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    Sideshow Bob Hartnell goes Mike Tyson on Letang's finger

    The dude sure looks bloodthirsty to me.



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    Letang says Hartnell bit him, and Hartnell 'can't say what happened' ... more fuel for the rivalry

    Thursday, October 8, 2009

    The Flyers-Penguins rivalry is one of the best in hockey. And tonight's 5-4 win by Pittsburgh was another dandy. But there's good, hard-nosed, vicious, physical hockey, and then there's just plain idiotic.

    If it is indeed true that Scott Hartnell bit Kris Letang's finger with just seconds remaining in Thursday night's game, the Philadelphia Flyers winger should be suspended. I guarantee you the NHL's hockey operations staff was already looking at the scuffle. But unless there's clear video evidence of the action, it might be tough to do anything about it.

    The incident was sparked by Flyers captain Mike Richards' colliding with Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, which took the net off and stopped play with 1.2 seconds left in the game. Letang and Hartnell then got entangled; so did Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger and Penguins forward Chris Kunitz (both later received 10-minute misconducts). Letang and Hartnell scuffled and fell to the ice, but there was no clear shot from the game broadcast to see the bite.

    "Our response is, ask Hartnell," Penguins GM Ray Shero told ESPN.com via text message Thursday night. "He knows what happened."

    Letang, who raced off the ice after the incident holding his hand, had a similar reaction.

    "My answer is going to be ask him. He knows what he did. Go ask Hartnell," Letang was quoted as saying to Penguins beat writer Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

    "It's a first for me," Letang later added, referring to the alleged bite. "I want to be certain you go ask him."

    Of course, there were indeed media waiting for Hartnell in the Flyers' dressing room.

    Question of the night: "Did you bite him?"

    "A lot of stuff happens on the bottom of the pile," Hartnell was quoted as saying to veteran Philly hockey writer Tim Panaccio of CSNPhilly.com. "He had his hands in my face, doing the face wash, and we were rolling around. I can't say what happened."

    Hartnell was asked whether he had ever been accused of biting. "Not ever, really," he said.

    I know it's somewhat hypocritical to draw the line as to what is deemed acceptable behavior in a sport that allows fighting, but, believe me, NHL tough guys will tell you biting is not a part of their rules of combat.

    And again, we can't be sure Hartnell did it, but it seems strange for Letang to have reacted the way he did.

    Just another incident to spice up the hatred between these two teams.

    "It sets up the whole season," Letang told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "We have [five] more games to play against them, and we know they're about doing stupid things like that at the end of the game."
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    Penguins accuse Hartnell of biting Letang
    Thursday, October 08, 2009
    By Dave Molinari, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    PHILADELPHIA -- The Penguins are accusing Philadelphia winger Scott Hartnell of biting Penguins defenseman Kris Letang on the right ring finger during a scrum with less than two seconds left in the Penguins' 5-4 victory at the Wachovia Center tonight.

    Letang, whose finger was heavily bandaged, said simply, "I think he knows what he did," but, in keeping with the company line, did not overtly charge Hartnell with biting him.

    Hartnell told reporters he did not bite Letang, but added that "a lot of stuff happens on the bottom of the pile. He had his hands in my face doing the face wash and we're rolling around. I can't say what happened."
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    Re: Sideshow Bob Hartnell goes Mike Tyson on Letang's finger

    Why the eff do you bite someone?

    I'm guessing since there's no video evidence he'll go unpunished.
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    Re: Sideshow Bob Hartnell goes Mike Tyson on Letang's finger

    typical filthy fans.....we win the game and they start chanting crosby sucks, they did that last year in the playoffs too, how did that turn out for them??? haha

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    Re: Sideshow Bob Hartnell goes Mike Tyson on Letang's finger

    Quote Originally Posted by JTP53609
    typical filthy fans.....we win the game and they start chanting crosby sucks, they did that last year in the playoffs too, how did that turn out for them??? haha
    The idiots think that their stupid chant will get in his head. And it does...but it has the opposite effect. It motivates him more to have great games and humiliate the Flyers again and again. I hope the morons keep it up.
    Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.

    Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.

    We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.

    We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.

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