Courtesy of Pulled My Groin comes this video of a legendary hockey fight. Warning: the violence is graphic, and it may not be for the squeamish. Especially when the one kid scurries frantically away from the other kid at the end.

If this doesn’t stop soon … someone’s going to have to tell mommy.

Cutest little bastards I’ve ever seen.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have approved the use of their team name and logo in an upcoming film (or TV show, I’ve heard both) about a “fictional” retired Maple Leaf (probably Tie Domi) who happens to be gay, and who happens to want to raise “a budding queen of an 11-year-old boy.”

SLAM! Sports tries to get some reaction to it … they talked to Anson Carter, a Columbus Blue Jacket, and a guy who understands a little something about being a minority in the NHL, seeing that he’s black.

“You’re talking about a lifestyle—homosexuality and heterosexuality—it’s a choice…but people are people from my personal standpoint.”

“We have 700 players (in the NHL) and if we have one gay player in the league, I wouldn’t be that surprised.”

Carter went on to say that it wouldn’t bother him if a teammate was openly homosexual, “as long as you’re a good teammate and a good person…that’s all that matters to me.”

“If that’s what the (NHL) wants fine…the world’s changing now…maybe people will be more open now.”

There’s probably more than one gay player in the league … but all in all, I’ll take it, Anson Carter. Another guy, though, who opted to remain nameless, had a different take.

At least one former NHL player (who preferred to remain anonymous) commented that the film “tarnished the sacred icon of Canada and the Maple Leafs’ organisation.”

“What do you expect when you have a fomer basketball guy running the league,” the player stated, in reference to Commissioner Gary Bettman’s previous tenure in the National Basketball Association.

And we have found an asshole … that didn’t take long.

I don’t understand, chief. Are you suggesting that the NBA is some sort of haven for gay sexual activity? Listen, I’m like the rest of you … I would love to believe that Mike Sweetney blows Jordan Farmar every other Thursday, but I just don’t think that’s true. I mean, the NBA has a ton of image problems, but I didn’t think rampant deviant gay sex was one of them. I thought the LPGA had the market monopolized on that particular stereotype.

And by the way, if you were looking for the sport with the most hot man-on-man action … hockey might be a pretty good bet, as long as you like your hot man-on-man action to involve a teenager and be of the “forced” variety. Canadian junior hockey has a history of sexual abuse of young boys, most notably this Graham James character, and then the extremely weird Mike Danton story, in which sexual abuse was strongly suspected.

Yeah, you wouldn’t want to tarnish hockey’s image with something like a movie about a gay, retired, hockey player.