You have to give TSN credit. No matter the sport, the network provides sports fans with wonderful pictures. Not surprisingly, those pictures can be too good on occasion.
Monday night, after the Flyers’ Dan Carcillo “bludgeoned” (play-by-play man Gord Miller’s word, not mine) Bruins’ forward Steve Begin with an elbow to the head — and two referees completely missed it — Begin jumped all over Carcillo with a high-stick to the face. The officials didn’t miss the retaliation, of course (NHL officiating is almost as bad as major league umpiring which is almost as bad as that giant rule-busting fix known as the NBA), and Begin went to the box.
But that wasn’t the awful part.
The awful part came when color analyst Pierre McGuire called Carcillo’s shot “a clean, hard hit,” while a half a dozen replays (beautiful close-up shots, too, that looked spectacular on my giant HD TV) showed that Carcillo deliberately took a shot at Begin’s head with his freakin’ elbow.
So stop it, mainstream media! Stop whining about head shots. Because when you’ve decided to call a deliberate elbow to the head a “clean, hard hit,” then all these calls for severe penalties for head hunting seem pretty hypocritical.
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