Hasek Snaps

[Guest treble charged]

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One of the NHL's greatest goalies now a stick-swinging goon?

 

Czech police are investigating Dominik Hasek over a stick attack during an in-line hockey game that left another player in a neurosurgical ward with a broken nose, concussion and bruised neck.

 

"I have never seen such unbelievable, short-circuited behaviour in my 15-year career," Tomas Wuertherle, the game's referee and a member of the Czech In-line Hockey Association executive committee, told the CTK news agency.

 

The attack happened Sunday in Pardubice, according to Czech press reports.

 

Hasek was playing as a skater for Bonfire Strida when he and an opposing player, Martin Sila, collided. No penalty was called.

 

"Hasek then knocked the player down with a crosscheck to the back, sat on him and hit him in the neck several times with his stick," said Wuertherle.

 

The referee said Hasek threatened other players who tried to pull him away.

 

In a written statement to CTK, Hasek blamed the altercation on what he described as Sila's intentional crosscheck to his kidneys when neither player had the puck.

 

"In any case, I regret that his alleged injuries happened in the following scrum. If that is the case, I hope he heals soon," Hasek wrote.

 

A police spokesperson said officials were investigating the incident.

[Guest MaxPower27]

So he snapped and cross-checked the guy in the throat because he got hit in the small of the back with a crosscheck?

[Guest Eagan469]

Hasek hit a newspaper reporter when he was here in Buffalo

[Guest hardyz1]

Now that's some good violence.

[Guest starvenger]

I don't think that anybody should be all that surprised - aren't all goalies a little bit strange?

[Guest nl5xsk1]

I think that there's no comparison between Hasek going berserk on a guy with the love tap that McSorley gave Brashear.

 

a) Brashear almost deserved to get hit. He fought McSorley earlier in the game and then taunted him after winning (against the enforcer code), proceded to taunt the rest of the Bruins the rest of the game, and then refused McSorley's attempts to fight again (again, against the enforcer code). It sounds like this guy in the Czech league gave a tap no worse than is done dozens of times in every game in every league.

 

b) Brashear's injuries came about from his head bouncing off the ice, not from the stickwork. If his helmet had been properly strapped down he would have skated away with nothing more than a headache. This guys injuries came directly from the attack.

 

c) McSorley's hit was one hit, not a repeated assault while threatening those that were trying to tear him away.

 

The incident described sounds more comparable to Billy Guerin hammering that rookie in the Stars camp this preseason. You remember, the one that didn't even get a WARNING of a suspension from the league?

[Guest Youth N Asia]

b) Brashear's injuries came about from his head bouncing off the ice, not from the stickwork. If his helmet had been properly strapped down he would have skated away with nothing more than a headache. This guys injuries came directly from the attack.

Um...his head hit the ice cause he got whacked in the back of the head with a stick!

 

Let's say I run you down with my car (on purpose), and you fly up 20 feet in the air and land head first...would you blame your head injury on the driver of the car? Or the ground?

 

You're not making sense man. That's like saying OJ didn't kill those people...the knife he stuck in their backs did.

[Guest nl5xsk1]

For the amount of hits that Donald Brashear has taken in the head without falling or even flinching, how did a tap with a stick knock him so senseless that it rendered him unable to protect himself while falling? It didn't.

 

My point is that the fall to the ice caused most of the damage, compared to Hasek going mental and repeatedly beating someone with a stick. If McSorley had taken a baseball-like swing at Brashear's head and caused damage that way, then the comparison would work. Otherwise it's too incidents that aren't that comparable.

 

And I don't think that I'm the one not making sense when you compare the McSorley incident with attempted vehicular homicide and an actual murder. I'm hoping that you're using hyperbole for emphasis.

[Guest evilhomer]

You can't compare what Hasek did to what McSorley did. Hasek used his stick as a weapon and attacked somone causing injuries with that weapon. McSorley made a light tap to the head that caused injuries, so he is totally responsible for the injuries, but unlike Hasek, he didn't go apeshit with the weapon and caused injuries directly with it.

 

Personally, I bought McSorley defence that he was going for a high arm slash and missed. It's a fast game, he was boiling with rage, your aim is off under circumstances like that. If he really wanted to attack Brashear with his stick he could have pulled a Hasek after Brashear went down.

 

McSorley totally backed off when Brashear went down from one hit. Hasek continued his attack even as others were trying to pull him off after multiple hits. The two events don't compare.