Edmonton Oilers resort to end-of-game Thuggery, Aye?

Edmonton Oilers resort to end-of-game Thuggery, Aye?

Mr. Laraque

The Carolina Hurricanes dominated the Edmonton Oilers at the RBC Center in Raleigh on Wednesday night with a convincing 5-0 rout giving the Canes a 2 games to none advantage in the Stanley Cup series, aye.

The Oiler Mates for the most part took the loss in stride but many are questioning the insensitivity of using Canadian Georges Laraque as the end-of-the-game headhunter especially in light of the Triangle still coming to grips with the fallout from the Duke Lacrosse brouhaha. A Canadian female dancer found herself outmanned in a lacrosse scrum.

Colonel Saunders from the N&O, a local Durham Newspaper, said “who dat poppin my homie in da back of da noggin, who dat, aye?” I don’t always see eye-to-eye with the Colonel on sports issues but I think the Oilers were showin disrespect to the community. The Oiler’s have Czechs, Soviets and Colombians but they chose the Canadian mate to stir up the crowd knowing that a Canadian taking cheap shots at the end of the game would stir up memories of the lacrosse brouhaha and potentially create an atmosphere of disrespect for the rest of the series, aye.

I really believe professional sports teams need to consider the cultural mind-set of a community when they choose a player to take cheap shots at the end of a game. Goodness gracious and good gravy juice would it have been so bad to use a Czech as the headhunter, aye?