The Lightning admonishing Devon Toews about sportsmanship is like listening to Yosemite Sam lecture on anger management.
“It’s one of those plays you don’t want to see,” Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman said of, an Avalanche d-man, on Nikita Kucherov, a Tampa Bay forward, at the end of a 6-2 Bolts laugher in Game 3, setting up a critical Game 4 Stanley Cup Final showdown Wednesday at Amalie Arena.
Is it cool to ram your right shoulder, at game speed, into the guy’s neck in order to ensure he gets a face full of glass, like a bug on a windshield, the way Kucherov did to Avs defenseman Josh Manson? “When you get asked questions like that,” Cooper said of the contact between Toews and Kucherov along the boards that forced the latter out of action, raising doubts about Kucherov’s status for Wednesday night. “You’re looking for an answer that everybody in the building already knows.”“It’s a game. It’s a contact game,” Cooper continued. “But guys know what they’re doing. Smart, savvy players know what they’re doing with their stick. We all saw it.
They’re the co-worker who wags a finger about your diet while he’s stuffing his face with Heath bars.
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