Shea Weber Annihilates Matt Cooke (VIDEO)
Shea Weber is an elite defensemen in the NHL. He stands 6’4”, weighs 233 pounds and doesn’t take slap shots as much as he unleashes hell upon a poor, defenseless slab of vulcanized rubber.
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Matt Cooke stands 5’11”, weights 216 pounds and is a noted pest which is probably putting things lightly. He has cleaned up his act relatively speaking, but his reputation for playing on and over the edge is certainly earned.
These two players had quite the encounter Saturday night in Minnesota. After some contact in the neutral zone, Matt Cooke came to the conclusion that it would be a wise decision to cross-check Shea Weber in the face.
It’s never a good idea to cross-check another man in the face. It is a terrible life choice to cross-check Shea Weber in his face because he is going to make every effort to smash your nose through the back of your skull.
Here is video evidence of Weber’s rage:
For a split second Cooke seemed like he may actually want to fight Weber, which probably would have resulted in multiple surgeries to reconstruct his face. Fortunately for Cooke his “turtle” instinct took over. As seen above, Weber cares not about your ability to turtle. He also gives little thought to the linesman coming in trying to save Cooke as every effort was made to continue throwing fists of justice upon the turtles’ face and head regions.
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And good for Shea Weber. I don’t care if this was Matt Cooke or Sidney Crosby or anyone in between. If you cross-check another man in the face you should pay the penalty. And not by the NHL Department of Player Safety with some sort of supplemental discipline. In the interest of player safety this is exactly the response that needs to take place. Handle it right then, right there.
This is exactly the kind of fight that is good – no, great – for the game of hockey. This is a very physical and fast game played at the highest levels. It’s a dangerous enough game without players taking liberties upon each other. And Cooke of all players should know that considering his history of crossing the line and being suspended for it.
Maybe if the NHL was less concerned about eliminating fighting and more so about protecting their most important asset, Matt Cooke would have eaten more fists along the line and had a greater incentive to clean up his play. Or else he and players like him would wind up out of the league through the actions of their colleagues, not an arbitrary decision by a league executive.
Shea Weber made sure that if the league wanted to hear Cooke’s side of this story, he would try to make them get it through his wired jaw. And the league definitely has been delivered the memo: angry Shea Weber will lay waste to you with extreme prejudice.