Roberts was a pussy. He knew he just came back from a concession. Typical penguins player doing cheap shots. And wings won the cup that year so suck it pens
Franzen dove to draw attention to Roberts' unsportsmanlike play. Remove the glove from Roberts' hand and you'll have flashbacks to Bertuzzi. And let's be honest, we don't want another incident like that.
grizzly1792.Franzen is a great player.Roberts is a leader and one of the most intense players ever.He is not a dirtbag. He is a trainer for alot of NHL players including Stamkos. He knows hockey better than most and played hockey the way it was ment to be.
Watch the replay - you can see the diver take a quick look at the 2 referees before he curls and tucks for the fantastic diving finish. I'd say a 9.5 out of 10 is low. 9.8 out of 10 from this judge! LOL
Notice he glanced over, saw the ref watching and then did his swan dive to the ice? Sissy. Everyone knows it was fake. My grandmother could have withstood that hit.
same game didnt franzen lay that stick waving faggot malkin out and oh yeah didnt datysuk also in the same game lay some nice punches on that roberts?
@ilikedetroit I give Datsyuk credit for even daring to take on Roberts but he's lucky that Roberts slipped on a stick and that there were two officials seperating them... Gary would've killed him.
Either Franzen's the biggest pussy in the NHL or that was a ridiculous dive... Either way, keep that shit on the soccer field, this is hockey for fuck's sake.
what a F***ing b**** Roberts is, he only hit frazen because how how good he is, penguins wish they had Franzen's skill, and Crosby is the Biggest joke i have ever seen, all i have to say!
@biebrlover77 if you're calling Roberts a bitch, honestly you have to have started watching hockey in the last 2 years. In his days with Calgary, he wouldn't hesitate to drop the gloves with some of the top enforcers. His first full season in the league saw him get 16 fighting majors and racking up 282 penalty minutes.. a few years later he had a 53 GOAL SEASON while still putting up over 200 PIMS. Oh, and I just noticed your username is "biebrlover77"..
I'm almost embarrassed for Franzen...have a little more respect for yourself man...it's a padded glove and you act like Tyson just hit you with brass knuckles...
I know there's about a million Wings fans out there who watch this and cry foul.. but please, please for one second take your heads out of your asses and actually watch this video for what it is------ Franzen showing once again how much a of b*tch he is. Watch at the 1:00 mark. You can CLEARLY see that as soon as Franzen notices that the referee is watching, only then does he dramatically throw is head to the side and grab his face like he's just been stabbed. SICKENING! GO PLAY SOCCER U PANSY!
@Mralmostmillionare The Ducks aren't so bad. I think Franzen gets hit a lot because he's a big guy, but I don't think people realize he's not as tough and rugged as he looks. He's a scorer and a bit of a grinder, but not because he likes fighting. He grinds by working his way through people.
Roberts is a cheapshot sucker punch artist....and he passed the torch and the "A" to Matt Cooke. Penguins are the cheapest team in the league by far....rewarding punks like Roberts and Cooke with the "A" is a joke
just showing the same respect he showed Franzen. Punching a guy just coming back from a concussion is not honest hockey. I don't disagree with his skill in the 90's...but the Gary Roberts in the 21st century was a different player...you have to admit that.
no, because roberts ALWAYS was a gritty player. he scrapped more often in the 90s, had nearly 300 PIM season over season. he was not a saint, that correct but he was far away of being a cheapshot artist. comparing him to the matt cooke is a joke. he always stood up for himself and MOSTLY never threw dirty checks out there.hes was a true hockey player, gritty and tough to play against. by the way: he broke his neck in 96.
@WhaleRider86 I'll give him his career's due...he was a tough power forward and cheapshot artist is overdoing it a bit. Being a Wings fan watching every second of that series...he was more like Matt Cooke than the Gary Roberts of the 90's and calling that "gritty" is not accurate; it's dishonest.
again, gary roberts was not a saint is some situations. for example the kenny jönsson hit in the playoffs leaf against islanders playoff series 2000 or something was bigtime cheap. but I think to be a good power forward you need some of that agressive, look at cam neely or theo fleury even thommy holmstrom. but of course hitting from behind and suckerpunching is dirty. at that point your right. but when youre are in the heat of the battle dirty things can happen.
i love how the red wings players were pissed at letang. you know they knew it was roberts that did it... but there's not a player on that team who wants a piece of him haha.
@jimih64 im not a pittsburgh fan, gary roberts is a beast and franzen dives like this ALL the time. Watch the video called Getzlaf tell Franzen to get up. It's the same shit. Franzen is a pussy
@Kipperluongo Hahahahaha the fact you think this is a 'dive' is testament to your not knowing hockey at all. This is embellishment, not diving. Diving is what Crosby does. Diving is what Bobby Ryan does. Diving is what Ribeiro does.
I watch every Wings game every year, and Franzen embellishes like this a few times a week at most. Dishonest, yes, but still lightyears behind what most other teams encourage. Have you ever watched a Canucks game? Their whole team embellishes like this every game.
@jimih64 p.s. Getzlaf telling Franzen to get up is about the best example of hypocrisy in history. Anaheim is the most classless, least respectful team in the league.
@jimih64 diving and embellishing are pretty much the same thing. In the hockey world, if you embellish or try to sell a hit, it's called a dive. It's like slang, so don't get into this technical bullshit with me. How does bobby ryan dive? Please show me some evidence of this. Also the penalty for selling or "embellishing" a hit in hockey is called diving. So your argument makes no sense
@jimih64 you don't know anything about hockey, diving is the same thing as ebllishment, go play NHL 11 and when you trip a player you will sometimes hear them say "did he embellish it?" and then the other guy goes "well maybe alittle"
@RickySouthwell I love how you accuse others of not knowing their hockey, then go and say laughably retarded things like "diving is the same thing as ebllishment".
But that's not all: then you go and back it up with... wait for it... the color commentary from a VIDEOGAME!!!!!
FUCKING BRILLIANT!
Diving is making yourself fall, whereas embellishment is making a fall look worse than it would've been, but it *still would've occurred*. You are a stupid douche who doesn't know hockey; go away.
@RickySouthwell Base yourself on the commentary of a game, even if it's NHL, is stupid. It's like believing that every gun in CoD reacts the way they do in real life lol
Franzen tried to sell it. First, it takes him a second or two to realize he was "punched." Then, when he goes back to the bench he says he got elbowed. To top it off, all the Red Wing fans boo and complain for a penalty acting like they know what just happened.
I have to laugh...there is a second and a half delay before he covers his face. Franzen then is seen bitching about being "elbowed". Dude, Belanger took a slapshot to the face, went to the bench, pulled his teeth out so he wouldn't miss a shift. Back in the day someone from the Avs was bleeding all over the place after he got smashed in the middle of a play and crawled off the ice so someone could replace him.
If Roberts really hit him, his head would have imploded. Fact.
Franzen is tight, Crysby is a sorry excuse for a woman, and that's that. I'm sick of the damn woman's rights movement, keep them out of the NHL for god's sake.
Sucker punch.They were trying to get him off of the ice because he was a big offensive threat and they knew he just came back from a concussion.Because it's Detroit they try to do things the right way.Anyone else would have skated right at that old man and tackled him to the ice and just kept hitting him.But they got him at the end of the game.
@tnogo1 they are because of my own subjective opinion. i think they act like babies on the ice. they can dish it out but cant take it. yes i watch hockey. yes im a biased fan. im sure theres players in the league that bother you for your own personal reasons as well.
McCarty? Downey? Maltby? Each of those players have a reputation for playing dirty and rough. Judging by your smirking tone and punk-ass attitude, you probably feel that fighting should be out of the game as well. Do you not think these players want to win? Like, I keep coming back to the "win-at-all-cost" theory, which you seem to disagree with, but its completely true. Every year in the playoffs, players use low-ball tactics to win. Should be Chris Pronger be banned for everything he's done?
That was shitty, even if he dove. That's still cheap and has no class doing that. Gary Roberts is an idiot, and a headcase. He did this for the whole Stanley Cup Finals in 2008.
@Kipperluongo Gary Roberts cheap shots everybody, he does it all the time. He's a douche bag, and dude. You don't just punch somebody in hockey unless in a fight, that's a fucking shitty thing to do. Roberts, is a pussy. And he's retired, he used to kick ass. Still a pussy
@PrimeReaper955 he doesn't cheapshot everybody, only douchebags that deserve it. He barely touched franzen with his glove on. This wasn't a punch. If Gary Roberts actually wanted to punch him he would've knocked out franzen cold.
@Kipperluongo No, he's boarded Jason Blake I believe and a few other people. He's a dirty player, and it is obvious Franzen went down easy but, you shouldn't punch somebody. That's not cool to do.
@Kipperluongo Punching in the head someone who had recently returned from concussion-like symptoms is a gutless thing to do. It was a dive, yes, but what Roberts did was low and very unnecessary.
judging by all the typical "class" comments and whining and bitching over a hit like that, its clear not many hockey fans in bettmans new NHL understand hockey or have played it before.
@thegamgi Very well put. bettman's neutered-nhl is weak and players like franzass exist because of it. franzass fans should pick their battles, as this clip is pathetic.
Gary Roberts should NEVER even be mentioned in the same sentance as franzass.......unfortunately.....
i dont think anyone who establishes themself as a power forward would dive... it was like just one of those late reactions... its like when you get jerked hard and your neck takes a toll as soon as you turn it it killls
Whether or not Franzen dove, it was still completely classless for Roberts to punch in the head someone who had recently returned from a head injury.
@Crymson1 actually I do believe it was somewhat justified. Dirty? Absolutely. Cheap? No doubt. But its the difference between professional athletes and pick-up Wednesday night beer leagues...they do anything to win. ANYTHING. They are all fighting for a Stanley Cup, and will do whatever it takes to win. Lemieux won 4 cups, you think he really cares that he ruined Draper's face? He was an incredibly dirty player that I hated, but he won a Conn Smythe trophy for the effort he put into winning.
@crowdaddy57 Lemieux was insignificant in the 1996 Cup run for the Avs. And for his sins, he got the ever-living shit beaten out of him by Darren McCarty in the next year.
That said, what you're saying is tantamount to claiming that massacring children in war in order to demoralize the other side is OK because "they just want to win."
@Crymson1 that is a very extreme example, and I'm surprised you used it. Killing children and hitting someone from behind in hockey are not really similar...I like your thinking though...but seriously, it is ignorant to say that hockey players won't do things that we frown upon. And the Avs ended up winning the series, as well as the Stanley Cup.
@Crymson1 don't be a goof. Playoff sports are ridiculously competitive. Guarantee Detroit would have taken a hack at Crosby if he had an ankle injury. If you don't like it, too bad.
@crowdaddy57 Ah. The resort to the time-tested "oh, you know YOU would have done it, too" tactic. Well, there's where you're wrong. You know just as well as I that nobody on the Red Wings that season would have done such a thing.
@crowdaddy57 Ah. The resort to the time-tested "oh, you know YOU would have done it, too" tactic. Well, there's where you're wrong. You know just as well as I that nobody on the Red Wings that season would have done such a thing.
I'll just wait for you to admit that no circumstance in hockey justifies goonery or reckless intent to injure.
@xXxsIckICkxXx or he decided that a cup was more important than retaliation. You know what? Franzen was right. Roberts is washed up and highly overrated.
@ridgemeadowsmoose Hasek, Chelios, Oates, Larionov, Bourque, Recchi, Bucyk, Horton, Harvey... But you probably dont know who any of these players are... retard.
@xXxsIckICkxXx I have no idea what your point is. are you aware that Tampa didn't win the cup with Roberts? neither did pittsburgh. You seem to be saying something, but I don't think you actually are.
He should have gotten out of the way! That's why Roberts hit him! That is no reason to take a dive like that. The replay clearly show his delayed reaction to the punch just so he could draw a penalty. Soccer style!
Roberts was a pussy. He knew he just came back from a concession. Typical penguins player doing cheap shots. And wings won the cup that year so suck it pens
hockeytalk13 2 weeks ago
Franzen dove to draw attention to Roberts' unsportsmanlike play. Remove the glove from Roberts' hand and you'll have flashbacks to Bertuzzi. And let's be honest, we don't want another incident like that.
delacroixwalrus 4 weeks ago
I am ashamed as a fellow Swede to see Franzén being the pussy he is making dive after dive
smorgardsboard 1 month ago
grizzly1792.Franzen is a great player.Roberts is a leader and one of the most intense players ever.He is not a dirtbag. He is a trainer for alot of NHL players including Stamkos. He knows hockey better than most and played hockey the way it was ment to be.
dbn52 1 month ago
franzen is such a pussy. he shoulda got a penalty for being one
Loyalty1269 1 month ago
I'd still rather have Franzen on my team than dirtbag Gary Roberts.
grizzly1792 3 months ago
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grizzly1792 3 months ago
you were scared of him roberts
monkey1544 4 months ago
Watch the replay - you can see the diver take a quick look at the 2 referees before he curls and tucks for the fantastic diving finish. I'd say a 9.5 out of 10 is low. 9.8 out of 10 from this judge! LOL
timmyboy1970 4 months ago
Notice he glanced over, saw the ref watching and then did his swan dive to the ice? Sissy. Everyone knows it was fake. My grandmother could have withstood that hit.
leathergirl78 5 months ago
unreal dive, pussy.
Bechard28 5 months ago
seems like he should have been wearing #87 and a penguins sweater.............
coolkid670 5 months ago
I can't wait to see people target Crosby's head.
babiesmakinbabies 6 months ago
same game didnt franzen lay that stick waving faggot malkin out and oh yeah didnt datysuk also in the same game lay some nice punches on that roberts?
ilikedetroit 6 months ago
@ilikedetroit I give Datsyuk credit for even daring to take on Roberts but he's lucky that Roberts slipped on a stick and that there were two officials seperating them... Gary would've killed him.
17MJG93 5 months ago
fycking euros..
Mark1379 6 months ago
Either Franzen's the biggest pussy in the NHL or that was a ridiculous dive... Either way, keep that shit on the soccer field, this is hockey for fuck's sake.
brockaloupe 6 months ago
i love the wings i dont hate roberts tho hes my 3rd cousin
canadianbench 7 months ago
@canadianbench do you know his nephew Spencer Roberts?
8kcht3 6 months ago
@8kcht3 nope. i don't really no much about how im related Ive just been told by all my family that were are related not to to far down the line.
canadianbench 6 months ago
what a F***ing b**** Roberts is, he only hit frazen because how how good he is, penguins wish they had Franzen's skill, and Crosby is the Biggest joke i have ever seen, all i have to say!
biebrlover77 8 months ago
@biebrlover77 if you're calling Roberts a bitch, honestly you have to have started watching hockey in the last 2 years. In his days with Calgary, he wouldn't hesitate to drop the gloves with some of the top enforcers. His first full season in the league saw him get 16 fighting majors and racking up 282 penalty minutes.. a few years later he had a 53 GOAL SEASON while still putting up over 200 PIMS. Oh, and I just noticed your username is "biebrlover77"..
biebrlover77, pls go
JacobTheMiscBrah 7 months ago
lmao. what a dive.
Snipefest23 8 months ago
Franzen is a bitch
phathockeydevil 8 months ago
and wings fan say crosby is a baby...
blinkjagr 8 months ago
Roberts is a fag!
redwingsfan198 8 months ago
I'm almost embarrassed for Franzen...have a little more respect for yourself man...it's a padded glove and you act like Tyson just hit you with brass knuckles...
Sotimack 8 months ago
I'd give that dive 9.5/10
NoClue1472 9 months ago 24
@NoClue1472 That's embellishment, not a dive.
Roberts threw a punch at the jaw of a recently concussed player. It's a clear cut penalty no matter what.
mustbeburtreynolds 8 months ago
I know there's about a million Wings fans out there who watch this and cry foul.. but please, please for one second take your heads out of your asses and actually watch this video for what it is------ Franzen showing once again how much a of b*tch he is. Watch at the 1:00 mark. You can CLEARLY see that as soon as Franzen notices that the referee is watching, only then does he dramatically throw is head to the side and grab his face like he's just been stabbed. SICKENING! GO PLAY SOCCER U PANSY!
zzforshort 9 months ago
I think everybody hits franzen cos they want to be able to score like him. Its bullshit. Fuck the Ducks they all play dirty.
Mralmostmillionare 9 months ago
@Mralmostmillionare The Ducks aren't so bad. I think Franzen gets hit a lot because he's a big guy, but I don't think people realize he's not as tough and rugged as he looks. He's a scorer and a bit of a grinder, but not because he likes fighting. He grinds by working his way through people.
cronin098 9 months ago
@cronin098 That is actually really true!! Aha
Mralmostmillionare 9 months ago
That was not a punch...that was a shove. What a pussy.
paulski5 9 months ago
Roberts is a cheapshot sucker punch artist....and he passed the torch and the "A" to Matt Cooke. Penguins are the cheapest team in the league by far....rewarding punks like Roberts and Cooke with the "A" is a joke
quadtran 10 months ago
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WhaleRider86 10 months ago
@WhaleRider86
just showing the same respect he showed Franzen. Punching a guy just coming back from a concussion is not honest hockey. I don't disagree with his skill in the 90's...but the Gary Roberts in the 21st century was a different player...you have to admit that.
quadtran 10 months ago
@quadtran
no, because roberts ALWAYS was a gritty player. he scrapped more often in the 90s, had nearly 300 PIM season over season. he was not a saint, that correct but he was far away of being a cheapshot artist. comparing him to the matt cooke is a joke. he always stood up for himself and MOSTLY never threw dirty checks out there.hes was a true hockey player, gritty and tough to play against. by the way: he broke his neck in 96.
WhaleRider86 10 months ago
@WhaleRider86 I'll give him his career's due...he was a tough power forward and cheapshot artist is overdoing it a bit. Being a Wings fan watching every second of that series...he was more like Matt Cooke than the Gary Roberts of the 90's and calling that "gritty" is not accurate; it's dishonest.
quadtran 10 months ago
@quadtran
again, gary roberts was not a saint is some situations. for example the kenny jönsson hit in the playoffs leaf against islanders playoff series 2000 or something was bigtime cheap. but I think to be a good power forward you need some of that agressive, look at cam neely or theo fleury even thommy holmstrom. but of course hitting from behind and suckerpunching is dirty. at that point your right. but when youre are in the heat of the battle dirty things can happen.
WhaleRider86 10 months ago
Oops, I misspelled Franzen. Ha-ha.
MiguelCC51 10 months ago
Frazen needs some SCUBA lessons, because that was a really obvious dive. Surprising really though, considering the team he's on.
MiguelCC51 10 months ago
notice how franzen was fine when he first turned and then faked his fall.... what a fag
xdalemhartzx 10 months ago
sucker punching punk, franzen would whip his coward butt toe to toe
rockydykema 10 months ago
Glass Franzen at it again.
MrSlazz11 11 months ago
Franzen is such a woman.
mose0092 11 months ago
i love how the red wings players were pissed at letang. you know they knew it was roberts that did it... but there's not a player on that team who wants a piece of him haha.
DatPicksburghGuy 11 months ago
Gary is losing his touch. His victims never used to leave the ice under their own power...
TheWitchOvAgnesi 11 months ago 25
what a bitch
LetsgoPitt58 11 months ago
is it true that they had to hire a trainer just to help cover all of the franzen shows?
nurple12 11 months ago
Yeah, he tried to sell it, but the punch was a disgustingly shitty thing to do. Fits Pittsburgh's typical level of sportsmanship.
jimih64 11 months ago
@jimih64 fuck urself roberts is a beast franzen is a diving Swedish pussy
Kipperluongo 9 months ago
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jimih64 9 months ago
@jimih64 im not a pittsburgh fan, gary roberts is a beast and franzen dives like this ALL the time. Watch the video called Getzlaf tell Franzen to get up. It's the same shit. Franzen is a pussy
Kipperluongo 9 months ago
@Kipperluongo Hahahahaha the fact you think this is a 'dive' is testament to your not knowing hockey at all. This is embellishment, not diving. Diving is what Crosby does. Diving is what Bobby Ryan does. Diving is what Ribeiro does.
I watch every Wings game every year, and Franzen embellishes like this a few times a week at most. Dishonest, yes, but still lightyears behind what most other teams encourage. Have you ever watched a Canucks game? Their whole team embellishes like this every game.
jimih64 9 months ago
@jimih64 p.s. Getzlaf telling Franzen to get up is about the best example of hypocrisy in history. Anaheim is the most classless, least respectful team in the league.
jimih64 9 months ago
@jimih64 diving and embellishing are pretty much the same thing. In the hockey world, if you embellish or try to sell a hit, it's called a dive. It's like slang, so don't get into this technical bullshit with me. How does bobby ryan dive? Please show me some evidence of this. Also the penalty for selling or "embellishing" a hit in hockey is called diving. So your argument makes no sense
Kipperluongo 9 months ago
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jimih64 9 months ago
@Kipperluongo The penalty is Diving/Embellishment and if you watch hockey at all, you'd know the ref always distinguishes between the two.
My point is, almost everyone embellishes -- but only a few cocksuckers blatantly dive when they haven't been touched, as Crosby and the like do.
jimih64 9 months ago
@jimih64 you don't know anything about hockey, diving is the same thing as ebllishment, go play NHL 11 and when you trip a player you will sometimes hear them say "did he embellish it?" and then the other guy goes "well maybe alittle"
RickySouthwell 8 months ago
@RickySouthwell I love how you accuse others of not knowing their hockey, then go and say laughably retarded things like "diving is the same thing as ebllishment".
But that's not all: then you go and back it up with... wait for it... the color commentary from a VIDEOGAME!!!!!
FUCKING BRILLIANT!
Diving is making yourself fall, whereas embellishment is making a fall look worse than it would've been, but it *still would've occurred*. You are a stupid douche who doesn't know hockey; go away.
jimih64 8 months ago
@RickySouthwell Base yourself on the commentary of a game, even if it's NHL, is stupid. It's like believing that every gun in CoD reacts the way they do in real life lol
kohoko 8 months ago
@kohoko well it is true, why would they say that if diving and embillishing arint the same thing?
RickySouthwell 8 months ago
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@Kipperluongo And your comment fits the typical Pittsburgh fans' complete lack of class and hockey knowledge.
Get back to your Tonka trucks, the adults are talking right now.
jimih64 9 months ago
Franzen tried to sell it. First, it takes him a second or two to realize he was "punched." Then, when he goes back to the bench he says he got elbowed. To top it off, all the Red Wing fans boo and complain for a penalty acting like they know what just happened.
italkart24racer 1 year ago
gary roberts is the only one allowed to do that. lol
rpovlik 1 year ago
I have to laugh...there is a second and a half delay before he covers his face. Franzen then is seen bitching about being "elbowed". Dude, Belanger took a slapshot to the face, went to the bench, pulled his teeth out so he wouldn't miss a shift. Back in the day someone from the Avs was bleeding all over the place after he got smashed in the middle of a play and crawled off the ice so someone could replace him.
If Roberts really hit him, his head would have imploded. Fact.
nemesis11c 1 year ago
babcock is just like "seriously? he barely touched you"
AvanderX 1 year ago
Perhaps he should have dropped his glove than gave that faggot from detroit a left hook to the jaw.
Turks8806 1 year ago
Its hockey, but its wasn't right for him to do that since franzen has concussion history.
rhcp09123 1 year ago
@rhcp09123 Then he should be playing golf instead.
theDyingWhale 1 year ago
@theDyingWhale Those Golfers are serious athletes. Walking around in ugly ass clothes is hard work
glaxko2 1 year ago
DIVE DIVE DIVE!
atranos 1 year ago
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razorslice17 1 year ago 5
@razorslice17 the only player in the nhl that is worse then mike ribeiro is freeking crybaby crosby
lol19283746 1 year ago
fucking owned
peterjames314 1 year ago
cokenEbachio What r u talking about? Wings r amazing. Number 1 in the West!
GOLIONS999 1 year ago
Franzen is tight, Crysby is a sorry excuse for a woman, and that's that. I'm sick of the damn woman's rights movement, keep them out of the NHL for god's sake.
EvilCartman4 1 year ago
@EvilCartman4
crosby cant hear you, hes too busy leading the league in points/scoring. funny, i dont see a red wing even in the top 15.
xXxsIckICkxXx 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx Well you must be a moron then. because Datsyuk is 9th in points and Franzen is 14th in goals.
AriSparkfist 1 year ago
@AriSparkfist
um yea, a week later after i posted my comment .. and hes in the top 15 by 4 points. and franzen is no longer 14th. moron.
xXxsIckICkxXx 1 year ago
franzen is a woussssy. DIVE
genuinedillweed 1 year ago
KO PUNCH
ARMENIANboy22 1 year ago
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GO RED WINGS! Roberts ran away bc he was to scared what the MULE was gonna do!
GOLIONS999 1 year ago
GO RED WINGS! Roberts ran away bc he was to scared what the MULE was gonna do
GOLIONS999 1 year ago
@GOLIONS999 the mule cant do shit red wings fucking suck no one likes you or thm
cokenEbachio 1 year ago
franzen is the biggest puss
harryo13 1 year ago
@harryo13 no that would be Crosby
spacetrooperzul 1 year ago
@spacetrooperzul shut the fuck up you faggot crosby is god and franzen is the guy giving out free blow jobs
cokenEbachio 1 year ago
Sucker punch.They were trying to get him off of the ice because he was a big offensive threat and they knew he just came back from a concussion.Because it's Detroit they try to do things the right way.Anyone else would have skated right at that old man and tackled him to the ice and just kept hitting him.But they got him at the end of the game.
WEINBAUER 1 year ago
I can just hear him as he stayed down..
MY VAGINAAAAAA! He hit me in MY VAGINAAAAAAA!"
pussy ass bitch! lol
oehieze 1 year ago
Its all good. Datzyuk dropped Roberts at the end of the game. Roberts is a different man when you're face to face with him.
kizzie48 1 year ago
Haha. Franzen definitely sold it.
jimih64 1 year ago
good. franzen is one of the biggest weenies in the league. him and holmstrom.
lpilgrm 1 year ago
@lpilgrm, How are they the biggest weenies? Do you even watch hockey?
tnogo1 1 year ago
@tnogo1 they are because of my own subjective opinion. i think they act like babies on the ice. they can dish it out but cant take it. yes i watch hockey. yes im a biased fan. im sure theres players in the league that bother you for your own personal reasons as well.
lpilgrm 1 year ago
Haha, Franzen is a coward.
Eetuhaisee 1 year ago
McCarty? Downey? Maltby? Each of those players have a reputation for playing dirty and rough. Judging by your smirking tone and punk-ass attitude, you probably feel that fighting should be out of the game as well. Do you not think these players want to win? Like, I keep coming back to the "win-at-all-cost" theory, which you seem to disagree with, but its completely true. Every year in the playoffs, players use low-ball tactics to win. Should be Chris Pronger be banned for everything he's done?
crowdaddy57 1 year ago
It wasn't a dive. Coming out of a bad concussion causes a lot of things to be delayed... like pain.
mandymac502 1 year ago
@mandymac502 HUGE DIVE. Trust me if Roberts wanted to hurt franzen he could've hurt him
Kipperluongo 1 year ago
dive! fags
TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
That was shitty, even if he dove. That's still cheap and has no class doing that. Gary Roberts is an idiot, and a headcase. He did this for the whole Stanley Cup Finals in 2008.
PrimeReaper955 1 year ago
@PrimeReaper955 Gary Roberts kicks ass, its not his fault the wings are a bunch of pussies
Kipperluongo 1 year ago
@Kipperluongo Gary Roberts cheap shots everybody, he does it all the time. He's a douche bag, and dude. You don't just punch somebody in hockey unless in a fight, that's a fucking shitty thing to do. Roberts, is a pussy. And he's retired, he used to kick ass. Still a pussy
PrimeReaper955 1 year ago
@PrimeReaper955 he doesn't cheapshot everybody, only douchebags that deserve it. He barely touched franzen with his glove on. This wasn't a punch. If Gary Roberts actually wanted to punch him he would've knocked out franzen cold.
Kipperluongo 1 year ago
@Kipperluongo No, he's boarded Jason Blake I believe and a few other people. He's a dirty player, and it is obvious Franzen went down easy but, you shouldn't punch somebody. That's not cool to do.
PrimeReaper955 1 year ago
@Kipperluongo Punching in the head someone who had recently returned from concussion-like symptoms is a gutless thing to do. It was a dive, yes, but what Roberts did was low and very unnecessary.
Crymson1 1 year ago
judging by all the typical "class" comments and whining and bitching over a hit like that, its clear not many hockey fans in bettmans new NHL understand hockey or have played it before.
thegamgi 1 year ago
@thegamgi Very well put. bettman's neutered-nhl is weak and players like franzass exist because of it. franzass fans should pick their battles, as this clip is pathetic.
Gary Roberts should NEVER even be mentioned in the same sentance as franzass.......unfortunately.....
decleafs4 1 year ago
wasnt even a punch..
TastyPastryGaming 1 year ago
Typical refs to baby the Penguins and not call that cheap shot.
Franzen embellished, yeah, but it's still a cheap shot.
IrishHeroMan 1 year ago
Keep it classy Pittsburgh Pens. You pieces of scum. GO WINGS!
gordo193 1 year ago
i dont think anyone who establishes themself as a power forward would dive... it was like just one of those late reactions... its like when you get jerked hard and your neck takes a toll as soon as you turn it it killls
leafsarethebest4ever 1 year ago
Roberts is such a pu&$y!
singlefitshyguy 1 year ago
Franzen had just returned from a head injury, it was clear Roberts was targeting the head.
cmdrfun1 1 year ago
Boy that little jab with a padded glove must have really hurt...fuckin pussy, kill yourself
Sotimack 1 year ago
@Sotimack there's thick plastic underneath the padding, i does hurt.
wpchief11 1 year ago
@wpchief11 true... and besides... its gary roberts. a punch from him with an inflatable Sockem Bopper would make a grown man cry.
killeensp 1 year ago
@killeensp lol prolly. he's a beast dude, i dont think i'd try and do anything to piss him off, but anybody else is fair game in my book
wpchief11 1 year ago
I would do the same thing if i was in the STANLEY CUP FINALS!
SkeletonRiver 1 year ago
Whether or not Franzen dove, it was still completely classless for Roberts to punch in the head someone who had recently returned from a head injury.
Crymson1 1 year ago 11
@Crymson1 it's called "playoff hockey". Yes it's gut-less, but there going to do anything they can to win.
crowdaddy57 1 year ago
@crowdaddy57 Ah. I suspect you believe Claude Lemieux's hit against Draper in the '96 playoffs was justified too, then?
This move by Roberts was completely unnecessary and totally unjustified.
Crymson1 1 year ago
@Crymson1 actually I do believe it was somewhat justified. Dirty? Absolutely. Cheap? No doubt. But its the difference between professional athletes and pick-up Wednesday night beer leagues...they do anything to win. ANYTHING. They are all fighting for a Stanley Cup, and will do whatever it takes to win. Lemieux won 4 cups, you think he really cares that he ruined Draper's face? He was an incredibly dirty player that I hated, but he won a Conn Smythe trophy for the effort he put into winning.
crowdaddy57 1 year ago
@crowdaddy57 Lemieux was insignificant in the 1996 Cup run for the Avs. And for his sins, he got the ever-living shit beaten out of him by Darren McCarty in the next year.
That said, what you're saying is tantamount to claiming that massacring children in war in order to demoralize the other side is OK because "they just want to win."
Crymson1 1 year ago
@Crymson1 that is a very extreme example, and I'm surprised you used it. Killing children and hitting someone from behind in hockey are not really similar...I like your thinking though...but seriously, it is ignorant to say that hockey players won't do things that we frown upon. And the Avs ended up winning the series, as well as the Stanley Cup.
crowdaddy57 1 year ago
@crowdaddy57 Butbutbut.... it's OK because they'll do anything to win!
Crymson1 1 year ago
@Crymson1 don't be a goof. Playoff sports are ridiculously competitive. Guarantee Detroit would have taken a hack at Crosby if he had an ankle injury. If you don't like it, too bad.
crowdaddy57 1 year ago
@crowdaddy57 Ah. The resort to the time-tested "oh, you know YOU would have done it, too" tactic. Well, there's where you're wrong. You know just as well as I that nobody on the Red Wings that season would have done such a thing.
Crymson1 1 year ago
@crowdaddy57 Ah. The resort to the time-tested "oh, you know YOU would have done it, too" tactic. Well, there's where you're wrong. You know just as well as I that nobody on the Red Wings that season would have done such a thing.
I'll just wait for you to admit that no circumstance in hockey justifies goonery or reckless intent to injure.
Crymson1 1 year ago
@Crymson1 haha franzen is a pussy
stephenTML91 1 year ago
@Crymson1 except that franzen is a shit human being and deserves to die
joementum5 1 year ago
@joementum5 does he now? And why is that if I may ask? I think you are the 1 deserving to die
xjedimindx 1 year ago
@joementum5 that is an interesting opinion. I am certain that the people in your life benefit from your tremendous insite. you should write a book.
letmepointout 1 year ago
@Crymson1 Yeah but it's only Franzen...nobody really cares.
TheoBrixtonTheKid 1 year ago
@Crymson1 i agree but when your in the moment your not thinking did this guy just have a head injury
YouJussGotCurbed 1 year ago
hhhdirty but gotta love gary tho
kiddkidd1234 1 year ago
holy shit what a dive. the name of this video is so misleading.
07foxmulder 1 year ago
typical european hockey player
mfornelos 1 year ago
The crowd crys with him
1996HockeyMan 1 year ago
Haha, i woulda laughed if he got a dive. cuz he did dive. both roberts and franzen to the box. :)
hazeI09 1 year ago
Franzen is one of the biggest divers in the game
roobenhawk 1 year ago
And again he goes down... what a pussy
shadraque 1 year ago
wow what a graceful dive this is a guy that takes out other players mouthguards what a baby
hockey17jp 1 year ago
godddddd roberts u cheap shit...go get ur ass beat by datsyuk again hahahahahaha!
RyRyyy7 1 year ago
Your ass is cracked sideways if you think that was a punch. That was a fucking tap XD
razorslice17 1 year ago
@razorslice17 If Gary Roberts actually punched him the force of which would have wiped out Canada
roobenhawk 1 year ago
he just gave him a little love tap is all. no need to flop on the ice like that
NHwitty20 1 year ago
franzen is a pussyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
spongedom96 1 year ago
Pansy or not that's still possibly a suspension
Jonesyful10 1 year ago
fucking pussy fransen
sauron565 1 year ago
haha faggot red wings QUEEEERS
stephenTML91 1 year ago
Awwww, poor baby! Get up you faker! Late response tells it all, fucking actor,twat!
crazyfuk100 1 year ago 2
@crazyfuk100 Your right. Ian Lapperiere takes slapshots to the face and finishes the game, this pussy gets hit and fakes for 10 minutes.
ColoradoAvalanche33 1 year ago 5
@ColoradoAvalanche33. franzen has concussion history...when you get a concussion, you dontt get up
kanyeezy24 1 year ago
wow pussy
dgifford88 1 year ago
i hate Franzen
itsmezan 1 year ago
yes scary gary!!! wings fans are disgusting at how they act at the joe!
DPIPHOTOGRAPHY 1 year ago
no call
malagawatch 1 year ago
Franzen was going to retaliate then realized it was Roberts so he decided to go into the fetal position on the ground
xXxsIckICkxXx 1 year ago 21
@xXxsIckICkxXx or he decided that a cup was more important than retaliation. You know what? Franzen was right. Roberts is washed up and highly overrated.
jkrx 1 year ago
@jkrx he was 40 sumthing u idiot, what 40 year puts up numbers ur clearly fucking retarted
ridgemeadowsmoose 1 year ago
@ridgemeadowsmoose Hasek, Chelios, Oates, Larionov, Bourque, Recchi, Bucyk, Horton, Harvey... But you probably dont know who any of these players are... retard.
jkrx 1 year ago
@jkrx ur fucking retarted
ridgemeadowsmoose 1 year ago
@ridgemeadowsmoose Sorry, but its pretty obvious who is actually retarded and it's not me.
jkrx 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx or him and Crosby practiced how to fall together.
JuggernautG24 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx You go get hit in the head by roberts and then make fun of yourself, especially after coming back from a head injury. ya moron
PurgetheInsanity 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx
PurgetheInsanity 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx why? is roberts known for being tough or brittle or something that nobody else knows about?
letmepointout 1 year ago
@letmepointout
have you watched a hockey game in the past 6 years?
xXxsIckICkxXx 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx yes. has Roberts played since this series? has he done anything since he was on Toronto?
letmepointout 1 year ago
@letmepointout
um yes, he played for tampa bay hahahaha. and i dont recall too many 44 year olds playing in the nhl racking up points like crosby or someone.
xXxsIckICkxXx 1 year ago
@xXxsIckICkxXx I have no idea what your point is. are you aware that Tampa didn't win the cup with Roberts? neither did pittsburgh. You seem to be saying something, but I don't think you actually are.
letmepointout 1 year ago
@letmepointout you clearly just said "has Roberts played since this series"
xXxsIckICkxXx 1 year ago
I like franzen, just because he is so solid as a player. Really awesome forward.
Enten901 1 year ago
hahaha well deserved. the wings are dirty. what a drama queen
thatcoolkidjillian 1 year ago
He should have gotten out of the way! That's why Roberts hit him! That is no reason to take a dive like that. The replay clearly show his delayed reaction to the punch just so he could draw a penalty. Soccer style!
crazyfuk100 1 year ago
franzen huge baby ive taken harder shots than that during sex
rhounjet 1 year ago
Do you all see how fast it happens? Let me run past you and deliver a hit to your chin while running and let's see if you stand up after..
Jointus 1 year ago