Player Discussion Brandon Carlo II
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I hope we hear good news on Brandon soon.
The fact that they took him to the hospital is what is concerning me. Hope it was just precautionary.
DitClapper
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Goes to show how valued he is in that room. The Bruins went apeshit to put it in plain english.
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moon111
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As a Leaf fan watching that hit, the jerseys, rivalry, history, etc.... none of that mattered. That was just pure disgusting. Made my stomach sick. Hoping he's okay.
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Agent86
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Would hope it is minimum 6 games.
As an aside, this is probably a way out in left field thought but always felt the most balanced way to handle these suspensions (and again, well aware that there are many variables) would be if Wilson gets 6, then those should all be served in the upcoming games against the Bruins in the current season. So we got four left against the Crapitals in the regular season, he sits all of them plus any potential playoff games. If there is no post season match up between these teams, then remainder of the suspension is then served at the beginning of next season, regardless of opponent.
If he gets the six games, the Flyers, Devils, Sabres and Fishsticks get the benefit - not the team losing the player.
Get well Brandon!
DominicT
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I doubt they would ever go for this, but I have long been a fan of a policy that if you injure a guy on a dirty play, you are suspended for as long as it takes that player to return from injury.
Agent86
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Lol no, I am barely capable of posting on this site. Twitter is like quantum physics to me.
I have had this discussion for decades with my friends that the whole system is disproportionate to the team that loses the player.
I'd call it just great minds thinking alike but you're a lot smarter than me so probably more akin to the blind squirrel analogy from my side of the equation.
BruinsFanSince94
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You could factor into the player's previous history. There's alot of counters I'm sure to this but my idea:
Player is suspended X amount of games + number of games injured player missed. Example:
Wilson is suspended 30 games for this hit. Carlo misses 20 games. Wilson doesn't return for 50 games.
Make it so these pukes get theirs. I think this would be a way to do that. Carlo never returns to hockey because of this? Bye bye, Tom Wilson. You reap what you sow.
DominicT
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Anyone else wondering what Big Z is thinking about the hit to his friend?
I'm thinking Z was or will be one of the first to reach out to Carlo via text.
I'm thinking Z was or will be one of the first to reach out to Carlo via text.
Hope they make an example out of him. They never do, especially to Wilson, but that's such a disgusting f***ing hit. Had every opportunity to make a clean check and he drives his head into the glass. Absolutely no place for it.
Hoping we get some good news on Carlo soon.
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After spending so much time with Brandon preparing him for the role of being a defenseman in the NHL, this had to bother Chara. But had to internalize his feelings in lieu of disappointing his current teammates. He had to be conflicted about it!.
Absolutely underrated . One hell of a defenseman. B's would hate to face him on another team
Good, but also bad that he actually spent the night there. The thing with a hit like that, his brain started rattling from the force of Wilson's hit and then the contact with the glass accelerated it. That's really two hard hits to the head.
Just makes me concerned as sometimes those ones can be difficult to come back from. Sometimes the guy is never the same. We can just hope that's not the case here and he makes a full recovery.
Fenian24
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Happy Wilson is getting a hearing and probable suspension but shouldn't something be done to the clown crew that reffed that game?
No penalty, but here's a 10 game suspension and the idiot brigade, who had the option of reply if they had called any penalty, gets to work the next Bruins-Caps game.
No penalty, but here's a 10 game suspension and the idiot brigade, who had the option of reply if they had called any penalty, gets to work the next Bruins-Caps game.
The don godfather
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If they released him that early they gave him a aspirin and said rest few days and get back on skates and start hitting and blocking shots.
On plays like the Wilson hit yesterday where another player is injured, the offending player should be suspended for the length of the injury + a number of games. So hypothetically, if you give Wilson 5 games, he would have to sit until Carlo returns to game action. Once Carlo plays a game, then the 5 game suspension count starts. This policy would go a long way towards removing headshots and other dirty plays from the game.
NHLPA would love that haha, having to deal with accusations of players nursing injuries too long to keep the hitter off the ice.
In this case it may make sense because both players are valuable to their teams. But in a case where one player is a lot more valuable than the other it would get messy.
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