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HOCKEY GONE WILD: PUCK FICTION!!!

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HOCKEY GONE WILD: RJ UMBERGER GETS KNOCKED THE F@*# OUT!

"CAROL AN-I'MEAN...RJ! STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT! DON'T GO NEAR THE LIGHT!!!"

HOCKEY GONE WILD: MON DIEU!!!

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HOCKEY GONE WILD: WHAT THE PUCK?!

The worlds largest hockey puck. Hockey gone wild? Or hockey gone dumb? You be the judge.
Also there seems to be a debate as to exactly who owns the worlds largest stick and puck. Duncan, British Columbia and Eveleth, Minnesota. You'll just have to get really bored and decide for yourself.

HOCKEY GONE WILD: CRAZY GOAL...

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HOCKEY GONE WILD: Uh.....yeah. Huh?!

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GUY TRYING TO DO?!

HOCKEY GONE WILD: DARCY TUCKER DESTROYS SAMI KAPANEN!

IT HURTS JUST TO WATCH!
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HOCKEY GONE WILD: TREVOR LETOWSKI BUYS GIRLY, HOME STUFF!!!

That's right! What is a macho hockey player such as Trevor Letowski doing in a place like Z Gallery buying "girly, home things"? (I was looking into a job...so don't even go there!) The Thunder Bay,Ontario native and his male friend from Toronto waited patiently and said hello to a few fans as the uppity, existentailists at the foo-foo decor store slowly wrapped his girly purchases. The wrapping leads us to believe that the girly items in question were glass. JIMMYWORLD reporters speculate that the four items were, "probably vases...or candleholders...or something really gay like that." Scenarios involving fragrant, sensous candles in their respected holders illuminating a dim lit room, Zima, Sade on the hi-fi and warm, massage oils purchased at the nearby L'Occitane ensued. After struggling to remove the image from our minds we were back to the question at hand, WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS MANLY,MAN...THIS HOCKEY PLAYER DOING WITH HIS "FRIEND" IN A GIRLY HOME STORE BUYING GIRLY HOME STUFF?!?

HOCKEY GONE WILD: The Rocket Riot!

At the tail end of the 1954-55 season, then NHL president Clarence Campbell suspended legendary Canadiens forward Maurice “Rocket” Richard, for excessive stick work on Boston Bruin, Hal Laycoe and for slugging linesman, Cliff Thompson.

Richard had a temper and opposing players used racial slurs to try to goad him into losing it. William Minogue, who was a police officer in charge of the Montreal Forum, was regularly at rink side during games said he, “frequently heard opposing players calling Richard "French pea soup" or "dirty French bastard" as they skated past.” If those taunts resulted in a fight, both Richard and his provoker are sent to the penalty bench. Opposing teams considered this a good bargain.

At the Boston Garden on March 13, the Bruins leading 4 to 2, with six minutes left in the game, received a penalty. In a bid to score, the Canadiens pulled their goalie and sent six men up the ice. Richard was skating across the blue line when he was high sticked in the face by Hal Laycoe. The stick inflicted a wound that required 5 stitches to close.

After play was stopped, Richard lost his temper. He retaliated against Laycoe and got into a tussle with linesman Cliff Thompson, bruising Thompson's face and blackening his eye. As punishment for his outburst, league President, Clarence Campbell, on the afternoon of March 17th, suspended him for the rest of the season and for the playoffs. This was thought, at the time, especially by Canadiens fans, that the punishment - because Richard was badly provoked - was excessive.

On 17 March 1955, Campbell was in attendance at the Montreal Forum as the Canadiens played the Detroit Red Wings. He was greeted with tear gas, rotten produce and shouts of, “Va-t'en!” All hell broke out and later spilled out onto the streets of Montreal. Richard described the goings on at the Forum as a disgrace: "He was aghast at what had happened. ‘This is terrible, awful,’ he said. ‘People might have been killed.’ The Habs were forced to forfeit. Some fans, not done, took it outside. There were 70 arrests and $30,000 worth of damage.
The next day at 7 p.m., Richard, in an attempt to calm the city, made a statement before a battery of microphones.
"Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be in the game with the boys. However, I want to do what is good for the people of Montreal and the team. So that no further harm will be done, I would like to ask everyone to get behind the team and to help the boys win from the Rangers and Detroit. I will take my punishment and come back next year to help the club and younger players to win the cup." Thus ended the disorder.

HOCKEY GONE WILD: The Todd Bertuzzi Hit

On March 8th, 2004, Todd Bertuzzi, forward for the Vancouver Canucks, attacked Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore with a punch to the side of the head followed by ramming Moore headfirst into the ice, breaking his neck. Moore suffered three fractured vertebrae, nerve damage, a concussion and facial cuts. Bertuzzi was suspended for the rest of the season and the playoffs. 17 months in all. His punishment continued throughout the NHL lockout, which kept Bertuzzi from playing in the World Cup of Hockey last September, from playing in any European league and also the past two world championships. The Canucks were fined $250,000.
Bertuzzi was apparently miffed at Moore who hit the Canucks Markus Naslund so hard in February that the captain missed three games due to the resulting concussion.
Bertuzzi and Moore met separately with Gary Bettman for Bertuzzi’s reinstatement hearing on April 26, 2005. The Vancouver right-winger needed the commissioner’s approval before being allowed back into the league.
“I find that the appropriate discipline to be imposed for Mr. Bertuzzi’s conduct on March 8, 2004 is the suspension that has been served to date,” Bettman said.
“Mr. Bertuzzi’s actions were deserving of an appropriately harsh sanction,” Bettman continued, describing the hit as going “beyond what could ever be considered acceptable behavior in the National Hockey League. Mr. Bertuzzi must be held responsible for the results of his actions, and the message must be delivered loudly and forcefully that the game will not tolerate this type of conduct.”
The suspension cost Bertuzzi $501,926.39 in salary. He is due to earn more than $5.2 million from the Canucks in the upcoming season.As per terms of his criminal probation, Bertuzzi will not be permitted to play against Moore. That may never come to pass, however — as Moore is unable to resume his professional hockey career.
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SCREAM 'TIL YOUR BRAIN HURTS!

There are other ways to "enhance the entertainment value" of a game, of course, and nobody tries harder than a minor-league franchise. (Four words: Manute Bol on skates.)

There are plenty of stories about promotions and contests gone awry, but we like this one: The Columbus Chill of the East Coast Hockey League featured a "Scream 'Til Your Brain Hurts" promotion in the 1995-96 season, in which they gave a fan a roving microphone and encouraged them to "Scream 'Til Their Brain Hurt." One fan extended the spirit of the promotion and took the opportunity to unleash a very loud diatribe against the opposing goalie.

That silenced the "Scream 'Til Your Brain Hurts" promotion. And it proved that hockey fans are best heard, not understood.

HOCKEY GONE WILD: Rob Ray Beats Up Nordiques Fan!

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HOCKEY GONE WILD: Unbelievable Marek Malik Goal!

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HOCKEY GONE WILD: The Calgary Streaker!

You are a streaker. There's a problem right there, because just about every single streaker who has ever shucked their clothes shouldn't have. Yeah, there's always something exciting and cool about being a pasty, white, overweight, jiggling body running about. To make things worse, you are going to streak on ice at a Calgary Flames hockey game. You decide to wear red socks. Is that not like wearing socks to streak on a just-polished hardwood floor?

On Thursday Oct. 17, 2002 21-year-old Tim Hurlbut jumped the boards at Calgary's Pengrowth Saddledome late in the third period during an NHL game between the Calgary Flames and the Boston Bruins, falling from the top of the plexiglass only to slip on the ice and hit his head, briefly knocking himself out cold.

Paramedics covered the 20-year-old man with a blanket and after a 6-minute delay, carted him away on a stretcher to a loud ovation. Having regained consciousness, he pumped his hands in the air.
"Streakers aren't necessarily all that uncommon, but people who knock themselves out on the ice in front of thousands of people at a hockey game, yeah, that's a little rare," Emergency Medical Services spokesman Mike Plato said."I felt bad for him, the poor guy. I thought he'd broken his neck," said Flames netminder Jamie McLennan, "(but) once he started acting like a jackass on the way off, you really didn't feel that bad for him."The mother of the streaker was embarrassed by her son's actions. At first, she said she didn't even realize it was her son even after seeing the TV highlights and newspaper photos. But when Jackie Hurlbut's 20-year-old son, Tim, phoned her to explain, she said she was furious.
''I'm embarrassed for all mothers all over the world. I can't believe this is happening,'' she said from her home in Provost. ''He has really embarrassed his mother and that's not right.
''It's not comical. I'd like to be proud of my son and I'm not right now.''
Tim Hurlbut said he needed to buy new textbooks and, when two strangers offered him $200 to jump over the boards wearing only his red socks, it seemed like the perfect solution. But the plan went awry. Three weeks later, the 21-year-old Lethbridge Community College student had yet to see the money, owed $400 in ambulance bills and was facing mischief-related charges of interfering with public property.
The charges were withdrawn and he instead pleaded guilty to being drunk in public and was ordered to donate $2,500 to two charities, to perform 35 hours of community service, and take alcohol counseling. "I was going to be up 200 bucks, but it kind of backfired on me," Hurlbut said. "Now I really can't afford those books."

Hockey Gone Wild Month Continues:Marty McSorely attacks Donald Brashear!

Most Canuck fans will long remember the incident involving Marty McSorley and Donald Brashear. Most people have probably seen the footage at one point or another. The video clip of the blow led not only sports highlights show that evening but also late news telecasts across North America. In case you have been living in a (penalty?) box, McSorley, skating through the neutral zone, approaches Brashear, who is gliding without the puck, from behind. With a quick, hard swing of his stick, McSorley clubs Brashear on the side of his face. Brashear's 6'2", 225-pound body drops like a sack of stones. His helmet springs loose and, upon landing, the back of his skull hits the ice. Brashear lies motionless for a moment and then begins to convulse. He would be carried off on a stretcher, spend the night in a hospital and miss 20 games. Fans at the game and at home started flooding 911 with calls that they had just witnessed an assault and wanted to press charges.
Even against the backdrop of other violent acts in hockey -- and scores of them occur each season -- this was extraordinary. The moment Brashear went down, the slash became the defining moment of McSorley's long career. "If McSorley plays another game in this league, then this league is a [bleeping] joke," Canucks defenseman Mattias Ohlund told The Vancouver Sun after the game. "It was the worst thing I've ever seen. That guy [McSorley] should be treated the same as if he tried to kill a guy on the street."
British Columbian prosecutors felt strongly enough to charge him with assault with a weapon. McSorley's slash became the first on-ice NHL misdeed to be tried in court since 1988, when Dino Ciccarelli of the Minnesota North Stars spent a day in jail for hitting Luke Richardson of the Toronto Maple Leafs twice in the head with his stick, causing no injuries to Richardson. In McSorley's case finding of guilt rested in the judgment that "Brashear was struck as intended."
Brashear remained out of the lineup for well over a month. Outrage ensued and McSorley, who was suspended for 23 games, found himself on trial for assault with a weapon that October. The aging enforcer, who could have received an 18-month jail sentence, was handed an 18-month conditional discharge. The only stipulation was that he couldn't play any sport where Brashear was on the opposing team. However, that condition really didn't matter anyway. The 17-year NHL enforcer, with two Stanley Cups to his name, never played another NHL game.
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HARVEY THE HOUND

Harvey the Hound may be the NHL's very first mascot (he was created in 1983), but he’s better known for being, well, really bad to the bone. For instance, during a playoff game in 1989, Harvey ripped up a Vancouver Canucks jersey.
But on January 20, 2003, after nearly two decades of taunting the opposition, Harvey the Hound was finally paid back for his crowd-pleasing antics
With the Flames leading the Edmonton Oilers 4-0, the six-foot-six, 200-pound Harvey positioned himself behind the Oilers bench and began pestering the losing team.
It worked too well.
Oilers players squirted water on the mascot, and Oilers coach Craig MacTavish took it one step further and shut him up -- literally. MacTavish ripped out Harvey's signature floppy red tongue and threw it into the crowd.
"(Harvey) was in a place he shouldn't have been," Flames spokesman Peter Hanlon said. "Usually he's our seventh man, but this time perhaps he went too far."
MacTavish's actions seemed to spark the Oilers. They scored three goals, but still lost 4-3. Inside info: Harvey the Hound is also the former mascot of the Calgary Stampeders.

Domi, fan get up close and personal – March 29, 2001

A glass panel provides a nice sense of security for the belligerent fan. But once that barrier is broken, all bets are off. Just ask the guy who tumbled into the penalty box at a Philadelphia Flyers game and ended up tangling with the object of his heckling, Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer Tie Domi. Domi was in the box serving an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when a fan began showering him with insults. Domi struck back, squirting the heckler twice with water. The fan then charged the glass, broke through the partition accidentally, and fell into the box. Domi and the man grappled before two NHL officials broke up the fracas. Domi summed up the incident this way: "When fans get try to get involved in our work they gotta be ready to pay the price."

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RINK RAGE!!!

Nearly 4 years after the rink-rage death of one hockey dad at the hands of another, a Swampscott father has been banned indefinitely from attending local youth hockey games after witnesses said he grabbed an 8-year-old around the neck and cursed at him following the boy's on-ice shoving match with the man's son.
A Peabody magistrate is scheduled to decide next week whether Jordan Waldman, 51, will face assault charges in what state youth hockey officials say is the most egregious incident since they adopted stricter rules for parental conduct in 2003 after Thomas F. Junta beat Michael Costin to death during a 2000 youth hockey practice in Reading.
Kevin Holt of Salem, whose son plays for the Salem-Swampscott team, said last night that he saw Waldman grab Cameron Byrne by the shirt at his neckline and yank him forward after a game Dec. 26, saying something like, "Keep your hands off my kid."
"He sounded real mad, and he grabbed him pretty hard," Holt said. "I was just amazed."
"I'm just glad it wasn't my kid that he grabbed," Holt added. "There'd be two of us going to court."
Tim Byrne, Cameron's father, who filed a criminal complaint against Waldman, said his son confirmed the account.
Waldman did not return calls yesterday seeking comment.
At least three parents quickly intervened, Byrne said, pushing Waldman away from Byrne's son.
Holt was in the locker room picking up his son's goalie equipment after the altercation and said he also witnessed Waldman attempting an apology. "He was saying: 'Oh, Cam, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to,' " Holt said. "The kid was pretty scared."
Cameron's mother saw Waldman with her son and "freaked out," Holt said. He said that Waldman touched Cameron's mother, apparently trying to comfort her, and she warned him not to touch her.
"The bottom line is, no matter what the kids were doing, an adult just can't touch a kid like that," Tim Byrne, 38, said yesterday. "You just can't. He should have gone over to the coach or even talked to my wife if he thought my kid was doing something."
After a league disciplinary hearing Tuesday, Waldman was banned from attending all Salem-Swampscott Youth Hockey League games. Waldman -- who did not attend the hearing but could appeal to Massachusetts Hockey, the state youth hockey association -- subsequently pulled his son from the league, officials said.
As for his son, Byrne said, "he just wants to know when it's going to be over."

HOCKEY GONE WILD:Bare-breasted mother banned from son's Hockey Games

The president of the Greater Toronto Hockey League says he's "aghast" over an alleged incident at a hockey game in Mississauga where an irate mother of an 11-year-old minor hockey player apparently taunted parents and fans of opposing players by lifting her blouse, revealing her bra and shaking her breasts "from side to side."
Outraged parents ran to shield their children’s eyes from the onslaught of mammalian protuberances. “It’s disgusting!” exclaimed one horrified mother. “She could have taken someone’s eye out with those things!”
The alleged incident reportedly happened during a confrontation that erupted mostly between parents of players on two opposing minor peewee teams: the York Toros and Mississauga Terriers. The teams played Monday night in the Erin Mills Twin Arena.
In a letter to the GTHL, one parent who witnessed the alleged incident called it "unfortunate" and "disturbing" to witness.
"She lifted her top well above her breasts. (Wearing a bra) she shook (her breasts) side to side," the mother wrote. The mother, who has young boys, says she headed for the exits soon after with her sons but ran into her again. The woman claims the other woman said: "What the hell are you looking at? Have you never seen t--s? Yeah, he's probably seen them on the Internet," she reportedly said.
Another tearful mother whose ten-year-old son had been sitting directly in front of the woman explained she was worried about the affect the incident would have on her child’s future mental health. “He turned around and took both barrels – straight in the face.”
Parents told the GTHL the alleged incident happened about three minutes before the end of the match. The woman has a son who plays for the Toros, which went on to win the game, 4-0.
When reached by the Star last night by phone, the woman said she didn't want to discuss the matter. "That's none of your business," she said.
"I have no comment, definitely not," she said, adding that the matter is being handled by the GTHL.
"Go ahead and write whatever you like."
GTHL head John Gardner says he's very troubled by the matter. “What prompts people to do these types of things? I'm not a psychiatrist, I can't tell you," Gardner said yesterday. It's unclear exactly what preceded the alleged incident. He said the City of Mississauga has also been made aware of the situation.
"It's a little disturbing. We're talking 11-year-olds here," Gardner said, adding the GTHL received a number of complaints about the alleged incident from upset mothers.
"We haven't talked to the individual. Who's to say what caused her to create this form of disruption?
"I couldn't believe it when I received the first call Tuesday," he added.
The ban could be lifted after January 31 if the mother writers a letter of apology to the league, players and spectators and gets counseling for her behavior.
But some parents on the Toros team say the woman's actions are being overblown because she only reacted to poor officiating.
"They were hitting our kids from behind," said one father. "And the refs wouldn't call it."
According to Hockey Canada's code of conduct, any parent of a player whose conduct in an arena is legitimately deemed to be disruptive and not conducive to the well being of the game may be banned from arenas as determined by the board or special committee for a specified period of time. The onus of enforcing the ban falls upon the club to which the spectator is related.
George Butler, president of the Toros, said he was aware of the situation but didn't have a comment because he's still getting information about the case.
"There are a lot of stories going around. Until I hear what comes out of the hearing I'm not going to comment," he said. Toros' GM Nancy Baldwin didn't return the Star's calls.
According to one adult who works closely with the Terriers team and was there at the time, the atmosphere in the stands was extremely rowdy, with some parents of players from both teams yelling and swearing at one another, leaving some young children in tears.
"Parents were behaving worse than the kids, but we're supposed to be the example," said the source, which asked not to be named.
"I feel sorry for (the woman's) son. Hopefully the GTHL can resolve this situation."
The incident in Mississauga happened just days before an Ajax mother and daughter were charged with assault after a player and fan were assaulted during a Provincial Junior A hockey game in Ajax.The assaults happened during a match between the Ajax Axemen and the Thornhill Thunderbirds at the Ajax Community Centre last Sunday, after an Axemen player was injured when he was checked from behind, according to police.The player who checked him was ejected, but while leaving the ice a metal bar was thrown at him.Hot coffee was also thrown at him and opposing fans threw hot chocolate at the women who were attacking him.Jennifer Labelle, 47, and Belinda Labelle, 18, face charges that include assault with a weapon.Gardner said that while in his view the majority of parents at GTHL games conduct themselves in a proper manner, "some people, perfectly normal, go into an arena, and it becomes a pressure cooker for them."Hopefully this is not a trend," he said.
(Source: DONOVAN VINCENT; The Toronto Star)

HOCKEY GONE WILD MONTH!!!

As we wind down the 2005/2006 NHL season and prepare for the crazy run to the stanley cup playoffs, JIMMYWORLD is pleased to announce that april is HOCKEY GONE WILD month! An entire month of all things related to hockey going horribly awry. Keep checking in for stories of the uncanny, unusual and just plain weird!!!