Hansen Punishment - Suspended 1 Game

[TheDiver*]

it's also completely ****ing ridiculous. looking up to this **** shows a complete lack of empathy for the people that actually play the game

Oh great another member of the "actually" play the game brigade.

All the guys in that clip "actually" playd the game, I wager at a higher level than you ever have, or will.

 

[me2]

Agreed. How did a Norris winning defenceman get five games? Suspensions are reserved for depth players.

He'd have got the whole the playoffs as well if he was plug.

 

[Wisp]

Like many others have said, this just once again proves what a joke the NHL discipline process is.

What are the Hawks / NHL going to do with Hossa for the rest of the year? Wrap him in bubble wrap and suspend anyone for hitting him?

I think Hossa is done. He lost consciousness there! If Hossa's in his prime, that's a nothing play. Raffi ruined him.

If his career is not done now, the next bump is the one that does it.

Sad. Bet the Blackhawks rush him back, too. Kevin Woodley was saying, based on his interactions with an ex-Blackhawk player, that their organization was way behind the times when it came to dealing with head injuries.

 

[Smokey McCanucks]

I won't know how I feel about this whole play/suspension until I know how bad Hossa is hurt.

Back in a couple games=Chicago trolled us, got our player suspended and scored media points.

Out for a long time/season=we trolled Chicago, knocked out their guy vengefully and got away with it (Chicago still scores media points, can't avoid that).

 

[Lindt]

Jesus, guys, this is embarrassing.

Care to explain why?

 

[Scurr]

Care to explain why?

Getting punched in the face is generally considered acceptable in hockey. It at least offers you the opportunity to defend yourself. Elbows to the head are outside of what is generally considered acceptable.

My guess anyway.

 

[dave babych returns]

Care to explain why?

I was going to say did you read the post he quoted but then I realized it was yours.

 

[Jack Tripper]

it's a terrible decision that's clearly inconsistent with past precedent...shanahan seemingly wants to adopt the thin skull rule of tort law for supplemental discipline where you take the victim as you find him (ie: you get a greater penalty for hitting hossa's head because he has a past concussion history that fed into the injury than, say, patrick kane or patrick sharp who may have went down after the blow but wouldn't have left the game)

that said, it's only a 1-game suspension and i'm having a hard time trying to muster enough energy to care

 

[Drop the Sopel]

I don't see anything wrong with the suspension. Hansen tried to disguise the shot to the head as just going for the puck but you could see he gave him a little forearm shiver.

You can't have role players going around hitting stars to the head dangerously. It's 1 measley game. He didn't exactly get the book thrown at him.

Enough with the conspiracy theories. The world isn't out to get the Canucks.

 

[Alexistheman]

I thought he would get 3 games, so i was delightfully satisfied with the single. However, listening to Shanabans reasoning behind it makes me angry. Also, I hate how they base it off of "injury", if thats another player, perhaps he gets back up or doesnt even go down.

Also thought it was funny that the same people who said "you cant slow down a hockey play" with the Cooke incident are now slowing this down and saying Hansen "gave a forcefull blow" to Hossas head.

 

[Hammer79]

I thought it was maybe at most a fine, not a suspension, especially considering Hansen's clean record up until this point. I saw the 'little forearm shiver' as an instinctual reaction to cushion himself from the impending collision with Hossa after missing the puck, rather than an intentional and opportunistic hit to the head on a player with a concussion history..

I think this has to do with stopping things before they start, given the rivalry between the two teams and the misfire on the Keith suspension. Whatever though, it's only one game, just shake it off and move on.

 

[wahoyaho]

Didn't see the slow-mo until now, but I agree with the suspension. I think we got off easy.

 

[stoneboat]

Intentional? I doubt it despite the whole angle changed thing.

Careless? sure I can buy that and because of that I can buy a 1 game suspension.

I don't believe this changes the leagues wheel of justice but at least they didn't go completely stupid.

Agreed. A one game slap on the wrist might remind players to pay attention their surroundings on the ice.

But Shanny's rationale was BS. I hate it when officials or media (i.e. Ron Maclean, and I can't wait to hear what he says on Saturday, like Hansen is the devil incarnate or something) pretend they know what players are thinking. Psychologists these guys are not.

 

[Seatoo]

The worst part of the suspension is that Weise is going to get more ice time in the top 9

 

[StringerBell]

The worst part of the suspension is that Weise is going to get more ice time in the top 9

Doubtful.

 

[stoneboat]

Actually think Cam Cole's article is spot on:

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canucks+Jannik+Hansen+Blackhawks+Marian+Hossa/7992984/story.html

So we’re not making this argument out of any pro-Canucks agenda. If Hansen must go because all head contact is bad head contact, that’s life. He should do time -- a little time -- and pay his debt to society.

But there are two big problems with that kind of blanket judgment.

One is defining what’s a hit, and what’s a love-tap, what’s severe and what only looks severe in retrospect because the recipient is especially susceptible to head trauma.

The other, related, is consistency. That is, if the National Hockey League punishes Hansen for an injury Hossa incurred on a hit so slight, someone without pre-existing concussion issues likely would have shrugged it off -- or turned around and cuffed the other guy in annoyance, no more than that -- then a major rewrite of the rules of the game is in order.

If incidental head contact is cause for suspension, how is it possible for the league to continue to condone, even tacitly encourage, fighting, wherein two players punch each other repeatedly in the head, with nothing in mind other than intent to injure, and are given five minutes each, and remain in the game?

 

[ItsAllPartOfThePlan]

Wow...can't believe he got a game. How the **** did Bollig get nothing for his jumping of Weise?

This league is so ****ing incompetent. I hope Gillis appeals.

 

[Aphid Attraction]

Didn't see the slow-mo until now, but I agree with the suspension. I think we got off easy.

The super super slow mo looks worse. Would be interesting to see other hits at the same speed to see if they look worse, as a control test

 

[me2]

anything looks bad in slow motion

 

[vanuck]

Chara on Pacioretty was deemed reckless... no history of suspensions therefore no suspension.

Stoll on Fowler earlier this season... reckless play but no suspension.

Hansen accidental elbow on Hossa... deemed 'reckless' - and that's stretching it - and also no history of suspensions. Yet he gets suspended.

 

[jigsaw99]

anything looks bad in slow motion

Tarasenko looks to be possessed after that hit.

 

[LiquidSnake]

I'd love to say "If this is the precedent, then fine" but that's clearly never going to be the case. Rome missed the Cup finals on a late hit. I believe he never had a suspension history.

Keith misses 5 games on a deliberate, no puck in the area cheap shot with an elbow to the head causing a star player to miss the remainder of the reg season and first 3 games of the playoffs.

Hansen getting 1 game would have been fine if they had created a precedent where any headshot resulting in injury is an auto suspension. The fact that guys like Setoguchi didnt get suspended or even Giordano with his slough foot is the joke that is the NHL.

Also embarassing to see the crusading by "journalists" that have an axe to grind.

Either way, like I said. The Blackhawks and their double standards can go to hell.

 

[pahlsson]

^ anyone know what the rest of the "experts" have been saying? i think i saw matthew barnaby saying the suspension was pretty much a joke on twitter and i heard that milbury said he didn't think it was suspendable either.

 

[WinterEmpire]

Brad May said he was shocked there was a suspension. The vibe i'm getting it that a lot of hockey people don't really think that was suspension worthy.

 

[cotillion]

Actually think Cam Cole's article is spot on:

cam cole has never been spot on... on anything... ever