Comments on: Dany Heatley and Brad Marchand to have disciplinary hearings over separate cheap shots

By: tommytd

tommytd — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:09:09 +0000

Nice going guys…way to be considerate of your teammates! Get suspended for a few games in the heat of a playoff stretch! Is it really that important to nail somebody in the head and risk a suspension, especially when the whole world is watching for head shots right now??? You guys are nuts and your priorities are way off.

By: sharksfan24

sharksfan24 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:27:22 +0000

Sorry Joe, but there have been rules around for years to protect against head shots, they are just not enforced or called. Elbowing is a penalty, and hits from behind against the boards are penalties. Yet how many times are these penalties called. Boarding is the number 1 cause of head injuries yet, is rarely called.

Joe it is not about NEW rules, it’s about a consistent enforcement of existing rules. If all officials would actually call penalties as defined in the NHL rule book, this head issue would not be such a problem. It is not a rule problem, but an enforcement problem.

If you remember back to the days of the “New” Nhl there was a few new rules put in one of which was called obstruction. So when is the last time that penalty was called, and why no enforcement of this rule now. See this is the problem, you have officials not calling penalties, instead focusing on “CERTAIN” penalties, this year it was stick issues that was their point of emphasis. Now it will be head injuries, while other penalties will not get called at all. If you want to stop injuries, then start enforcing all penalties not just certain ones. Call penalties without regard to team, player, type of game, time of game, score of game or importance of game. A penalty is a penalty whether it occurs in a pre-season game, a regular season game, or a stanley cup finals game. And that is how it should be.

By: sharksfan24

sharksfan24 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:42:22 +0000

Check the video Eddie O, check the video, watch in slo mo (if you can) Ott never got hit, and actually intentionally leans into Heatley to get the penalty. And this from a guy who had already received 17 minutes in penalties and is known as a cheap shot artist. Geez Eddie how would feel if one of your loved Blackhawks did this to Sean Avery? Guess that would be okay right? Reading intent into a hit now, yeah right Eddie O, we know your total disdain for the Sharks, it came through loud and clear during your cheerleading contest when the Sharks played the Blackhawks on Versus. Where is your journalistic skills and being impartial. 10 games, for almost hitting a player accidentally in the head, and you want a 10 game suspension for a player who was not even hurt. Yet you just completely ignore the fact that Jamie Langenbrunner almost killed Nicolas Wallin with a cheap hit to the back, and you and your Buddy Colin Campbell just completely ignore that. Despite the fact that Wallin was hurt and NEVER returned to the game, and Ott, was not even hurt.

By: sharksfan24

sharksfan24 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:36:52 +0000

Of course no mention by the versus team about the Jamie Langenbrunner cheap head shot on Nicholas Wallin that caused Wallin a concussion. Meanwhile that cheap shot con artist Ott is back on the ice and playing during the Heatley Penalty. We all know that Versus and there announcers hate the Sharks, and especially hate Heatley so no surprise that Mallbury and that Blackhawks guy Eddie O, would want Heater suspended for 10 games. And just ignore the Langenbrunner hit, typical versus bias and favoritism towards certain teams and players. We know that if it was a Blackhawks player who TRIED but missed fully hitting OTT with an elbow. Eddie O would call it payback and a great play, and Malburry would do the same if it was AN team from the Eastern Conference.