Also, the announcer is wrong… he does make an effort to play the puck. His missed it, but he did try.

Elder will be suspended even though like Shaw he shouldn’t have been. A 5 minute major and a game misconduct is sufficient.

However, I’m just as surprised to see that the NHL hasn’t scheduled anything for Rick Nash’s hit on Tomas Kopeky. That looked far worse to me in terms of a hit to the head, from the blindside, etc. Has there been any word from the NHL whether it’ll review Nash’s hit or not?

I wouldn’t be calling such BS if this wasn’t almost becoming a custom with him The Shaw hit is one example, other times when guys get too close he either overacts on a Shakespearian level or goes UFC, now this one with Edler.

He’s worse than Roloson was and he was unstable. One second he’s trying to axe you and the next he needs the trainer because he’s so injured he can’t stand.

- Smith was also injured (and stayed down for several minutes) after the play where Sedin was shoved from behind into him. In fact, Labarbera almost entered the game for him at that point. I don’t know why everyone is assuming that the Edler play is the which cause Smith to suffer his purported (I say purported based on the shenanigan’s involving Smith’s injury last year);

- Based on the photo, Edler didn’t have any where to go. He has the boards on his right, the net on his left and Smith right in front him. Of the three choices, Smith is the only one that is not immovable.

- Smith regularly sets picks and looks to draw contact. He appears to embellish a la Kesler (throwing he head back, arms up followed by a theatrical flop).

Man did Mike Smith catch some air or what…all that was missing was the county coroner and a pair of undertakers fussing over his remains? Too funny…what a great game, hockey, gotta love it!

I promise you Mike’s got a helluva lot more respect for Alex in the here-and-now if he’s not in fact in the hereafter?

I can’t see this doing anything but good for Canucks…showing a little spine after one of their guys was mauled. I tell you, bet against the Canucks come playoff time to the greater peril of your financial well-being!

I like Anaheim but Vancouver’s starting to look dangerous if they can find some spark…Edler’s play will certainly put a charge into that charge! Play of the week…

If goalies are able to argue need for exaggerated padding and protection from high velocity shots, how are they able to argue need for further protection when outside the crease? It would seem all that padding would offer protection anywhere under any circumstances…

And, the artificial protection afforded goalies by rules dictating play outside the crease actually makes them vulnerable to random or spontaneous collisions; goalies tend to drop their guard when wandering while expecting protection in a realm habitually subject to unintended consequences, particularly behind the goals.

Had Smith been subject to the same need for care as are skaters, he’d have been more wary and prepared for opposing force as it arrived. He could have slipped Edler’s hit, or squared up, dropped a shoulder and laid Edler out even as he was laid-out.

Goalies who handle pucks outside the crease should be subject to the same rules and conditions of play as are regular skaters…

But seriously, that Shaw hit on Smith would have been illegal even if Smith was a defenseman, Edler’s hit was a textbook bump (except the textbook says you don’t do that to goalies) so it would be pretty astonishing to see the same type of punishment handed out.

Of course I have little more confidence in the new boss to hand out objective and consistent judgements than I did in the old boss, so anything could end up happening.