Location: Prepared for the worst Joined: 07.12.2007
Jul 12 @ 8:48 AM ET
I remember laviolette going crazy on the officials when roberts wasn't thrown out of the game. He went nuclear when tucker got nothing. - The Iceman
Both were incredible to me. Tucker tells Peca from the penalty box that he's 'dead' and he's going to 'end his career', the skates to Peca, who had just iced the puck, and throws his hip directly into his knee.
Then Gary Roberts skates 7 strides from out side the blue line and lays a forearm into the back of Jonsson's neck in the corner. That, to me was the difference between us winning and losing that series.
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Location: Prepared for the worst Joined: 07.12.2007
Jul 12 @ 9:02 AM ET
I remember laviolette going crazy on the officials when roberts wasn't thrown out of the game. He went nuclear when tucker got nothing. - The Iceman
I remember I had a hockey game myself the same night they played (so it must of been a Saturday or Sunday. My wife stayed home and recorded the game for me. Despite the fact that she's a Flyer fan, she was starting to gravitate to the isles simply due to the fact that I always had them on so she was more familiar with the players. When I got home, she was so pi$$ed off I couldn't believe it. She's a sports fan but not a huge one and that game had her more steamed than any before it. She was practically speechless saying "you're not going to believe what that a$$hol3 Tucker did to Peca! He should be banned for a year!" By the time I had watched it my jaw hit the floor.
It's one thing for a player to target another player. It's another to announce to that player in front of the refs that he would 'end his career' and then proceed to throw what essentially was a chopblock at his knee half a rink from the puck without so much as a call.
I've tried to block that from my memory. 
