Nobody makes it to the pinnacle of their career field without being Uber competitive. There’s not a single player in the NHL that isn’t Uber competitive. L’Heureux’s problem is not that he is Uber competitive, his problem is that he can’t control his temper, his emotions or his mouth. Maybe that changes when he matures (we can only hope). The players in the AHL already know if they push him hard enough he will snap, that’s why players on other teams crosscheck him and play him dirty. The opposing players may take a 2 minute penalty or two but they know eventually he’ll snap and the Admirals will be down a player for the rest of the game and possibly the next game as well.
What you posted is only about half correct.
If he says anything to our rotten refs, he gets thrown out. He went to the Penalty Box and 2 minutes were put up on the board. He sat in there for maybe 45 seconds. The Ads fans were howling that the other guy should be in the visitors box. One of the on ice officials came over to L'Heureux and told him that he was out of the game. He got up and promptly skated straight across the ice to the Ads bench, where he can go back to the locker room. I thought that he got 10 minutes. It was announced as 2 for Embellishment, 2 for Unsportsmanlike, a 10 and a Game. You could not hear the PA after L'Heureux headed down the runway. I thought that fans were going to throw trash on the ice. The other guy got 2 minutes for Tripping. He did not go to the box in a timely manner and he received no additional penalty.
In one of the games against Texas, a guy put L'Heureux into a headlock and was bending his neck backwards next to the Texas goal. Ref #15, who worked both games, was looking right at it and called nothing. L'Heureux puts up with a lot.
I never heard anything about the Stars player who rifled the puck at the crowd after the game was over. I have been going to pro hockey games since 1964 and have never seen that before. The refs are like pro wrestling refs with what "they don't see".
The season is half over and the Milwaukee fans are already tired of this mess.
In the Friday game against Texas, one of their players was called for a minor. Instead of going to the Penalty Box, he fired the puck at the side boards. Then he went to the box. He did not receive an additional 2 or 10 for doing that. If an Ads player did that, they probably would have picked up an additional penalty.
I believe that the team and especially L'Heureux, are the victims of biased officials this season. If this continues, we will get another riot, just like the Derek Martin game in 1990. That had the Ads coach ejected 5 minutes into period 2, after the second 5-on-3 in the game. About 500 sodas, beers and popcorn boxes were thrown on the ice. The players were sent to their locker rooms while the ice was shoveled and resurfaced. It must have been 30 minutes or more before they came back. The newspaper had 2 photos with the story. Martin refused to talk to the reporter and he never worked another game in Milwaukee.