Grand Forks Herald Letter to the Editor

[The Whistler]

Frattin's hit aside, I think it was a good hit, but the writer mentions other vicious hits in the Minnesota playoff series, he must have been watching by braille..

There was a lot of hard hits in the game, but that's hockey.

He should watch the women play if that's the brand of hockey he wants.

[Sodbuster]

I know of this Lunsetter through a friend. Canadian roots. His second cousin (I don't remember his name) was from central Saskatchewan. North Battleford, I think. After high school, he decided to attend UND and try out for the hockey team. Apparently, he got cut pretty quickly, while some other Canadian players his age or older made the team. I think he tried out two years in a row, failed both times, and then left school. Pretty bitter about it. Since he didn't get a degree either, he ended up working as a cashier at a 7-eleven in St. Paul, where he stayed and started a family. He had a couple of kids, including a boy, who would sign up for summer hockey camps at UND--I guess trying to reclaim his father's honor. I heard that the kid was sent home from camp because his skills were just not there and the staff thought he might get hurt. Kind of lost track of the kid until he started showing up on USCHO a lot.

Lonetree! That's his name. Happy Lonetree. Nice enough people, but I guess they never quite got over that UND rejection.

At least that's what I recall.

There's always more to the story.

[sprig]

I read in the paper that the NHL is going to crack down on headshots. Blindside hits where the head is targeted, or those hits on an unsuspecting player where the head takes the brunt of the hit. Well, Wehrs saw it coming. Frattin left his feet and still deserved a major for that, but less and less do I think that was worthy of a suspension. The head was definitely not targeted.

The NHL has a video of examples of what will now be legal and illegal hits. For example, Marvin on Geoffrion would be illegal. The hit on Toews that gave him a concussion would be legal. Frattin's hit would be legal also.