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brj319 After watching this hit, I feel Weight threw a clean check but his intention was to HIT him. The puck was off Sutter's stick playable by both players. It was a unintentional high hit due to the fact Sutter lost control because he looks up and sees Weight coming at him(watch the video-he looks up), but also a hit that did not need to be made.
Big Hitter Weight
KK Hockey —
As David Lee blogged about, the Canes won a rough game against the Islanders tonight.
A big hit was delivered by Doug Weight of the Islanders on the Canes Brandon Sutter…
NHL Hit Of The Day: Doug Weight Knocks Out Brandon Sutter
FanIQ Blog —
As Brian Sutter was moving up the ice, Doug Weight dropped the boom on him. It was a clean hit by all accounts, but Sutter was knocked out and dropped to the ice like a bag of rocks.
Weight dropped his shoulder, but Sutter dropped his head, and skated right into Weight's vicious hit. It ...
Head hits in the news (again)
From The Rink —
Hurricanes rookie Brandon Sutter was absolutely plastered by Doug Weight during last night's game in Long Island and remains in hospital:
"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 ...
Video: The brutal Doug Weight hit, and debating its legality
Puck Daddy —
This hit by New York Islanders center Doug Weight on Carolina Hurricanes rookie Brandon Sutter was absolutely brutal. It was deemed to be legal. Now, the question is whether this hit to the head is immoral and should be outlawed by the NHL. Weight's hit knocked Sutter unconscious, and the Hurricanes forward was still hospitalized on Sunday. Jim Rutherford, Carolina's general manager, spoke out about the hit in an interview with TSN's Bob McKenzie today: "The league should at least stop saying it's concerned with hits to the head, because it's not," Rutherford told ...
Pensblog: In The Posts And Beyond
The Pensblog - A Pittsburgh Penguins Blog From Behind The Veil Of Cryptic Online Identities —
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Doug Weight Refuses to Go Quietly Into the Sunset
Barry Melrose Rocks —
Yes, it's time once again for your weekly Islanders related post. So sit down, relax, and don't get too bored. For everyone out there who thought that Doug Weight was another washed up has been, after signing on Long Island as a UFA this summer... Well, ...
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 — ...
Brandon Sutter - Doug Weight and hits to the head
Hockey Wilderness —
From Bob McKenzie at TSN.ca
Jim Rutherford has been around the game of hockey long enough to know there will be no great outcry throughout the league over Doug Weight's devastating hit on Brandon Sutter last night because it's considered a "clean" hit by NHL standards. But the general manager of the Carolina Hurricanes would like the NHL to make one change. "The league should at least stop saying it's concerned with hits to the head, because it's not," Rutherford told TSN.ca. "I've had four players - Erik Cole, Trevor Letowski, Matt Cullen and now Brandon Sutter ...
Say Good Night, Sweet Brandon Sutter
Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos —
Doug Weight welcomes Brandon Sutter to the NHL with a hit he'll probably forget. There's an interesting debate in hockey circles over whether hits like these should be made illegal. No sense into us going into it when so many already have. It's just hard to see how to make head shots that aren't intentionally injurious such as this one illegal. Each hit is special in its own way and should be judged accordingly. Chimp and I are with Puck Daddy on this one.
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Wednesday Editorial: Stop the head-shots already
IllegalCurve.com —
Hits to the head have become a recurring theme throughout this young season in the NHL and for good reason. It seems that with each passing year, hits to the head by NHL players increase. Now, I realize that players today are faster and stronger than ever before; but that, at least in this writer’s opinion, is not the reason for an increase in head shots. Rather, the increase in head shots appears to be almost directly attributable to a distinct lack of respect among NHL player for one another.
The most recent head shot by Doug Weight on rookie Brandon Sutter (video here) ...
You're Away From The Blog For One Day ...
Scotty Hockey —
... and all sorts of drama breaks out. Greg Wyshynski, aka Puck Daddy, has taken exception to the actions of the Rangers. Wyshy wrote a post today that the Rangers are coming off as "trifling and petty" after Tom Renney floated that idea that an opposing player should be investigated for intentionally attempting to injure another player. For those who didn't see, Mike Smith went at it with Aaron Voros during the third period Thursday, and nearly took out Voros' ACL with a vicious slash. You can see it here (at the one minute mark) and it is clear that Smith was not just attempting to get Voros away from ...
Hockey Hits Are Hurting More
Sports Are 80 Percent Mental —
As first seen on LiveScience.com
One painful lesson every National Hockey League rookie learns is to keep your head up when skating through the neutral zone. If you don't, you will not see the 4700 joules of kinetic energy skating at you with bad ...
"Heads" Of State!!!!
The Program —
The first 5 seconds shows the hit. Well here we go again.....another hit to the head. Without getting into all the others, this one at least is a strange one with circumstances all over the place. I have seen several videos and angles from this hit. Now here are some angles from TSN. The MSG and TSN shots seem to catch it from several different points of view. One thing is clear. There was clearly a hit to the head. That is a no-no. Something should be done to send a message but at the same time not to make an ...
Weekly Topic--Head Shots
hlog {Hockey's Ladies of Greatness} —
Should they be banned from the game or are they an unavoidable part of hockey? YES. Should the health of the victim be considered when dealing suspensions? YES. What about the reputation of the offending party? YES. Hits to the head are a part of the game. Especially unintentional hits. But what about those that are clearly intentional. Even if they're considered "clean" hits, that doesn't make them acceptable. I know that tightening the rules on head shots puts more power in the hands of the referees, asked once again to make another serious judgement ...
Colin Campbell...
The Rivalry —
For the first time, I watched the Mike "4 Career Goals" Mottau hit on Frans Nielsen. Very reminiscent of Brandon Sutter giving the Rayden Torpedo to Alexei Cherepanov in the Summit Series. He left his feet, he was looking for an injury. Here, Mottau headhunted Nielsen. A disgusting play on par with Chris Simon attacking Ryan Hollweg and Todd Bertuzzi-ing Steve Moore, and he gets 2 games for it. ...
Does anyone know how to bodycheck anymore?
Lighthouse Hockey —
PuckDaddy has a great encapsulation of some "hockey code"-related events from the NHL last night, and it got me thinking about something that has increasingly bothered me: It looks like no one in this league was ever taught how to check.
Witness Alex Burrows' pathetic jump-and-forearm, and his apparently sincere recollection of what he did:
"I didn't see the replay. I thought it was [clean]. I jumped? ... I don't want to injure the guy. I work out with him in the summer. That's the last thing I want -- to hurt a guy like that. I was just trying to finish my checks out there."
See, when I ...
NHLPA wants radical rules changes for hits to the head
Puck Daddy —
If the NHLPA's proposed rules changes for hits to the head are adopted, Scott Stevens couldn't play in today's NHL. OK, Stevens could play; the Hall of Fame defenseman's game went well beyond his signature open-ice hits on opponents. But he wouldn't have been able to play the same type of hockey that helped put him in the Hall, because hits like this classic one on Slava Kozlov of the Detroit Red Wings -- voted the best check in NHL online video history by readers of Orland Kurtenblog - would be outlawed under the NHLPA's proposal: There was nothing accidental or inadvertent about that ...
An avoidable headache for the NHL and its overburdened referees
Puck Daddy —
An expansion team in the Bahamas. Banning the media from the locker room. Higher quality puck bunnies. If you polled the National Hockey League Players Association on any number of issues, you'd likely receive overwhelming support. So it's no surprise that NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly is touting strong backing for a new rule on hits to the head ... but it still doesn't make it rational. Kelly is pushing an informal survey of players that showed 70 percent of 730 players would favor a rule that legislates against hits to the head. (The other 30 percent are, evidently, the players who want to keep hockey from becoming a ...
Brent Sutter and Cognitive Dissonance
Gospel of Hockey —
Here's Brent Sutter on Dion Phaneuf's hit to Kyle Okposo last night: "There has been some disrespect brought into the game from player to player. That's something I've said for 10 years... In today's game it's considered a clean check. And yet it's a very dangerous check. When a player is vulnerable like that, you're putting yourself in a position to injure another player." Wait... no... that was Brent Sutter on Doug Weight's check to his son Brandon Sutter. Well then let's see what Brent Sutter actually said about Dion Phaneuf's hit to Kyle Okposo ...
Hits to the Head (and all the headaches that come with making rules about them)
Cycle like the Sedins —
Part 1 You may not recall this, but the original concept of CLS focused on dissecting the NHL's biggest issues in a round table format. Instead, the blog morphed into something that is often much better. Still, though, now ...
The Morning Skate: A Half-Step in the Right Direction
Slap Shot —
To demonstrate we haven’t lost what little sense of humor we have, here’s the Maple Leafs fan blog Down Goes Brown’s version of the N.H.L.’s “top secret” supplementary discipline policies for the regular season and playoffs — and you can even download your own copies (regular season here , playoffs here ) and then e-mail them to your friends, who will think you, too, are a funny person, even if you’re not (and thanks to our old friend Leon Friedrich for the link). Over the last couple of weeks, our posts here have focused so much on body checks and head injuries that readers probably wondered if we’d changed the name of this ...
Fearless Opinion: Head Shots
Nucks Misconduct —
Continuing on with trying to entertain Canucks fans during the long layoff, I've decided to think outside the Nucks box.
I have to try to contain my anger when the head shot issue is continually brought up on mainstream hockey shows and websites, and I have to try to contain it now. What follows is solely my opinion and I don't care if people disagree with me or not. In fact I welcome the conversation.
I have no shame in admitting that I am a fan of old school hockey. Head shots are not a new phenomenon in the NHL and beyond. It has been going on for years, as Mike Milbury pointed out on CBC's Satellite Hotstove ...
