Sports Frog

Some interesting comments from Ottawa enforcer, Chris McGrattan, yesterday following a concussion teammate Dean McAmmond sustained after a Stever Downie hit in the Senators 2-4 exhibition win over the Flyers.

"It was a cheap shot," he said. "There is no part in the game for hits like that.

"A guy cannot defend himself and you take a 40-foot run and jump and hit him. Hopefully, the league takes a look at it.

"Those are the hits we don't want in our game. You don't want to see stuff like that, we're not out there to kill each other."

Wow, Chris. That last comment is one of those things you think but don't say.

McAmmond, on the other hand, now has a history of concussions and will certainly be forced to debate his future in the game.

Plenty of other discussion and notes on this going on at Mirtle's blog.

The swamp is getting going with it's 2007-08 thread as well.

UPDATE: Here's the part of the quote I was referring to: "He will get what is coming to him," McGrattan said. "He will do it to the wrong guy and somebody will put him out of hockey." -- That's what happens when you sneak these posts in at work...