If you check out the video, you'll see Flyers rookie and now notorious cheap-shot artist Steve Downie being restrained by one of the linesmen in the Flyers game with the Toronto Maple Leafs this past Saturday night. Downie had gotten into a scrap with Maple Leafs winger Jason Blake.
Blake is known in Flyers circles for speaking out about Steve Downie's elbow attack on Ottawa's Dean McAmmond in a pre-season game that knocked McAmmond out of action for a while and earned Downie a 20-game suspension:
"I've got one thought: This (Downie) should not be (allowed) to play in the
league again," Blake told a Toronto radio station.
"One day a player is not going to get up, so something needs to be done
about hits of that nature."
Well, thank goodness Steve Downie got recalled from the AHL because now in his fifth NHL game, he's shown the mettle that he's made of....by thumbing another player in the eye!
Unreal - I know all of this reflects poorly on the Flyers, after all, they're the dopes employing these morons, however Downie has shown nothing that says he should stay employed in the NHL. Tack on another ten games to the 20 he got earlier this year and send the message.
We'll see what Herr Bettman has to say when he finally rolls out of bed after a long, tough weekend.
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