Ribeiro's slash on Osgood not suspension-worthy
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Puck Headlines: Can the Flyers solve Marc-Andre Fleury?
Published 5/11/2008 at Puck Daddy
... . Since the NHL has what appears to be a 10-to-1 ratio of regular season suspended-games to postseason suspended-games, this should be a one-gamer. Then again, Waiting for Stanley believes he shouldn't even receive any suspension at all because Osgood goaded him into it: "Be a man and own up to the stick job you put on Ribeiro! Gutless puke." ...
No punishment for Ribeiro; should Osgood have been suspended?
Published 5/12/2008 at Puck Daddy
... If you buy that line, then there's no way Riberio could be suspended because it would mean stripping his foe of its starting goaltender for a critical Game 3. The actions of Ribeiro and Osgood are inseparable; they're complicit in this idiocy, and as Waiting for Stanley pointed out in rather explicit terms, the NHL simply couldn't banish one without taking out the other. ...




