Phil Housley: Hey Sam, can you play cen <sees Matt Hunwick> NEVERMIND!I don't know what's more annoying, Jack's suspension, or the fact we still won't see Reinhart at center.
If an accidental and mildly reckless, at worst, hit gets 2 games, how are they handing out 2 games to intentional and/or truly reckless head hits? This is what bothers me. They just hand out 2 games for so many disparate plays, which equates them all. Not to mention the absolute joke that is the league's handling of a player's history. The only bright side here is that between McDavis and Eichel, the league's showing it has the nuts to suspend ticket-driving players.
This all day.Well, that's the thing. Logically speaking, one play is within the context of the game and involved incidental head contact while playing the puck. The other is outside the context of the game, and involves nothing more than a run and a high hit to the head with force, against the glass.
Knowing nothing else about the incidents if you told someone one would be 2 games suspension and the other would not merit a review, they'd naturally assume the latter for the supplemental punishment.
If both had gotten 2 games or both had gotten nothing, I could swallow that. The fact that the run is simply glossed over, and even referred to by Avs partisans as a "good hit" which, even if it were within the context of actual play, is clearly NOT the case, and then validated by the NHL? No, eat a duck NHL.
That, and make no mistake - the coaches instructed their players to run Eichel and every opposing team has been doing that for months because there is no price to pay. Zads will only do as he's told, mostly. It's on Botts and Housley for putting Eichel in the position to be his own enforcer, as much as on the NHL for being predictably anencephalic.
Why isn't Eichel appealing?
I know now why I moved over to your woods at HFB and triedto antagonize the P****es at Sabres$ionpcworld.. My apologies in advanced and if this bans me, at least I have identified the intellectual coward problem that currently exists in buffalo if management /coaching is reflected by SDS and pals social engineering post.. and after you read try to reconcile the fact that after the no response from yANDLE HIT and subsequent copying of the same head hunting tactics and cheap shots employed since culminating with NO suspension on a coach directed game plan of hammering our top line ….Because if his appeal fails, we aren't meeting up for dinner Saturday night.
Can I have some of what you're having?
Can I have some of what you're having?
This got me thinking.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
A sudden spate of star players getting suspended, while scrubbies go on their merry hack ways with little consequence. McDavid get$ $u$pended with hi$ 14M contract. Eichel get$ $u$pended with hi$ 10M contract. Voracek with hi$ 8M contact. Malkin getting suspended at all as a Penguin. Player$ forfeit $alary when they are $u$pended. At those rates, it's a lot of money.
We wouldn't need funding for concussion hush money by any chance, would we? When was the last audit of the "Player Emergency Fund", hmm?
Lost in all of this...Jack gets paid more than any of us do in a year every two games.