Full Lappy Transcript

“Those hits are unecessary. I thought it was dirty. You don’t need to hit a guy like that, especially when he’s in a vulnerable position. It’s a lack of respect. He’s a young guy trying to prove himself, but there’s other ways to do that.”
“It’s a dirty hit and it should be out of the game. It’s got to come from the players, to police ourselves. It’s got to come from the players. We’ve got to be smarter, and also the coaches. Coaches are out there, they tell those young guys ‘Make sure you hit everybody out there.’ There’s hits and there’s stupid hits. We need to police ourselves as players and take those hits out of the game, before somebody gets killed or paralyzed.”

Taken from Daters latest blog, this is the full interview Lappy did about the Foote hit which didn't all make the paper. He's completely right about everything, It was a lack of respect and he'll be lucky to have a good NHL career if he keeps up these dirty hits. This is one of the main reasons that the NHL needs to say "screw the Americans not watching our game, We'll keep fights because it doesn't make a difference to our ratings"  If Lappy could come out and fight Zeiler without getting an instigator and miscounduct then Zeiler would think twice(assuming he's that smart) next time he wants to drive someone into the boards, right now there's not alot any of the Avs can do to Zeiler if they face him again and i highly doubt he'd drop the gloves with Lappy or either of the Codys.