Chicago’s Dan Carcillo has been suspended 7 games for boarding Edmonton’s Tom Gilbert [link]. Gilbert missed the Oiler’s next game and is listed as day-to-day.
Carcillo is a repeat offender (and a goon) – he was suspended 2 games for this hit on Carolina’s Pittkanen on 10/28. Guest Starring Rob Blake!!
Calgary’s Rene Bourque got a 5-game ban [link] and a lifetime spot on my s&%$ list for his elbow to the precious face of Nicklas Backstrom. You all saw it, and I don’t want to watch it again. As mentioned yesterday, Bourque is also a repeat offender for this hit on Chicago’s Brent Seabrook in December that got him suspended for two.
Dale Hunter gave no conclusive update on Backstrom yesterday, but his brother posted an update to Twitter:
This was obviously not team-sanctioned news and was quickly taken down. Silly people with inside info, you are not publicists! But no worries, because Nicky participated in a full practice this morning and is expected to make the Caps trip to San Jose today, for the game Saturday.
It’s not just elbows and knees getting people into trouble. The Panthers’ Krys Barch has been suspended 1 game for an alleged racial slur against PK Subban. The remark was overhead by a linesman during Saturday’s game and Barch was ejected [link]. There are a lot of things we’d like to say to PK Subban, but none of them are that. And all of them come after, “Can we have Stamkos’ number?” I’m sure there’s a lot of hearsay in this case, but this argument is looking pretty valid:
And Rangers’ coach John Tortorella was fined by the NHL after some pretty inflammatory comments following Monday’s Winter Classic:
“I’m not sure if NBC got together with the refs or what to turn this into an overtime game,” Tortorella said Monday. “For two good refs, I thought the game was reffed horribly. I’m not sure what happened there.”Maybe they wanted to get into overtime. I’m not sure if they had meetings about that or what. But we stood in there. I don’t want to … because they are good guys. I just thought it was, in that third period, it was disgusting.” [link]
Torts apologized and will fork over $30k for the outburst. New Yorkers will love him more.
Hey! I'm walking here!
So, anyone else want to have a go today? Got some leftover 2011 aggro hanging around? Let it go, it’s a new year.
Tags: calgary flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Daniel Carcillo, Florida Panthers, john tortorella, krys barch, New York Rangers, nicklas backstrom, pk subban, rene bourque, washington capitals
I go back and forth on Carcillo. I mean, I think he’s here to fill our need for a physical forward, and yes, he’s done that, but not in the way I wanted him to. If it were possible to clone Jamal Mayers, I would totally do it. He throws hits and he fights every game, but they’re clean hits (I can’t remember any suspensions this year) and his fights always have a purpose. (Or if they don’t have a purpose, they’re well disguised because the team usually seems to have more heart afterwards.)
AND YOU GET A SUSPENSION!
AND YOU GET A SUSPENSION!
AND YOU GET A SUSPENSION!
It’s like Oprah up in here.
Except to me it sounds like:
ONUS on this player!
ONUS on that player!
ONUS!
ONUS!
ONUS!
… time to find a new word, Brendan.
That word looks even funnier in writing.
I can’t believe Bourque has been acting the way he has. I watched him play in the minors and he was never a dirty player like he is turning out to be. He was an offensive threat and even won the AHL rookie of the year award the year he played in Norfolk. I remember one game, he skated back to the bench and there was this thing hanging from his face…turned out to be half his chin that was sliced open and was hanging around waiting to be stitched up!
In totally unrelated news, Intern Jeff Skinner has been enjoying his “time off”. He was up in the press box during the Canes game on Tuesday having the best time watching the game and laughing his cute little ass off with the other boys who were up there as well. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Jeff have such a good time!!!