Moldy Peaches

.. to loathe the Toronto Maple Leafs amd more importantly forward Darcy Tucker. The loser actually finds pranks like hockey players stripping naked in the bathroom of a bus "amusing."

Toronto's Darcy Tucker thought Moe Mantha's suspension was too severe. Tucker, 30, offered the lighter side of hazing when asked about the OHL's suspension of Windsor Spitfires general manager and head coach Moe Mantha. Mantha was slapped with a season-long suspension (as GM) and 25 games (as head coach) following a league investigation into a hazing incident on the team bus.

"I don't find the punishment fit the crime," said Tucker, who don't find the punishment fit the crime," said Tucker, who played junior hockey with the WHL Kamloops Blazers. "Things happen at the back of the bus the coach never knows about. It just happens - it's part of being a rookie."

"There are some things that are off-limits, that's the way it should be," Tucker said. "Putting a few guys in the washroom, I find it actually quite amusing."

Tucker's attitude is part of the reason why hockey players are thought of as dumb slugs and many individuals detest hockey culture. It is refreshing to hear folks like Wayne Gretzky speak out about hazing and the fact that it has no place in the game.