What Is Up With Those NHL Morons Who Discipline Players?

[Scenicdrive]

Watch the boarding hit by Sabres' Kaleta on Flyers' Ross:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pnuvSSo8o&feature=player_embedded

Now watch the boarding hit by Capitals' Ovechkin on Sabres' Kaleta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x3-dufZHg4&feature=player_embedded

Both hit look quite similar. Yet Kaleta was suspended for two games and Ovechkin got no suspension. Perhaps Ovechkin is a super star and Kaleta is a no name player makes NHL's disciplinarian's decision so easy eh???

NHL needs some major overhaul on administering discipline for better standards and systematization for sure.

 

[Malibook]

The Ovechkin hit was a little more from the side rather than right square on the back like the other one.

People have to be held accountable any time they hit someone in the back but some of these idiots leave themselves in such vulnerable positions that it is highly likely for them to get hurt, especially when they turn at the last moment.
Plus they need to know that the hit is coming and prepare for it by spinning away so it isn't so direct or getting an arm up so that your face is not the first thing that absorbs the force against the glass.

 

[maurice93]

I have no clue how you can see them as similar.

One is from the side, on the shoulder, and was a dangerous boarding. But it was nowhere close to the definition of hitting from behind. Kaleta's was textbook.

given they were two totally different infractions, different penalties are not unreasonable.

 

[Malibook]

Ovechkin got 5 and a game for kneeing tonight and ended up hurting himself and could be facing a suspension.
If he does get suspended, the suspension shouldn't start until he plays another game.
Not much of a punishment if he is already missing the games with an injury.
He has been playing a bit reckless and what goes around comes around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV62mzrjtLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fTelDUC-M

 

[Scenicdrive]

Ovechkin got 5 and a game for kneeing tonight and ended up hurting himself and could be facing a suspension.
If he does get suspended, the suspension shouldn't start until he plays another game.
Not much of a punishment if he is already missing the games with an injury.
He has been playing a bit reckless and what goes around comes around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV62mzrjtLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fTelDUC-M

Natural justice finally arrives!!!

 

[Lapper]

ovechkin's head is too big. as don cherry says, his days are numbered before someone gets him back.

 

[Malibook]

Washington Capitals' forward Alexander Ovechkin has been suspended two games after his knee-on-knee hit with Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Tim Gleason.

Ovechkin was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct on the play which left both players sprawled on the ice.

"I regret that this has happened," Ovechkin said in a statement. "I'm glad that Tim wasn't injured because I never ever want to see anyone get hurt. I am disappointed to miss these games and I can't wait to get back on the ice next week to help my team."

It was Ovechkin's second game misconduct in the last three games.

The Russian sniper is listed as day-to-day with a sore knee and skated for about five minutes before the start of Tuesday's practice.

"It's not a bad injury," Ovechkin told The Canadian Press. "I thought it was going to be worse, but thank God I can walk, I can skate. Of course, it's a little bit sore, but it's not that serious."

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=300686

 

[Kirk Lazarus]

What about Keith Ballard chopping his own goalie's head off? What a moron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETOshVnLO8&feature=player_embedded

 

[Scenicdrive]

Washington Capitals' forward Alexander Ovechkin has been suspended two games after his knee-on-knee hit with Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Tim Gleason.

Ovechkin was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct on the play which left both players sprawled on the ice.

"I regret that this has happened," Ovechkin said in a statement. "I'm glad that Tim wasn't injured because I never ever want to see anyone get hurt. I am disappointed to miss these games and I can't wait to get back on the ice next week to help my team."

It was Ovechkin's second game misconduct in the last three games.

The Russian sniper is listed as day-to-day with a sore knee and skated for about five minutes before the start of Tuesday's practice.

"It's not a bad injury," Ovechkin told The Canadian Press. "I thought it was going to be worse, but thank God I can walk, I can skate. Of course, it's a little bit sore, but it's not that serious."

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=300686

Guess what? Had the NHL morons, Colin Powell is one of them, suspended Ovechkin for boarding Kaleta, this knee on knee incident probably would not have happened as the chain of events would have been altered.

Ovechkin clearly boarded Kaleta with intent and recklessness endangerment. Judging from the video, Kaleta did not seemed to be awared that he was to be hit by Ovechkin. Although Kaleta was not badly hurt, the mens rea (guilty mind) was there to deserve suspension.

 

[The Oracle]

Guess what? Had the NHL morons, Colin Powell is one of them, suspended Ovechkin for boarding Kaleta, this knee on knee incident probably would not have happened as the chain of events would have been altered.

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If Colin Powell is handing out suspensions then I would expect military tribunal would be in order lol.