Confirmed with Link: Volchenkov Suspended 4 games

[njdevil26]

Anton Volchenkov Suspended Four Games

Just got an NHL Gamecenter alert on my phone. Four games for Volchy. Discuss!

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Volchenkov gets 4 games for elbowing Marchand

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[Devils Trap]

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=60&id=237895&cmpid=nhl-twt


Yes !!!! 4 games without Volch.

 

[njdevil26]

you jerk you beat me by like a second! :-P good work.

 

[Devils Trap]

Can Lou ask the NHL to make it longer ?

 

[NYDevil]

Oh well who cares at this point it's over.

 

[Cheddabombs]

****... Was hoping it would be longer.

 

[RandoDoomer]

Maybe Larsson can actually play 4 consecutive games now.

 

[Uli Hiemer]

i doubt deboer puts him in the last 4 games too.

 

[RandoDoomer]

i doubt deboer puts him in the last 4 games too.

An appropriate end to his tenure as a Devil -- game misconduct for bonehead play. (Assuming he's amnestied.)

The A-Train has left the station.

 

[Cowbell232]

Yup. He's got a "history" of it and it was pretty clear what he did, even if it wasn't intentional. Can't argue it at all.

 

[VaxjoDevil]

Fine, now buy him out after the season.

 

[MattEvan]

We played our best hockey last night with 4 D-men. BYE ANTON!

 

[Cowbell232]

He's definitely ripe for a buy out. I could see Lou asking around about interest first, because that's what he does. But with a NTC, he's in control of his own destiny.

This probably is it for him as a New Jersey Devil.

 

[New Jersey Devils]

Appropriate, and like others have said above, most likely his last game as a Devil.


Although with all the hate Volch has gotten, I feel bad for the guy. A ****ing warrior.

 

[clmetsfan]

It seemed like such a good signing at the time, too. Affordable and would only take him til he was 35, and I figured he'd be a fixture as on the top pair. Hard to believe a suspension in the final two weeks of a playoff chase would be welcomed by the fan base.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

The right call. Volch didn't want to elbow him like that but when he missed as Marchand stopped short seeing it coming - it happened. Larsson's fault.

 

[MattEvan]

It seemed like such a good signing at the time, too. Affordable and would only take him til he was 35, and I figured he'd be a fixture as on the top pair. Hard to believe a suspension in the final two weeks of a playoff chase would be welcomed by the fan base.

Affordable?!

 

[MartyOwns]

yay!!

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Appropriate, and like others have said above, most likely his last game as a Devil.


Although with all the hate Volch has gotten, I feel bad for the guy. A ****ing warrior.

Tommy Boy comes to mind...

He's a big dumb animal isn't he folks?

 

[Cowbell232]

It seemed like such a good signing at the time, too. Affordable and would only take him til he was 35, and I figured he'd be a fixture as on the top pair. Hard to believe a suspension in the final two weeks of a playoff chase would be welcomed by the fan base.

Seriously, this times 1000.

This is why so many contracts are such a gamble. I'm honestly surprised by some of the lengthier ones that are given out around the league. You just can't predict what's going to happen year to year.

 

[OpethNJD]

Should've been suspended for the rest of the regular season, this team does not play like that and it puts a negative spotlight on us. Odds are he won't play anymore this year cause Lou will sit him when he gets back...boneheaded play and no call for it at all.

 

[clmetsfan]

Affordable?! Are you high?

Under the old CBA and cap, for someone who was expected to be a mainstay on the top pair, a $4.25M hit was absolutely affordable. And being high has nothing to do with it.

 

[CerebralGenesis]

we knew ye well volch

 

[Oneiro]

We played our best hockey last night with 4 D-men. BYE ANTON!

This is what I took away from last night's game.

Apart from the 2.5 hours I wasted.

 

[Volodya Krutov]

I was thrilled when we signed him, I loved that move... But he's not the same player since his injury last year. Sad to say we've got to buy him out.