Comments on: Matt Cooke’s dirty hit on Fedor Tyutin: Poor excuses and time for the NHL to take a stand

By: paigeywaigey163

paigeywaigey163 — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:51:00 +0000

I wonder how many of you would actually win a fight with Cooke. With the Sid hit there was no puck, or play near him, Sid was in the middle of the ice and hit with a shoulder and is down for a bit, no call no suspension (not the physical part of the game). Anton Volchenkov elbows Zach Boychuk with play (physical part of the game), gets a penalty and 3 games. Cooke is going in for a hit with the play (which is the physical part of the game), Tyutin turns his head and may or may not see Cooke coming, then turns his back on the play. Cooke gets a penalty and 4 games. The problem is there have been similar hits in the NHL recently and throughout this season, and past seasons and the calls are inconstant. If you are going to punish Cooke for that hit then you might as well have kicked him out years ago, I will admit that Cooke has made similar hits this year and hasn’t received anything. In the same respect the pens have had nasty hits against them with nothing called. Tonight is a nice example Talbot had a clean hit against the Isles and now that player has a concussion (kinda like the Crosby situation.) The Isles’ Martin came up from behind Talbot and attacked him, again no play near Talbot. Max didn’t even fight back (most likely trying to draw penalties), but Martin keeps pummeling. Martin ultimately got a game misconduct, a 10 minute, a 5 minute fighting and a 2 minute roughing. My money says the NHL MIGHT suspend Martin 1 game.

My point of my rant is the NHL is a joke when it comes down to handing out penalties/suspensions. They say they want to eliminate the old bench clearing antics, but it makes them money, so they won’t. If they took it seriously then repeat offenders such as Cooke, Pronger, Bertuzzi, and the likes would no longer be playing. BTW here is a 10 most dangerous players list as compiled by THN last year. I agree with some of these players but think there are dirtier players than some of the ones listed. Like this article says I think that more people are annoyed with Cooke, than his hits are the “dirtiest in the league”. http://thehockeywriters.com/top-10-dirtiest-nhl-players/

By: sfbookreviews

sfbookreviews — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:56:51 +0000

Wow, first you claim others don’t know the game, but you claim Crosby is a product of league protection (your other senseless post) and not inhuman drive and hard work and natural talent. Then you go off like an 8 year old on “fanboys”. Nice. Nobody cares if you played hockey, you obviously weren’t good enough to make a name for yourself and even if you did, that doesn’t make you the only expert on the subject. Especially considering your rather hilarious bias toward Crosby.

As for Cooke, the hit deserved a suspension, no doubt. But to claim Tyutin didn’t see him coming is rather ignorant of the video evidence. Two games would have been appropriate.

By: jpelle82

jpelle82 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:08:14 +0000

lol i really want to know who you think is the best player…especially since the consensus and the numbers agree its him.

By: someonestolesociofan

someonestolesociofan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:11:45 +0000

I’m on board with Rosenthals Speling Instrukter. The best thing the NHL could do in this case is to wait until Cooke is in a game against Derek Boogaard or Steve MacIntyre and tell the Boogeyman to go out and “solve the Cooke problem.” When it goes down, the officials should all turn their backs to Cooke and look into the crowd until the enforcer thinks that Cooke has had enough. Even better, make it a national game so Cooke can get his ass whooped in front of a national audience.

After that, I don’t think you will have too many more “Cooke” problems in Pittsburgh or anywhere else.

By: ftrain021

ftrain021 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:43:45 +0000

Its so funny to hear the Pens fans complain about the alledged terrible hit by the Capital’s Dave Steckel on Sidney Crosby, but Cooke is probably the dirtiest player of all. Sounds like a classic case of the kettle calling the pot black!

I heard about this hit, but didn’t see it, so I won’t comment on it. I will say this, however, I have seen several hits that Matt Cooke was involved in that were crystal clearly dirty, and taking past history, I can tell you that Matt Cooke is most likely at fault in this instance and is also fine with being a cheap shot artist and dirt bag.

By: stakex

stakex — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:04:06 +0000

There are major differences in the two hits, and you better believe if there was anything dirty about the Crosby hit the NHL would have been all to happy to throw around a suspension to protect their meal ticket.

If your to ignorant, and know so little about hockey to not see the difference and actually think this hit by Cooke wasn’t flat out dirty I’m not even going to bother to explain it to you. Perhaps you should go watch tennis or something since your hockey knowledge is clearly zip.

Btw: Crosby was having a good season, but hes not the best player in the world. If the NHL didn’t have their refs protect him like he was fragil or something he would be a middle of the pack player…. and you honestly think the NHL wouldn’t have taken action when he was hurt if there was a case there? Give me a break.

By: stakex

stakex — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:00:03 +0000

The YouTube clip shows the whole hit… Cooke CLEARLY saw numbers and threw a check anyway. YOU CAN NOT DO THAT! If I turn away from someone going to hit me, and they still hit me in the numbers…. its an illegal hit. Lets also not pretend that Cooke hasn’t thrown countless dirty hits over the last couple years.

You Pit fanboys are sick, and really need to learn about the game. I guess if some of you fat, lazy ****s actually played hockey you might understand things better.

By: clusterpuck

clusterpuck — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:06:56 +0000

NHL is a joke. Their best player gets his head taken off from a blindsided away from the puck dirty hit in front of a national audience in the winter classic and there is no penalty. No hearing. No suspension. Meanwhile this clown turns his back to Cooke trying to draw a penalty and they are acting like the sky is falling.

By: nikolainyr

nikolainyr — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:23:42 +0000

Yeah kanniny, just watched the video. Tyutin’s head did not turn far enough around or long enough to his left to see Cooke coming. Even Tyutin did see Cooke, it by no means justifies hitting a guy in the numbers.
Tyutin was looking at his d-partner and at the far boards to make sure when he sent the puck around it wasn’t a turnover.
Assuming you watch a lot of Pens games (as only Pens fans and Milbury defend Cooke), what’s you’re take on the Hedman hit on Crosby?
Is it Crosby’s fault he’s out with a concussion right now?
Sid and Bylsma certainly don’t think so.

By: Rosenthals Speling Instrukter

Rosenthals Speling Instrukter — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:23:16 +0000

The worst part is Cooke won’t fight anymore after the ass-kicking Kane gave him. Someone needs to just wait till a whistle and beat his ass whether he wants to fight back or not.

By: kaninny

kaninny — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:53:57 +0000

Your a MORON if you watched the game not a you tube highlight he saw him coming he turned and braced himself then did a good flop. The Hearing is already over expect nothing then wine about that.