SH> I did watch the game and what Niedermeyer did to Forsberg is no were than
 SH> what Forsberg had done to a number of other hockey players over here.
 SH> Peter is a tough boy who likes to dish out punishment.

He doesn't play that way in the Swedish team.
But when he does he should be sent off as well.

 BF>> If that's the way you play hockey.......then you can keep it for
 BF>> yourself. It isn't the way it's supposed to be played.

 SH> Remember who invented the game.

I'm sure that it wasn't ment to be played like this from the beginning but it's this
the spectators like to see sp it has turned this way.

There is proof that it first was played in the Nederlands in the 1500 and then the
micmac indians in Canada took up a game that was influenced by the game hurling
from Ireland.
Acording to Canadian hockey historians it first was played in Canada in 1855 in
Halifax and the fist time they used a puck was in 1860 in Kingston.
So I think that the Dutch did beat you with about 300 years.

 SH> But remember that these games were refereed by refs who were not Canadians
 SH> and they let these incidents go.

There were NHL refs present but perhaps not at that game.

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