Posts About "NHL Discipline"

What Does the NHL Stand for, Anyway?

May 22nd, 2017 Though never an organisation to take the lead on any issue of consequence, the National Hockey League has not helped its cause these playoffs. From allowing a professional sports team to alienate half the population, to fining a player for getting punched in the head and kneed in the face, the NHL has truly outdone itself this...

P.K. Punishment NHL Embarrassment

May 14th, 2017 The National Hockey League playoffs are supposed to be two months of gruelling, desperate hockey played in the hopes of, come June, sipping champagne from the Stanley Cup – and thereby being forever etched in the annals of hockey lore. Instead, here we are, once again, talking about how the NHL has absolutely zero idea how...

The Raffi Torres Suspension, Not Enough Consequence

January 5th, 2016 In about a week, the San Jose Sharks will reach the midpoint of their season. And unlike most seasons, this midpoint actually comes with something tangible. The Raffi Torres suspension will end. Torres received a 41 game suspension for his hit on Anaheim’s Jakob Silfverberg during the 2015 preseason. As the suspension comes to its end,...

The NHL Encourages Diving

August 18th, 2014 Diving was one of the biggest hot button topics during the 2013-14 NHL playoffs. It started early with a number of incidents in the first round, and continued to be an issue throughout the rest of the playoffs. Universally, fans want diving in the NHL to be a thing of the past. The only facet in which hockey should aspire to be like...

Brendan Shanahan Failing to Change Status Quo

April 16th, 2012 Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. That seems to explain how most fans, media, and certain players feel about the NHL’s disciplinary dean Brendan Shanahan these days. Put under the microscope for the brawls and injuries piling up in the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Shanahan is now feeling the heat much more now than he has at...

Shanahan Made Right Call With 10 Game Suspension To Shelley

September 23rd, 2011 It seems odd that, as administrations at every level of the game are trying to make it safer, it is the so-called policemen who are constantly to blame for dirty hits. Such was the case again when Philadelphia's Jody Shelley drove Toronto's Darryl Boyce into the boards from behind on Wednesday. Several seconds after Boyce, who...