If only Brodeur had channeled the spirit of Ron Hextall for a few moments, the league would still be scraping bits of Avery off the ice right now. Screw open mic conversations, I would have loved to see Brodeur kick the crap out of Avery right there. The brawl that ensued would have made for excellent television.
The league needed to issue a rule because it was stupid and you can't let players swing their sticks around at eye level like that. Avery was so focused on trying to block Brodeur he could have whacked Brodeur in the head or a defenseman in the face if one had skated over into the general area. Not to mention Avery himself could have been injured by a shot he couldn't see because he wasn't looking at the play.
From Bob McKenzie's blog earlier today:
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Whatever they are going to do, they need to do it quickly because what Avery did is so far across the line in terms of gamesmanship that it cannot be tolerated. We don't need to see Steve Ott doing the same thing in J.S. Giguere's grill in Game 3 in Dallas.
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