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Calgary4LIfe · 05-22-2021, 11:33 AM

I have no problem with the length. This guy keeps doing stupid things. Wilson is bigger and scarier by a mile, but I bet that Kadri has done more things in his career, and they keep adding up. Next time (and you know there will be a next time) he is gone for 12+ for a similar incident to this one. If he didn't have the history, and considering this is playoffs (where suspensions are usually shorter given the importance of playoff games it seems), this probably would have got 2 games - 3 max.

Yeah, Tkachuk is nothing like this. I cringed in his first season as I saw him slew-foot a few guys, and then that Doughty elbow - I actually disliked him. He was 100% dirty. I didn't like him falling on Campbell that game as I do think stuff like that can injure players, but it wasn't so egregious either. He isn't the career-ending idiot that many people seem to think he is.

I think that's Kadri, Kassian, Wilson... who else am I missing? Oh, Draisaitl needs to be called out for his slew foots. I think I am missing probably another 10 players. Surprisingly, no Canucks on the list right now, after a very long tradition of having multiple players of this ilk on their squads. The only 2 really dirty 'attempt to injure types' that the Flames carried have been Marchment and Gauthier, IMO - at least in the more modern era (not going all the way back to the 80's, but kicking didn't result in suspensions back then!).

I am glad that the Flames never got Kadri either. Once he made the throat slash at Giordano, I thought he was nothing but a POS, and I hate having a POS on the team I cheer for.

05-22-2021, 11:33 AM	#42
Calgary4LIfe Franchise Player Join Date: Jun 2010 Exp:	I have no problem with the length. This guy keeps doing stupid things. Wilson is bigger and scarier by a mile, but I bet that Kadri has done more things in his career, and they keep adding up. Next time (and you know there will be a next time) he is gone for 12+ for a similar incident to this one. If he didn't have the history, and considering this is playoffs (where suspensions are usually shorter given the importance of playoff games it seems), this probably would have got 2 games - 3 max. Yeah, Tkachuk is nothing like this. I cringed in his first season as I saw him slew-foot a few guys, and then that Doughty elbow - I actually disliked him. He was 100% dirty. I didn't like him falling on Campbell that game as I do think stuff like that can injure players, but it wasn't so egregious either. He isn't the career-ending idiot that many people seem to think he is. I think that's Kadri, Kassian, Wilson... who else am I missing? Oh, Draisaitl needs to be called out for his slew foots. I think I am missing probably another 10 players. Surprisingly, no Canucks on the list right now, after a very long tradition of having multiple players of this ilk on their squads. The only 2 really dirty 'attempt to injure types' that the Flames carried have been Marchment and Gauthier, IMO - at least in the more modern era (not going all the way back to the 80's, but kicking didn't result in suspensions back then!). I am glad that the Flames never got Kadri either. Once he made the throat slash at Giordano, I thought he was nothing but a POS, and I hate having a POS on the team I cheer for.