Matheson/Pettersson Incident | Matheson Receives Two Game Suspension Pt. II

[EscapedGoat]

Reading over the posts in this thread, it's apparent that the IQ of many of the posters on this site isn't much higher than the temperature of the weather outside.

It's 108 degrees where I live today. Thats a higher than average IQ. So thank you for the compliment .

 

[sexydonut]

I am just glad the likes of Scott Stevens, Marchment, Pronger, the Samuelsson brothers etc. are out of the league. Their "style" of play does nothing but smother actual skill.

And now their fans can leave hockey and go for tough man competitions.

 

[Anomie2029]

I like hard and physical play...

... But that slam was not a 'hockey play' and not in the rules. Fair suspensions IMO.

I want to know what happened to all those 'tough' scrubs the Canucks gave ridiculous contracts to in order to 'protect the kids'. Pathetic response.

 

[maacoshark]

2 games for "interference/unsportsmanlike conduct"....interesting.

I was thinking the same thing. Didnt think you could get a suspension for that. It should have been a roughing penalty. A suspension is a bit much.

 

[The Worst One]

Maybe those concussions interfere with your logic and/or empathy. I am not even being snide. I suffered a major concussion in a car accident. For the next 2 years, I didn't feel any joy.

They happened many years ago. I'm fine. My final message is simple. Hockey is a tough sports, that's the way it should be. Concussions are bad. How to avoid concussions without eliminating tough and physical play? I don't know!

 

[LABound]

Seems some of our guys get dumped on the ice in a similar fashion on a regular basis (esp the smaller ones). Love to see the rational for NOT handing out a suspension to say, Jamie Benn, if he essentially picks up Zucker and drops him. Love to see it.

If he uses his stick between his legs making him unable to brace himself then sure Benn gets suspended .

 

[clunk]

It's 108 degrees where I live today. Thats a higher than average IQ. So thank you for the compliment .

We go by Celsius here in 'Straya. The rest of the world also does, sans the U.S.A and The Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands and Palau. Unless you live in one of these countries, you would be claiming that the temperature is 108 degrees celsius. If that were the case, you wouldn't be here, posting on this forum. You would be burned to a crisp. Fried goat.

Checkmate, bigot.

 

[The Worst One]

Really? You are quite happy to see players injured and possibly have to live through pain/symptoms for the rest of their lives just so you can be entertained?

What an awful attitude to take.

First of all, I'm not happy to see players injured. And second of all, book reading entertains me not hockey.

 

[snopro31]

bad call by DOPS

 

[stampedingviking]

bad call by DOPS

Yeah, two games not enough. Should be double that.

 

[CloutierForVezina]

The initial check was a great hit.

The follow up can opener and hand on the chest to drive an off-balance Pettersson to the ice was bush league shit.

Honestly don't see much difference between what he did and a standard slewfoot. It's just a stupid, reckless play that will likely result in injury.

 

[Hockeypete49]

Soon in the NHL if you even give someone a "dirty" look it could warrant a game or two. Parros clearly has lost his marbles. George, how many games for a hook in the nuts?

 

[aemoreira1981]

What I expected. Elias Petterson was eligible to be checked on the play, and the initial check was legal in that it was to a side that Petterson could see of Mike Matheson. However, to then throw a player to the ice is absolutely suspension worthy. That second act justifies the suspension of Matheson. I would have gone 3 games to send a message.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Deserved. That was a chicken shit move from Matheson.

 

[nowhereman]

It's 108 degrees where I live today. Thats a higher than average IQ. So thank you for the compliment .

I'm Canadian. We use the Celsius scale. And, on that scale, you'd be sporting an IQ in the low 40s... somewhere in between Milan Lucic and a sack of turnips.

 

[pantherbot]

The initial check was a great hit.

The follow up can opener and hand on the chest to drive an off-balance Pettersson to the ice was bush league ****.

Honestly don't see much difference between what he did and a standard slewfoot. It's just a stupid, reckless play that will likely result in injury.

You mean like the slewfoot Matheson took from Pettersson earlier in the game? Give me a f***ing break.

Only reason Matheson got suspended is because Pettersson is injured. The only reason Pettersson is injured is because he weights 165lbs soaking weight, 30lbs less than Matheson. The vast majority of players in the NHL would not have been manhandled like that by Matheson. Pettersson should not be playing in the NHL, he doesn't have the physical strength to play in this league. There are the rare exceptions like Gaudreau, but that is super rare.

The big discussion with player safety is around concussions nowadays, but you put together guys that have varied weights as much as 60-70lbs between the smallest and largest players, and there's bound to be problems.

 

[Wall of Wonder]

I disagree with this one.
A body slam like this is not part of the game. Matheson forcefully dunked him on the ice.
It should be 10 games. This is a very reckless play.

 

[CraigsList]

You mean like the slewfoot Matheson took from Pettersson earlier in the game? Give me a ****ing break.

Only reason Matheson got suspended is because Pettersson is injured. The only reason Pettersson is injured is because he weights 165lbs soaking weight, 30lbs less than Matheson. The vast majority of players in the NHL would not have been manhandled like that by Matheson. Pettersson should not be playing in the NHL, he doesn't have the physical strength to play in this league. There are the rare exceptions like Gaudreau, but that is super rare.

The big discussion with player safety is around concussions nowadays, but you put together guys that have varied weights as much as 60-70lbs between the smallest and largest players, and there's bound to be problems.

Maybe if your player didn't body slam Pettersson and just finished a hard check on him we wouldn't even be discussing this in the first place.

Let me go and get someone that weighs a hell of a lot more than you to body slam you on the ice. I'm sure you'll love it.

 

[CloutierForVezina]

You mean like the slewfoot Matheson took from Pettersson earlier in the game? Give me a ****ing break.

Only reason Matheson got suspended is because Pettersson is injured. The only reason Pettersson is injured is because he weights 165lbs soaking weight, 30lbs less than Matheson. The vast majority of players in the NHL would not have been manhandled like that by Matheson. Pettersson should not be playing in the NHL, he doesn't have the physical strength to play in this league. There are the rare exceptions like Gaudreau, but that is super rare.

The big discussion with player safety is around concussions nowadays, but you put together guys that have varied weights as much as 60-70lbs between the smallest and largest players, and there's bound to be problems.

Yikes. That's a bad take. I'm guessing you're not too great with physics, eh?

 

[Lilou]

It should have been more. Matheson overreacted to getting dangled. I guess his ego couldn't take it.

 

[aemoreira1981]

Maybe if your player didn't body slam Pettersson and just finished a hard check on him we wouldn't even be discussing this in the first place.

Let me go and get someone that weighs a hell of a lot more than you to body slam you on the ice. I'm sure you'll love it.

The video even highlighted it. The check is how the league wants it done. The next act was bush league.

 

[Rowlet]

A lot more **** got done in the world when everyone wasn't worried about everyones safety. Good bye pyramids

Is your post lost on me or do you just advocate for slavery?

 

[Hogan86]

2 games for a 2 minute roughing/interference penalty.

DOPS is such a farce...

 

[BB6]

A lot more **** got done in the world when everyone wasn't worried about everyones safety. Good bye pyramids

Promoting slaves are you buddy? don't be dumb.

 

[pantherbot]

Maybe if your player didn't body slam Pettersson and just finished a hard check on him we wouldn't even be discussing this in the first place.

Let me go and get someone that weighs a hell of a lot more than you to body slam you on the ice. I'm sure you'll love it.

I'd actually hate it, that's why I won't step on the ice against guys that weight 40-60lbs more than me, just like how Pettersson shouldn't be playing in the NHL. Not sure how anyone can dispute that. All the questions around Pettersson heading into the season were whether or not he was strong enough.

What Matheson did was not a "hockey play" because it deserved a roughing penalty, but those infractions happen. If it wasn't Matheson it would have been another player. Big Buff weighs almost 100lbs more than Pettersson, what happens with that? I'm not arguing what Matheson did doesn't deserve a penalty, but it's not a suspendable play anymore than a cross check. You think another bigger player cross checking Pettersson is going to have a different result? Give me a break.

Yikes. That's a bad take. I'm guessing you're not too great with physics, eh?

Physics tells me a force = mass x acceleration...you tell me how Pettersson wins in this scenario when he weights 30-40lbs less than the other guy. The acceleration part has no bearing when it comes to the rough parts of the NHL. There will be scrums, there will be shoving, there will be roughing. Guys get penalties, but not suspended.