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01-07-08 Inside NHL Boxscores - Weekend edition
Sportsfrog.com — ... 10-2. And two of those games were on the road. The NHL needs an automatic rule that if you hit another player while he's being completely restrained by linesmen, you're gone for the game, your team needs to kill off a major, and you're suspended for at least 5 games. That, and kill the automatic rules for instigators and maybe players like Steve Downie won't cheap shot players like Jason Blake. Strangely, the NHL is not suspending Downie. At least the Flyers' GM isn't supporting this kind of thuggishness. Ottawa continued its struggles ...

Holmgren critical of Downie punch
Chuqui 3.0 — ... james mirtle: Holmgren critical of Downie punch - A hockey journalist's blog: He's part of a team now and needs to think in those terms and not selfishly. I'm upset. It was Jason Blake. Jason is not a fighter. You get a player in that position and I don't [think] Jason had his gloves off. I'm not happy about either. The fact that Steve put his team down is a different issue. That's a selfish thing. He'll get better." No suspension by the league was the right move here, Campbell talking to Downie and reading him a bit of riot ...

King James, Sid The Kid And Cheap Animation [NHL Closer]
Deadspin — ... * Here's something you'd never hear from Bob "Bobby" Clarke: A Flyers G.M. bashing his own player for sucking-punching an opponent. [Mirtle] ...