John Walton agrees with the Ovechkin suspension

Listen to segment 2. Walton with a very balanced take on the suspension. For one thing, he says that the injury should be irrelevant, but at the end of the day it's a check from behind and hits like that should be suspended.

Also, Frank quotes an unnamed website for saying that John Carlson is now the Caps' 6th defenseman. I wonder who he might have had in mind...

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Also, Frank quotes an unnamed website for saying that John Carlson is now the Caps’ 6th defenseman. I wonder who he might have had in mind…

Not us. Pretty sure they don’t know we exist.

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by J.P. on Mar 16, 2010 5:36 PM EDT reply actions

valid points all from JW, and I’m sure we’d all be up in arms if something like this happened to one of our guys(oh wait, it kinda did in the 3rd period to Semin, but he didn’t get hurt, so no harm no foul…I guess). What chaps my ass about this whole thing, and I know this has been said by everyone ad naseum, is the maddening inconsistency of the whole process. Prior records? Cooke has one. Injuries? Booth missed 3 months, Savard is done for the season. Intent to injure? Yeah Brian Campbell is banged up pretty badly, but if anyone can objectively watch the play and say that it was purposeful, that person is full of crap. Look at Ovechkin’s face afterward, you can see that he feels bad and is concerned. Guys like Cooke, Avery, et al don’t give a crap when they cheapshot someone. Hell even Steve Clownie’s slewfoot on he who shall not be named was a much greater injury risk than what Ovie did (honestly given who the offense was committed against, the lack of suspension kinda surprised me) was far more filled with intent. If everything was equal and everything questionable garnered supplementary discipline, I don’t think I’d have a problem with this suspension, because Ovechkin really did not need to make that hit…an avoidable accident if you will. But with so many guys getting off for doing much worse…thats what burns me.

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by capsfansteve on Mar 16, 2010 11:45 PM EDT reply actions

I didn’t know anyone else felt the same way about Semin getting hit in the 3rd of that game…good to know.

I also wrote down 7:34 left in the 1st last night, Tarnasky pushes Mo from behind towards the boards right around the net but Mo stayed on his feet…of course I will go crazy trying to keep track of this stuff because similar hits happen all the time. Cambell was just unlucky when trying to stay on his feet.

by RedLife19 on Mar 17, 2010 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions

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