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La Flama Blanca
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La Flama Blanca said...
I used to watch hockey 10/15 yrs ago all the time. Now i never watch it. It got really boring to me... But i've been watching these playoffs, especially the Pitt Philly series... Lots of scoring and lots of fighting/roughness works for me.
I still would like to see the NHL go to olympic size rink. That would really show how fast and good these guys truely are.
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Colonel Forbin said...
The hit was bad and he's a repeat offender. But 25 games? Come on. What pisses me off about all of this though, is Shanahan and his BS runaround excuses. Intent should have a lot to do with suspensions being handed out. The hit was bad, but it was still, in a sense, a hockey play. Weber pulls an effing WWE move and CLEARLY shows that he his trying to hurt Z as the game ended. And yet Shanahan gives him a slap on the wrist. It is woefully inconsistent IMHO. Weber let his frustration get to him and lashed out at the end of the game. If his first punch and squarely landed on the back of Z's head (and it would have if Z hadn't slipped and fallen), Z could have been hurt very, very badly. What if a player had swung his stick at a player's head at the end of the game and just happened to miss? What would happen to that player?
If there's one thing the NHL continues to prove, it's that they have zero consistency.
I think Weber should have been suspended a game, first off.
Secondly, I'll agree with Wysh (Yahoo! Puck Daddy blogger) that this was a message specifically to a guy (Torres) who doesn't get it. Hits in the head, is suspended, comes back and does it again, gets suspended again, comes back, and .... You get the idea. I've lost track of the number of times he's been disciplined for illegal hits, and all I think to the head.
I'll go farther than Wysh did. I think this was a message to franchises that are thinking of signing someone with prior suspensions for this type of conduct. I think they want to attack the conduct at the root, which is whether or not the player makes money doing it. Franchises will be leery of tossing money at a guy who may or may not be there during a playoff series. Now, the franchises can't argue the unfairness -- Shanahan has set the mark, in that sense, not for discipline, but for treating discipline-worthy hits from repeat offenders resulting in serious injury harshly, whether or not the team is in the playoffs.
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Raffi Torres suspended 25 games for hit on Marian Hossa