Kill Simon

If you've not seen Islander Forward Chris Simon's hit on the Ranger's Ryan Hollweg from their game Thursday night, you need to. It is worse than the Todd Bertuzzi hit on Steve Moore [who's been out of the league since the hit 3 years ago which almost killed him. He wants to come back and play, he's only 28, and STILL isn't medically clear to play] even worse the INFAMOUS Marty McSorley hit on Donald Brashear.

I can't describe Simon's hit accurately enough to even come near my disgust for the man. Suffice it to say: Hollweg did a perfectly, and safely, executed legal check on Simon, and Simon turns around, lifts his stick, and slashes Hollweg accross the neck and face. Simon was suspended for the duration of the season AND the playoffs.

Chris Simon got LUCKY! The fact that that punk is even allowed to return is a joke! He's an insult and a disgrace not only to Hockey as a whole and his team, but to the fans, such as myself, who love the sport. When fans go to a game, we expect some form of extreme physical play, it's part of the game, but when you intentionally use your stick to cause life threatening harm, you are no longer an athlete, you're a criminal and had the hit been even the littlest bit harder, you're a murderer. This sport, and this country has no place for people who: know the rules of their sport, have been in the league long enough to make it evident that they know the rules, and have broken them enough times to learn that their suspensions are NOT suggestions. They're lessons to be taken seriously and to heart.

I LOVE the sport of Hockey, and to have someone like Chris Simon in it, is an embarassment and a humiliation. I am ashamed to know that this man is what people will think of, even for a little while, when they hear the word Hockey. Maybe he needs to sit down with Marty McSorley, and learn what it's like to be banned from your dream and your livelihood. Or maybe, he needs to understand the pain that Donald Brashear felt, and what he inflicted upon Ryan Hollweg. He's been suspended before, and hasn't learned. He keeps making mistakes, and that indicates little, if any, remorse. He didn't learn before, he's not gonna learn now. Get him out! He's disgracing my: sport, fans, and my state.