The NHL keeps looking the other way at dangerous games

So the NHL referee is done with policing the game, it’s too much, Rich?

Tom Wilson, of the Capitals, said he gets a life-long jail-free card, with which he has been praised as the Player of Safety Department, on Friday Brandon Carlo’s head was hit in the glass and the league immediately turned into a miscarriage. . Attempts to find technicality to overcome Washington hunters.

See… see right there… when you slow it down, it brushes Carlo’s wrist, glove-first… no, slow it down… you see…? “

This was what was going on after the hit, with referee Dean Morton and Pierre Lambert noting any penalties on the play, which sent Carlo of the Bruins to the hospital.

But on Saturday, which was perceived as a firearms response in response to this example of blind justice, the league invited Wilson to a person-to-hearse via video conference, which could be the operative word – a suspension Produced at least five games.

We’ll see, but it seems like Commissioner Gary Bateman was finally good enough for it.

However, there is more for Bateman to make sure he wants to go to mourning.

A dangerous and apparently deliberately slept-of-foot pitted by the Hurricanes Brett Paes against the Red Wings. Robbie Fabburi missed just a minor penalty for tripping and no more discipline from the league on Thursday, when a one-match penalty and a suspension of several games were merged. For a disgusting act of violence.

NHL Rule 52.2: “Any player who is guilty of sleeve-footing shall be assessed the match penalty.”

Except, apparently, for games in which TJ Luxmore and Frederick L’Acquire are referees.

In 1998, when Colin Campbell took charge as VP of hockey operations in charge of complementary discipline, three players were suspended for sleeve-footing by the end of November. The NHL was on a particular rift.

But in this brave new world, a BHL player has not been suspended for sleeve-footing for more than six years, since Bruce’s Brad Marchand received a two-game penalty for toppling Rangers’ Derrick Brassard in January 2015 .

Represented Stephen Quintal’s first year as head of the Department of Player Safety, a job he held through 2016–17. Since George Paros was successful in the quintal (well) in early 2017-18, no player has been hired for a dangerous and dangerous violation of this rule and etiquette.

So it was Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday, Alex Ovechkin of the Capitol prodded Trent Frederick of the Bruins into the family jewels as if he were a matador manoeat biting an animal in a bulldozer, got a minor for two minutes, to get it, slap it, and him Seriously sent his way with a $ 5,000 fine.

Bruce's Brandon Carlo after Tom Wilson came on the boards.
Bruce’s Brandon Carlo
AP

Disorientation seems to be a thing of the past, like making a playoff in Buffalo.

The league’s hockey people have no hunger of any kind, nor has the union, forever, been opposed to stricter guidelines. This will not change until the overwhelming majority of hunters who are the victims of predators demand a change from the union.

But you know what is true of most players? They only think that people from other teams get suspended.

And as I have written many times, if they do not care about their health and safety, why should anyone else? Own health and safety, why should anyone else?


There are a few small circles of friends, as Phil Ochs may have noticed, of which NHL teams are now doing their job.

If it wasn’t keen enough that the PPP-Penguins pull Brian Burke out of a well-deserved retirement in the cold to run the team’s hockey operations, another one to replace Geoff Ward behind the bench to go back to the Flames Can’t find a creative way for the future for Darryl Sutter?

Yes, Burke presided over the Anaheim 2007 Stanley Cup title as GM, but Jean Perron once won a Cup as the Canadians’ coach in 1986, and no one flagged him for being behind the NHL’s back after a decade and a half. Was showing .

Burke has served as the NHL’s general manager or president of hockey operations for 19 seasons. Outside of a two-year run at Anaheim in which the Ducks went to the conference finals in 2006 and then won the title a year later, their teams have won a total of two playoff rounds.

But this is the man Mario Lemieux chose to guide his team into the future. Progressive Thinking in Pittsburgh.

Same in Calgary, where the Flames are in their fourth coach in five seasons and nothing could be more constructive than hiring the man who was behind their bench in 2005-06.

What will happen next? Doug McLean behind the back in Columbus if it’s for John Tortella?


On Friday night, the Sharks were playing in gray alternate uniforms and no player could be identified by their number. Meanwhile, the reverse retro replica practice of Red Wings looks like a jersey, something that you can buy at a sclock shop.

But … if you noticed how the number and name of the Rangers’ Statues of Liberty had worn off in the past few weeks compared to last weekend, then head equipment manager Akasio Marquis, who redesigned the number and name by lightening up Dark Shadows , It happens. Credit for improvement.


The departure of Mark Pavelich, a troubled member of the 1980 Miracle Team USA and popular ranger who was one of the faces of Herb Brooks Smurfs, went through tragic circumstances on Thursday. Maybe in the last years of his life, he would find the peace that had dominated him.


In the end, he made it into the person of Walter Gretzky when he made what hockey’s parents should do. Wayne Gretzky’s father was humble, supportive, understood that youth hockey should be fun, and his heart was as big as Canada.

Known as Wally, he befriends all and for the masses of children that he touched and inspired, every roll number was as much as 99.

The passing of Walter Gretzky certainly leaves a hole in the heart of the game, but it will be filled forever by his sense of generosity that will live for eternity.

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