Not really.
It's a bad hit and I'm not defending it, but everyone who clutches pearls is ok with it when somebody on their team does it. No exceptions.
So which is it, because this is the same organization and fan-base that got on Wilson for rag-dolling somebody who literally jumped on his back.
Sit and ingest that one for a second, figure out who's right and wrong, and get back to me. If you're just explaining that fans have a bias, well no shit, but you're really making it seem like it's
actually okay and not hypocrisy for as long as you're willing to engage in it.
That part was very funny.
The hit was a serious manner, what happened after was just hilarious to me.
There's no code. There's no respect. You owe your opponent nothing. All that "code" talk is just to cope with the fact that as hockey fans, we're all a little bit ok with the violence.
MacDermid and whoever else can say they don't respect it but they've either done the same (MacDermid has) or would do the same.
Nope, that's f***wit decision making and absolutely not part of the game.
I still remember Maxime Talbot apologizing for his "go to sleep" taunt when he realized the guy he punched was actually f***ed up for it. That's respect, it exists between combatants. Protecting each other in falls is respect, they don't
have to do that but they do. You're out to lunch completely if you want to
now believe that nobody owes anything to anybody and
your guy is suddenly in the right.
I seem to remember you being pretty badly butthurt about Tom Wilson flexing in the penalty box. Which guns are you sticking to?