Injury Report: Vol. 2 Is Up; Mods, please close this one. Thanks!

[bambamcam4ever]

It's really 5, they slowed it down on and had a gif that counted each one. looks worse than that. Certainly more than 3.

Definitely 5, as soon as his hand is under the ball he has "possession".

 

[Penguinator]

Gotta love the NHL's PR BS! I just got this from the the Pens vs Avs preview:

Penguins team scope: Defenseman Olli Maatta was hospitalized overnight after sustaining an upper-body injury in Pittsburgh's 4-3 win against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday. Maatta hit an open door on the Wild's bench after colliding with Wild forward Nino Niederreiter. The Penguins said Maata was re-examined on Wednesday and is expected to miss 3-4 weeks; his injury is unrelated to any previous one he has sustained.

BWHAHAHA!!! This is beyond ridiculous, ****ing utter uber BS if you ask me!

The jerk who wrote this obviously didn't see the play or was just paid to write nonsense.

http://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2015020280&navid=sb:preview&intcmpid=sb-preview

 

[ibar726]

Maatta hit an open door on the Wild's bench after colliding with Wild forward Nino Niederreiter.

collide (v) - Hit with force when moving.

I guess technically there was a collision between Niederreiter hand and Maatta's back...

 

[titaniumexpose]

Wow, that's ridiculous.

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It's the same exact play that causes guys to lose their edge heading into the end boards and break their leg/ankle. That sneaky little two-handed shove to the lower back of a guy who isn't expecting it (nor should he be, since it's an illegal move).

Should've been at least a few games. I don't care if Maatta got hurt or not, that kind of play shouldn't be in the game. Period. Maatta didn't have the puck and there was no need to do it. Nino hit him from behind right next to the boards.

I wonder if Nino gets suspended if it was Sid on the receiving end of the hit.

 

[66-30-33]

So Maatta should be suspended for colliding into Nino and injuring himself?

 

[Speaking Moistly]

It's the same exact play that causes guys to lose their edge heading into the end boards and break their leg/ankle. That sneaky little two-handed shove to the lower back of a guy who isn't expecting it (nor should he be, since it's an illegal move).

Should've been at least a few games. I don't care if Maatta got hurt or not, that kind of play shouldn't be in the game. Period. Maatta didn't have the puck and there was no need to do it. Nino hit him from behind right next to the boards.

I wonder if Nino gets suspended if it was Sid on the receiving end of the hit.

They let Staal maul Crosby in the playoffs in an alarming way, so I doubt it. If the hit was significantly uglier or it had immediately come out that he'd broken something then they might have cared, or at least given a token slap on the wrist. The league is just a joke that doesn't really care about protecting the talent or player safety in general.

Orpik getting beaten by Thornton was a joke punishment and Rinaldo is still in the league after he bragged about injuring Letang. Those two always stand out for the Pens on the sheer not giving a **** scope from the NHL.

It's sad, but this will probably end in some truly horrific injury and some massive lawsuits. Everyone will be able to point back at about a hundred examples of the league blatantly not caring about safety or enforcing its own rules properly, and that's without much effort.

 

[djt153]

So Maatta should be suspended for colliding into Nino and injuring himself?

im preemptively going to suspend him for 4-6 weeks

 

[cygnus47]

I still don't think Nino should be suspended for that, but how it doesn't get a penalty when you could have called him for almost every penalty in the book is ridiculous.

 

[GreatjonUmber]

NBA is the worst. Maatta was was at least away from the puck at this point so the ref could be following the puck and miss the board.

The guy has the ball with all eyeballs on him and gets away with like 7 steps.

I see a fumble, a fumble recovery and a good touch down. Receiver wasn't down by contact so what's the problem?

 

[Penguinator]

what's the problem?

The number of steps taken after the last time the ball touched the ground maybe?

 

[Mordax]

The number of steps taken after the last time the ball touched the ground maybe?

 

[HandshakeLine]

Gee, if only we had some team toughness!

 

[Hossa die Waldfee]

I still don't think Nino should be suspended for that.

I don't get this line of thinking. First I'm european and spent a lot of my life watching soccer. But you have 82 games per season in the NHL. Is being suspended for 1-2 really a big thing. In soccer you are easily suspended fpr 10% of the season and nobody cares. Why would it be such a big deal to suspend someone who injured a player on a clearly illegal play?

 

[xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I still don't think Nino should be suspended for that, but how it doesn't get a penalty when you could have called him for almost every penalty in the book is ridiculous.

You want to stop needless injuries to vulnerable players? Eliminate these stupid two-hand shoves to a guy's lower back from behind. It doesn't matter that Maatta got injured, that just emphasizes the point. These kind of stupid, needless shoves and cross checks that happen dozens of times a game need to stop. We see it with guys heading behind the goal to play the puck and it ends up with serious injuries to a player's leg/ankle/shoulder/collarbone/etc. You see it with guys close to the boards like Maatta, etc. Maatta didn't have the puck, Nino was headed off the ice, it had no bearing on the play whatsoever. He just hit/shoved him just to do it, and that **** shouldn't fly.

There's no need for it, and the league needs to eliminate it. You do so by coming down hard on it, and Nino's check fits the bill in my opinion. I'd have given him 3-5 games.

 

[WayneSid9987]

I don't think Nino's push was as bad simply because he was pushing Maata up ice instead of into the boards. It's still a dangerous play though cuz any misstep by Maata and he could still end up paralyzed.

This is really bad though:

 

[MeticulouslyDishevel]

I was hoping that Nino would at least get a fine.

 

[Darth Vitale]

NBA is the worst.

The guy has the ball with all eyeballs on him and gets away with like 7 steps.

Basketball has become a joke as far as rules enforcement. Virtually every point guard in the league (for years) palms the ball every single time they touch it, guys take extra steps around the basket constantly, etc. But the NBA wants Flash and Cash so they tell the refs to let it go. Would be curious to see what kind of massive dent it would put in these guys' stats if suddenly the rules were enforced every game.

 

[Darth Vitale]

And now back to gloriously short injury list.

 

[Pirate King Luffy]

Will Maata be placed on the IR?

 

[DegenX]

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[Scandale du Jour]

Great news!

 

[Zirakzigil]

That's awesome news.

 

[DegenX]

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Earliest return date: 12.9

 

[Mr. T]

Basketball has become a joke as far as rules enforcement. Virtually every point guard in the league (for years) palms the ball every single time they touch it, guys take extra steps around the basket constantly, etc. But the NBA wants Flash and Cash so they tell the refs to let it go. Would be curious to see what kind of massive dent it would put in these guys' stats if suddenly the rules were enforced every game.

The NBA is like Bizarro-NHL. Rules are not called to let the skilled players shine and to make the game exciting.