Sportsmanship is one of the evaluation point used to assess the conducts of a sport player, to determine he’s qualified or not. The author Arthur’s assessment of Leafs and Canadiens’ players is especially clear when Arthur juxtaposes the two main starters of the conflict in Saturday night, Prust and Habs, with the obvious demonstration of his own perspective towards the two teams. He had disappointed by the players. This is also an indication of author’s tone in the texts. As Arthur said “Saturday night, Prust was a jerk and lit the fuse, which means the Habs picked the fight” (Arthur 2). As this evidence shows, Arthur defined the Canadiens’ player Prust as jerk who lit the fuse. Jerk is informal language, it means fool. Additionally, Arthur
