Not sure how it actually does work in this regard (maybe someone can jump in), but one way to punish the team is to make it so that the suspended player remains on the 23 man roster and their cap hit continues to count.
In this case, that would mean that SJ would effectively have to run with a 22 man roster for half the season. That would be a pretty stiff penalty for them.
I like this a lot. It makes intuitive sense - sign a dirty player, that's the contract you live with, suspensions and all.
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according to the video that explains the suspension, he didn't return to the game for precautionary reasons, but apparently wasn't injured on the play. He didn't practise today though, so who knows if that's true.
That's part of why I'm pleasantly surprised by the suspension - it says that the league didn't care what the effect of the hit was. Just throwing the hit was egregious enough to warrant the 3rd longest suspension in league history.
I agree that the teams that employ these idiots need to get some type of punishment as well.
I like the roster aspect, have a suspended player on the roster, well you are down to a 22 man roster for the next 41 games then.
Also they should increase the penalty where the team has to pay the same amount of the suspended value to the other team. Thanks for employing this idiot San Jose...now write a $441k cheque to the Ducks.
I'd rather the funds from suspensions based on injury go to the players fund and research on concussions/recovery to assist players as well.
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[QUOTE=Mattman;5443488]The only reason fighting should be in hockey to allow people to beat the #### out of dirty players like Torres. Get him out of the game NHL! He's injuring your young and star players.[/
I've always regretted that the zebras threw Torres and John Scott out of that Vancouver-Chicago playoff game a few years back before Scott had a chance to pummel Torres for the leaping blindside head hit he delivered to one of the Blackhawks' star d-men.
It's annoying that players like him are still "relevant" in the game today.
You know you're dirty when Don Cherry calls you out ...
The funny thing is, back in his draft year, Torres was compared to Cherry's love Wendel Clark, who i'm quite fond of as well, but who in today's NHL would have faced suspension a lot as well for his hits.
It's funny who Cherry likes or dislikes. It really depends on who a player injures. Torres must've injured one of Cherry's favourites and therefore never got any love from him.
Ferland SHOULD have got a lot of love from Cherry last year, but I don't recall Cherry doing any special montage for him or even talking favourably about him. I think it was because Ferland owned one of Cherry's current favourites, Bieksa.
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I'd rather the funds from suspensions based on injury go to the players fund and research on concussions/recovery to assist players as well.
Someone can correct me but I believe the forfeited salary from suspensions funds the NHL Substance Abuse program. Either that or NHL sponsored charities (ie Hockey Fights Cancer). Cant remember exactly but something like that.
Someone can correct me but I believe the forfeited salary from suspensions funds the NHL Substance Abuse program. Either that or NHL sponsored charities (ie Hockey Fights Cancer). Cant remember exactly but something like that.
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Goes to the players' pension plan, iirc.
It goes to the NHL's players' emergency assistance fund.
To track the evolution of the players' emergency assistance fund -- which is intended to provided money to former players or their families who are down on their luck -- is in many ways to track the evolution of the league itself.
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In 1992-93, the fund received a boost when the league decided that the players, who had always been suspended without pay, would instead forfeit that amount of their salary to the emergency fund. The change was made in part to ensure that teams weren't secretly paying the players during their suspensions. (This was also when professional advisers started overseeing the fund.) T
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The funny thing is, back in his draft year, Torres was compared to Cherry's love Wendel Clark, who i'm quite fond of as well, but who in today's NHL would have faced suspension a lot as well for his hits.
It's funny who Cherry likes or dislikes. It really depends on who a player injures. Torres must've injured one of Cherry's favourites and therefore never got any love from him.
Ferland SHOULD have got a lot of love from Cherry last year, but I don't recall Cherry doing any special montage for him or even talking favourably about him. I think it was because Ferland owned one of Cherry's current favourites, Bieksa.
Trying to apply logic to the ravings of a geriatric lunatic is seldom a productive activity.
