Code of ethics

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Code of ethics
John Garrett

No longer are NHL players following the unwritten rules of the game. Instead, it's all about gloating and showboating.
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Willie Mitchell of the Minnesota Wild said that Jarkko Ruutu of the Vancouver Canucks had broken the code by picking a fight with his teammate Sergei Zholtok. Zholtok weighs about 190 pounds and in his more than 10 years in the league has a grand total of one fighting major. Is he expected to fight? No. Does Jarkko Ruutu live by the code? No. Does he even know the code? Did Zholtok think Ruutu had violated the code?

Goals are hard to come by in today's NHL, but does that mean that after every goal we have to have some guy who is celebrating his second of the year, fist pumping and crashing himself into the glass?

Have you ever seen Steve Yzerman or Brett Hull going crazy because they have made the score 5-1? On Wednesday night I was watching Maxim Afinogenov after he scored to make it 2-2 against the New Jersey Devils, with almost seven minutes left in the game. You would think that he had scored the game-winner in overtime of game seven of the Stanley Cup finals. I know that the Washington Capitals have struggled this year but Robert Lang making it 6-1 against the Carolina Hurricanes, is that such a cause for celebration?

If it sounds like I am just bashing European players, I am not. Have you ever seen a Vincent Lecavalier celebration or the fighters in the league dusting off their opponents or raising their fists in victory? Donald Brashear seems to have forgotten the code or never learned that you don't make an opponent look bad, because on the next shift the tables could be turned.

Pavel Datsyuk scored one of the prettiest goals of the year against the Dallas Stars to make it 6-2 Detroit. Did he go crazy? No. He has been watching Yzerman and Hull.

He knows the code and that is a good thing.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/columnist.jsp?content=20031113_170806_2032On Wednesday night I was watching Maxim Afinogenov after he scored to make it 2-2 against the New Jersey Devils, with almost seven minutes left in the game. You would think that he had scored the game-winner in overtime of game seven of the Stanley Cup finals.


That's bull. I was watching the game and I don't remember an over-the-top celebration. Besides, it was a tying goal midway through the third period, it was a big goal, and it was beautiful goal on top of that. Every league has it's stoics (Yzerman) and it's flamboyants (Kovalchuk)

There is nothing to any of this.

That's bull. I was watching the game and I don't remember an over-the-top celebration. Besides, it was a tying goal midway through the third period, it was a big goal, and it was beautiful goal on top of that. Every league has it's stoics (Yzerman) and it's flamboyants (Kovalchuk)

There is nothing to any of this.


Agreed, and who do you think is going to get more excited when they score a goal, a player like Daneyko (once a year) or Joe Sakic (40+ times a year) ???

Agreed, and who do you think is going to get more excited when they score a goal, a player like Daneyko (once a year) or Joe Sakic (40+ times a year) ???
...and then there's players like Friesen wo get pretty pumped about scoring. Of course, that could be because he is streaky.
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It also depends on when you score and the score of the game.

Scoring the 7th goal, of the game when you're winning 6-1, there should be a "ho-hum" type attitude.

If you score when it's 2-2 with 3 minutes to play, you should get excited.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/columnist.jsp?content=20031113_170806_2032

Code of ethics
John Garrett

No longer are NHL players following the unwritten rules of the game. Instead, it's all about gloating and showboating.

Good God...someone tell this guy the NHL has a looooooooooooooooooong way to go before it's the NFL. I've never seen Scott Stevens shake his ice and start firing finger guns for clearing the puck.

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Good God...someone tell this guy the NHL has a looooooooooooooooooong way to go before it's the NFL. I've never seen Scott Stevens shake his ice and start firing finger guns for clearing the puck.

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Tho' the mental image gave me a chuckle ;)