What would they do to this guy in America?

[knapplc]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/h ... index.html

If this guy had gone on the court at an NBA practice session or on the field during MLB batting practice or (God forbid!) on the field during an NFL practice, he would have been smeared all over the landscape by guards - and that's if he's lucky. If any of the players had gotten ahold of this guy - can you imagine Brian Urlacher driving this guy into the ground, or Rasheed Wallace crushing this guy into the seats?

All the Canadiens did was laugh about it, and the police said it "wasn't a police matter." He'd be in jail right now in America.

Lucky guy.

[Flockers]

Probably would've been shot by the gun weilding rednecks and thugs. Wait - this is hockey. He wouldn've been shot with a compound bow by deer hunting Minnesotans.

[TheRawDAWG]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/h ... index.html

If this guy had gone on the court at an NBA practice session or on the field during MLB batting practice or (God forbid!) on the field during an NFL practice, he would have been smeared all over the landscape by guards - and that's if he's lucky. If any of the players had gotten ahold of this guy - can you imagine Brian Urlacher driving this guy into the ground, or Rasheed Wallace crushing this guy into the seats?

All the Canadiens did was laugh about it, and the police said it "wasn't a police matter." He'd be in jail right now in America.

Lucky guy.

What do you want them to do? The guy didn't really do anything. He took a couple "weak" shots at Theodore. So what.... and if i remember correctly there are hundreds of times people come out of the stands during MLB and NFL games and most of the time they are unharmed... and usually MAYBE spend a few hours in jail. The guy jumped on to the ice and skated around... didn't do any harm and it was during a practice...no big deal.

[Canadian Seahawk]

just a friednly game of shinny!

[flotsamnjetsam]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/h ... index.html

If this guy had gone on the court at an NBA practice session or on the field during MLB batting practice or (God forbid!) on the field during an NFL practice, he would have been smeared all over the landscape by guards - and that's if he's lucky. If any of the players had gotten ahold of this guy - can you imagine Brian Urlacher driving this guy into the ground, or Rasheed Wallace crushing this guy into the seats?

All the Canadiens did was laugh about it, and the police said it "wasn't a police matter." He'd be in jail right now in America.

Lucky guy.

What do you want them to do? The guy didn't really do anything. He took a couple "weak" shots at Theodore. So what.... and if i remember correctly there are hundreds of times people come out of the stands during MLB and NFL games and most of the time they are unharmed... and usually MAYBE spend a few hours in jail. The guy jumped on to the ice and skated around... didn't do any harm and it was during a practice...no big deal.

I agree. Depending on the team and how good he looked, he might have gotten a contract.

[Mookie4ever]

Funny what kind of coverage this is getting up here. Most reports focus on the fact that Jose Theodore made both saves and one of them was a pretty good poke check. He's got this guy's number eh?

[knapplc]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/h ... index.html

If this guy had gone on the court at an NBA practice session or on the field during MLB batting practice or (God forbid!) on the field during an NFL practice, he would have been smeared all over the landscape by guards - and that's if he's lucky. If any of the players had gotten ahold of this guy - can you imagine Brian Urlacher driving this guy into the ground, or Rasheed Wallace crushing this guy into the seats?

All the Canadiens did was laugh about it, and the police said it "wasn't a police matter." He'd be in jail right now in America.

Lucky guy.

What do you want them to do? The guy didn't really do anything. He took a couple "weak" shots at Theodore. So what.... and if i remember correctly there are hundreds of times people come out of the stands during MLB and NFL games and most of the time they are unharmed... and usually MAYBE spend a few hours in jail. The guy jumped on to the ice and skated around... didn't do any harm and it was during a practice...no big deal.

I agree. Depending on the team and how good he looked, he might have gotten a contract.

I think you guys are high! People come on the field hundreds of times during games? I don't recall that. I remember the guy running onto the field during the Packers/Bengals game this year:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9879868/

He got creamed by the guards.

I remember the father/son duo who ran on the field at the White Sox/Royals game, and then another guy did it again later (next season?). Both times they were tackled to the ground, and the father/son duo were visibly pummeled.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=230415104

I don't get your point that this was "no big deal." How did they know this guy didn't have a gun or a knife or something? There's no way this guy gets off with nothing in the U.S.

[Mookie4ever]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/h ... index.html

If this guy had gone on the court at an NBA practice session or on the field during MLB batting practice or (God forbid!) on the field during an NFL practice, he would have been smeared all over the landscape by guards - and that's if he's lucky. If any of the players had gotten ahold of this guy - can you imagine Brian Urlacher driving this guy into the ground, or Rasheed Wallace crushing this guy into the seats?

All the Canadiens did was laugh about it, and the police said it "wasn't a police matter." He'd be in jail right now in America.

Lucky guy.

What do you want them to do? The guy didn't really do anything. He took a couple "weak" shots at Theodore. So what.... and if i remember correctly there are hundreds of times people come out of the stands during MLB and NFL games and most of the time they are unharmed... and usually MAYBE spend a few hours in jail. The guy jumped on to the ice and skated around... didn't do any harm and it was during a practice...no big deal.

I agree. Depending on the team and how good he looked, he might have gotten a contract.

I think you guys are high! People come on the field hundreds of times during games? I don't recall that. I remember the guy running onto the field during the Packers/Bengals game this year:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9879868/

He got creamed by the guards.

I remember the father/son duo who ran on the field at the White Sox/Royals game, and then another guy did it again later (next season?). Both times they were tackled to the ground, and the father/son duo were visibly pummeled.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=230415104

I don't get your point that this was "no big deal." How did they know this guy didn't have a gun or a knife or something? There's no way this guy gets off with nothing in the U.S.

lol - the father/son duo beat the snot out of ancient Tom Gamboa - the Royals first base coach. They got jail time for assault. And this one and the Favre thing were during a game. They disrupted televised events attended by thousands and being watched by many more.

Taking a skate during practice is a little different.

[Calyxes]

I saw this on fox news the morning. He had to have been drinking some Molson XXX. You got big ones my friend

[knapplc]

lol - the father/son duo beat the snot out of ancient Tom Gamboa - the Royals first base coach. They got jail time for assault. And this one and the Favre thing were during a game. They disrupted televised events attended by thousands and being watched by many more.

Taking a skate during practice is a little different.

If I'm alone in this that's fine, but I just find it amazing that it was taken so blithely. Of course, I live in crime-infested Lincoln, Nebraska, where there's a capital crime committed about once a decade, so maybe I'm overreacting.