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Latest comment posted at 7:12 AM EDT 26/01/08

Former coach set to testify that he told the Canucks star to get back to the bench just before Steve Moore attack ...Read the full article

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  1. George Hall from Canada writes: SThe real issue is that the NHL as a corporate citizen in this day is far too violent....stuff which the illiterate masses gobble up, these masses would pay to see people eaten by lions without a blink of the eye.
    The NHL should be made to pay severely as it has profited enormously from it.
    The NHL is far more violent today than in the past...when players did not have the equipment of today and they actually sat beside each other in the penalty box.....
    The players need to start treating each other with respect and as professionals...shake hands before and after the games....
    The goofball owners should be held accountable...because the league sets an example to its millions of impressionable fans.
  2. Badges? We don't need no stinking badges from Canada writes: Well if Crawford was yelling at Bertuzzi...there will be lots of witness' who heard him....lets hear from them
  3. Dan Corleone from Vancouver, Canada writes: Really now? Bertuzzi seems like a player that always listens to his coaches, now doesn't he? That idiot cost us Vancouver fans a big playoff run in 2004, I hope he pays for the rest of his playing career....
  4. Slander Us from Toronto, Canada writes: Tje mudslinging by all sides should be ignored - does anyone really believe Crawford or Bertuzzi? They're obviously saying whatever it takes to deny culpability. I played 2 seasons for Crawford in Cornwall about 20 years ago, and trust me that the account of him saying Moore 'must pay the price' is not only believable, but likely he said something much more animated than that. He's always been a coach that preaches retribution and playing over the edge. Both should be held responsible and get on with this whole mess. Plus, Moore upping his claim from $18M to $38M says a lot about his character and the true motive of his lawsuit. Reasonably, $10M would likely be more than what he'd have earned as a player and seems fair as a settlement. His lawyer, through the leaks that favour his client, is obviously a scumbag that's pulling all the strings.
  5. R D from Canada writes: Two slimeballs (Crawford and Bertuzzi) add up to equal a lawsuit. Neither is telling the truth and each will say whatever they think they need to say to be found not gulity.
  6. Building an Ark from Canada writes: So let me get this straight, while Moore lay motionless (which thankfully wasn't permanent) Crawford stood smiling on the bench in the aftermath. Was he smiling because Todd didn't hear his commands or that hey obeyed them? Just trying to figure this out Marc? Hello Marc???
  7. ray ittac from Canada writes: A hundred more times i'll say it. Bettman blew it long ago when he didn't force those involved to take care of Mr Moore and bury the ugliness of this incident as quick as possible. There is no darned way the NHL or the Canucks can talk or litigate their way out of this. SETTLE IT SOMEHOW GARY!!!!! Whatever Bertuzzi and Crawford intended...it turned out worse and it was the result of a deliberate attack! And allowing this back and forth pathetic fingerpointing between those involved helps who?
  8. g h from Canada writes: So Dan Corleone from Vancouver writes: "That idiot cost us Vancouver fans a big playoff run in 2004, I hope he pays for the rest of his playing career.... "
    So you're mad at Bertuzzi because he hurt your team's chances in the playoffs. You don't care that he broke a guy's neck in a premeditated attack. You're quite a piece of work yourself bud.
  9. woof woof from Canada writes: He's a liar. And a lousy coach.
  10. warren standerwick from North Vancouver, Canada writes: 10 million dollar settlement for two fractures of transverse processes and a concussion? Get a grip. Here is a report from a Colorado paper at the time of the incident. ["As bad as Moore's injuries sound, the director of the University of Colorado Hospital Spine Center said things could have been much worse. If that's what Mr. Moore's injuries are and where they're described, he's a lucky man," said Dr. Venu Akuthota, who has not examined Moore. "I saw the incident to him on television, and I've seen many cases where patients fell just like he did and ended up with permanent spinal injuries and worse. But injuries in the C3, C4 area typically don't involve spinal cord injury." Akuthota said the typical recovery time for patients with fractures in the C3, C4 transverse process is six to 12 weeks. "Patients like Mr. Moore can become completely, 100 percent healed and resume their normal lives. In his case, he would be able to resume his hockey career," Akuthota said]. In fact the fractures were, indeed cervical fractures of the c3 and c4 transverses processes, Moore had no spinal cord damage, and no surgery was required.. If you want to know what a real "broken neck" is like, google Deidra Dionne, the Canadian aerial skier. Here's a start: [Her health and career appeared in jeopardy in September 1, 2005; when she had a training accident that injured her neck. She came close to being paralyzed. She had to have surgery where two vertebrae in her neck were fused with a titanium plate. A bone graft needed to be taken from her right hip.] Eventually she recovered, and was able to participate in the 2006 Winter Olympics]. It's 2008 and Moore is still claiming to be incapacitated.
  11. Wally Grisold from Toronto, Canada writes: This is version # 3,000,000; when will all this B S stop.

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