Jennifer Botterill gets passionate defense from hockey analyst following Kevin Bieksa fiasco
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Jennifer Botterill and Kevin Bieksa got into it on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday thanks to an incident that went down between Arber Xhekaj and Noel Acciari.
As many of you probably know, Acciari hit Juraj Slafkovsky pretty hard and it left Slafkovsky injured. It was one of those hits that you really hate to see. Xhekaj subsequently went and exacted some revenge, which proved to be a very controversial move.
Jennifer Botterill Vs. Kevin Bieksa
This then led to a heated conversation between Bieksa and Botterill, who could not see eye to eye here.
Bieksa had this to say:
"The game is over... I think right there is the right time for Xhekaj to go at a guy who took out your star player earlier in the game. That for me is the right time to go at a guy. It's an eye for an eye. I don't think he's too apologetic about that, I wouldn't care. I wouldn't care if it's clean or not, you get my guy I'm getting you back at some point."
From there, Botterill came through with this response:
"Then you get players with potential suspensions or fines and you guys are just fine. Guess what the game is changing and there is other solutions. Maybe it's changing, maybe it can change. It has changed, it doesn't always have to be an eye for an eye."
Fans React
There were some fans who jumped out the window and said that Botterill deserved to be fired. Others just continued to pile on and claim that she was a bad analyst.
Ken Campbell weighs in
Now, hockey analyst Ken Campbell of The Hockey News is giving his take on all of this. Essentially, he just believes this can all be chalked up to internet trolls doing what they have always done best.
"But the keyboard warriors who got all triggered were in full force. And it was pathetic. It's a panel, which is a free-flowing exchange of ideas and opinions. Be better, people."
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