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Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth
I agree and honestly I think its going to take somebody being killed, paralyzed or left a vegetable before they really take a serious look and do anything about it. Although I have to wonder if that had been Crosby laying on the ice would they have finally taken it seriously? I dunno, its frustrating.
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That was my initial thought as well, had it been Crosby or Ovechkin lying there, things would be handled much quicker, but the players getting hurt aren't the NHL's poster boys, so it gets brushed aside.
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Today Colin Campbell was going on about how he didn't see an elbow so he's still evaluating how to handle it. Should it really matter if it was an elbow? His shoulder? His stick? The result of the hit should be what matters not what Cooke used to deliver it. From the sound of it they will probably give him a token 4 games and try to sweep another ugly head shot under the rug and hope the whole thing goes away. Sometimes I think the NHL is run by complete idiots.
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Just saw that, Campbell is still deciding if Cooke will be suspended, well if he gets nothing or gets the token 4 games, we finally have someone to blame for the injuries. The players are begging for some clear definition of the rules about blindside hits, and headshots, they don't want the physical nature of the game to change at all, they love that part, they just need some sort of line drawn by the NHL executives as to what is allowed or not allowed.
I like to think this all goes back to the Richards hit on Booth, he got nothing for that, even though it was the definition of a headshot, not a single game, the Neil hit on Mitchell as much as I hate Neil, wasn't that bad, Neil could have made it much worse, and Mitchell as Grapes said, has to be more aware of his surroundings.
Then last night some guy gets tossed for 'hitting from behind' when it was clearly from the side, he gets tossed out of the game, for basically nothing.
I thought the 2 referee system was supposed to take care of these things, all we get though is the back ref calling a second rate holding or hooking penalty, and basically just getting in the way.
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Sometimes I think the NHL is run by complete idiots.
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Oh it is run by idiots, between Bettman and his Americanization of the game, and Campbell and his lack of consistency in discipline, people don't know what's going on, they have to get rid of those two before the proper changes are brought in. First change, fuck off with the god damn 2 line passes, that's bush league cherry picking bullshit, second change, the shootout dies a horrible, bloody death.
Here's the Lapierre hit on Nichol the other night, tell me his intention wasn't to run him from behind, to me thats a brutal play, and should have got a ot more games than he did.