According to TSN, an out-of-court settlement has been reached in Steve Moore’s lawsuit against former Canuck Todd Bertuzzi for the infamous mauling incident that ended Moore’s career more than 10 years ago. Details have not been disclosed, and as of K&K’s press deadline (yes, we actually have one of those) paperwork on the settlement had not been signed. But if the settlement does in fact go through, it likely means we’ll only have to endure watching the slow-motion replay of Bertuzzi sucker punching Moore from behind and the subsequent dogpile on the ice about a hundred more times. For the next week, sports highlight shows, news broadcasts and online media will trot out the tiresome footage for another go-round and, hopefully, that will be it. Sweet relief.
We’re not exaggerating when we say we’ve seen Bertuzzi’s on-ice attack more times than any other video or piece of media on the planet — more times than the Mitsou’s “Bye Bye Mon Cowboy,” more times than the film Booty Call, more times than we’ve seen home movies of family and loved ones. For several months after the incident, we couldn’t turn on the television or computer without someone replaying the clip.
Eventually the wall-to-wall coverage died down, but we fear the lull we’ve enjoyed is coming to a brutal end… almost as if someone is about to come up behind us, unsuccessfully attempt to get us to engage with them and then club us repeatedly before driving our head into the ice.
