Wakey, Wakey into the Hall

[schwartzwatch]

Knew it was coming, but still hard to swallow.

[leedog68]

I hope DB42 goes to the ceremony and pulls a Will Smith.

[BalotelliMassive]

I hope DB42 goes to the ceremony and pulls a Will Smith.

Because he said something mean during a playoff hockey game...? Do you realize that he didn't deliver the hit...?

[Pink Freud]

OK, I'll bite: Wakey, Wakey??? I wasn't in St. Louis. Was there something involving him (whomever) and David Backes?

[bluetunehead]

OK, I'll bite: Wakey, Wakey??? I wasn't in St. Louis. Was there something involving him (whomever) and David Backes?

Brent Seabrook hit Backes during the playoffs and knocked him out and new HOFer Duncan Keith mockingly said “wakey wakey” to him in the aftermath when he was clearly in a daze. Seabrook got a couple games for the hit (elbow to the head).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmVrB2MnAE

[danno]

It was a vicious predatory hit by Seabrook and the Hawks fans made an equally disgusting play by creating t-shirts with the now infamous Duncan Keith quote. That hit definitely played a part in the subsequent concussion problems later in Backes' career. I've watched that replay a hundred times and I honestly don't know how it didn't kill him. He's extremely lucky that he's not a vegetable today. Absolutely brutal!

[leedog68]

I hope DB42 goes to the ceremony and pulls a Will Smith.

Because he said something mean during a playoff hockey game...? Do you realize that he didn't deliver the hit...?

I know who did what. But Seabrook ain't getting in the Hall, so....
If someone assaulted your momma or your wife and I made a joke about it to your face, I suppose you are handing me a comedy award?

[bluetunehead]

It was a vicious predatory hit by Seabrook and the Hawks fans made an equally disgusting play by creating t-shirts with the now infamous Duncan Keith quote. That hit definitely played a part in the subsequent concussion problems later in Backes' career. I've watched that replay a hundred times and I honestly don't know how it didn't kill him. He's extremely lucky that he's not a vegetable today. Absolutely brutal!

Actually according to Backes, what caused him to miss time that series was that he had a seriously broken toe that got exacerbated on the hit, rather than any lingering issues with the head.

(Not sure I buy that, lol, but it’s what he said on Cam & Strick)

[Sudsy 11]

May be a Hall of Fame defenseman, but Duncan Keith will always be a piece of sh*t in my mind for what he said to Backes after that hit. Besides that situation, he was a scumbag in general with his dirty play on the ice.

[somni]

OK, I'll bite: Wakey, Wakey??? I wasn't in St. Louis. Was there something involving him (whomever) and David Backes?

Brent Seabrook hit Backes during the playoffs and knocked him out and new HOFer Duncan Keith mockingly said “wakey wakey” to him in the aftermath when he was clearly in a daze. Seabrook got a couple games for the hit (elbow to the head).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmVrB2MnAE

Well I didn't need to watch that again.
The worst is hearing Eddie O try to justify it, effin homer. Just an awful display of sportsmanship by Keith.

I've always admired Steen after that. A competitive guy with common sense.

[TAFKAP]

OK, I'll bite: Wakey, Wakey??? I wasn't in St. Louis. Was there something involving him (whomever) and David Backes?

Brent Seabrook hit Backes during the playoffs and knocked him out and new HOFer Duncan Keith mockingly said “wakey wakey” to him in the aftermath when he was clearly in a daze. Seabrook got a couple games for the hit (elbow to the head).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmVrB2MnAE

Well I didn't need to watch that again.
The worst is hearing Eddie O try to justify it, effin homer. Just an awful display of sportsmanship by Keith.

I've always admired Steen after that. A competitive guy with common sense.

If I remember right, during the 2016 playoffs against the Hawks, the camera caught Steener performing a vasectomy with his stick.

[bluetunehead]

OK, I'll bite: Wakey, Wakey??? I wasn't in St. Louis. Was there something involving him (whomever) and David Backes?

Brent Seabrook hit Backes during the playoffs and knocked him out and new HOFer Duncan Keith mockingly said “wakey wakey” to him in the aftermath when he was clearly in a daze. Seabrook got a couple games for the hit (elbow to the head).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmVrB2MnAE

Well I didn't need to watch that again.
The worst is hearing Eddie O try to justify it, effin homer. Just an awful display of sportsmanship by Keith.

I've always admired Steen after that. A competitive guy with common sense.

Lol I had the same thought about Olczyk. He keeps talking about how Seabrook didn’t leave his feet as though that made it clean, while the rest of the crew immediately point out it was a blatantly illegal headshot.

He’s a good commentator if he’s not doing Hawks games. He just can’t hide how much of a homer he is for them.

[Old_Goat]

I hope DB42 goes to the ceremony and pulls a Will Smith.

Because he said something mean during a playoff hockey game...? Do you realize that he didn't deliver the hit...?

I know who did what. But Seabrook ain't getting in the Hall, so....
If someone assaulted your momma or your wife and I made a joke about it to your face, I suppose you are handing me a comedy award?

You are exactly right. A gutless, idiotic joke.
One could question whether or not Seabrook intended to potentially seriously injure...who knows what someone else's thoughts are in a split second heat of battle? But Keith is akin to someone in the security of a mob throwing rocks while the cameras are rolling, knowing that the Guards won't retaliate because of the modern retribution for doing so. It's about mutual respect. Yes they play very hard, yes they chirp one another. But at the end they line up and shake hands.
Keith was over the line.

[LGB73]

One of the most disgusting displays I've witnessed in sports. Taunting a clearly injured player while he's down and out. Completely classless.

[BalotelliMassive]

One of the most disgusting displays I've witnessed in sports.

It wasn't even one of the most disgusting displays in hockey let alone all sports....

[seattleblue]

His own coach thought he was too fragile to hear about their employee touching their teammate and also still be able to win, so I assume that's correct