Berry:Fans hold answer to NHL violence
When you’re dealing with someone who’s 6’9″, it’s not often you get to feel very high and mighty. But there’s no question that Zdeno Chara’s turnbuckling of Montreal Canadiens’ winger Max Pacioretty has left the Boston Bruins behemoth looking awfully small. When your best possible defence to very nearly breaking someone’s neck is that you didn’t really mean to, people are going to get on their high horses. As with any form of unimpeachable moralizing, though, those high horses are leaving a sizable trail of excrement behind them.
By far the largest pile belongs to the Quebec prosecutors who recommended a criminal investigation and the Montreal police that are following up on that suggestion. Either both have some die-hard Canadiens fans in uncomfortably powerful positions, or they’re both in desperate need of a cheap public relations boost, because there is no other reason to suggest why this is any of their business whatsoever. Read More »
