🚀 go-pugleaf

Speaking as a Caps fan, I may be in the minority, but I have always been
distressed at the way Hunter plays.  He reminds me most of someone like
Ken Linseman.  Unarguably talented but given to some really cheap play.
Hunter takes the body legally a lot more than Linseman, but both are
masters of the more-than-occasional chi]eap shot.  The reason they are
so frustrating for the fair-minded (as opposed to rabid) fan is that they
have all the skills required to play solid, valuable hockey.  For som{e
perverse reason, the rabid fans seem to love a home team player like
these, even though this is exactly the kind of player they hate the most
when he's on the opposing team.

As for "goon", Hunter is clearly not that in my mind, since I think of that
as your basic Neanderthal who exists only to pummel and has few hockey skills.
The Capitals did not really have a goon until they dredged up John Kordic
recently (which made me wince).  Alan May is a 3rd/4th line winger who
plays a respectable checking game and fights well.  Kordic is a goon as
I see it.  The Flyers don't have much in the goon category anymore.  Dave
Brown is gone and Craig Berube has improved his playing skills quite a lot
and shouldn't be called a goon.

I for one look forward to a day when the tough players will be more like
Rick Tocchet than John Kordic.  Then if we can get rid of the stick men
and the cheap-shot merchants, we'll really have something.

Arthur Davis