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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
If you don’t come to my party, then I’m gonna… I’m gonna… deny 20,000 fans from seeing you!
Take that Niklas Lidstrom! You think just because you are an old man, one of the greatest defensemen in NHL history, want to rest your injuries, did alot of marketing for the Outdoor Game at Wrigley already, and are an all-round good guy, that you can skip the All-Star game festivities and get away with it? Not on Bettman’s watch you don’t. He’s applying the letter of the law here, and only guys who are really hurt can miss the game, and that means you had to have missed the previous regular season game as proof. And if you didn’t? Well, don’t bother showing up for work tomorrow!
However, the Wings captain said he was quite surprised to learn of what his teammates were calling the “Crosby Rule” of avoiding a ban for just showing up to mingle at the festivities. Team officials also said they were unaware that Pavel Datsyuk, who also chose to skip the showcase game, and Lidstrom had the option to avoid sitting out if they just showed up for the three days. “I heard it through [media reports of ] Sidney Crosby going there and not playing,” Lidstrom said. “I heard he wasn’t going to be suspended, so that’s how I heard. They never called me and told me that.” Lidstrom said it would not have made any difference if he had been given the option. “I had already made my up mind on what to do,” Lidstrom said. “I was doing treatment on Friday and Saturday as well. That’s why I decided to stay at home.”
This is one of those rules that make sense when you write it up, but the exceptions to the rule show you how ridiculous the rule is.
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