Running Stanley Cup Playoff Thread

I know the Black Aces come down and hoist it, but they're usually not suspended. Anyway, just thinking about how much the fans would throw at him if the series ends in 6.

 

Just a little factoid (not worth starting a thread for so I'm putting it here). Saw on Twitter that the Cubs have selected Trevor Gretzky, the Great One's son, in 7th round of the MLB draft.

 

Maybe he'll be the next Kirk McCaskill, another major leaguer whose dad happened to be a pretty decent hockey player.

 

Rome should be suspended as long as Horton is out.

 

Once again you contribute nothing.

This could never work, in any sport.

 

How many of you Canucks bashers defended Chara on his hit on Pacioretty? I suppose he's misunderstood instead of a thug.

 

Claude Lemieux was suspended for the first two games of the 1996 Final.

 

The severity of Chara's hit on Pacioretty was the location on the ice as Pacioretty's head hit a stanchion where the bench ends and the glass begins. Anywhere else on the rink, and it's a 6-9 guy finishing his check against a smaller guy and we think nothing of it. Still probably should have received a 1 or 2-game suspension just because of the severity of the injury (Brad Marchand was given a game for an open-ice, leave-his-feet headshot at center against Columbus a week later -- I was at that game and *fully* supported the decision to suspend him).

NHL on-ice officials decided to punish the Bruins instead by giving their opponents a ridiculous power-play advantage in the next several games after the Chara non-suspension. In the said Columbus game above, the Jackets got something like eight power plays, the Bruins were on the PP for a grand total of six seconds, and Boston wasn't that much sloppier or more physical.

Rome's hit was a blindside hit that was way late and caused a severe concussion. More like the Matt Cooke headshot on Marc Savard (or his later headshot this year that earned himself a nice long suspension) than Chara-Pacioretty.

 

It was nothing like Cookes headshot, nothing.

I support the suspension but the 2 hits aren't even close.

 

I thought Chara should have gotten 2-4 games for violent interference/kinda boarding, personally. It was less blindside and Pacioretty was more aware of the contact since they'd been tied up for a bit, but it was also ridiculously violent and dangerous and the same degree of late.

 

Rome's hit was NOT a blindside hit. It was a late hit. And I agree with the suspension but no one in the league is talking blindside

 

Does Horton bear any responsibility for not keeping his head up? Have seen a few comments in other places that it looked worse because Horton didn't have his head up.


I don't agree with that at all. But I figured it might make for discussion fodder on here.