Best period we've played all series.
The Carkner - Hagelin suspensions shouldn't be that surprising. Injuries are a part of the disciplinary process and have been all season. What Carkner did was stupid but Boyle was much less vulnerable to injury than Alfredsson regardless of intent. The league has come down pretty hard on high hits all season. See Byron Bitz for a comparable high hit and resulting discipline.With each ruling the NHL makes I just am more and more flabbergasted.
There is no rhyme or reason to anything they're doing. It's like they're just drawing the guy's name out of a hat and then spinning a wheel-of-fortune like wheel with random fines and games on it.
Common sense being that 'late hits that target the head' = BAD.You said it was "common sense" he got the misconduct. That only makes sense if you accept the premise that one set of rules is absolutely preferable to the other.
Karlsson was engaged with him as a willing participant in a scrum, and Boyle's gloves didn't even come off in that exchange. He's not blameless by any means, but the orders of magnitude between what Boyle did to Karlsson and what Carkner did to Boyle are RIDICULOUS.
Domination 5-on-5.... produces nothing. We're going to lose another fucking game due to shitty special teams, I know it.
Common sense being that 'late hits that target the head' = BAD.
Karlsson was engaged with him as a willing participant in a scrum, and Boyle's gloves didn't even come off in that exchange. He's not blameless by any means, but the orders of magnitude between what Boyle did to Karlsson and what Carkner did to Boyle are RIDICULOUS.
The Carkner - Hagelin suspensions shouldn't be that surprising. Injuries are a part of the disciplinary process and have been all season. What Carkner did was stupid but Boyle was much less vulnerable to injury than Alfredsson regardless of intent. The league has come down pretty hard on high hits all season. See Byron Bitz for a comparable high hit and resulting discipline.
Rangers coming out with a statement about the leagues inconsistency with discipline. Can't blame them, and I doubt it'll be the last here this post season.
And if you watched older hockey you'd realize that is a gross oversimplification. That's the point.
Shanahan needs to GTFO. Bettman should fire him.
Shanahan is too young, this guy still has close links to players in the league, he is inconsistent, he's an idiot. Can't believe all these hits in these playoffs, it wasn't that bad last year.
Shanahan was suspending people a lot in the preseason until GMs and NHLPA whined.
Doesn't matter who's in charge of suspensions.
Boudreau calling out Stock for his nonsense again. "What's he talking about?" I love this guy.
I find it astonishing that a gold medal winning goaltender with such a large fanbase get's benched SO MUCH.
We didn't get scored on. So I consider it a successful PP.That was a short lived PP for Vancouver.