FWIW, Giordano practicing normally today and Prout isn't in the pairings being reported by media. So hopefully a good sign in terms of a potential suspension.
I don't think anybody is arguing Gio is in the wrong. Thats a penalty. Its kind of a stupid penalty too. Why did he kick his leg out in the first place? Thats going to result in a tripping penalty 9 times out of 10.
A suspendable knee on knee? I have a hard time seeing that.
FWIW, Giordano practicing normally today and Prout isn't in the pairings being reported by media. So hopefully a good sign in terms of a potential suspension.
Would they have done the hearing already though?
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Looks like you'll need one long before I will. May I suggest deflection king?
The entire game was slewed against the Flames as far as penalties went. Watching the Giordano penalty call on Koivu, was borderline at best, looks like skate on skate to me, should not have been called in my opinion. Dumbas' hit on Backlund was a charge pure and simple, in addition, Dumba left his feet, yet nothing called. Lomberg was right to stick up for his teammate, Peters was also right in saying, ref the entire game, don't put your whistle away for the last three minutes, or words to that effect. It seems to me that certain Referees have it in for the Flames, whenever they do a game in the Dome. We get hit with a triple whammy on this, it's garbage if you ask me. The league is always giving out information on suspensions and fines for players, but suspensions and fines on officials is never brought to light. Everything should be transparent and above board for officials as well, they have to answer to someone. This kind of officiating from last night runs the entire league down.
I have no issue with Gio getting a game for that knee, he's had a few in his career (I have an issue from an impact to our team perspective, but no issue it the league feels it's warranted)
I have no issue with Lomberg getting the automatic game for what he did (nor do I have an issue with him doing it, needed to be done). Given it wasn't an illegal line change, I will have an issue if he gets anything more. Nothing different about what he did last night other than timing vs. what Kassian did a few weeks back with no consequences.
I have no issue with Gio getting a game for that knee, he's had a few in his career (I have an issue from an impact to our team perspective, but no issue it the league feels it's warranted)
It wasn't even a knee, it was a trip.
Just because Koivu is made of glass, doesn't mean a suspension is warranted every time he gets hurt.
I'm so sick of Boudreau's whining.
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Yeah it's hard to argue Giordano wasn't in the wrong there. Still surprised there is a suspension incoming... didn't look terrible to me and even some of his own hits in the past have been worse. Hard to understand how the league will deal with stuff, feels like a completely different approach every time.
He was wrong, it was a tripping and he was penalized late in the game for it. It was not Knee on Knee, it was not dirty.
The issue is that Backlund has his head down. What else could Dumba do to avoid hitting his head? It's an aggressive hit but within the rules and the injury is more due to Backlund being in a vulnerable position. I hate dirty plays as much as anyone but if we are going to get up in arms about hits like this then the only course of action is to remove hitting from the game all together because this is the kind of thing that's going to happen on occasions when a player it not prepared to take a hit.
But that is exactly what we are taking about, a hit to the head! Primary and first contact is with the head, stupid me thought that was ill legal.
It is one thing to log in after five weeks of hilariously terrible Canucks hockey and offer your opinion on physical play in a Flames game. It is entirely another to use your only post in 37-days to complain about the Board. If you are unhappy about the quality of discussion on CP, then you know where the door is.
Let’s go on a flames forum and complain about a biased opinion! What a hot take!
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Looked into this...was told skates on the ice at contact, not an illegal Check to the Head as there is some head contact but head is not the main point of contact, elbow is tucked. Clean hit.
For comparison, this got two games:
I think this league is at a point where the officiating is so poor in quality that they hesitate to suspend players when there was no penalty on the play to avoid further embarrassment.
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The Dumba hit was clean. The fact that Backlund was leaning forward and put his head out in front of him doesn't mean he suddenly can't be hit. It was a perfect example of what a good hit in today's NHL should be. It just sucks that Backlund got hurt.
The answer is exactly what the league is (supposedly) doing - put the onus on the attacking player to not go hard at someone who is vulnerable.
All Dumba had to do was stand there - simply get in Backlund's way - and Backlund would have 'checked himself' out of the play.
It’s not that simple. A player becomes vulnerable in a split second and in a game that rewards hard hits, it’s impossible to legislate out hard hits to “vulnerable” players IMO. Watch minor hockey and look at how often kids expose themselves along the boards. Hits to vulnerable players are almost unavoidable. In my opinion.
Poor Mans Don Cherry
