First of all, the media is ignorant to the point of being clinically retarded. Most of the "newscasters" who covered the incident don't even know what hockey is...don't know anyone but Wayne Gretzky maybe...and therefore have no call to be fanning their opinions to anyone. I hate the media, and I'm majoring in the damn field.

It's the fault of the ignorant and panicky that we have those stupid nets up in all the arenas now, because a puck bounced off of three different things and struck and killed a little girl spectator. Now, I feel for the girl and her family, I'm not heartless....but one spectator in all the history of the sport is nothing compared to the number of people who have been seriously injured by especially line drive foul balls in baseball....so should we put nets all around the diamond too? Or are we gonna wait until one of these power sluggers hits one into the stands hard enough to kill someone.

Now back to Bertuzzi....he got the punishment he deserved and I think his tearful apology was heartfelt....I disagree with the idea that there is no sportsmanship in hockey, both from a personal and professional level. When one of my teammates broke his leg in a mid-ice collision, both teams helped get him into the ambulence, and the guy who hit him visited him during his surgery. I've seen it before where everybody on the ice helps and respects people who are hurt or have had great success in their career. The gave Mike Richter close to a 30 minute show at the Garden, where everyonefrom all teams and the whole crowd gave him a standing ovation for some 10 minutes at least.

Part of the reason why it seems like there is no sportsmanship in professional hockey, is because of the pretty intense language barrier. Everyone chips in if someone is hurt or is someone succeeds cause you can communicate that with images....but try getting anything else to the nearly 20 different countries represented in the sport through language. Compared to football, where everyone is english speaking, and (usually) American. And baseball where the spanish players are usually looked on as poor sports at some time in their careers, just because they can't speak English.