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

[therealkoho]

Dude its just a game, breaking a jaw is pretty serious injury... I got no issue feeding him some knuckles..

When John Ferguson Sr. broke Bobby Hull's jaw

with a flying by elbow

Hull still fought him sustaining a broken nose as well and then fought him again a few weeks later with his jaw still wired, giving the senior Fergy a bit of a beating

 

[GrizzLeaf]

Glad it was reduced. But as others have mentioned, if Poink gets tossed out of the game, there wouldn't have been a problem.

 

[therealkoho]

For sh*ts and giggles I asked my kids agent who is a lawyer how this works and he told me as far as he knows there is nothing written in CBA to deal with both an injury and a suspension in same game .. although da commish has da final ruling in CBA on suspensions which can be appealed to an arbitrator .. he said a player can serve a suspension while injured .. but question of whether he can be paid while on IR and a suspension is not addressed .. who knows what Jets did .. likely a behind scenes call between Jets and Bettman

suspension means an automatic forfeit of pay, injured or not, the team cannot use the players IR allowance while the player is suspended

 

[Fogelhund]

Good to see... so he's back in next game, or the one after?

 

[Nooodles]

Would have expected this from Bettman: Reduces it to 4 games...but it starts from tomorrow.

 

[stickty111]

Good to see... so he's back in next game, or the one after?

Next game so tomorrow

 

[therealkoho]

So Wideman should have received a nine-game credit, to be applied to any future suspensions. Or maybe in lieu of the credit he could have been given a free shot at somebody.

not how it works but creative!

any monies forfeited for the rescinded games would have been returned to Wideman

 

[justashadowof]

Maybe Parros should resign to protest this decision.

But seriously it's not a good look when you get overruled. That means that the people above you don't completely have your back. Look for him to be replaced in the off-season (probably promoted or parachuted into a GM/President job with some poor unsuspecting organization).

 

[therealkoho]

Maybe Parros should resign to protest this decision.

But seriously it's not a good look when you get overruled. That means that the people above you don't completely have your back. Look for him to be replaced in the off-season (probably promoted or parachuted into a GM/President job with some poor unsuspecting organization).

doesn't matter they'll just get appoint another guy who'll be cowed by both the league and the PA and do what he's told, otherwise how do you explain a Dbag like Marchand getting away with the crap he gets away with!

btw Parros has an MBA from Princeton and I believe has completed part of his JD

 

[Golden_Jet]

Good move Bettman.

 

[Lauro]

Poor Spezza, old guy could have used a longer break. But glad to have him back

 

[rojac]

suspension means an automatic forfeit of pay, injured or not, the team cannot use the players IR allowance while the player is suspended

What IR allowance? Do you mean if he want on LTIR? There is no allowance for replacing a player on the standard IR.

 

[Clark4Ever]

Good move.

 

[tom leafers]

God i love Spezza.

This man deserves some playoff success

 

[JT AM da real deal]

suspension means an automatic forfeit of pay, injured or not, the team cannot use the players IR allowance while the player is suspended

This is not true .. only thing known for sure is there is league commissioner authority over suspensions and IR which can be appealed by teams and PA to an independent arbitrator .. it is just not written up the way you said it in legal CBA .. I had my kids agent who is a lawyer in Ontario look at CBA to check it out .. although it is likely Bettman would intercede if he heard about it as he has final say

 

[PromisedLand]

LOVE Spezza

 

[PromisedLand]

yea ok gary how about fixing the joke of NHL reffing that led to retaliatory action by a player who has had a clean record?

 

[TMLeafer]

Good, now get working on the underlying issue that led to this whole thing in the first place.

Welcome back Spezz!

 

[Rob Brown]

Is he confirmed to play tomorrow?

 

[SprDaVE]

Is he confirmed to play tomorrow?

If we play -- yes.

 

[therealkoho]

This is not true .. only thing known for sure is there is league commissioner authority over suspensions and IR which can be appealed by teams and PA to an independent arbitrator .. it is just not written up the way you said it in legal CBA .. I had my kids agent who is a lawyer in Ontario look at CBA to check it out .. although it is likely Bettman would intercede if he heard about it as he has final say

O'key D'oh-key

 

[therealkoho]

What IR allowance? Do you mean if he want on LTIR? There is no allowance for replacing a player on the standard IR.

yeah for sure ltir, which is kind of what I meant!

 

[therealkoho]

yea ok gary how about fixing the joke of NHL reffing that led to retaliatory action by a player who has had a clean record?

it's coming on 30 years since that idiot and Jerry Jacobs have been running the league, as long as that kind of incestuous relationship continues it will never get fixed

just look at how Bruins mostly get to slide on suspensions. 3 games for Marchand on his 5th slewfoot type of offense, a measly 3 games! When he'd already had a 5 game sit a few years back.

 

[diehardleafsfan9878]

Does Parros do the video explanations of his rulings on suspensions like Shannaban did? Shannahan definitely made mistakes on his rulings, but because of the explanations, they always seemed reasonable to me.

 

[Da Cool Rula]

When John Ferguson Sr. broke Bobby Hull's jaw

with a flying by elbow

Hull still fought him sustaining a broken nose as well and then fought him again a few weeks later with his jaw still wired, giving the senior Fergy a bit of a beating

The Hull Brothers were tough mother Fs
Same with Bill White.