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A little over 48 hours later, an identical hit on Kassian.
Andrew Ference received a 2 minute minor for an illegal check to the head. Ference could also face a possible suspension/fine.
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If that is Yandle's method of trying to injure someone, he really sucks at it, because it is pretty much completely unrecognizable from that video.
Like I said in the main board thread, isn't the fact that every neutral observer says it wasn't suspension-worthy indicative of something?
Some of you have such a ridiculous victim complex that it just becomes impossible to enjoy this board and the willful ignorance to the fact that every single team in the NHL deals with poor officiating is just astounding.
A little over 48 hours later, an identical hit on Kassian.
Andrew Ference received a 2 minute minor for an illegal check to the head. Ference could also face a possible suspension/fine.
Don't know if I would call that an identical hit. Ference clearly launches himself at Kassian. The fact that Ference's feet left the ice makes it worse (at least in appearance)
I'm gonna tell him you said that!From what I see, initial point of contact was possibly the chest - but he clearly lowers his elbow before contact like he's cocking up for a shot then brings it up quickly under Pirri's chin as soon as he makes contact to snap the head back. It's flagrant.
But people will always argue that's clean - Darius Kaspairitis did the same to Eric Lindros something like 15 years ago, put him out for the season and hastened the end of his career. Lindros had his head down (as usual) and cancer-boy (as we like to call Darius back then due to the sound of his name ) brought his elbow up into Lindros' head on the hit - but it was ruled a clean hit then, too. It's the bs way a clear attempt to injure can be ignored by the league. Don't know why they want good scoring players out of the game, but apparently they're ok with it because they ignore it so often.
This is going to be my last post in this thread. I'm obviously outnumbered and have a very unpopular opinion and I don't need to rock the boat any more.
Since you're talking the no-credible-enforcer era of the Panthers (we had a couple during this time, but either they wouldn't fight or no one would fight them) and thus the team had a rather notable shortage of fighting majors and 10 minute misconduct penalties in this period, if you'd break this down to just 2 minute minors, I wonder where the Panthers fall then? Or what the picture is if you just look at their penalties for vs. penalties against in their own games.I was curious about the numbers, so I looked them up. This is how the Panthers ranked each year in penalty minutes/game since the 2005-06 lockout (1 being the least minutes, 30 the most):
2013-14: 12th
2012-13: 17th
2011-12: 8th
2010-11: 1st
2009-10: 14th
2008-09: 4th
2007-08: 7th
2006-07: 16th
2005-06: 14th
I can predict what the response to this will be, but I just wanted to spotlight the numbers.
I'd like to thank you for calling me out, Acadmus.
Here are the rankings for the Panthers' minor penalties (again, 1 is least, 30 is most). For good measure, I have also included the rank for major penalties in parentheses.:
2013-14: 9th (13th)
2012-13: 8th (15th)
2011-12: 3rd (10th)
2010-11: 3rd (5th)
2009-10: 6th (16th)
2008-09: 3rd (5th)
2007-08: 18th (10th)
2006-07: 24th (10th)
2005-06: 21st (4th)
And yeah, that was more or less the response I was expecting.
I'm very old school. I will disagree with our little family here on OUR board, but I would never trash us on the main board. They don't need our help.
That's just me.
@NHLPlayerSafety: EDM D Andrew Ference has been suspended 3 games for an illegal check to the head of VAN F Zack Kassian. Video: http://t.co/Kg3N0UlqZI
The NHL was a bit handcuff, with the audio of the ref saying it was a ****ing good hit, going about and suspending Yandle would have just open a can of worms about that referee and his judgment.
Also, Yandle's hit is a lot more like Moore's hit than Ference's hit imo.
Also, we haven't brought up the David Booth/Mike Richards hit here, or how the league handled that...
Scores of each game when calls were made, how many for each side was a BS call, how many were game deciding, and who had momentum each time?So, I'm not sleeping and I'm bored. I decided to look at the the boxscores for last year.
I counted the number of times the Panthers were on the penalty kill in the last five minutes of the third period, the number of times the Panthers were on the powerplay in the last five minutes of the third period, and the number of times the Panthers had more penalties than the opposition.
PK in the last 5 of the 3rd: 14
A couple of those were technically a little over five minutes, but I counted them anyway.
PP in the last 5 of the 3rd: 18
There were some instances where a penalty was given with just over 5 left, I did not count those.
Number of times the Panthers were given more penalties than the opposition: 27
I didn't double check my count, so I could be off by a couple, but for the most part I believe that is correct.
can someone educate me? I dont remember at all how the booth/richards situation went. Did richards get suspended?