FHL Possible Fights 11/17/12

[blackngold]

Originally Posted by Shecky

First post, please be gentle. Nah, there's no fun in that, just go for it! Second a disclaimer, I'm a Privateers fan and really don't like Pisano. Unless he played on my team, then I'd love him because he is tough guy, not shy to check hard, drop gloves and is a reasonable A level D-man. Last year he had a good mutual go with Paul Kelley when they seemed to challenge each other late one game.

I watched the Danbury-Privateers game on LSV and unfortunately there was a "technical" timeout right when that whole skirmish started and only a wide angle view when the video started as the linesmen were separating the boys. So there's no actual video to see but here's what the Danbury announcers were calling immediately after:

"Pisano has wanted a piece of Bellamy all game long. He was chatting it up with Noseworthy and Pisano came in... It looked almost like an unwarranted assault by Anthony Pisano on Corey Bellamy… Pisano closed so fast on him that it looked more like a mugging than a fight."

I don't know how well that matches with what actually happened, but that was the announcers take. And it's not clear why Pisano has a pending suspension, whether for the fight or for cheap shotting Terry Watt on the way out, or something else.

First of all, welcome to the forum; I hope you find some good info here and stick around.

My take on the incident... Bellamy was picking on non-fighters all game. He took an ugly run at Tyler Noseworthy early on. Noseworthy actually manned up and went after Bellamy, so that's fine.
Next, there's a scrum going on in front of the net. Bellamy is not involved; he's just hanging out by the blue line, and for absolutely no reason, he just grabs onto Brendan Taylor (one of our goal scorers who was playing in only his 2nd game) and starts teeing off on him. Danbury's fighter Julian Fraser intervened, but he got kicked out of the game for being a good teammate and enforcer. At that point, Pisano tried to get at Bellamy, Williams, and McCarthy, but he was restrained by the officials.

Pisano is a huge guy and he knows that no one on the team (except Tippin, but he didn't get a single shift all game) will fight him willingly. So, frustration got the best of him and he just tee'd off on Bellamy after Bellamy had been playing on the edge all night long.
Am I excusing his actions? No. But I can understand his frustration. Sometimes, the only way a big guy like Pisano can try to teach a player a lesson is by not giving him a chance. That's what he did, and he got a 1 game suspension for his efforts. I don't have a problem with it and I doubt Whalers management does either.

If a guy's not going to fight you face to face, yet still keeps running around trying to take your teammates' heads off, by all means... do what you have to do.

[Sekrah]

Originally Posted by blackngold

If a guy's not going to fight you face to face, yet still keeps running around trying to take your teammates' heads off, by all means... do what you have to do.

I hope you feel the same way when later this season someone suckers Pisano for doing what you just accused Bellamy of doing. Because I've seen him do the same thing.