From Sportsline.com
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While Bertuzzi didn't use his stick on Moore, he sucker-punched him from behind and then rammed him into the ice face first in what was clearly a premeditated move that, in the eyes of investigating Vancouver police, might be considered criminal.
Moore, a 25-year-old Harvard grad used mainly as a checker by Colorado,
had a "bounty" put on his head by Vancouver players after he checked Markus Naslund three weeks ago, causing the Canucks captain to miss three games with a concussion.
The hit wasn't penalized and the league decided no subsequent disciplinary action was required, but the Vancouver team obviously wouldn't let it go. Despite the fact that Monday night's game was crucial in the teams' neck-and-neck battle for the Northwest Division title,
By the third period, Colorado had blown the game wide open and the Canucks decided there was no more point to controlling themselves. And when Moore refused to be goaded into another fight with Cooke, Bertuzzi went off and jumped the Colorado player.
After the game, stunned Vancouver players tried to defend their teammate, even if they were defending the action.
"Todd is very sorry," Naslund said. "He obviously gave him a sucker punch
Vancouver's Matt Cooke wasted little time getting into a fight with Moore during the first period.but he feels really awful about it right now."
"Think what you want, but Todd Bertuzzi is a good man," added Brad May. "He tried to do the right thing, without a doubt the right thing. It went sour."
Exactly. And Moore is lying in a Vancouver hospital with a concussion, a neck fracture, deep facial lacerations and abrasions to the forehead, right cheek and upper lip. He is not yet in condition to be flown back to Colorado for further treatment.
That's why Bertuzzi has to feel the full wrath of the league's disciplinary office. Otherwise the league might as well sell itself as the modern-day version of the movie Slapshot.
NHL VP Colin Campbell, who is responsible for deciding suspensions,
has to use McSorley's punishment as a guide. If it helps, he can take into account how insufficient the 12-game suspension then-Los Angeles Kings forward Matt Johnson received in 1998 for his blindside swing against New York Rangers defenseman Jeff Beukeboom.
Johnson, now with the Minnesota Wild, ended Beukeboom's career with that blow.
Hopefully, Moore's fate will be better than that. He is out for the rest of the season. Bertuzzi should be as well."
Guilty, guilty guilty....Bertuzzi should be banned from the game AND face criminal charges, and all sports should take a lesson from this kind of behaviour!!