Joe Veleno. Suspended 5 games.

[LaMasquerade]

had to look up.. here is the headbutt.

He really likes to embellish his falls too.. something I wouldn't expect from Canadian player.

 

[Boxscore]

I love physical play, fighting, and would even remove the crummy Instigator Rule... but Veleno deserves a lifetime ban from the IIHF for that garbage.

 

[EXTRAS]

Using a skate as a weapon...to me that is dirtier than a 2 handed chop to a players helmet. How can players feel relatively safe knowing a guy is out there willing to use a hardened blade as a weapon.

And like the guy above I love physical play. This just crosses a line though.

 

[weklof]

If Canada doesn't go to final, it is a lifetime ban in practise. Veleno is not good enough to be selected to a tournament if he has to miss games to serve his suspension

 

[BMann]

Absolute garbage. It is the complete reverse of that.


Right. No other country would ever do that. Why should Canada?

It's happened before across a range of sports. The team management in these cases have decided the behaviour sometimes outside of the playing arena is unacceptable and decided to enforce their own 'punishment' by sending a player or players home.

 

[SaltNPeca]

I find the suspension good, he's out of the tournament. Not a hockey play, totally unacceptable, but seems like no injury here.

IIHF flexing on NHL imo. That 1 game suspension to Alex Pietrangelo was a joke as he's still playing in that tournament after such an axe chop.

 

[notsocommonsense]

Should be a permanent ban from international hockey. Which really wouldn't hurt Canada at all as he doesn't belong in a Canada jersey.

This. Canada is known for playing tough, physical hockey. This was not that. What a chickenshit, dirty thing to do.

I had no idea Veleno was such a moron.

 

[Wedontneedroads]

Shockingly low number of games. Should never be allowed to step on a competitive ice rink again. Absolutely the dirtiest play I have ever seen in my 30 years of watching hockey.

You could end someone's career with a play like that.

 

[dirtydanglez]

5 games isnt enough for that.

 

[Jimmy71]

This. Canada is known for playing tough, physical hockey. This was not that. What a chickenshit, dirty thing to do.

I had no idea Veleno was such a moron.

I dont think Canada will ever take him to a world championship again

 

[tarheelhockey]

What an absolute numbskull. Even if he wants to say it was aimed at the shinpad and therefore not really dangerous, it's just an idiotic thing to do. In absolutely no context is that ever something that's even a little bit acceptable.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I dont think Canada will ever take him to a world championship again

You'd be surprised how inbred these national programs can be. It's all about loyalty. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they give him a year off to let everyone forget, and then bring him back.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

I've made bad hits. Through the numbers, smoked a guy in the head. Errors of aggression.

Never stomped on anybody while wearing my knife shoes. That's something else entirely.

 

[notsocommonsense]

I dont think Canada will ever take him to a world championship again

Realistically he’s not a good enough player anyways unless it’s an incredibly weak team, but this kind of thing should result in a permanent disqualification from repping our national team

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Hopefully Nino drops the gloves next season when they meet

Such a skid play by Veleno

 

[Stony Curtis]

As if it couldn't be any worse for him, he did it in front of Steve Yzerman, who is also one of the Asst. GMs of Team Canada. A guy who really, really, really values character. A guy who I'd have to think had a role in Veleno even being on the team to begin with.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Pens fan.

Playing catchup here and learning lots about Joe Veleno. I have to admit, I know next to nothing about him, but from the games I've seen, he's developing nicely into a nothing NHLer.

That headbutt suspension was silly. Every. Single. Scrum. At every level in every game has something worse that happens. The only thing worse than the headbutt suspension was the stomp suspension. Five games is a joke and I hope Neiderreiter gets a few nice chances to obliterate him next year.

 

[NyQuil]

You'd be surprised how inbred these national programs can be. It's all about loyalty. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they give him a year off to let everyone forget, and then bring him back.

Havlat kicked a guy on two occasions and it rarely comes up.

I think Pronger did it too.

It happens more frequently than you’d think, and people have short memories.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Havlat kicked a guy on two occasions and it rarely comes up.

I think Pronger did it too.

It happens more frequently than you’d think, and people have short memories.

Skinner too.

I have to say, the Pronger stomp was the only one I can remember being this obviously premeditated and egregious.

Edit: I take it back. Just watched the Pronger replay again and it was nowhere near this egregious. It was bad, but at least it happened within the context of a tangled-up play.

 

[ChicagoBullsFan]

Should have been a lifetime ban from IIHF.

Unfortunately IIHF do not have jurisdiction authority to ban players without special board or panel.
5 games suspension was max what IIHF worlds tourmanet directorate could give.
It is totally different story if Hockey Canada decides ban Veleno for Team Canada.

 

[Sabresbyswords104]

oooh this does not belong in hockey.

 

[Panthaz89]

I really don't understand how anyone would try something like this in the WHC where most of the players are simply there to represent rather than being there purely as a job.

 

[Raspewtin]

to me this is something you get a lengthy ban from hockey for.

appallingly dirty and reckless, can absolutely destroy careers and it's for absolutely nothing.

 

[EK47]

Something people complaining about the length of the suspension should probably know: the Disciplinary Panel that issued it has jurisdiction over the ongoing tournament and nothing else. They can't issue suspensions that carry over to the NHL, and they also can't ban anyone from IIHF events for life - the IIHF board would have to assign a special panel with that power to look into the case.

If this had happened in the NHL, and the department headed by Parros had given Veleno five games - yeah, it would have been laughably short. But here, the panel essentially threw the book at Veleno by giving him the max-length suspension they could.

Is this true though? I remember the swedish WJC team in 2018 got suspended for another two international tournament games for throwing their silver medals or not wearing them I can’t remember if it was just Lias or the entire team.