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Dave O'Hara writes: >The fact is that Geranozzo checked the goalie in the crease BOTH Friday >and Saturday nights. The ever-vigilant Greg Shepherd gave a major >penalty to Reynard instead of Geranozzo on Friday. > >Shepherd should bear some responsibility for the roughness of Saturday's >game. After all, he appropriately gave a 5 minute major to CC on Friday, >but an almost identical play warrants only a minor penalty on Saturday? >Talk about inconsistency! Still, the final responsibility rests with the officials to hand out what they believe to be appropriate penalties for any actions that do occur. It is not up to the teams to take matters into their own hands if they feel the calls haven't been fair. I have seen a number of games where I felt the officiating seemed one-sided against a particular team, but I would never have condoned allowing the team to take matters into their own hands. Avenues exist whereby teams can try to get justice. And even if through those you still don't feel you have gotten justice, then you have to let things be. The alternative is much worse. >I certainly don't approve of bounties, but let's be realistic. Geranozzo >HAS to know that somebody from Minnesota will take a run at him when CC >visits Minnesota. I'm quite sure that he would be one of the first guys >on his team to defend his goalies. Sure, but there is a difference between sending a message and placing a bounty on someone's head. I think back to "Slap Shot" - "You can't place a bounty on a man's head!" "I just did. <click>" This is not the Federal League. Even if Minnesota has plans to send a message or take a run at the guy, this is not something you announce (unless you are Reggie Dunlop, I guess). Do your talking on the ice and be prepared to take the consequences if you go too far. Minnesota's best revenge would be to sweep the Tigers in the rematch. BTW, while this incident might help them get fired up (as if you need to get fired up to play the best team in the league), it could backfire if they allow it to knock them off their game. And of course, I don't know for certain that there really was such a bounty - we are talking hypothetically here. I still feel that unquestionably, one of the two sides was very, very much in the wrong here, but who that is depends on what the truth really is. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93