Suspended: Spezza 6 games (Reduced to 4 games) | Pionk 2 games

[Menzinger]

Spezza deserves some sort of suspension, though I'm hoping his fairly clean history mitigates the severity

 

[mcleex]

I'd take an in person hearing just to give Parros the middle finger to his face

 

[mcleex]

I'd like to start a movement for a f*** you Parros chant at the next game

 

[BigGulpsEh]

6 games for spezza is my guess

 

[Gallagbi]

That play was completely on Woll. Dubois was going for the puck. Woll skates out to the circle and dives right in front of him. I'm a goalie and I won't defend Woll on that. I got clipped in the head 2 weeks ago in my game where I made an aggressive play to make a poke check out of desperation on a guy that was taking it across the front of the crease. I took a knee to the head and didn't blame him. It was my own fault.

Woll plays it like he's having a stroke, but the angle Dubois takes and the last second foot kick instead of a stick play doesn't add up .

Sorry about your beer league luck, but that isn't the same play or sequence

 

[Gallagbi]

Spezza deserves some sort of suspension, though I'm hoping his fairly clean history mitigates the severity

Has he ever had a suspension or fine?

 

[Superstar]

To those defending Pionk saying that the knee-on-knee wasn't intentional...what were you guys watching? Pfft.

 

[Cleetus]

I remember when spezza got a penalty for an illegal stick against the leafs lol

 

[Clark4Ever]

6 games for spezza is my guess

I think that's way too steep. Spezza is a first time offender, and Pionk reached down at the last second which caused the contact to the head.

3 games is fair.

 

[keonsbitterness]

That play was completely on Woll. Dubois was going for the puck. Woll skates out to the circle and dives right in front of him. I'm a goalie and I won't defend Woll on that. I got clipped in the head 2 weeks ago in my game where I made an aggressive play to make a poke check out of desperation on a guy that was taking it across the front of the crease. I took a knee to the head and didn't blame him. It was my own fault.

Going by recent NHL policy/rulings regarding goalies, forwards are responsible for avoiding contact with goalies, not vice-versa. At least when the Leafs are not involved.

 

[The Apologist]

Going by recent NHL policy/rulings regarding goalies, forwards are responsible for avoiding contact with goalies, not vice-versa. At least when the Leafs are not involved.

Your last line is the key difference.

 

[crump]

Spezza in person meeting should go something like this. Parros: “ just wanted to meet in person to shake the hand of the man who has translated his game to a higher level”

 

[Niagara Bill]

Spezza deserves some sort of suspension, though I'm hoping his fairly clean history mitigates the severity

Imagine Spezza had to take this step, where the f is Ritchie.

 

[18leafsfan18]

To those defending Pionk saying that the knee-on-knee wasn't intentional...what were you guys watching? Pfft.

Even if it looked "accidental" , this guy has a history of dirty plays, although he usually misses, because he is a complete tool.

 

[Mattfan02]

Any word on Spezza?

 

[ChurchOfMatthews]

Imagine Spezza had to take this step, where the f is Ritchie.

Ya, I thought last night would be a perfect opportunity for Ritchie to make a statement and prove he has some heart in his game...

I thought wrong.

 

[BallardEra]

6 games for spezza is my guess

I’m going with 3.

 

[Knies iT]

Money well spent. The suspension should help load manage Spezza anyway and get a look at some internal depth (Ho-Sang, Anderson, etc.).

Couple weeks off can't hurt a 38 year old in a long season. Worth sending a message.

 

[HolyCrap]

Mainboards are saying 10-15 games. Hahaha. Mind you we are the Leafs so who knows.

 

[Enniskillen]

Kadri will be suspended instead of Spezza.

 

[Cleetus]

I’m going with 3.

ill go with 4

 

[LastOne2100]

I think it will be 4.

They can't suspend Spezza as long as the biting and be seen as a serious league, right?

Meanwhile, the correct outcome would've been Brad Meier being fired. Then again, I guess he's had a long successful career of being this incompetent, and the NHL won't want to end that.

 

[Leafsfan74]

Going by recent NHL policy/rulings regarding goalies, forwards are responsible for avoiding contact with goalies, not vice-versa. At least when the Leafs are not involved.

The attacks against Leaf goalies have been the most egregious. For the last two seasons alone MLSE should be raising hell with the league.

As Burke once said about the Sedins, "Sedin is not Swedish for 'punch me' or 'hit me in a scrum'"

I'm looking up the history of the last name Campbell and I have yet to find anything about kneeling on the head or crashing into while crashing the net.

This is what I found:

Campbell Name Meaning & Campbell Family History at Ancestry.com®

Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked’, ‘bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. The surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp. In New England documents, Campbell sometimes occurs as a representation of the French name Hamel.

 

[The Apologist]

Ya, I thought last night would be a perfect opportunity for Ritchie to make a statement and prove he has some heart in his game...

I thought wrong.

If nothing else, he has made it very clear he serves no real purpose here.

 

[The Apologist]

Mainboards are saying 10-15 games. Hahaha. Mind you we are the Leafs so who knows.

Clearly. Maybe they should make an example of Spezza and just ban him for life. I mean, this makes Bertuzzi look like a love tap right?