Tucker, Roberts and a Comment from Kypreos

[CentreHice]

We've got a loooong way to go before this league is cleaned up.....

TUCKER AND ROBERTS

We've all seen the rage exemplified by the downright frothing-at-the-mouth, official-scathing that these two Leafs have done over the years. I've never seen anything like it. They have both looked and acted like they've completely snapped, and given the chance to act, they'd maim someone.

Roberts hit on Johnsson a couple of years ago was a prime example. From behind, head into the glass...and Roberts swore and yelled and threw a fit all the way to the box. "How DARE you call a penalty on me!"

NICK KYPREOS

After the Bertuzzi decision was handed down today, Kypreos was asked by Darren Dreger on Sportsnet about the "code" that exists in the NHL. Kypreos shrugged his shoulders and said (paraphrasing here),

"People sit in their armchairs and talk about the "code". Listen, I LIVED the code for years. Let me tell you, there have been times on the ice that I've felt certain ways about other players, that if I were walking down the street and felt that way, I'd have sought professional help. It's not normal to think those things."

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

People with mental illnesses should be encouraged to seek help, not be encouraged to act out their deranged fantasies on other citizens.

The fact that they are allowed, even encouraged, to be expressed in professional hockey is symptomatic of a society that depends on the disability and degradation of a sizeable portion of its population to propagate the myth of "democracy".

Statistics lie do they? Is that the reason we aren't daily made aware of the numbers of mentally ill, poverty-stricken, (wrongfully yet conveniently) criminally charged, homeless, attempted and successful suicides amongst us?

Maybe paradise has been paved over to make a parking lot. And the sounds of silence do prevail.#nosmileys#nosmileys

[CentreHice]

Is it a form of mental illness that prevails in such pro athletes, or the result of "brain-washing" conducted systematically over their childhood and adolescent years as their parents, friends, coaches, and ultimately their fans and media, regard and treat them as special, apart from the crowd...and as a result above the law?

Perhaps that, too, is a form of mental aberration.

It's an insular life these guys lead...not the real world at all...and it takes quite a mature individual to resist the trappings.