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Buffdog

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What should really happen with suspensions is the team takes a salary cap hit. That would start cleaning up the Rempe type bullshit real quick.
I was thinking that the team who suffered the offense should get to pick which player on the offending team has to serve the suspension

All of a sudden there'd be pressure from within your own dressing room to stop doing stupid shit. Leadership groups would be going to coaches to ask them not to play borderline NHLers like Rempe. His "upside" isn't worth the risk
 
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KingBogo

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I was thinking that the team who suffered the offense should get to pick which player on the offending team has to serve the suspension

All of a sudden there'd be pressure from within your own dressing room to stop doing stupid shit. Leadership groups would be going to coaches to ask them not to play borderline NHLers like Rempe. His "upside" isn't worth the risk
I think that is probably a step too far as you would be directly interfering with uninvolved players livelihoods. But lets say there was some formula where players suspended in a season, their suspended salary would be deducted from next season's salary cap and donated to player safety issues the following season.
 

scelaton

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I think that is probably a step too far as you would be directly interfering with uninvolved players livelihoods. But lets say there was some formula where players suspended in a season, their suspended salary would be deducted from next season's salary cap and donated to player safety issues the following season.
I like that idea, but it would have more teeth if it were a fixed minimum cost to the team. eg, $100,000 per game. Rempe's loss of salary for 8 games will be ~80,000, a hit to him personally, but next to nothing if applied to the cap. $800,000, while only 1% of the cap, would sting.
 

surixon

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I like the idea of fining teams for suspendable infractions by players. You bring up a known offender who commits an infraction it hits the teams wallet as well.
 

Buffdog

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ducks come back from 4-1 to beat the utahs in a shootout
The Ducks remind me of the Oilers during their Rebuild 1.0 with Hall, Eberle, RNH, Yakupov, etc...

Some really great young talent with maybe questionable attitudes around how to play the game at a pro level. Mix in a mishmash of vets who haven't really won anything and aren't maybe the best mentors to for the younger guys

Anyway, them and Buffalo are cautionary tales for the "big tank rebuild"
 

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