Mike Milbury Is Still An Idiot

I was absolutely appalled by Milbury during that segment.

LeBrun’s “helmet” was laughable, but I thought Milbury was out of his mind. The game has changed so much in the past…..years, it’s remarkable.

The writer from Toronto pointed out that essentialy, today’s players are as fast as ‘guided missles’ and the collisions are more violent than ever.

Milbury laughed that off — but I’ve been following the game (and have played) since the 1970’s as a kid in Chicago.

Let’s just take one other item — goalies are now sitting ducks. At least once a game, a goalie is taken out by as a winger crashes the net. This, I find unaccepable. But, usually, the play ends and no penalties are called.

Every one of these rushes – (well, when I played, they would have been) could be tagged as ‘charging’ or at least ‘goaltender interference.’ But – since the nets are no longer fastened to the ice by magnets, rather than the old ‘piping,’ it’s OK to crash the net. The forwards assume nobody’s going to get hurt, I’m not going to get a penalty…

Changing the fastening “format” of the goals is actually leading to more problems. Players back in the past knew the nets wouldn’t give, so they wouldn’t take these chances as today’s players do.

That bothers me just as much as the other violent crashes we are seeing — which could be tempered, but there are too many people like Milbury, who apparently would just shrug his shoulders if somebody dies, right there — on the ice, after violently thrown, head first — into the boards.

If we wonder why the game still isn’t accepted by large segments of America, it’s because of people like Milbury. Gee, we wouldn’t want to take the FUN out of the game, would we? I assume Milbury is still upset that goalies wear helmets and masks.

So many people find this game ‘too violent.’ Amazingly enough, these same people shrug at football’s violence. I’ve never been able to determine why one game’s ‘violence’ is worse than the others — but, I can only assume it’s hockey’s tacit approval of fighting. If players fight in the NFL — they are almost always ejected. In the NHL — it’s 5 minutes in the box, with round 2 just ahead.
And, American TV would rather run fight replays rather than game action, so that’s what the image which is always left in people who do not follow pro hockey.

I think MM thinks he has a shot at “Coach’s Corner” when Grapes decides to hang it up.

To design a helmet that comes apart for the purpose of fighting LeBrun deserved to be ridiculed but Milbury was over the the top. But let’s have MM suit up in his vintage gear and take a few shots from some of the smaller NHL players and see how he does.

Were I on that show I’d bring up a ridiculous idea each week just to get MM would up.

Guys have been playing this game at high speeds for a long time and that’s when it’s fun;

So Milbury thinks the game was this fast and bodies this big when he was playing? As with all of his observations, he could stand to watch a little video before commenting.