NHL Playoffs

MaTH716 · #1 06-07-2011, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by slotdirt

Rome gets four. I'd say five would have been more appropriate. Still, he's getting some Darren McCarty-Claude Lemieux treatment when these guys meet in the regular season next year.

Really he get 4 plus whatever Horton has to miss.

slotdirt · #2 06-07-2011, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MaTH716

Really he get 4 plus whatever Horton has to miss.

Good point, there are only four games left in the finals. Appropriate punishment, IMO.

MaTH716 · #3 06-07-2011, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by slotdirt

Good point, there are only four games left in the finals. Appropriate punishment, IMO.

I think that should be the rule for the regular season too. It's an eye for an eye type deal.
If someone should deliver a blatent cheap shot (regardless of blind side hit, slash, high stick, etc....). The offender should sit out for as long as the injured party is out plus whatever suspension is handed out.

Obviously we are talking about match penalty type hits (which really don't occur too many times a season).

ateamstupid · #4 06-07-2011, 03:34 PM

That was a ridiculous and unnecessary hit and it looks like it woke the Bruins up.

docicu3 · #5 06-07-2011, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MaTH716

I think that should be the rule for the regular season too. Is an eye for an eye type deal.
If someone should deliver a blatent cheap shot (regardless of blind side hit, slash, high stick, etc....). The offender should sit out for as long as the injured party is out plus whatever suspension is handed out.

Obviously we are talking about match penalty type hits (which really don't occur too many times a season).

It's not an equal sanction at all....the Bruins lose a first line forward who is far more valuable than this goon who is replaceable by any defenseman Vancouver
has.

They should take a roster spot from Vancouver so they dress one less guy to make it close to fair.....

GBBob · #6 06-07-2011, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by docicu3

It's not an equal sanction at all....the Bruins lose a first line forward who is far more valuable than this goon who is replaceable by any defenseman Vancouver
has.

They should take a roster spot from Vancouver so they dress one less guy to make it close to fair.....

Or....take out Burrows or a Sedin

slotdirt · #7 06-07-2011, 03:53 PM

Both Sedins and Kesler were targeted in some form or fashion last night after the Horton hit. I wouldn't say Rome has had a reputation as a "goon" in the same way Matt Cooke has, but he's earned his fair share of game misconducts in the past, so a lengthier suspension was probably not out of the question.

pgiaco · #8 06-08-2011, 11:28 AM

I think keeping him out the remainder of the final is an appropriate suspension. It is hard to suspend someone for the duration of another player's injury because what do you do if he comes back and then goes out again with recurrent symptoms?
That being said, players need to respect each other. While you are always taught to keep your head up, especially in high traffic areas, nobody expects to get hit 3 seconds after you get rid of the puck. I'm not sure what Mike Murphy was thinking when he said Rome was suspended for the lateness of the hit, that it would have been legal if delivered earlier. If that's a legal hit, the why have Rule 48 (head shot rule) on the books at all.. Finally, Rome has to understand that now his team's top players will now be targets. Just a stupid play all around.