Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Icing

The penalty varies for carrying out a father's wish to "ice him" or "ice it." It comes down to semantics and, of course, context.

When Elizabeth Turgeon, a left-wing on the U.S. national under-18 hockey team, commits icing at former hockey star Pierre Turgeon's direction, the puck is brought back to the defensive side of the rink.

The punishment possibilities were always a little less clear when someone like Salvatore (Bill/Bananas) Bonanno put someone on ice. It was a little more a question of all or nothing for the son of a gangster who, according to his eulogizing son, "... committed himself to his father’s life as a young man and he never looked back. He never wavered from his beliefs, from his code, from his way of life.”

** And when dad says "shoot" ... **

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