I will never, ever for the life of me understand how suspensions in the NHL work. Are we outlawing dirty hits, or not? If Torres should be given many games, then shouldn't Neal get many also for his hit on Coutourier? Are we punishing the hit, or the injury? These playoffs have been one quagmire after another. There's a lot of dirty play, and these players seem like they have no respect for each other, or the game. There used to be a code, but, now, it's like the code no longer exists. Shameful.
Injury Also, Neal didn't hit Couturier in the head, but the chest, which likely saved him a bit. BTW, the Penguins Flyers game 3 was one of the highest rated playoff games in a decade in the US.
Any nuck-heads know if the other sedin sister is playing tonight??? Or does Henrik still think he's Daniel and vice versa
Well they were, but watch what happened. James Wisnewski in the pre season, cross checks Cal Clutterbuck after the whistle, no injury. Not particularly hard, but definitely dirty. What was it? 8 games. Duncan Keith with a huge cheap shot elbow on Daniel Sedin, knocks him out for the rest of the season so far. Probably knocks out the Canucks. 5 games Shea Weber smashes Zetterberg's head into the glass. Fine What's the difference in these situations? The timing of them. Obviously they got softer and softer. But after Weber's issue, that's the old give an inch they take a mile situation. Now you see the league realizing, Oh dear what have we done.
This is something that I disagree with the NHL vehemently about: Punishing for the injury. That's like saying, "We won't you suspend for 50 games for slashing a guy across the face if he doesn't get hurt. It'll be more like 10." Also, I just can't understand the inconsistency. Shaw gets three games, but Neal gets one. That seems fair. Also, we don't know how bad Couturier was hurt. Players lie about concussions all the time, and if this kid thinks he can help his team, I'm sure he'll take that risk and lie about it, and just say that he got his bell rung. The hit was dirty. There's no question about that. You don't need to wait to see how long a player is injured before deciding whether a hit was dirty or not.
Shaw was given a stiff suspension for two reasons. He's a nobody, and there was a conference call about don't touch the goalies. This was sort of a warning shot to anybody about that. Sucks for Shaw.
Mostly it's the after whistle shenanigans, the cheapness, the endless scrums that add nothing, that gets to me. But the utter disrespect some players have for each other is sickening, and I want nothing to do with that either. Burke was right, the rats are taking over. Look at how Torres justifies his hit last night on Hossa (just a hockey play), or how Shea Weber gets a free pass, apparently because he's Shea Weber, and suspending him would hurt Nashville too much. I call bullshit, Weber should sit some games, and realize just why he cost his team. Torres, as a multiple/repeat offender, really shouldn't be on the ice anymore this playoffs. Right now the punishment for this behaviour is so laughably small that there's no disincentive for their behaviour at all, and in fact there is plenty of incentive for players to head hunt and play dirty with the current setup, and I'm not really interested in watching that. YMMV
I find it kind of funny that there is no punishment for punching somebody repeatedly in the face, seems to happen like every other play. But only if the other guy punches back do you both get two minutes. Torres suspended for at least the next game as his hearing is Friday.
That's apparently a local Miami news network and FIU is a University in Miami. I think what happened is they just didn't realize the difference.
I've seen stuff like this on our local news before. If the Flyers would play the Canes, they would put the green and orange U on screen. I don't know if it was because they didn't have the Canes logo, or someone who was handling graphics was completely inept.
It would have to be this. Because if you think that putting up a college logo of a different team is an acceptable substitute for not having a logo, you are completely inept. It'd be like if ESPN put the Texas Rangers and Washington Senators logo up when the Rangers play the Senators tonight.
Personally I think the first goal he allowed against Mike Richards really gave the Kings a lot of confidence. Game 1 Vancouver is going nuts, its loud, fans rowdy, they get a very quick 1-0 lead. as a kings fan im sitting there thinking, yeah this will be a quick series. Then Luongo decides to gamble on a centering pass and Richards zips it right through his legs. Kings on the board (when we all thought they were lacking offense) and Vancouver later decides to implode with dumb penalty after dumb penalty.
Let's not put that past ESPN, as I'm not so sure they know what hockey is. /hasn't watched ESPN in about 2 years //watches stuff on ESPN3, and that's it
I'm with you, I watch ESPN's live broadcasts of whatever I'm interested in, occasional baseball and soccer games, but their own unique programing, talk shows, sportscenter etc, I couldn't care less for.