On Sun, 20 Feb 1994, The Hockey Hamlet wrote:
 
>         I am not from Maine and I also think it was a brillant move. There
> is very little difference between intentionally sending out an extra man
> and "intentionally" knocking the goal off its moorings, or "intentionally"
> falling down on the puck during a face-off late in a game (I saw Dave
> Poulin do that a few years back for the Bruins). All of the maneuvers are
> against the rules, and all should be called, but until refs decide to call
> them, in my opinion the tactics remain fair game. Walsh's ploy may have
> been more blatant than other ways of erasing time and/or delaying the
> game, but if it works...
 
        I tend to agree. It's like committing an 'unintentional'
intentional foul to stop the clock in basketball. True, these things are
ethically incorrect, but within the boundaries of sport, they appear for
the sake of what our society today is obsessed with - winning.
 
Nick Strangas
University of New Hampshire