Blogcritics Comments on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Comment by Cathy on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:03:03 EST

I will have to Agree these rules should be stricter for the saftey of the players!!!!!!

Comment by alessandro on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:24:13 EDT

Looks like the message is not getting trough to the Philadelphia Flyers. They sent yet another guy to the stretcher this time Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins. He apparently loss feeling in his legs. Scary. Let's not mince words: out of character or not, dirty hit from behind. I just don't get it anymore.

Comment by alessandro on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:45:56 EDT

Fair enough. Now go watch your Pens!

Comment by nicolas on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:33:35 EDT

fair enough, but it's still silly lumping guys like mcsorley and boulerice in with guys like armstrong, roberts, or say darcy tucker (guys who actually have talents beyond the ability to deliver a hit - even if, in roberts case, that lone other talent is standing in front of the net to create traffic and then kicking in rebounds).

Comment by alessandro on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:43:03 EDT

Ok, homer :<) By the way, I forgot to mention Dale Hunter. Armstrong will take his run at people. As a side note and for the sake of argument, Roberts has always been one of the dirties (people call it grit) players in the league whether in Calgary, Toronto, Carolina, Florida or Pittsburgh. They are all part of the same cycle. Campbell was indeed director of hockey operations while those players were around - albeit on the tail end of their careers in some cases. His first major file was McSorely/Brashear. He also, of course, dealt with Bertuzzi. There have been numerous dangerous hits to the head that have either gone unreported or overlooked. It happens more often than fans care to think. I think we're kinda of saying the same thing. Campbell has been the most effective and consistent director in my opinion. All I'm saying is that it's about time they come down hard on this sort of stuff given the potential of serious injury.

Comment by nicolas on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:11:15 EDT

suter, lemieux, marchment, etc...those didnt even happen under the current disciplinarians, so you cant reference them when you talk about consistency of those currently in charge. yes, there have been some like tootoo that may have (in our opinion, i remember the discussion) been shorter than we'd like, but for some of those, i dont think we know enough about the situation or cambell's thought process to say the judgement was really WRONG. call me a homer pens fan for defending ruutu and roberts, but do not include colby armstrong. he is NOT a dangerous player and the incident he was involved in last year was a clean hit on a guy who got caught skating with his head down. it happens. i agree that incidents like a certain nashville sucker punch last season should be of the 20 game type, and guys like mcsorley, boulerice, downie should be getting closer to 40 games...but we aren't colin cambel, and the guy probably has his reasons.

Comment by alessandro on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:57:00 EDT

Nicolas, Are you kidding me? Do you want past and present? If you watch as many games as I do you would not have asked for examples. You should know them. NHL hockey fans are well aware of the play of Jordin Tootoo who is oft-regarded as a dangerous player. Colby Armstrong is another. Jarkko Ruutu is yet another. Gary Roberts and Brian McCabe have recently gotten away with questionable plays. Even Mats Sundin has pulled some good ones for some reason. Campbell and the NHL have done a good job but there are still some inconsistencies/non-calls. Another issue some people have with the NHL is that they tend to be lenient on hits that don't lead to serious injuries - though Boulerice seems to buck that trend and which is why I posted this. In the past, we had Gary Suter, Claude Lemieux, Ulf Samuelsson and Bryan Marchment - to name a few. I agree on the Philly thing. Hey, I'm sure Flyers fans who remember Shultz, Leach, Barber and Clarke are happy.

Comment by nicolas on NHL Suspensions Make Sense

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:54:31 EDT

cmon alessandro, you can't say 'other people are getting away with it' without actually giving any examples. unless you can show me an NHL incident as violent as these two where a player didnt get suspended or got fewer games, I'd say Campbell has been consistent since the lockout. I think the bigger question is WTF is going on in Philly? I agree with others that it says a lot about the Flyers' coach that these two ridiculous incidents happened a) in a preseason game and b) when the team was WINNING by five goals. I'll give Downie a second chance since he's a rookie trying to make a place for himself, and rookies do dumb stuff, but Boulerice is old enough to know better and has never been anything but a goon (look up Andrew Long).