Anybody who's saying he should have received less than the rest of the season obviously didn't read about the Johnson - Beukeboom thing, THE INCIDENTS WERE EXACTLY THE SAME except for the extent of the injuries to the vicitims. Therefore there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to argue that Bertuzzi should have received less than 12 games, as that was what the league set as the punishment for something like this happening. The extra punishment in Bertuzzi's case was for the "bounty" comments the Canucks had been making, which made the whole thing seem premeditated.
And Jeff, Moore fought Cooke earlier in the game, so we can rule out maturity as a reason he didn't fight. When faced with people that could kick his ass, rather than a smaller player, he pussed out, that's total cowardice. Cooke fought a larger player than himself, May fought Peter friggin Worrell, Moore was just a pussy and suffered for it.
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