OT: Seabrook hit on Backes
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awfulwaffle
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I'll just wait to see what happens. I feel that the feet left the ice before the hit, but there are others that don't feel that way.
Biggest thing from this hit is that the head was the principal point of contact. I thought that was the type of hit the league was trying to get rid of. I don't know if Seabrook has a history(I know he has a history of being hit). I would just like the discipline system to be a bit more neutral, and reactive to the hit in question. Not based on a players history.
Biggest thing from this hit is that the head was the principal point of contact. I thought that was the type of hit the league was trying to get rid of. I don't know if Seabrook has a history(I know he has a history of being hit). I would just like the discipline system to be a bit more neutral, and reactive to the hit in question. Not based on a players history.
rt
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Oh you know it. Blackhawk nation will be out in full force defending that hit... Clearly its not a legal hit but till they are blue in the face hawk fans will say it was.
CC96
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$5,000 fine and a slap on the wrists. If Seabrook played for any of the sunbelt teams, he'd be getting life imprisonment.
I hope Backes makes a full recovery, because he was on another planet after the hit.
I'm was amazed to see that he wanted to fight back at Seabrook despite the obvious signs that he was on another planet.
Howler Scores
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That's some straight A hockey instinct for you. Get absolutely rocked, no idea where you are, but damned if I let the dude who hit me get away with it.
Seabrook will get a phone and not an in person hearing on Sunday.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=715601&navid=nhl:topheads
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=715601&navid=nhl:topheads
Howler Scores
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The entire sequence is just horrible. The slash on Oshie, the hit on Backes, Keith saying "wakey wakey" to a guy who is probably concussed, and those idiot blackhawk fans banging on the glass.
I would not at all be surprised if someone Raffis Kane or Toews next game. And it will be totally justified if Backes is done for the playoffs and Seabrook gets a game or two.
ck26
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Odd. You'd think that if a suspension were coming, the "trouble" of travel would be a non-factor. Any chance Shanahan just doesn't want to have to put on a tie on Easter Sunday?
Either way, Seabrook, Toews, Kane and the rest had better keep their heads on a swivel Monday night. I know I'll have my popcorn ready.
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I checked their board, and actually most Hawks fans are angry at Seabrook for costing them the game and feel he will be gone for 2-5 games.
CC96
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Stephane Quintal is now in charge of the dicipline department. Doesn't quite have the same ring as Shanaban
Came here to say Shanaban was no longer in charge. I thought Daly was in charge in the interim though.
zerekstar
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That was a pretty brutal hit. I doubt that's how Seabrook planned it but none-the-less, you do the crime, you do the time. It should be a level playing field for everyone and I hope the NHL does right here.
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Much as I like Torres and would think that the Coyotes made a big mistake in trading him, a little reality check is in order.
First, Seabrook has no history of disciplinary action. Torres repeatedly crossed the line.
Second, one playoff game suspended is equivalent to two regular season games.
A phone hearing and 3 playoff game suspension is in order.
First, Seabrook has no history of disciplinary action. Torres repeatedly crossed the line.
Second, one playoff game suspended is equivalent to two regular season games.
A phone hearing and 3 playoff game suspension is in order.
That is a mean, dirty series all around. Keith alone probably deserved 20 penalties if it was a regular season game.
While it is old time hockey it is so far removed from the regular season rules that things get out of hand. In the old days, someone like Reaves would have rag dolled Keith for all his cheap shots.
Now you cant react. It is the retaliation that always gets called.
While it is old time hockey it is so far removed from the regular season rules that things get out of hand. In the old days, someone like Reaves would have rag dolled Keith for all his cheap shots.
Now you cant react. It is the retaliation that always gets called.
mouser
Business of Hockey
The fact that he's even getting a phone hearing makes it almost 100% that he is getting a suspension. Don't recall a situation where there was a phone hearing and the player wasn't suspended. Players in phone hearings can be suspended up to 5 games, while an in-person hearing is required for 6+ games.
ck26
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I didn't either, but googling it says Milan Lucic / Ryan Miller was a conference call and no suspension.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=601357
"Almost 100%" is probably spot-on ... I'll put a dollar down on the wording "rest of the series" ... which keeps Seabrook away from the Blues but doesn't immediately torpedo any chance the Hawks have the rest of the way.Brendan Shanahan said:
