Threats in the NHL

[East Coast Icestyle]

Yes he is.

Either way, still a baseless, fact less theory.

 

[DonskoiDonscored]

Verbal death threats need to be punished.

It's interesting that you've never seemed this adamant about Lucic doing it...

There is a precedent for gestures being treated harsher than words by the NHL. Wisniewski was suspended for his gesture and Ference was fined for his.

And guess what? They're white...

 

[Duke749]

Why is a visual throat worse than a verbal one?
Sorry I'm not getting this.

Then honestly you probably never will so why keep arguing something you don't "get"?

 

[dechire]

Why is a visual throat worse than a verbal one?
Sorry I'm not getting this.

For the same reason that talking about sexual things in the locker room is fine but making a sexual gesture/comment on camera is not

 

[LeafFever]

For the same reason that talking about sexual things in the locker room is fine but making a sexual gesture/comment on camera is not

Thanks Mr. Trump.

 

[TeddyBare]

This isn't even worthy of a suspension or a fine.

1) It is based entirely on hear-say from the media.

 

[LeafFever]

This isn't even worthy of a suspension or a fine.

1) It is based entirely on hear-say from the media.

It occurred.

 

[TeddyBare]

It occurred.

Show me the video

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

It occurred.

According to one person, unwitnessed by everyone else (unlike said Kadri incident) how do you not get this???

 

[LeafFever]

According to one person, unwitnessed by everyone else (unlike said Kadri incident) how do you not get this???

It was never denied. The threat clearly occurred.

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

It was never denied. The threat clearly occurred.

Lack of denial does not mean occurence

 

[TeddyBare]

Jeff O'Neil from TSN who is arguably the biggest leafs homer in history was asked about this.

He laughed, and said "you're dead" is probably said every second shift on the ice.

 

[Sniper99]

Why is a throat slash gesture a max fine but a verbal threat gets nothing?
It does make me wonder if it had to do with a certain player's ethnicity.
But Eastern bias...?

Are you ******* Kidding?

Yep thats it, it definitely has to do with ethnicity.

Might as well just end the thread.

 

[izzy]

I have no idea what I am talking about with hockey.


http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2126559

Over half the league makes the playoffs congrats

also they havent made it yet

 

[LeafFever]

Over half the league makes the playoffs congrats

also they havent made it yet

Funny no one said that in the thread at the time.

 

[LeafFever]

They have real evidence, not hearsay

Please see Scott Peterson.

 

[CraigBillington]

So threaten to kill someone is ok. Do a throat slash gesture and it is outrageous.
Gotcha.

Its a threat to pound the crap out of someone, not a verbatim death threat. Have you never stepped foot on a playground or participated in a physical sporting event?

 

[Makar Goes Fast]

as per the criminal code of canada (two canadian teams and on canadian soil) it is only a death threat if the person receiving the threat believes that the threat is real and that victim also has to be fearful of the event taking place.

martin brushed it off therefore it was not actually a death threat.

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

Please see Scott Peterson.

You are trying way too hard to prove a non existent point

 

[Sniper99]

Please see Scott Peterson.

You're going nowhere with this. Just quit.

 

[Hisch13r]

Yes, Kadri was fined because he's not white. Congrats. You figured it out. Just think of all those times every other non white player got fined/suspended. It's all clearer now. What a horrific league we play in.

The real difference? One was heard by a reporter. One was seen on national tv.

Bingo

 

[WesMcCauley]

Why is a throat slash gesture a max fine but a verbal threat gets nothing?
It does make me wonder if it had to do with a certain player's ethnicity.
But Eastern bias...?

lol cmon.... This is just dumb, sure the world has alot of problems but pulling the racist card on anything and everything isnt the way to solve it

 

[LeafsLegendAkiBerg]

If this was about ethnicity, why did Kadri escape discipline for his hit on Sedin? Surely the NHL would love to throw the book at him, right?

In reality, it's the same reason why the NHL fines players for "obscene gestures" while letting players say naughty things to each other all game. Kids can see a guy flipping the bird as much as they can see a guy slitting someone's throat.

Why in the hell are Leafs fans still making these threads? Kadri escaped punishment for a predatory hit... and yet, somehow he's still the victim? Give me a break.

 

[feds91]

It's not ridiculous. A Muslim player doing the throat slash gesture was treated more seriously than a white player verbally doing the same thing.

But the Leafs is biased towards the Leafs..?

you have got to be kidding, right? what a joke of a comment.

 

[Hackett]

With all the hype over the Kadri hit on Sedin and the Western media claiming Eastern bias, I'm confused why Gudbranson wasn't suspended for his documented "Martin is Dead" comment ( http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Toronto/2016/11/05/22680513.html?cid=rsssportsslam!%20hockey )Last season Kadri received the maximum fine for a throat slash gesture on Mark Giordano in Calgary.( http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ames-fined-suspension-lou-lamoriello-kypreos/ )
And Kadri himself was suspended last season so it's not like the NHL is shy to suspend Leaf players ( https://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/2016/04/04/maple-leafs-centre-nazem-kadri-suspended-four-games-by-nhl.html )

It was not Kadri's first throat slash gesture. I seem to remember at least one other one, although that was in the world jr championship and not in the NHL. In today's world, its a stupid gesture to make (not that its ever a smart thing to do), and the visual nature of it does not do him any favours.