Word: naslund
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Moore, the former Harvard captain and current Colorado Avalanche forward, knocked out Bertuzzi’s teammate, star Markus Naslund, with a perfectly legal, open-ice hit last month...
...Canucks vowed revenge, though Naslund missed only three games and the NHL chose not to fine Moore. Bertuzzi said there “absolutely” would be retaliation against Moore. “Games will come, and situations will present itself,” were his nauseatingly ominous words in the Rocky Mountain News...
...about the irony: Canucks coach Marc Crawford argued against Moore’s hit on Naslund on the grounds that it came against a star player. He told the Denver Post that the league has a “responsibility to promote the game” by protecting its big names and said the league’s “credibility goes all down the tubes” when hits such as that go unpunished...