\n
And I’m thinking, ah, like there’s gotta be some unwritten rule there where, you know, you see a player is either down or in a vulnerable spot and you obviously don’t kick or stomp ’em.<\/p>\n
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but you know, what did, what’d you make of it?<\/p>\n
Yeah, I agree.<\/p>\n
To me, this one, like there’s this, I mean, I’m not a huge fan of like the code in hockey, but it kind of goes to like the, I think it’s l- the one in Ottawa this year, right?<\/p>\n
Like, a guy’s tied up with another player, you just don’t- Yeah there’s just things you don’t do.<\/p>\n
Now, yeah, like if a guy falls on a puck, is it, like to me, I don’t really have a problem with a guy kinda maybe slashing him a little bit aggressively with his stick.<\/p>\n
But I think just the, the s- kicking of the skate to a guy where you’ve got every tendon in your ankle there multiple times is just crossing the line for me.<\/p>\n
So I actually think the r- suspension was very justifiable and don’t think that really has any place in the game.<\/p>\n