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Hockey Beat: No Punishment For Richards After Booth Hit
The Program: Monday Ice Water Cooler
Puck Daddy: What We Learned: Grading the weekend's dirtiest hits
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http://bit.ly/3mO5mM Hence the name "broad street bullies" ... respect it 10 days ago |
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This looks like it SERIOUSLY hurt http://bit.ly/3mO5mM #NHL 21 days ago |
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Check this video out -- Mike Richards DESTROYS David Booth (HD Multiangle) http://bit.ly/3mO5mM KNOCK TA FUCK OUT DUDE 24 days ago |
No Punishment For Richards After Booth Hit
Hockey Beat —
Mike Richards will not be suspended for his hit on David Booth last night and I’m seriously shocked. He was assessed a major penalty for interference and a game misconduct for intent to injure. How can you get that type of game misconduct and not get at least a fine? It makes it seem like the league doesn’t support the ruling of the game’s officials. ...
Monday Ice Water Cooler
The Program —
Good morning on a Manic Monday. The best way to describe the last couple days has been crazy. One thing is certain....the NHL has some old issues that came to the forefront again....the lack of respect amongst players being one. We happened to hit a gold mine when we had Randy Moller ( radio play by play guy from ...
What We Learned: Grading the weekend's dirtiest hits
Puck Daddy —
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. We had a whopper of a three-day span for all you dirty hit lovers here in the NHL, as I'm sure you're all aware. However, some hits were dirtier than others, as evidenced by the NHL's decision to suspend Tuomo Ruutu(notes) but not Mike Richards(notes) (Star players! Preferential treatment! Fan incredulity!). So ...
It’s Curtains for Booth
The Slanch Report —
Have you ever taken a shoulder to the face from a hard-skating very large man that knocks you completely unconscious? Me either. I’d like to keep it that way. David Booth of the Florida Panthers might have been able to say he too had never experienced that, until Saturday that is. Booth has the puck in the middle of the ice and then Flyers captain Mike ...
Fantasy Hockey Team of the Week: Oct.19-25
The Hockey Writers —
Slovenia has but one representative in the league and he happens to be a rising superstar. Anze Kopitar continues to place his country on the hockey map with an incredible scoring pace to begin the year. Kopitar has set the bar high with 21 points in 12 games putting himself atop of the competition. Can you believe clubs passed on him in the 2005 Entry Draft because of his nationality? ...
Mike Richards (PHI) demolishes David Booth (FLA)
Frozen War Room —
A cheap shoulder-to-head hit by one of the game's hardest end-to-end workers and best leaders. Yeah, it's the Flyers, but it's not pretty to see. ...
The Morning Skate: N.H.L. Ducks on Head Shots
Slap Shot —
Since Saturday, the N.H.L. has been abuzz yet again about a hit to the head, this time involving two star players, Florida’s David Booth, who was their top goal scorer last season, and Philadelphia’s captain, Mike Richards. This hit and others like it were the talk of the Penguins’ dressing room after practice yesterday. In today’s Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Josh Yohe ...
Pick The Winner...
The Program —
5-2 last night pushes us to a record of 88-57. Hell we got lucky and we pick the Bruins so the Devils would win....go figure! Tonight we will not use such crazy radical methods. But hopefully you keep winning at our expense. Here are our picks and hey...thank our good buddy Ryan sometime. He helps us out ...
Gophers coach protesting hit on Leddy.
Goon's World —
I watched the tape of the hit and I don't think it's an illegal hit, just my humble opinion, it's probably a questionable hit but it's basically the same thing as the hit from Mike Richards on David Booth. Portwood didn't lead with his elbow and he kept his shoulder in. I mean seriously, are we going to come up with a rule now that six feet plus players can't hit ones that are under six feet? Nick Leddy knows better, you have to be aware of who is on the ice at all times, you can not leave yourself exposed on the ice especially when player like Jade Portwood is on the ice. The kid is not known for scoring goals, he is on the ice to hit players. ...
The Hits Really Are More Devastating This Season
Talking Smack About Sports —
This is excellent analysis, and needs to be digested fully: These are heady times for the NHL, unfortunately not of the halcyon days variety. No, the start to this season is all about headshots and what to do. So far, there's been only head-scratching over the ongoing NHLPA mess and head-shaking about officiating that seems to be okay with much more contact away from the puck than has been the case during the past four seasons. With an early rash of bodychecks resulting in shoulders-to-the-head, like the one delivered by the Flyers' Mike Richards that left the ...
Empty Netter Assists - 11-10-09
Empty Netters —
Penguins
-Does Eric Godard (above) deserve a regular spot in the lineup?
-Penguins president David Morehouse suffered a heart attack. Trainer Chris Stewart came to the rescue.
-The Pensblog has details on the health of Penguins public address announcer John Barbero.
-This is a few days old, but here are the pre-game ceremonies from Saturday's Hockey Hall of Fame Game between the Red Wings and Maple Leafs. Former Penguins Scotty Bowman, Luc Robitaille and Bryan Trottier participated: ...
The Morning Skate: Will General Managers Act on Head Shots?
Slap Shot —
The N.H.L. general managers are meeting today and tomorrow in Toronto and David Shoalts in The Globe and Mail writes “Head shots will dominate the agenda,” although he believes that, “adopting an on-ice penalty directed at them is still a long shot.” In yesterday’s Toronto Star, Damien Cox wrote the general managers were more likely to adopt a half measure and eliminate the trapezoid behind the goal, the legal area for goaltenders to handle the puck. The thinking is that if goalies can play the puck anywhere, they can clear it more easily and spare their defensemen from being creamed by a forechecker more often. That’s O.K. as far as it goes. The ...
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 blog to “Head ...
Headshots in Hockey
The Ciskie Blog —
[image] Recently, NHL general managers met in Toronto. One of the topics discussed was the idea of further legislation on hits to the head in the sport. The NHL has seen more than a few questionable hits in the not-too-distant past. Give the league credit for showing a willingness to tackle this issue head-on, but it remains to be seen if they decide to do the right thing. Adding more penalties and more points of emphasis for officials to have to deal with is not a good idea. These guys have a horrible view of the action in most cases, and giving them more to think about doesn't seem to be the prudent way to handle this. What needs to change is the system the ...
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 last Saturday ...
