canuck "kills" ranger

TURIN, Italy -- Czech Republic star Jaromir Jagr, the NHL's leading scorer, left the ice with blood pouring out of a cut on his forehead after being rammed into the boards by Finland's Jarkko Ruutu during their Olympic men's hockey game Saturday.

Jagr was digging for the puck along the boards in the Czech end when Ruutu came across the ice from the far edge of the left circle, his left elbow up and slammed Jagr into the boards.

Jagr, of the New York Rangers, lay face down for several minutes, a pool of blood collecting on the ice before being helped to the locker room with 7:03 gone in the second period.

Jagr appeared to be wearing a thin, old-style helmet that he wore earlier in his NHL career -- a style the league no longer permits because of the amount of protection provided.

Immediately after Ruutu delivered his hit, the Czechs' Filip Kuba shoved Ruutu and Martin Straka -- a Rangers teammate of Jagr -- jumped on Ruutu and pushed him to the ice. Ruutu, of the [b][u]Vancouver Canucks[/b][/u], was given a game misconduct and Straka drew two 2-minute penalties for roughing.

Jagr was wobbly as he was assisted to the Czech locker room and was not expected to return to the game. His status for Sunday's game against Italy was uncertain, though the world champion Czechs would be favored to win easily even without him.

Jagr, who starred on the Czechs' 1998 Olympic gold medal team, leads all NHL scorers with 40 goals and 48 assists for 88 points, seven more than the Sharks' Joe Thornton. Jagr had two goals and an assist in the Czechs' first two Olympic games.[img]http://svt.se/content/1/c6/54/25/99/jagrtackling_411.jpg[/img]

story Espn.com and pic from svt.se where they have the video but you can't watch it outside of europe. dirty fuckers

GO RUUTU that's my instigator!!!!  Jagr's a punk and an idiot for wearing an old style non-protective helmet.  yeah its the olympics and people should be playing [s]clean[/s] olympic hockey but, it's jarko "dirtiest player in europe" ruutu.  The reason he's a fan favorite is he hits and hits big, and makes people mad and gets them to take penulties.   Granted it back fired here and he and straka got penulties, and if finnish and czechs play each other in the medal round its gonna be a barn burner!  

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