TSN: Cooke - Suspended 7 games.

[VanIsle]

Section 6 of the CBA at Exhibit 8 provides a list of the factors the league will consider when determining supplementary discipline:
6. Factors In Determining Supplementary Discipline

In deciding on supplementary discipline, the following factors will be taken into account:

(a) The type of conduct involved: conduct outside of NHL rules; excessive force in contact otherwise permitted by NHL rules; and careless or accidental conduct. Players are responsible for the consequences of their actions.

(b) Injury to the opposing Player(s) involved in the incident.
(c) The status of the offender, and specifically whether he is a "first" or "repeat" offender. Players who repeatedly violate NHL rules will be more severely punished for each new violation.

(d) The situation of the game in which the incident occurred: late in the game, lopsided score, prior events in the game.

(e) Such other factors as may be appropriate in the circumstances.
As you can see, section 6(e) provides the decision maker with the discretion to consider factors not listed in subsections 6(a) to (d). So that means that the factors set out in Section 6 are non-exhaustive.

 

[BergyDGD]

You can remove a player from the Penguins but can't remove the Penguins from the player.

Normally I wouldn't hesitate to pile on with the Pittsburgh hate but Cooke was a dirtbag before Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, and now post Pittsburgh. Although I will always remember him as a Penguin from Bruins games vs him and the Pens even though he spent more years in Vancouver. Actually now that I think of it his playing style fits perfect in both those organizations.

 

[rpontbriand]

I honestly see the turd getting dropped by some nut fan in an airport. Not proposing that ... just saying ...

 

[howaryuh]

Cooke propagates disrespect in the game, not good at all.

I'd say he gets 3-5 for this one, not near enough though.

 

[bp13]

Cooke is a maggot. I wish him nothing but the worst in his career.

 

[Ten Thousand Hours]

Why shouldn't he be banned from hockey? All he does is end guys' seasons.

 

[rpontbriand]

As a Bruins fan (born and raised in Nashua, NH) and Avs (have lived in Colorado for over 15 years) I want this guy hung by the balls!

 

[Artemis]

Why shouldn't he be banned from hockey? All he does is end guys' careers.

Fixed.

 

[RussellmaniaKW]

just once I wish one of his employers would have the guts to just ****ing bench him themselves.

 

[CDJ]

Well, he's the scum of the Earth- and I mean that with sincerity- so yeah he deserves to be suspended.

 

[GarbageGoal]

Rest of the post season and 10 games next year to start.

Enough of this crap.

 

[putabergeronthegrill]

I know we all hate Cooke but if you look at the reverse angle it makes it look a little less egregious.

 

[MaritimeHockeyNut]

He has to get the harshest suspension to date .. honestly.. doesnt he? 40 games?
I would just add up all the games players have missed as a direct result because of him subtract all the games he was actually suspended and give him the difference. that would be what.. 2-300 games?

 

[BergyDGD]

Rest of the playoffs +82 games. Give the treatment MLB is giving A-Rod. I know it won't happen but that's what I'd like to see. Realistically 3-5 games I think.

 

[EverettMike]

You guys are delusional. He'll probably get three games, no chance over five.

 

[boston77]

You guys are delusional. He'll probably get three games, no chance over five.

Given his track record 5 games is a minimum even though the hit itself was not egregious it was dangerous and a guy like him should be on his best behaviour. I don't know how long his deal is in Minny but I don't think he gets another one in the League....

 

[member 96824]

Time to give him the ol' "Of mice and men" treatment.

 

[EverettMike]

You know, most knee-on knee incidents come on east-to-west plays with a puck carrier.

Guys skate north-south at a defenseman a hundred times a game as they make a pass, and somehow players always manage to avoid that.

Intentional. And a young guy gets robbed of the chance to play spring hockey because of it.

But hey, Cooke works with a charity or something off the ice, so he's swell. Or whatever the crock of **** line is.

 

[rpontbriand]

I never thought I could hate a fan base more than I do the Canucks. Minnesota has proven me wrong.

 

[bobbyorr04]

This one gave me a good laugh...thanks Camfan.

As far as cooke goes, The NHL should have kicked him out of the league years ago. Doesn't matter what team he plays for, his intent to injure other players remains the same, over and over and over again.

Like LF said "time to take out the trash"....or some western justice!

 

[Emerz]

In person hearing confirmed.

Minimum 5 games.

 

[EverettMike]

In person hearing confirmed.

Minimum 5 games.

Not true. Just gives the NHL the option to go over five. But they almost always do.

But looks like my initial assessment of three and no way over five was wrong.

Good.

 

[missingchicklet]

Very glad an in-person hearing has been called. I wonder if it will be significantly over 5 to send a message? It cannot help him that just last month he tried to take out Nichushkin's knee with another extremely obvious dirty play.

 

[Neely08]

This is the stuff that fans and the media should get worked up about. But why bother? This guy should have already been gone. Can anyone even enumerate at this point how many players he's seriously injured? He's the poster child for NHL supplementary discipline, not to mention actual rule changes in the game regarding how and when you can hit someone.

Seriously, how many years did the NHL exist before they actually needed a rule telling players that lining up your shoulder w/ someone's chops is a serious infraction? A lot of really, really dirty players played this game, but few of them can say they were actually so dirty, they literally effected the rules like Matt Cooke.

His reputation should sink him for the playoffs. Further, make GM's think twice regarding whether or not to take the risk of giving him a contract. But instead, like most in here are saying, they'll probably **** this opportunity up.

In a perfect world he'd of been tossed out of the league for cutting Karlsson's Achilles's. Yeah, I don't buy the accident story. Anyone else, absolutely. Some deserve the benefit of the doubt, others do not. This ****in guy? There is something seriously wrong w/ him. Like his pets went missing when he was a child kind of wrong.

 

[Hali33]

People wanted to believe this guy changed from the heart.

He has a history of kneeing being one of his many offenses on players. In this play tonight I don't know how it could possibly be more blatant or intentional unless he actually took a bat and bashed his knee. There is no defense for what he did tonight.

I have no idea how there can possibly still be fans out there defending this guy. It's disappointing to see so many Minny fans blindly excusing this guy now that he plays for their team. I feel bad for the great Minny fans who know what this guy is all about and have to be associated with it.

I hope he's really screwed himself with this one and the league actually nails him with something susbtantial. He's an embarrassment to the league and the game and should have been tossed out a long time ago.