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 | | ERIC BOULTON, whose elbow to the face of Tampa’s PAUL RANGER Thursday night caused a concussion and a hairline fracture of the jaw. |
 | | Tampa coach John Tortorella backtracked a bit on Friday night, but he was dead-on in his profanity-laden tirade against Hartley and Boulton, saying that Boulton belonged in the ECHL (he doesn’t belong in the NHL, Torts is right on this one), and that the shot was “cheap” and “disturbing.” |
 | | It's exactly that kind of hit that brings the World Wrestling Federation jokes to the fore, and at times like that, the uneducated masses are probably right in laughing at the NHL, regardless of their ignorance. |
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