Quote Originally Posted by Downriviera View Post
Bottom line is....if you are a forth line player and you take a run at a teams top player, legal or not, you have to be prepared for the consequences of your actions. Steve Moore learned this the hard way. Can you imagine what would have happened to him if he did this to Yzerman in the Probert/Kocur days.
Why not just have a designated assassin go out onto the ice with a samurai sword and start hacking off body parts of the offensive player? Why not dispense with the formality of the rules of play? You "hockey fans" may not realize it but you're justifying murder because Steve Moore could have easily died on the ice that night.