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This just in from The Capitals Insider over at The Washington Post Green was suspended this morning for three games without pay for his elbow to the head of Michael Frolik on Friday night. The NHL’s leading scorer among defenseman will forfeit $81,606.21. Green referred all questions about the league’s decision to Coach Bruce Boudreau. [...]
It seems every time something happens in the NHL involving shots to the head the entire hockey-loving spectrum of the Internet gets worked into a Tasmanian Devil-like tizzy. Should the perpetrator be suspended, or were his actions conducted while “in he heat of battle?” Well last night we added another incident to a list of [...]
If the Anaheim Ducks thought they were going to come into Detroit and steamroll their way to a game 1 win on Friday night they were sadly mistaken and sorely disappointed. Sorry guys, but you’re not in San Jose any more. It took the Wings a while to work their rusty joints loose after not [...]
Here’s the setup: With a little over ten minutes to go in the first period of game 6 between the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers Donald Brashear lays a brain-scrambling hit on the Rangers’ Blair Betts. Betts would get tended to on the ice, and after sorting out just what arena he was [...]
Check out Greg Caggiano’s spirited post for a quick rundown of the Rangers/Bruins game as well as some other food for thought. Welcome to another chapter in the never-ending saga I like to call Sean Avery Must Love to Be Hated. This time around our angst-ridden agitator willfully brings his stick into contact with Boston [...]
In Saturday’s game between the Dallas Stars and Florida Panthers, Steve Ott delivered this blow to Greg Campbell; Now it’s clear what Panthers’ color man Denny Potvin thinks. But that same night, on Hockey Night in Canada, P.J. Stock and Mike Milbury both called the 5 minute major, charging penalty Ott was awarded extreme. They [...]
If there is anyone out there who can label this late hit by the Panthers’ Nathan Horton on Buffalo’s Maxim Afinogenov anything but cheap and dirty they must be living in some kind of NHL Utopia where anything short of murder should be considered fair play. I totally get it that Horton was pissed at [...]
Yesterday I posted a clip of Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin nearly depositing the head of Kings forward Wayne Simmonds firmly in the lap of one lucky fan and I think it’s safe to say that popular opinion was split right down the middle as to whether or not Malkin deserved a suspension (Note: according to Pierre [...]
It’s never been disputed by anyone that hockey is a rough and tumble sport and if you don’t keep your head up you’re going to get knocked on your ass. But when exactly does simply playing the body cross over into the dark and dingy realm of cheap shot? The following un-penalized hit by Evgeni [...]
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