Green's Suspension - What They're Saying
by Your Nation's Capital on Jan 30, 2010 9:33 PM EST
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Taking a quick swing 'round the hockeysphere to see how Mike Green's three-game suspension is playing. Please feel free to add additional links and thoughts in the comments:
Capitals Insider: Reax from Green, Coach Boudreau, and Brooks Laich. Notable: Coach Boudreau's use of the word 'Livid". In a similar echo of Ovechkin's suspension and the word "reckless", it has been picked up by the Twittersphere.
Washington Examiner: A little more analysis, lengthier reax from Green, a word or two from Jeff Schultz and Brooks revises and extends his remarks:
"Obviously we don't want to lose Greenie. I don't know if he was going play anyway after that knee-on-knee collision. But at some point you have to take control of the game and protect the players. You see what happened in junior hockey [the recent Patrice Cormier incident in the QMJHL]. At some point you have to make a statement where there's not a gray area. You can't hit to the head. It's black or white. You hit to the head you're going to get suspended. We don't want to lose Greenie, but at the same time I think it's important that our league enforces punishment for hits to the head."
Laich went on to discuss - in more general terms and not necessarily about Green's specific incident - what happens during a game when a player takes what he feels in an unacceptable hit and reacts emotionally.
"Nobody likes to get run. It's embarrassing when someone puts you on your seat," Laich said. "So then the emotions kind of get going and you look for someone that's maybe in a vulnerable position to take out you frustration. I'm guilty of it, and every other player in the league is guilty of it. But you also have to be careful that you don't permanently injure that player or do something to injure them."
Craig Custance: " In this case, the Norris Trophy finalist from last season certainly isn’t getting any of the star treatment some have accused the NHL of using in the past." Plus a closer look at Brooks Laich's comments.
Russian Machine Never Breaks speculates on Mike's plans for the next week and offers a poll. Plus the cutest Green-with-tiny-baby picture you'll see on this or any other day.
Is the NHL getting pressure from Her Majesty's Government?
Hockeyfights.com convenes a panel. And a quote from Mike Knuble I hadn't seen elsewhere.
OFB has some questions.
DC Sports Rant has a, well, rant.
The Hockey Writers took note. Is that picture supposed to be significant?
CBC runs the wire story. Comments are a mixed bag.
Real Clear Sports thought the original penalty was a bit light.
Tweets:
Redskins fan - not pleased
Leafs fan - not getting it. Truculence!
Pens fan - not surprising
HockeyJoe - not a Caps fan, ever
Luke-jackson10 - #needsmoreTwitter
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Good stuff man, thanx for takin the time to get this all together.
the diff opinions across the media and from different teams via twitter is interesting
Still waiting for someone to draft Paul Newman. . .
by kingzman264 on Jan 30, 2010 10:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Good stuff (wo)man, thanx for takin the time to get this all together.
FTFY!
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by Ovechwin on Jan 30, 2010 10:26 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
We should have small pink or blue heads besides names so we can use proper pronouns.
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by Bman21212 on Jan 30, 2010 11:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I hate that fans of opposing teams add or follow players from other teams and trash talk. Do you really think they care about your opinion?
Я Харт не так ли?
by Capsfan07 on Jan 30, 2010 11:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
""I didn’t see the replay. I was on the ice. But out of the corner of my eye it looked like an elbow. The guy wasn’t hurt, right? He finished the game. He got him in the head. [The league] is trying to send a message, especially in the wake of that Quebec league thing. It’s protecting the players. I’m sorry it happened to Mike. But guys know, an elbow to someone’s head is going to cost you one way or another."
Simple, clear, strong. Mike Knuble FTW.
by bagace on Jan 31, 2010 7:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I can’t find a video of the Koci on Gonch hit last year, where Gonch missed a bunch of the season and Koci didn’t get suspended. Can anyone rustle this up? I think the NHL conspiracy machine has cleaned the internet of this clip.
by Bushwood Bushwhacker on Jan 31, 2010 12:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
This was great btw. Rec’d
by Bushwood Bushwhacker on Jan 31, 2010 12:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Sweet. my influence is slowly growing…
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by Space Weed on Jan 31, 2010 8:27 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Hey there Weed. Truculence FTW.
IS KEPTIN NOW
by Your Nation's Capital on Feb 1, 2010 12:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
To be honest, that was one of my fave tweets.
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"DO NOT get stuck behind Kyle Wellwood in the buffet line. This isn't really etiquette, but it will prevent you from starving to death"- Down Goes Brown on Etiquette for Jason Spezza's wedding
by Space Weed on Feb 1, 2010 8:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Wow, only $170M for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Maybe the dream of NHL ownership isn’t as far away as I thought.
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by winterion on Feb 1, 2010 8:33 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Gonchar
I like the Pens fans weighing in on the Green hit to Frolik. They seem to just ignor the free pass given to Gonchar. If Greens hit was worth 3 games, the Gonchar should have gotten a month. Those Pens seem to have a special relationship with the front office.
by D-Loc on Feb 1, 2010 9:59 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
You had me until that last line.
My ability to post is only surpassed by my ability to pinch pennies.
by jordanDC on Feb 1, 2010 11:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So do you guys think that this elbow incident pretty much kills Green’s chances for the Norris?
by Brainumbc on Feb 3, 2010 8:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Did Pronger get suspended the season he won it?
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by jordanDC on Feb 3, 2010 8:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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