Around the League Thread | November Rain

[VanJack]

Tanner Jeannot is back in the Kings lineup and scored a goal last night......meantime Boeser is still out for the Canucks with no firm timetable for his return.

There's really no justice for these kind of head-shots and the penalty rarely fits the crime. But what can you do?

 

[arttk]

Tanner Jeannot is back in the Kings lineup and scored a goal last night......meantime Boeser is still out for the Canucks with no firm timetable for his return.

There's really no justice for these kind of head-shots and the penalty rarely fits the crime. But what can you do?

Vigilante justice lol

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Ovie with the hatty?

What he’s doing is absolutely incredible.

 

[FuzzyTitus]

Tanner Jeannot is back in the Kings lineup and scored a goal last night......meantime Boeser is still out for the Canucks with no firm timetable for his return.

There's really no justice for these kind of head-shots and the penalty rarely fits the crime. But what can you do?

If I was calling the shots I'd probably baseline at suspension = time injured player is out, up to a maximum. 20 games? And if the player isn't injured then whatever deemed reasonable.

 

[arttk]

If I was calling the shots I'd probably baseline at suspension = time injured player is out, up to a maximum. 20 games? And if the player isn't injured then whatever deemed reasonable.

Sadly the NHLPA will fight that, which is f***ing stupid.

 

[tantalum]

If I was calling the shots I'd probably baseline at suspension = time injured player is out, up to a maximum. 20 games? And if the player isn't injured then whatever deemed reasonable.

The play itself has to be punished not the result. If Boeser (or Nurse) pop back up and keep on playing it shouldn't lessen the suspension as the play was just as dirty.

That's, of course, if they actually wanted to get rid of that crap in the game. But they don't. They just want to pretend to take it seriously when a guy gets hurt from the play they allow.

 

[MS]

The play itself has to be punished not the result. If Boeser (or Nurse) pop back up and keep on playing it shouldn't lessen the suspension as the play was just as dirty.

That's, of course, if they actually wanted to get rid of that crap in the game. But they don't. They just want to pretend to take it seriously when a guy gets hurt from the play they allow.

Suspensions are based on optics.

Both Boeser and Nurse skated off the ice : minor suspension.

If the exact same play had required a stretcher and it got traction in the US media and looked bad for the league, it is 10-15 games.

 

[tantalum]

Suspensions are based on optics.

Both Boeser and Nurse skated off the ice : minor suspension.

If the exact same play had required a stretcher and it got traction in the US media and looked bad for the league, it is 10-15 games.

Yep. And that's why players will continue to line up those hits. Odds are you aren't going to punished in any substantial way.

 

[RobertKron]

Suspensions are based on optics.

Both Boeser and Nurse skated off the ice : minor suspension.

If the exact same play had required a stretcher and it got traction in the US media and looked bad for the league, it is 10-15 games.

I mean dude's head did like a full 360 and he was bleeding out of his eye sockets. The league just doesn't actually care about this stuff, which we've known forever anyway.

 

[StreetHawk]

I mean dude's head did like a full 360 and he was bleeding out of his eye sockets. The league just doesn't actually care about this stuff, which we've known forever anyway.

PA never pushes for longer suspensions since that takes money away from the perpetrator. But it’s plays like that which can cost guys money in future contracts if they don’t recover back to what they were or have to end their career earlier.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

 

[valkynax]

Suspensions are based on optics.

Both Boeser and Nurse skated off the ice : minor suspension.

If the exact same play had required a stretcher and it got traction in the US media and looked bad for the league, it is 10-15 games.

This meme chart once again came through and applied to both Jeannot and Reaves. Only slightly inaccurate part was, the league probably took into account that Jeanott had no previous history of suspensions.

 

[VanJack]

Ovie with the hatty?

What he’s doing is absolutely incredible.

I'm torn. Having this Putin fan-boy eventually break Gretzky's goals record rings a little hollow for me.

 

[RobertKron]

I'm torn. Having this Putin fan-boy eventually break Gretzky's goals record rings a little hollow for me.

 

[RobertKron]

PA never pushes for longer suspensions since that takes money away from the perpetrator. But it’s plays like that which can cost guys money in future contracts if they don’t recover back to what they were or have to end their career earlier.

FWIW, it's also the union's obligation to defend their members against disciplinary action from the employer. It's on the employer to make the case for disciplinary punishment, and the NHL just doesn't seem genuinely interested in bothering with that.