Hockey Analyst Stands Up for HNIC's Jennifer Botterill, Calling Out the Keyboard Warriors

The sport of hockey has always been violent, and after suggesting there's another way to retaliate to a dirty hit, Jennifer Botterill has faced immense backlash. Over the past few years, Sportsnet has faced plenty of criticism for the product they've put on television as well as the personnel decisions that they've made, and now, another Sportsnet analyst finds themselves in the middle of drama. This time, it's former Canadian Olympic Gold Medallist turned analyst Jennifer Botterill, who disagreed with Kevin Bieksa's take on the situation involving Juraj Slafkovsky, Arber Xhekaj and Noel Acciari. Late in the Canadiens-Penguins showdown, Acciari hit the young star forward in the head, and unsurprisingly, this led to the man known as The Sheriff attempting to extract revenge, to which Bieksa whole heartedly agreed with. '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