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Snapshots: The post-Georges Laraque suspension reaction, including Laraque's take on his hit on Red Wings' Niklas Kronwall
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This is more like the Laraque I've grown to respect. http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Laraque+asks+mercy/2261518/story.html 11/24/2009 |
Evening Line
KK Hockey —
“When I talked to you guys after the game (Saturday), I didn’t really know what I did. I didn’t think it was that bad. Sometimes in the action you don’t know what you did until you see it. After I saw it, I clearly thought it deserved a suspension.”
-Georges Laraque on his knee-to-knee hit on Niklas Kronwall. More from Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette.
The post-Georges Laraque suspension reaction, including Laraque's take on his hit on Red Wings' Niklas Kronwall
Snapshots —
... Everything is already in the book and the answer is to reel in these egregious hits and cheapshots by severely penalizing them on the ice and with supplementary discipline. If you're interested in a "funny weird as opposed to funny 'ha'" critique, The Hockey News's Charlie Telljeur delivers one, but as for Big Georges himself? The Montreal Gazette's Pat Hickey reports that Georges delivered the same-old, same-old mixture of remorse and annoyance that any suspended player issues: November 24, Montreal Gazette : “When I talked to you guys after the game (Saturday), I didn’t ...
November 24 News and Notes
Matchsticks and Gasoline —
... the player that terrorized opponents before, but I always wonder if he was headed downhill at just that moment anyway. He only had 17 goals in 69 games, and his shooting percentage went from around 18% to 11% that year. Throw in a bad back, and that was it for Bert as an elite player.
The Wings lost another cog when Niklas Kronwall got the bad end of a knee-on-knee encounter with Le GG. It was a dreadful hit, with even the perpetrator admitting he should get a vacation.
A knee-on-knee play of sorts also has ex-Flame ...
About the Canadiens - 11-25-09
Empty Netters —
... -"I’ve been in the league for 13 years and it’s not something I try to
do. I’m not a dirty player. I’m deeply sorry I did that. That’s not the
way I play the game and I hope that Niklas recovers from that." - Canadiens forward and former Penguins enforcer Georges Laraque explaining his knee-on-knee hit that injured Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall Saturday and netted a five-game suspension for Laraque. ...
