NHL Around the League: 2021 Regular Season III - Canucks Ravaged by Covid

[bp13]

Ultimately we won’t see a guy like this stop until it truly hurts his team. Either the on-ice officials do a better job and get the penalties right, or other teams start taking liberties with his better teammates. Personally I don’t care about the suspensions. I want to see 5 minute power plays, and I want to see guys looking for on ice payback.

 

[caz16]

Shortened sentence for a repeat offender because of a shortened season. I bet a lot of people who break the law wish they could get a reduced sentence or fine since they haven't been able to work as much during the lockdown. What a joke...Carlo doesn't get reduced injury time. It is an insult.

 

[BAD BOY]

Even if it’s a shortened season that should have played NO part in it. The suspension should be what boarding dictates. Now the seven games Wilson is missing will that be as much as Carlo is missing. What about the cross check afterwards I forget who but why isn’t he suspended too.


I don’t agree with the call of seven games. But if they gave him ten people would say 15 . If he got that they say 20. Me personally I would have given him 15-20 because it was a cheap hit. I don’t care if he didn’t leave his skates or hit him shoulder wise it was unacceptable. Plus don’t give me the nonsense first time offender if you don’t do anything in two years you go back clean lol.


Just think if Marchand did this people would be calling 911 and have him arrested on assault lol. You know it and I do as well.

 

[CDJ]

Looking at the teams stats and Comtois is so much better than anybody else on the ducks it’s ridiculous

 

[pgm16]

13 games too short !!! Pathetic

 

[ChargersRookie]

great to see the NHL continuing it`s tradition of taking hits from behind or that involve a vulnerable player seriously, absolute joke

Only if it was. From the replay that I saw I think he gave that option up and decided to inch forward enough to hit Carlo's head into the glass.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Wilson had that 20 game suspension reduced to 14 in 2018.

 

[Walkenthewalk]

Wilson had that 20 game suspension reduced to 14 in 2018.

How nice, maybe the DOPS will reduce this suspension from 7 games to 2 for poor old Tom. I’m sure he was very contrite at his hearing.

 

[22Brad Park]

The NHL gives the guy 7 games for 5th suspension.You can't make this shit up.Carlo will miss more time.The more I think about it (God forgive me)the more I think this guy needs the exact same treatment .You know your not getting more then 7 games at least .

 

[22Brad Park]

Wilson had that 20 game suspension reduced to 14 in 2018.

Well that should be reason enough not to reduce it again.He never learned shit.This league needs a new guy in charge of player safety.

 

[BMC]

Interesting interpretation from the League there. Must've had their eyes closed when he made contact with Carlo's head.

Or deliberately looking the other way

 

[The National]

April 8th rematch should be a good one.

 

[Jorah Marshmont]

Embarrassing. Start doubling up the suspension each time and maybe he'll get the f***ing message.
And tell the f***ing refs to stop giving him the benefit of the doubt, if you see a player fall to the ice holding his goddamn head after a Wilson hit, assume he tried to end someone's career for the 5th or 6th time and kick him out.

 

[Flannelman]

Am I the only one that reads DoPS as “dopes”?

 

[caz16]

The more I think about the reason for shortening it to 7 games, the more ticked off I get. How about the impact of losing one our top D in the shortened season? How is this fair when one of the main competitors in the division gets a shortened suspension? It should impact them as much as it impacts the Bruins. Same old crap.

 

[bruinsfan1968]

Even if it’s a shortened season that should have played NO part in it. The suspension should be what boarding dictates. Now the seven games Wilson is missing will that be as much as Carlo is missing. What about the cross check afterwards I forget who but why isn’t he suspended too.


I don’t agree with the call of seven games. But if they gave him ten people would say 15 . If he got that they say 20. Me personally I would have given him 15-20 because it was a cheap hit. I don’t care if he didn’t leave his skates or hit him shoulder wise it was unacceptable. Plus don’t give me the nonsense first time offender if you don’t do anything in two years you go back clean lol.


Just think if Marchand did this people would be calling 911 and have him arrested on assault lol. You know it and I do as well.

Jakub Vrana #13 is the one who cross checked Carlo when he was down on the ice. Another Dirtbag!.

 

[Kegs]

Wow u guys are still so angry. It’s hockey. It’s a violent sport. It happens. 7 games is a strong punishment. He deserves it. He also got fined over $300k. It’s a harsh punishment. I’m happy with it. I hope Carlo recovers quickly. And I hope Wilson gets his face punched in every time he plays the bruins forever.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Wow u guys are still so angry. It’s hockey. It’s a violent sport. It happens. 7 games is a strong punishment. He deserves it. He also got fined over $300k. It’s a harsh punishment. I’m happy with it. I hope Carlo recovers quickly. And I hope Wilson gets his face punched in every time he plays the bruins forever.

Justifying actions only Wilson makes at this point is why he continues to do so.

 

[Sevendust]

Ovechkin just lost all my respect for him. There is a way to defend a teammate and there is this. Totally embarrassing himself with this take.

 

[NDiesel]

Ovechkin just lost all my respect for him. There is a way to defend a teammate and there is this. Totally embarrassing himself with this take.

They're doing Wilson a disservice. Both his captain and coach aren't holding him accountable so you know he's going to do this again.

 

[Ladyfan]

15 games would've been more fitting, given Wilson's reputation

I thought it should be 2x his last suspension amount. so 40 games....

 

[Kegs]

Justifying actions only Wilson makes at this point is why he continues to do so.

Wilson probably doesn’t read hf boards bruins threads.

 

[The National]

They're doing Wilson a disservice. Both his captain and coach aren't holding him accountable so you know he's going to do this again.

Couldn’t agree more. Plus they’re just fueling the Bruins hatred for them for future matchups/playoffs.

 

[BMC]

Let's just say I hope Jarred Tinordi & Trent Frederic are taking notes....

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

As someone up above said, a potential big problem is that his head coach has voluntarily doubled down on how he saw it as a “hockey hit”. He has gone beyond simply defending his own player. He genuinely expresses that he objectively sees no issue with the hit.

It seems like almost every dangerous hit Wilson throws is the result of the game picking up in physical intensity and him having no ability to not go over the line that pretty much every other player can walk correctly. If Laviolette (and probably the rest of the team) sees no issue with the hit, will it not just make him more angry that he got suspended for what is apparently an okay hit? Maybe I’m going a bit overboard with the psychology but I don’t think it can be understated that his own team isn’t helping the situation at all by outwardly claiming that an obviously dirty hit was a “hockey hit”.