Maple Laughs Blow It - Again

Another miserable season is ending for the Maple Laughs, the joke team of hockey.

What does the most expensive ticket in North American sports get you? A third year out of the playoffs, and a team that loses 8-2 against their hated rivals, the Ottawa Senators.

Bad enough that Laugh fans support their team every night for no reason. Bad enough that they put up with extraordinarily high prices for tickets, hot dogs, beer, and bad hockey. Bad enough that these same losers are already out of the playoffs, then declare their game against the Senators as the "biggest game of the season."

No, it gets worse. Last night, Mark Bell gave a cheap-shot elbow to Senators captain Daniel Alfreddson. Alfreddson had released the puck when Mark Bell's knee came out, hitting Alfreddson low, and simultaneously used his elbow to crack Alfreddson in the jaw. Alfreddson is probably out for at least the first round of the playoffs.

Who's Mark Bell? A Maple Laugh nobody. A coward that wears a full metal face-shield, but has the guts to cheap shot people in the head, then run and hide over by his bench. So long, Bell. Enjoy the off season. Shine up that face shield and maybe we'll see you next year, if you aren't back in AAA, you worthless boob.

Later in the game, over in the penalty box, you could then watch Maple Laugh Darcy Tucker warn the Senators' Heatley, "You'd better watch your knee." He repeated it several times, and pointed at his own knee to drive the point home. Everyone in hockey knows that a knee-to-knee hit is the most dangerous cheap shot in the game. Heatley knows this only too well, because a knee injury almost ended his career a couple of years ago.

So there's another Laugh tough guy, Darcy Tucker, proving what a joke of a team the Laughs are. Season over, no hope of the playoffs? Great! Let's go out and injure everyone we can get our hands on.

My contempt isn't reserved for Bell and Tucker. Maple Laugh coach Paul Maurice said of Mark Bell's cheap shot, "It was a good hit. It was clean."

Maybe you need to clean your spectacles, Paulie. There was nothing clean about the hit. To call that hit "clean" is disgusting.

It was wonderful to watch the Senators take charge after the hit and bury the Laughs 8-2. Yet another sellout crowd of losers watched their team completely come apart, and it was a thing of stunning beauty.

Bye-bye, morons. See you next winter.

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