The Chicago Blackhawks remain ticked off at Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin for his hit on Bruce Campbell. To refresh: Campbell crashed into the boards after the March 14 Ovechkin hit. Campbell broke a clavicle and rib and is done for the season.
Campbell told the Chicago Tribune that he doesn’t want to hear from Ovechkin.
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“Whatever he says isn’t going to change the fact I’m not going to be playing for a little while,” Campbell said. “I think the intent was there. If the intent is there, I don’t think you can really say you didn’t mean to do anything.”
He called Ovechkin’s two-game suspension “embarrassing.” And he said after the hit, “I just looked up at Ovechkin and I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ I was shaking my head.”
And then there was this statement from Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz to Crain’s Business of Sports about Ovechkin:
“He doesn’t need to do that. It’s an angry outburst … that he has to deal with. I just think he’s too great a player, and he doesn’t need to do that. He could have skated the other way. It wasn’t by accident. He knew exactly what he was doing.”
And then this:
“If any one of our great players put Ovechkin out for the season, he should be out for the season, too. If you’re really going to hurt a player, knee to knee, make a head hit, and you’re out for the season, then let them suspend that player for the rest of the season.”
Yeah, that’ll happen.
