The Good, the Bad, and the Immature But Funny
Top Shelf —
... Tallinder getting hurt 8 games into the season = BAD Henrik Tallinder not breaking any bones or lacerating any tendons, arteries, vital organs etc. = GOOD Participating in what feels like 18 shootouts already = BAD Doing much better in them than last season = GOOD Flyers fans throwing stink bombs on the ice = STUPID AND IMMATURE. BUT ALSO A LITTLE BIT FUNNY. All the hub-bub about Sarah Palin's puck drops: WHO CARES? Doug Weight's hit on Brandon Sutter: VICIOUS BUT LEGAL. Doug Weight's hit on Brandon Sutter being ...
Head hits in the news (again)
Chuqui 3.0 —
... Head hits in the news (again) - From The Rink:
"The league should at least stop saying it's concerned with hits to the head, because it's not," Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford told TSN.ca. "I've had four players — Erik Cole, Trevor Letowski, Matt Cullen and now Brandon Sutter — get badly injured on hits to the head and only one of the guys who hit them was suspended. So don't tell me the league is concerned about hits to the head because it's not."
It's good to see this issue getting some ...
Last-place Isles host not-last Rangers
Lighthouse Hockey —
... to a hard, concussive check, after former Hurricane-for-a-ring Doug Weight hit rookie Brandon Sutter. The problem I have is, this was not a head-hunting job. This was Weight keeping his arm in (unlike a lot of fierce hitters) while Sutter -- at the last moment -- pulled a roller hockey-esque head-first lean, leading with his head, to try to poke the puck around Weight. It turns my stomach to see anyone get a concussion like that. But I don't think Weight "took advantage" of Sutter. I think he was surprised to find Sutter, at the last moment, do something you normally see ...
Blogger’s Remorse? Nyet
Canes Country —
... , when skilled players are getting seriously injured. What should be done? I don’t have the answers, but it has been a healthy debate and it will go on. James Mirtle recently ran an article about this subject himself and inserted a poll to see how people felt. Surprisingly enough, 38% felt that Weight’s hit “should not be considered clean”. Maybe I’m not alone afterall. Many thanks for the words of wisdom and advice that many of you emailed me during the past couple of days. Although, I don’t plan on moving to Europe anytime soon, and while I do enjoy watching women’s ...
Revisiting Doug Weight's Sutter hit: As open-ice as they come
Lighthouse Hockey —
... This was not a head-hunting job. This was Weight keeping his arm in (unlike a lot of fierce hitters) while Sutter -- at the last moment -- pulled a roller hockey-esque head-first lean, leading with his head, to try to poke the puck around Weight. ...
