Danton in Orange

Well, it would seem that all of those words of affirmation that Mike Danton's St. Louis teammates directed towards him were, as I called them, just words.  What you would have heard a couple months ago when Danton was first accused of hiring a hitman to kill his agent  was a bunch of Blues players saying "oh, I'm sure he couldn't possibly have done it" and "there's got to be some mistake - Mike's a quality person, and he wouldn't have done something like this", along with a bunch of "we're going to support him through this until he's been absolved of this terrible accusation".  I exaggerate not - these were the words of his teammates and coaches.  And now we discover that it was all just rhetoric.  Danton is as evil as we all thought he is.  He went so far as to admitting it at court today, leaving us with no doubt now that Danton should be locked up for at least seven years.
 
Now I can almost hear the incessant rumblings - "well, what about Bertuzzi then?  shouldn't he go to jail to?"  And then I'll be accused of lacking objectivity because Bertuzzi is a Canuck.  However, the major difference (for those who are dumb enough to think this way) is that Bertuzzi's deed was committed on the ice, while Danton committed a real crime off the ice.  Unless Bertuzzi had brought something from off the ice to hit Moore with (like a baseball bat or a switchblade), his punishment should be administered strictly by the NHL.  Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for all sorts of chaos in the future.  Meanwhile, Danton should be prosecuted like anyone else because he is a felon, plain and simple.