Around the NHL: XLX (Playoff Edition)

[Panfork]

I know. It's a travesty.

You always hate to see a guy go down like that, but if you take away those hits, there is no more open ice hitting in hockey. Joke of a suspension.

Might as well just adopt the eurohockey rulebook. I agreed with the hitting from behind rules, but they're taking this way too far. Players look afraid to make big hits this year because of the overofficiating on it. Players get hurt sometimes, it's part of the sport.

 

[Kershaw]

Matt Carkner gets 1 game for intentionally punching Boyle repeatedly with fisticuffs. Eric Gryba gets 2 games for a strong hockey hit.

What the **** is wrong with Shanahan? Like seriously what the ****.

 

[Panfork]

This really makes me wonder how Pacioretty didn't get supplementary discipline for his hit on McDonagh.

 

[Kershaw]

2 games

1 game

Shanahan has officially gone insane. Insane.

 

[Parker]

Brandon Prust on MacLean's post-game comments: "I'm not gonna worry about what that bug eyed fat walrus has to say."

wow, can't wait for the game tonight! Don't agree with the suspension for Gryba.

 

[Crease]

It's pretty damning that after several years in operation, it's still impossible to predict the decisions of the NHL Department of Player Safety.

 

[JohnC]

I really don't like the holier than thou attitude a lot of Montreal fans have. They act like their **** don't stink

 

[Kakko]

What was the reasoning? Gryba hit him too hard?

 

[The Gloaming]

What was the reasoning? Gryba hit him too hard?

If Eller doesn't break his nose and start bleeding AFTER hitting the ice, it's not even a fine.

 

[Panfork]

What was the reasoning? Gryba hit him too hard?

Match penalty for intent to stop Montreal from winning.

 

[Loff]

That's probably the most accurate way to describe MacLean, especially the "bug-eyed" part. Lawl.

 

[Punxrocknyc19*]

2 games

1 game

Shanahan has officially gone insane. Insane.

both targets the head and one was a suspension and one wasnt.. i love the consistancy....

 

[The Gloaming]

This was a measly fine.

 

[Thunderhead]

Brandon Prust on MacLean's post-game comments: "I'm not gonna worry about what that bug eyed fat walrus has to say."

wow, can't wait for the game tonight! Don't agree with the suspension for Gryba.

How old is Prust ? He sounds like a 14 yr old brat.

 

[Fitzy]

seems like the damage was done when his head hit the ice, similar to the Bertuzzi incident.

I'd like to be able to look at it and say "dirty" but I can't. I just don't see it.

 

[varanger94]

Crosby is playing tonight.

Come on, Isles!

Crosby will start tonight. they found a way to make it happen.

 

[Holocene]

Two games for Gryba...

Probably so they didn't have to deal with the blacklash from MTL fans lol.

 

[Thunderhead]

Probably so they didn't have to deal with the blacklash from MTL fans lol.

Why are the MTL "fans" so special ?

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Not to mention THREE games for Hagelin for a hit that was nowhere near as dangerous imo...

 

[LetterJ]

Why are the MTL "fans" so special ?

Ask them why, and they will tell you. But, be warned, 24 cups are usually mentioned.

 

[The Gloaming]

A grown man calling another man twice his age a "fat walrus?"

Can't say I'm a fan of that.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

Look I feel for Eller. But it makes me absolutely sick what the NHL is doing to physical play.

Castrating the game to comply with the lawyers. It really makes me sick.

 

[Thunderhead]

Ask them why, and they will tell you. But, be warned, 24 cups are usually mentioned.

I know all about their "24" cups rants.

 

[Thunderhead]

A grown man calling another man twice his age a "fat walrus?"

Can't say I'm a fan of that.

Makes one not respect him anymore.

 

[Graves94]

It was a stupid pass, and the hit was mostly clean (first impact was to the body), but the player was in a very vulnerable position and Gryba took advantage. I would have been OK with no suspension, because I feel the hit was clean, but at the end of the day his head was hit. He was unconscious before his head/face hit the ice.