Is there a Colin Campbell conspiracy?

www.montrealgazette.com/sports

Apparently the Montreal media was less than amused with watching the Montreal Canadians get their asses handed to them last night in Boston. If you don’t want to get into a fight, do not lock up with a tough guy that has a reputation of pummeling guys who makes his living with his fists. This article is highly entertaining and worth a look. The author also suggests that there is a conspiracy by Colin Campbell to look the other when his son commits a questionable and egregious act on the ice. My first follow up question would be who determines what is considered egregious and questionable?

Montreal Gazette ---- There was no supplemental discipline coming from the NHL Thursday, hardly surprising given the fact the league probably couldn’t organize a haircut at a skinhead convention.

Canadiens head coach Jacques Martin wasn’t willing to discuss the provocative final-minute use by Bruins counterpart Claude Julien of his roster’s foil fists with the game’s result by then well decided.

That resulted in the pummelling by Boston’s Johnny Boychuk of pacifist Habs defenceman Jaroslav Spacek, the chasing around by Shawn Thornton of rearguard Roman Hamrlik, and the bloodying of Montreal forward Tom Pyatt by Gregory Campbell, the ankles-sharpened son of NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell.

Photos of the Pyatt-Campbell scrap show the latter clearly having nearly lost his left elbow pad, which is hanging from his arm and essentially being used as a tethered weapon.

In hand-to-hand combat, Pyatt was badly over matched by a player who has 10.7 penalty minutes for each of his NHL goals. But in this case, he was cannon fodder.

Leaving Thursday’s morning skate, a box lunch in hand and a baseball cap tugged low on his head, Pyatt wore a blue-black shiner beneath his right eye and had seven small stitches zippered high into his right cheekbone.

This article also suggests the same Colin Campbell conspiracy theory as well. Same Montreal newspaper of course. Maybe it's just a Montreal Gazette thing? Of course they aren’t going to be amused because their team was taken to the wood shed last night and exposed for being a bunch of pansies. Last night Hab's Punk P.K. Subban was yapping at the Bruins all night long while hiding behind the refs.

While the game featured the silliest fight of the year between goaltenders Carey Price and Tim Thomas, there were others that fell into the gratuitous violence category. There was Johnny Boychuk who kept beating on Jaroslav Spacek even after the Canadiens defenceman had stopped fighting, and Gregory Campbell who used his elbow pads as weapons against Tom Pyatt. It’s the sort of action that the NHL should be compelled to look into but, then again, the guy who handles discipline for the NHL is Colin Campbell, who is Gregory’s proud dad.

While we’re on the subject of the way the NHL views fighting, it’s ironic that it has taken a hard line on shots to the head, but doesn’t have any problem when Brent Johnson rearranges Rick DiPietro’s face with a left hook. That incident was on Thomas’s mind as he faced Price, but the Canadiens goalie had the grace not to press the advantage when he landed on top of Thomas after a graceless - and punchless - waltz. [Read the whole article here]

Me personally, I don't think there is a Colin Campbell conspiracy but I am a Boston Bruins fans so I might not be seeing it from a Hab's fan perspective, I have seen a lot more egregious thuggery and other questionable stuff go unpunished by Colin Campbell. Puck Daddy seemed to be hinting at this conspiracy as well .   I do think the Hab's were exposed last night as being a bit soft. I do think we will see other teams playing Canadians in a physical manner.