When you look for trouble, you’re going to find it. Don’t you just love when Sidney Crosby goes around taking shots at people and then when someone takes a shot at him, he can’t take it, and he whines and whines instead of going after that player. That’s what happened in Saturday’s Flyers-Penguins game where Sidney Crosby took a shot at Brayden Schenn and then after the whistle, Brayden Schenn cross-checked Crosby and Crosby fell right down on the ice. Yes Crosby was cross-checked but he made it look real good as he fell down to the ice to make sure the refs noticed him.
During that break, the refs looked at replays and called a good goal for the Penguins so the penalty to Schenn didn’t stay because of the reviewed good goal. So Crosby didn’t like that so he whined and whined some more.
Late in the third period, Joe Vitale hits Daniel Briere with a hard clean hit in the middle of the ice and all hell breaks loose as the Flyers try to get at Vitale. Even Flyers coach Peter Laviolette stands on the bench yelling at Penguins coach Dan Bylsma and Penguins Tony Granato stands on the bench too. On the ice Wayne Simmonds fights Deryk Engelland, Aaron Asham throws some punches at Schenn who was being held by a Penguins player, and Craig Adams and Marc-Andre Bourdon have a wrestling match.
Even Scott Hartnell was having fun with Hulk Hogan in the stands. Oh wait, that’s not Hulk Hogan?
Scott Hartnell having fun with a Hulk Hogan look-a-like
Flyers Craig Berube adding fuel to the fire, setting up their next meeting on Saturday...
"Let me tell you something -- Crosby and Malkin are the two dirtiest players on their hockey team," Berube said. "They slash, they punch guys in the face, they do all these little things. I got no problem with what [Brayden] Schenn does, and if somebody runs [Crosby] over, that's great. They should run him over."
"The guy gets away with too much in my opinion, whines to the refs all day and all night. It's a joke."
"[Crosby] did something to Schenner a little bit earlier, so he just went and gave him a little shot. It wasn't like it was a tough, bad crosscheck. The guy dove."
Mike Milbury had some comments about Sidney Crosby and his actions. Of course Penguins fans didn't like them, but some are true of Crosby. And Milbury apologized later on for saying those words, but we can tell someone (most likely NBC after they probably got harassed with phone calls from Penguins staff, maybe Mario himself) made him apologize.
"Little goody two shoes (Crosby) goes into the corner and gives a shot to [Braydon] Schenn. Schenn was late to the party, he should have turned around and drilled him right away, but I guess better late than never," said Milbury, who is an analyst on CBC and NBC."
"So you know, Crosby gets cross-checked, big whoop. He said after he came back from his 35th concussion, 'I'm not going to do this anymore, I'm not going to get into this scrums, I'm going to stay away from that stuff.' He couldn't help himself because there's a little punk in Crosby."
"He's not the perfect gentleman. He's not the sweet kid you see in interviews with his hat pulled down over his eyes. I'd say screw him, hit him."
Yes Crosby is the best player in the game, but he also acts like a child and a punk at times as Milbury said. He's not the only one in the league that is so I'm not sure why people get all pissed off when they hear that Crosby is one. Ovechkin does the same at times, as do other players.
