NHL's Most Hated Player Shamelessly Fakes Injury To Avoid Getting Into A Fight
On Tuesday night the Florida Panthers and Buffalo Sabres played a hard fought 3-2 game. The game featured 12 minor penalties with two sets of coincidental minors after a scrum. During one scrum Nick Cousins was right in the heart of it.
Cousins looks injured but has no problem jumping back in to the scrum
In the second period, with the Panthers up 2-1, a scrum was stated and the culprit to get the rage going was, as usual, Nick Cousins. With Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen freezing the puck Nick Cousins came barging in to stir the pot bu hitting Jordan Greenway. All that came of it was a smack to the chops, that barely grazed his face.
However, Cousins acted like the was seriously hurt and laid on the ice in hopes of drawing a call, but when a further scrum ensued he leapt to his feet to jump on the back of the nearest Sabre. See for yourself:
Kevin Bieksa goes off on Cousins' play and how it is bad for the league
Ex-NHLer and now Sportsnet Analyst, Kevin Bieksa, went off of Nick Cousins in early January of this year about his play.
"people don't want to watch and see kneeing hitting a guy's head into the
boards, ramming a guy from behind, and that is a common theme for a player in this league. I've never done this before but I have to do it because this is a trend with this player and he's done this a numerous amount of times; ramming the guys heading to the boards.
You know the the hit earlier in the year on Gudbranson [and this hit] was just last year. There's no place in the game for this and what's the common theme in all these? [Cousins] at the bottom of the pile in a turtle position. Not like Brendan Smith standing up taking your medicine.
This has been a common theme for this player and listen I'm told he's a good guy. I'm told he's liked by his teammates and he's actually a pretty good hockey player, but somebody in that organization or somebody that he respects has to sit down and say 'enough of this, this doesn't help the Florida Panthers win, it doesn't make us a better team', or the NHL has to come down and hammer this guy [with a lengthy suspension]."
boards, ramming a guy from behind, and that is a common theme for a player in this league. I've never done this before but I have to do it because this is a trend with this player and he's done this a numerous amount of times; ramming the guys heading to the boards.
You know the the hit earlier in the year on Gudbranson [and this hit] was just last year. There's no place in the game for this and what's the common theme in all these? [Cousins] at the bottom of the pile in a turtle position. Not like Brendan Smith standing up taking your medicine.
This has been a common theme for this player and listen I'm told he's a good guy. I'm told he's liked by his teammates and he's actually a pretty good hockey player, but somebody in that organization or somebody that he respects has to sit down and say 'enough of this, this doesn't help the Florida Panthers win, it doesn't make us a better team', or the NHL has to come down and hammer this guy [with a lengthy suspension]."
| POLL | ||
Is Nick Cousins the new Brad Marchand, Matt Cooke, or Jarko Ruutu? | ||
| Marchand | 117 | 46.8 % |
| Cooke | 93 | 37.2 % |
| Ruutu | 40 | 16 % |
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