Peter DeBoer

Peter DeBoer calls Tom Wilson’s fight with Joe Thornton ‘premeditated crap’ and ‘garbage’

Monday’s Caps-Sharks game was a rather pedestrian affair until TJ Oshie got injured late in the second period. Then all hell broke loose.

As the Caps star attempted to bodycheck Logan Couture, Oshie fell to the ice awkwardly. Joe Thornton, in a bang-bang play, would crunch Oshie’s head into the boards.

The Capitals were not happy with the hit so early in the third period, Barry Trotz put Tom Wilson out on the ice against Thornton. The 23-year-old enforcer stalked Thornton up the ice until the 38-year-old legend agreed to fight.

After the game, Sharks head coach Peter DeBoer spoke about his disgust with Wilson and the Capitals bench.

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New Jersey Devils Pregame: America’s Rash (PuckBuddys Preview)

[Ed note: After a year of doggedly researching and documenting the panoply of awfulness that are the Washington Capitals’ rival cities and teams, the PuckBuddys‘ physicians grew concerned, recommending they take a nice, quiet rest somewhere so they could forget temporarily about hockey and focus instead on finger paints and macaroni art. Helpfully, Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr gave them just the right opportunity to lay down their burden.

Now, no longer able to keep them involuntarily committed, the Buddy’s have returned to crash our net and empty the NHL’s septic tanks that you, wisely, would rather not. Because that’s just the sort of stand-up guys they are.

However, we caution they are still a bit on edge. So please, everyone…no sudden movements.]

The Scene: The pioneering urban anthropologist Ulf Hannerz once remarked “That which most repels us in other cultures is very often what lies buried and secret at the heart of our own.” Well, no he didn’t; I just made that up. But then again, I doubt that Ulf ever visited New Jersey.

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By Doug Johnson On February 20, 2013 0 Comment