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All About Matt Cooke

04/22/2014 at 4:22pm EDT

from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

In hockey parlance, Cooke’s wires crossed. He was late on the hit, and refused to abandon it. This wasn’t one of those plays where a defenceman is the last man back, and either he takes the puck carrier down or it’s a breakaway. There were three, perhaps four Wild teammates between the puck and the goal, but give the industrious Cooke credit here. He still likes to finish what he starts.

Barrie, the kind of player who actually sells tickets in the National Hockey League, is on the shelf for some period of time. (We won’t believe the Avalanche time line during a playoff series, any more than we’ll buy whatever defence Cooke brings to NHL disciplinarian Stephane Quintal’s office.) And, of course, the NHL Players’ Association will send out a representative or two in defence of Cooke, when what they should be doing is acting on behalf of Barrie and the other 885 union members and hide Cooke’s skates for good.

Of course, we’ve written that before too. It never really changes, does it?

Why should it? Matt Cooke never does.

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Adrian Dater of All Thins Avs turns this incident into more about himself, than Cooke...

Cooke’s apologists can argue back with me or anyone else if they want. But to all the Wild fans who are “tired” of me mentioning Cooke on Twitter (a handful of Tweets apparently is a whole big bunch with these people), I’ll just keep doing them a favor and keep blocking them so they don’t have to be bothered with anything I say.

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