Jennifer Botterill's heated exchange with Kevin Bieksa has fans calling for her firing from HNIC
Jennifer Botterill and Kevin Bieksa got into it on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday thanks to an incident that went down between Arber Xhekaj and Noel Acciari.
As many of you probably know, Acciari hit Juraj Slafkovsky pretty hard and it left Slafkovsky injured. It was one of those hits that you really hate to see. Xhekaj subsequently went and extracted some revenge, which proved to be a very controversial move.
Jennifer Botterill Vs. Kevin Bieksa
This then led to a heated conversation between Bieksa and Botterill, who could not see eye to eye here.
Bieksa had this to say:
"The game is over... I think right there is the right time for Xhekaj to go at a guy who took out your star player earlier in the game. That for me is the right time to go at a guy. It's an eye for an eye. I don't think he's too apologetic about that, I wouldn't care. I wouldn't care if it's clean or not, you get my guy I'm getting you back at some point."
From there, Botterill retorted with this:
"Then you get players with potential suspensions or fines and you guys are just fine. Guess what the game is changing and there is other solutions. Maybe it's changing, maybe it can change. It has changed, it doesn't always have to be an eye for an eye."
Fans React
All of this led to some pretty dramatic reactions as fans went after Botterill. Some even noted that they believe she needs to be permanently removed from Hockey Night in Canada.
Do you believe that Jennifer Botterill deserves to be fired? Let us know in the poll down below.
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NOVEMBRE 4 | 522 ANSWERS Jennifer Botterill's heated exchange with Kevin Bieksa has fans calling for her firing from HNIC Do you believe Jennifer Botterill should be fired from Hockey Night in Canada? |
| YES | 275 | 52.7 % |
| NO | 247 | 47.3 % |
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