Vlad The Impaler said:
If someone, ON-ICE, feels he was disrespected then it will be resolved on-ice.
That's what I've been saying throughout this thread.
Never commented on the skill required to pull off that move. My gripe was/is with the timing of that play. But again, Vlad, in the scheme of things hockey wise or otherwise, this "incident" is barely a blip on my personal radar screen. To hold any ill will whatsoever toward Crosby would be silly. And, for the record, goals are meant to celebrate, IMO. (Though the game as I know it suggests you celebrate a game winner in OT a bit differently than the tenth goal in a 10-1 blowout.)
Again, as you say,
if someone on-ice has an issue with it, they will take care of it, on-ice. That is the way the game has been played since the beginning of time, despite the protests from a few people here.
As someone
not on the ice, I'm simply voicing
my opinion, as is everyone else here.
The way a couple of people make it sound, the opposing team should have dropped to their knees and bowed or tapped their sticks on the ice in appreciation. :p Exaggerating, of course, to make a point. But, respectfully, it is naive for anyone to think that opposing players
wouldn't consider it a blatant act of "rubbing it in" in a game they were already losing decisively.