How dare Hawks pick on Saint Jarome

CALGARY, Alberta - From the outrage here about the Blackhawks talking trash at Jarome Iginla, you'd have thought the province outlawed the sale of beer.

It was front-page news in Wednesday's Calgary Sun with the large screaming headline telling the Hawks to "Shut your beaks." A smaller headline said, "No respect - classless Hawks resort to endless verbal abuse of Iggy."

Are you kidding me?

Since when did Iginla become Saint Jarome?

Pierre McGuire, the TSN Canada broadcaster who is working the series from between the benches, first reported the trash talking during Monday's broadcast.

"It has been incessant toward Jarome, and I'm shocked by that because I've done a lot of Calgary games and games around the league and I've never heard a star player be abused like that," McGuire told the Sun.

My goodness, these are the Stanley Cup playoffs, where pretty much anything goes. Nobody is exempt from being trash talked. Iginla even said as much Wednesday morning.

What McGuire should be talking about is how these young and brash Hawks such as Adam Burish and Kris Versteeg had the guts to target Iginla, but many of the Hawks believe McGuire doesn't like them anyway.

The funny thing is, the only guy unfazed by it all has been Iginla, one of the NHL's true good guys and toughest players.

You want to talk about classless? How about Canadian fans booing the American national anthem the other night in Montreal? There was a smattering of boos here Monday, too.