The first time I saw the clip I laughed only because Edwards sounded like a lunatic. But it’s disturbing the more times you watch it.

People are far too content to live in the past with the Flyers. Apparently, what Randy Jones did last year is equivalent to something that Don Saleski did 35 years ago. I can’t stand it. The Flyers are not “The cheapest team in the NHL,” nor are they “thugs,” “talentless goons,” etc. They weren’t before and they’re not now.

We’ll get our revenge on all the haters when we hoist the Cup in 2010 (we’re not ready yet).

But I could never see any one of them commenting like that after a hit. I would still think they would be worried about the health/well-being of the Bruin.

And there is a small difference here, too: Randy Jones received both a penalty and a 2-game suspension for his hit. This guy was given neither. So Edwards righteous indignation was uncalled for, because the refs didn’t even call a penalty on it. Him “giving it” to the Philly fans is unprofessional because his commentary should be directed to what is going on ON THE ICE and not in the arena. What the crowd wants should be of no concern to him. A 25 year-old could give better color commentary that this guy (and at least maybe have a funny Bahstan accent to go along with it).

I meant 15 year old, not 25 year old. Darn fingers.

Edwards needs to learn the definion of “irony”. This ain’t it. Not only is he a low-class homer but he’s stupid, too.
I despise when people think things are irony when they are merely coincidence or circumstantial. Alanis Morrisette was wrong. Get a dictionary, loser. I wish we could give suspensions for bad announcing. How about 5 minutes in the penalty box surrounded by the very Philly fans he’s taunting? That’d straighten this guy out.

My Center Ice only played the Boston feed. I found their announcers to be rather annoying… I have just started following the Flyers, since the trade deadline when my fav player was sent to the team. This was my first encounter with the NESN guys. Not impressed…

sorry to be the jones lover again lol, but the hit that jones put on patrice wasn’t intentional, he stopped while jones was leaning into him. i would have gotten a 2min penalty call but he in no way deserved to be suspended. but still, the intention to hurt probably wasn’t in either of the hits, but the announcer was acting like he wanted jones to get injured. that was a low class act by the commentator and has no place in hockey.

That’s what I just said to another poster on another board who said “Jones had it coming”. Jones is not a dirty player. We’ve had our share of dirty players and we know what they look like and they don’t act like Randy Jones. He never had intent to injure. Lucic didn’t have intent to injure tonight, either, from what I could tell—but some posters and apparently Edwards wish that he had injured him. And that’s where you have to draw the line.
This is why fighting can never be removed from the sport. Remove fighting and this stuff would happen every night.

That wasn’t even that big of a hit. He pushed him.

Not even close to being able to use the word “hammered”. Idiot.

Don’t we all already know that Jack Edwards is the biggest homer in the NHL. It doesn’t surprise me that something like this would be said. I can’t stand the guy when he does Versus’ calls and I definitely can’t stand the guy when he does Bruins calls.

The Bruins booth is probably the biggest group of homers in the league.

Serial killers’ laughs sound less maniacal.

i really didn’t see it as a penalty.

that being said, what the announcer did last night was unjustified. and yes, he doesn’t quite unterstand the term “irony”.

as for last night’s game: we got beat by better goaltending (nitty was just meh). the effort was clearly there, but thomas just straight-up stoned richards and robbed hartnell.

we put forth that kind of effort going into the playoffs with biron anchoring the net and we win.

I def. understand why Edwards might have had that reaction, just a lot more toned down. Bergeron is a good young player. I kinda equate him to a Lupul (although he doesn’t nearly have the numbers that Lups has had this year). He is a solid player that has battled injuries for the past two seasons. I’d be pissed too if I was a Bruins fan and saw him take that hit from Jones last year. Whenever a hockey fan sees that you always EXPECT your team to come out send a message, which is why teams don’t take many liberties on the Flyers and never will (especially now that we have 3 legitimate fighters).

Now, if you look at it both ways the Flyers have never held their punches when it comes to the rough stuff (fortunately, I welcome it even if it gives us a “bad” reputation around the league. At least we know our hockey team is playing the game right and how it has and is intended to be played night in and night out.). But its not like we don’t receive our fair share of cheap shots. This is hockey, people are going to get caught up in the action and emotions of the game and, sadly, players will get hurt as well. I do not think that Edward’s laugh was malicious or that he was hoping Jones would be hurt. As any hockey fan, he was excited about a hit and the “vengeance” behind it referring to Jones).

I doubt that Edwards ever did his homework to realize that Randy Jones is not and never has been a dirty player. I don’t know if you can say the same for Milan Lucic (whose style of play, I actually love. He is Daniel Carcillo will speed and skill. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in Orange and Black). Edwards, while somewhat understandable, was out of line. If I ever heard a Philadelphia announcer even laugh at the prospect of a player being hurt I would be outraged at such blatant disrespect. Injury is never something that we as fans, announcers or players and coaches should ever wish upon an opposing player.
Its a shame to see this stuff, but we are all guilty of it. Lets hope it doesn’t happen again (especially at the expense of a Flyers player ;) haha).