make it longer please
make it longer please
Of course the PA sides with Hartman, fights an appeal or the offender, and hangs Stutzle out to dry. Where is the PA to protect Stutzle from the assault.
Would love if they came back with 15 instead of 10.
make it longer please
You gotta wonder who sets the agenda for the NHLPA. Is this what the players actually want?Of course the PA sides with Hartman, fights an appeal or the offender, and hangs Stutzle out to dry. Where is the PA to protect Stutzle from the assault.
That's certainly how they act. It seems pretty short-sighted. If I was a player, I'd prefer the possibility of losing some salary if I did some super dirty crap, than to suffer life altering and career-ending injuries because my association didn't watch out for me.If a player is injured, he still gets paid. If he's suspended, he doesn't. So they always fight suspensions even if they're dangerous, intent-to-injure bs like this.
It's actually just kinda how unions work. Hartman asked them to grieve this decision. He pays his dues. They have to do it.That's certainly how they act. It seems pretty short-sighted. If I was a player, I'd prefer the possibility of losing some salary if I did some super dirty crap, than to suffer life altering and career-ending injuries because my association didn't watch out for me.
Makes you wonder about the level of intelligence on the NHLPA, they looking out for their membership or the Wild?O(f course they appeal an attempt to injure
For sure. But unions also play a role in advocating for workplace safety. They could push for rules that make the NHL safer.It's actually just kinda how unions work. Hartman asked them to grieve this decision. He pays his dues. They have to do it.
Yeah hockey's a bit weird because it's a competitive sport. But if you slapped a co-worker in a union job and got suspended, the union would grieve that for you (and probably complain about the employer not preventing it too).For sure. But unions also play a role in advocating for workplace safety. They could push for rules that make the NHL safer.
Lol guess who the Wild's reps are? Dirty and Dirtier!Makes you wonder about the level of intelligence on the NHLPA, they looking out for their membership or the Wild?
You gotta make the union work for you, manYeah hockey's a bit weird because it's a competitive sport. But if you slapped a co-worker in a union job and got suspended, the union would grieve that for you (and probably complain about the employer not preventing it too).
Lol guess who the Wild's reps are? Dirty and Dirtier!
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Edit: you'll never guess who the Capitals rep is. Tom Wilson. It's starting to make more sense...
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Can Tim appeal the appeal?
Reapeat repeat offender, vicious non-hockey play with clear intent to injure -- wha's to appeal?
- Your Honours, we'd like to day to introduce in this Court a more nuanced explanation of our novel "Grab a helmet and beat its owner's head into the ice to regain my balance after a trip" defence. We would like to call a team of experts, internationally renowned for their pioneering work on "Accidental Falls Resembling Barfight Moves..."
- The place -- a faceoff circle. The time -- even as the game was lost. The victim, one R. Hartman, who, afflicted by a sudden dizzy spell and distinct sensation of being tripped, held onto the one safe port in this particular storm, the helmeted melon of one T. Stutzle... Clearly this was Post-traumatic Tripping Disorder, occasioned by that time when that guy did that thing to that other guy. Payback, M'luds, was the last thing on his mind...
You gotta wonder who sets the agenda for the NHLPA. Is this what the players actually want?
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Seems like a decent comparable to Slamberg.
I do think it is in a weird sort of macho way. No matter what they are all enemies against the owners/league and they will try to push back against stolen money aka suspensions fines. That is the collective fight that they rally around and to capture the mood I will say it…… I don’t think you want to be a p***y in the room full of players complaining about players running players. Its just a hockey player mentality.
Really ought to start bringing in some older players with CTE to show the young guys what they're really fighting for. As a teenager or 20-something you think you're indestructible and that thought process is normal. Extremely shortsighted, but normal. Let them see their what their future is going to be after a few too many knocks to the head.I do think it is in a weird sort of macho way. No matter what they are all enemies against the owners/league and they will try to push back against stolen money aka suspensions fines. That is the collective fight that they rally around and to capture the mood I will say it…… I don’t think you want to be a p***y in the room full of players complaining about players running players. Its just a hockey player mentality.
Really ought to start bringing in some older players with CTE to show the young guys what they're really fighting for. As a teenager or 20-something you think you're indestructible and that thought process is normal. Extremely shortsighted, but normal. Let them see their what their future is going to be after a few too many knocks to the head.
I also don't think the NHLPA will win a lawsuit if they ever bring one forward. Lawyers and judges being what they are, never say never, but I would think all you'd need to do is bring forth evidence of the NHLPA condoning these actions repeatedly through appeals to say 'nah, you guys have condoned the violence by supporting the offenders, you reap what you sow'.
Was just going to say that.
Agreed. But we know Bettman will uphold it and then it will go to an arbitrator. This is really about if the arbitrator will give him some cash back.
But doesn't all this money go to the players assistance fund, so it stays with the players![]()
Hartman just better never complain if and when the same dirty play happens to him but guaranteed he will .You gotta wonder who sets the agenda for the NHLPA. Is this what the players actually want?