Matt Cooke Suspension Thread: Suspended 7 Games [Mod Warning Post #1]

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[PuckInTheNards]

It was nice for the Avs to surrender the high ground, with Hejda's slew foot and Stastny's crosscheck. Whether it was 'karma' or not, Colorado was the dirtier team tonight by a mile.

Come on, man... Stastny's cross check was nothing more than playoff hockey. He didn't hit him high and was called for it regardless. No real problem there. Was pretty impressed by the clean play all around - I was a little afraid that the Avs would come out headhunting. Roy seems to have done a good job keeping them focused - which suprises the hell out of me.

 

[Avder]

Come on, man... Stastny's cross check was nothing more than playoff hockey. He didn't hit him high and was called for it regardless. No real problem there. Was pretty impressed by the clean play all around - I was a little afraid that the Avs would come out headhunting. Roy seems to have done a good job keeping them focused - which suprises the hell out of me.

Granlund sure got targeted enough for me to consider the Avs trying to play a little dirty last night.

But I too am shocked that they didn't have some kind of pull-out-the-stops-lets-injure-this-guy moment.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Come on, man... Stastny's cross check was nothing more than playoff hockey. He didn't hit him high and was called for it regardless. No real problem there. Was pretty impressed by the clean play all around - I was a little afraid that the Avs would come out headhunting. Roy seems to have done a good job keeping them focused - which suprises the hell out of me.

What I meant was, they essentially cancelled out all of the things that Avs fans were complaining about us doing in game 3 (Nino's slash on Bordeleau; I'd even say Hejda's slew foot wasn't that far below Cooke's ordeal).

 

[nickschultzfan]

Glad Nino stepped up last night to fill the void left by Cooke's suspension.

 

[Sarge58]

Has anyone seen this video of Bordeleau aiming for Spurgeons knee? Intent? jeez

http://t.co/hM4Yi8s3JZ

 

[Northland Wild Man]

Has anyone seen this video of Bordeleau aiming for Spurgeons knee? Intent? jeez

http://t.co/hM4Yi8s3JZ

It's been slowly making the rounds today.

Betcha the NHL won't suspend Bordello at all either

 

[Sarge58]

Wish I knew how to embed this:

Another knee on knee by Bordeleau? I hate to get involved but after a couple of mins of research I found this also, and I understand how the Avs can be upset,, I just can't stand the hypocrisy especially from other teams putting in their $.02 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SZ9DQlcM57E

 

[Sarge58]

Just one more thing ,,, if you read this thread http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1627399 and exchange Bordeleau's name to Cooke's it's basically identical to the main board Cooke thread.

 

[RussosBurner]

And that's fine if you don't, but I was just proving a point that I was talking about the intentions of Cooke, not that we should be ashamed for employing him like he was trying to make it sound like.

Let's be real, Cooke knows he's ALWAYS going to be under a close eye from the league. Why would he go out and put himself and his team in jeopardy by making an intentionally dirty play when he knows it will result in him being suspended during a playoff run? Doesn't make much sense to me. He tucked his elbow and squared his shoulder to make a body check and Barrie tried to jump out of the way and Cooke made a split second decision to still try and finish his check when he probably should have tried some sort of action to avoid contact with him.

It was a bad play and it resulted in an injury unfortunately but I have little doubt that it was not his intention to go out and deliver a knee on knee and try to take out some guy's MCL.