[News] UPD post #250: Giordano suspended 2 games for kneeing. Lomberg suspended 2 games

[tvp2003]

So how do the pairings shake out?



Hanifin/Hamonic

Valimaki/Brodie

Kylington/Andersson


PP1: Andersson

PP2: Hanifin

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by badradio

I’d love for a XHL league to start up. Old time hockey with no Nancy boy penalties. The fact Peter’s gets fined for a line change is not a league I want to support.

Bring back the Federal League!

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

Originally Posted by badradio

I’d love for a XHL league to start up. Old time hockey with no Nancy boy penalties. The fact Peter’s gets fined for a line change is not a league I want to support.

In other news, can I ask how it was living through the Great Depression? Those must have been tough times!

[Beninho]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

So how do the pairings shake out?



Hanifin/Hamonic

Valimaki/Brodie

Kylington/Andersson


PP1: Andersson

PP2: Hanifin

I thought Valimaki was still injured?

[badradio]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle

In other news, can I ask how it was living through the Great Depression? Those must have been tough times!

Very challenging... but great hockey!

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by dino7c

history of zero suspensions

Let’s hope he doesn’t do it again. Koivu was livid after it happened.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by DropIt

First time offender? I think not. Gio has skirted suspensions in the past. It caught up with him this time.

exactly, it is his FIRST suspension...there is no other case for a trip like this getting a two gamer

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Let’s hope he doesn’t do it again. Koivu was livid after it happened.

who cares

[Manhattanboy]

Absolute %^&*ing joke that Gio draws two games and Dumbass gets nothing.

As has been said at most its a two minute trip.

Back to back wins against NSH and EDM would be an awesome FU to the league.

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

Originally Posted by dino7c

exactly, it is his FIRST suspension...there is no other case for a trip like this getting a two gamer

Yes but that doesn’t mean the NHL didn’t note his file and warn him on one of his previous other “trips” where he used his “leg (of which his knee is a part of)” that he wouldn’t be treated as a repeat offender the next time he did this.

He’s gotten away with a few of these in his day, it’s just catching up with him now.

[dino7c]

Watch Koivu make a miraculous recovery

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Let’s hope he doesn’t do it again. Koivu was livid after it happened.

Maybe Koivu will drop the mitts and fight Gio?

[dammage79]

I'm okay with Gio getting 2. That was kneeing and a bit cheap. Gio was running hot all last night and that was very undisciplined. Team has to step up now with a big divisional game and a benchmark game.

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle

He’s gotten away with a few of these in his day, it’s just catching up with him now.

This is is just nonsense.

[dino7c]

usual contrarians siding with the league is no surprise here

enough with the rose colored glasses BS

Other than butt hurt Oiler fans the general consensus around the usual message boards today was a fine or one game tops

The fact that nobody can give one other similar incident that resulted in a similar suspension tells you everything you need to know

Wheel of justice

[Kipper_3434]

So we lose 3 players and minny loses one. Can't wait til that team is a bottom feeder again.

[Beninho]

Originally Posted by Kipper_3434

So we lose 3 players and minny loses one. Can't wait til that team is a bottom feeder again.

Wild are pure mediocrity with zero interesting or entertaining offensive players. They are stuck in the black hole of first-round exits. Half their fanbase are fins, which I guess is because of Koivu. Trash team and non-existent fan base for the "hockey state" of America

[DropIt]

Originally Posted by dino7c

exactly, it is his FIRST suspension...there is no other case for a trip like this getting a two gamer

Everyone is a first time offender until their not. I'm sure Gio's previous 3 or 4 kneeing incidents came into account

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

Originally Posted by dino7c

usual contrarians siding with the league is no surprise here

enough with the rose colored glasses BS

Other than butt hurt Oiler fans the general consensus around the usual message boards today was a fine or one game tops

The fact that nobody can give one other similar incident that resulted in a similar suspension tells you everything you need to know

Wheel of justice

Your the one concerned with comparables here, so why don’t you put the burden of proof on yourself and go pull a bunch of similar incidents that resulted in lesser suspensions and post them to back up your case?

Why should others need to run around and prove to you why your Flames biased opinion is incorrect? If we are arguing over 1 or 2 games we are in the weeds. Both are minor suspensions and I have no issue WHEN the league aires on the side of heavier hands on reckless plays. The fact they don’t do so consistently enough is frustrating but for the argument of you have to get it right all the time or non of the time just doesn’t hold up. The world would go to #### if things worked tgat way, let alone the NHL.

[RedHawk12]

Gio's hit was a little cheap. Like others have stated, if someone did that to Gaudreau we would all be livid if there wasn't a suspension.

As for Backlund, I hope he gets healthy soon. But that play wasn't as black and white as Gio's knee on knee. Could have gone either way in terms of suspension/penalty.

No need to feel sorry for ourselves and develop that us against the world mentality. It's a reasonable outcome and we're good enough of a team to overcome it.