San Jose Sharks forward Raffi Torres could be facing another suspension by the National Hockey League after receiving a match penalty for an illegal hit to the head of Anaheim Ducks forward Jakob Silfverberg.
Torres was assessed the penalty in the first period of Saturday's exhibition game.
Torres started his run at Silverberg just past center ice. About 6 strides. He knew what hr was going to do.
Can't stand this rat he seems to be involved with garbage a few times every season.
I think the top comment on TSN suggested his suspension be 82 games, which would finish off the regular season of his final contract. Hopefully then we'd never see him in the NHL again.
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Didn't think it was as bad a hit as it has been built up to be. When are players going to start skating with their heads up?
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I think the top comment on TSN suggested his suspension be 82 games, which would finish off the regular season of his final contract. Hopefully then we'd never see him in the NHL again.
One of these posts is not like the other one.
New Era do you know who Raffi Torres is? Yet you're taking his side and blaming the victim for this charge to the head?
Didn't think it was as bad a hit as it has been built up to be. When are players going to start skating with their heads up?
He clearly begins striding towards Silverberg from quite a distance away, which strongly suggests to me that Torres was targeting him, though I never played hockey so what do I know? Torres has a reputation for a reason and just isn't getting it. It's time for him to go away.
And we can just as easily ask when players will start taking better care of each other as "When are players going to start skating with their heads up?" Who decided that punishment for not doing so had to be a potentially debilitating injury? I can't believe that the NHLPA hasn't stepped up to do more to get this guy out of the game to protect their hundreds of other members.
Didn't think it was as bad a hit as it has been built up to be. When are players going to start skating with their heads up?
That's such a brutal oversimplification. It's a really fast game with 10 players on the ice flying all over the place, you can't expect every single player is going to have his head on a swivel 100% of the time. The onus is clearly on Torres to not be a head-hunting piece of crap. Kick him out of the league already.
Where's the puck in that clip...it appears to be quite late, too...hard to tell, of course.
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One of the things that bothers me the most is that you see Torres show absolutely no concern for Silfverberg in the TSN clips. He practically skates over him without even glancing down. Completely disgusting.
It's time to start punishing the teams that sign these players too. If someone is a Cooke or a Torres, and you sign them, and they do something stupid, there should be a significant penalty.
This is what his tenth incident? Get this moron out of the league already
not quite, but he was suspended five times in the span of 2 years.
May 2013 - suspended for Round 2 of the playoffs (6 playoff games)
Jan 2013 - suspended for 8 games
Apr 2012 - suspended for up to 25 games, missed 13 playoff games
Jan 2012 - suspended for 2 games
Apr 2011 - suspended for 4 games (2 regular season, 2 playoff games)
Is that ###### canoe also wearing an A? Wow, that is the last person I would want my young players looking up to. Preseason or not he doesn't deserve to have an A on his jersey.
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that last clip is pretty damning. He was going to miss him and then sticks out his shoulder/elbow to catch his head. Only point of contact was the head.
And it's not like Silfverberg was bent over. Sometimes a guy will be bent down and a normal hit makes contact with the head. This was a case of Torres extending his upper body outward and upward to make contact with the head, and head only.
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Raffi Torres At It Again - Check to the Head of Silfverberg - Update gets 41 games
