uhhh OK montreal?

Drop The Leash 10

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nhl/ne ... id=6201094

you gotta be fuckin with me, right? a criminal investigation? i thought hockey in canada was old school and tough? guess players policing themselves is outta the question. the nhl didnt even suspend chara! i can see if it was a dirty hit but it was a tough play.

pjhawks

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nhl/news/story?id=6201094

you gotta be fuckin with me, right? a criminal investigation? i thought hockey in canada was old school and tough? guess players policing themselves is outta the question. the nhl didnt even suspend chara! i can see if it was a dirty hit but it was a tough play.

canadians' chris chelios hit on brian propp back in the late 80s was a much worse hit than this.

LloydXmas

That hit was shit. I've seen much worse

sparky_fry

pjhawks wrote:

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nhl/news/story?id=6201094

you gotta be fuckin with me, right? a criminal investigation? i thought hockey in canada was old school and tough? guess players policing themselves is outta the question. the nhl didnt even suspend chara! i can see if it was a dirty hit but it was a tough play.

canadians' chris chelios hit on brian propp back in the late 80s was a much worse hit than this.

the difference is this is 2011, and propp was not seriously injured (only missed one game). But i agree, the nhl is trying to clean up the game, but this is overkill.

Drop The Leash 10

when canadian marc savard got leveled last season, no one said anything! why? oh that's right, they didn't say a word because it wasn't one of a fucking montreal canadien that had to be boarded off the ice.

LloydXmas

sparky_fry wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nhl/news/story?id=6201094

you gotta be fuckin with me, right? a criminal investigation? i thought hockey in canada was old school and tough? guess players policing themselves is outta the question. the nhl didnt even suspend chara! i can see if it was a dirty hit but it was a tough play.

canadians' chris chelios hit on brian propp back in the late 80s was a much worse hit than this.

the difference is this is 2011, and propp was not seriously injured (only missed one game). But i agree, the nhl is trying to clean up the game, but this is overkill.

ESPNZ has some fault in this. They'll drag out a non story for days.

Break The Sky

This is a picture of Chara pushing max pacioretty's head into the partition. The puck right now is somewhere near Carry Price. Anyone who can say this was a clean hit has more brain trauma than Pacioretty right now.

Break The Sky

I don't get the criminal investigation. I'm not sure if they're trying to get Chara an alibi or something. I mean, 21,000 people were there and saw the hit.

I don't get the no suspension either, so, I guess there's just a lot about this situation I don't get.

Drop The Leash 10

Big Drop wrote:

This is a picture of Chara pushing max pacioretty's head into the partition. The puck right now is somewhere near Carry Price. Anyone who can say this was a clean hit has more brain trauma than Pacioretty right now.

it was an interference penalty with a dose of harsh luck.

jprom

lol!!!! thats true... This was NOT a clean hit!!! He broke a bone in his NECK!!!! HE ALMOST DIED!!!! what the hell do you need more.

Break The Sky

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

Big Drop wrote:

This is a picture of Chara pushing max pacioretty's head into the partition. The puck right now is somewhere near Carry Price. Anyone who can say this was a clean hit has more brain trauma than Pacioretty right now.

it was an interference penalty with a dose of harsh luck.

Right I get it. If that play happened anywhere else on the ice Pacioretty isn't going to be a vegetable. Only it happened at the partition, and Chara pushed his head into it. How sick do you have to be to defend Chara when Pacioretty is eating dinner through an IV?

LloydXmas

Im not gonna repeat everything Mr Mullet said but what is that turnbuckle doing there?

Break The Sky

I don't know if this is devil's advocate on your side or if you're actually a Bruins fan, but it's devil's advocate over here. When Matt Cooke took an obvious run at Savard and damn near killed him, was it interference with harsh luck? If you're looking for a difference between the two hits there isn't one. They were both intentional.

Drop The Leash 10

Big Drop wrote:

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

Big Drop wrote:

This is a picture of Chara pushing max pacioretty's head into the partition. The puck right now is somewhere near Carry Price. Anyone who can say this was a clean hit has more brain trauma than Pacioretty right now.

it was an interference penalty with a dose of harsh luck.

Right I get it. If that play happened anywhere else on the ice Pacioretty isn't going to be a vegetable. Only it happened at the partition, and Chara pushed his head into it. How sick do you have to be to defend Chara when Pacioretty is eating dinner through an IV?

IT'S FUCKING HOCKEY. SHIT HAPPENS! you really honestly think chara would do that intentionally? no! simple answer. i never thought i'd see the day where canadian hockey fans would cry about a hit.

Break The Sky

BabaBooey1979 wrote:

Im not gonna repeat everything Mr Mullet said but what is that turnbuckle doing there?

The partition is there to keep the two teams separated on the benches, and to create space between the benches for color and analysts. So if the defense is, the partition shouldn't have been there, I'd say you're clutching at straws.

Break The Sky

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

IT'S FUCKING HOCKEY. SHIT HAPPENS! you really honestly think chara would do that intentionally? no! simple answer. i never thought i'd see the day where canadian hockey fans would cry about a hit.

Well, that's where you're wrong, because that's not part of the game. It's the players responsibility to make sure shit doesn't happen. I'm sure Pacioretty's parents are taking solace in knowing that their son is a vegetable because shit happens. Hope you never have a love one get clipped by a drunk driver. . . because shit happens.

Drop The Leash 10

Big Drop wrote:

I don't know if this is devil's advocate on your side or if you're actually a Bruins fan, but it's devil's advocate over here. When Matt Cooke took an obvious run at Savard and damn near killed him, was it interference with harsh luck? If you're looking for a difference between the two hits there isn't one. They were both intentional.

well that's just it. i am a bruins fan. through and through. there was no intention. it's a faced paced game they were flying up the ice. i agree you have to know where you are and maybe chara should've been a little more aware but you can't justify it as an intentional or dirty hit. let alone, open a criminal investigation.

Phantom Pain

Big Drop wrote:

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

IT'S FUCKING HOCKEY. SHIT HAPPENS! you really honestly think chara would do that intentionally? no! simple answer. i never thought i'd see the day where canadian hockey fans would cry about a hit.

Well, that's where you're wrong, because that's not part of the game. It's the players responsibility to make sure shit doesn't happen. I'm sure Pacioretty's parents are taking solace in knowing that their son is a vegetable because shit happens. Hope you never have a love one get clipped by a drunk driver. . . because shit happens.

The last I heard the guy was talking and coherent with a bad concussion and broken vertabrae

Using the term vegetable is a bit ridiculous...there are people that are actually in that state thats not a term you should just throw around to make a joke

Break The Sky

Big Drop wrote:

Well, that's where you're wrong, because that's not part of the game. It's the players responsibility to make sure shit doesn't happen. I'm sure Pacioretty's parents are taking solace in knowing that their son is a vegetable because shit happens. Hope you never have a love one get clipped by a drunk driver. . . because shit happens.

And I obviously don't mean that, because I would never wish that upon anyone. I just don't get how anyone can defend Chara right now. The NHL has corporate sponsors threatening to withdrawal funding if this sort of thing doesn't end soon.

The first time someone puts the puck over the glass, they don't get a pass on delay of game because they're not known for delay of game penalties. It just blows my mind how to blatantly obvious dirty hit gets swept under the rug because Chara, "Doesn't have a history of being a dirty player."

Break The Sky

Phantom Pain wrote:

Using the term vegetable is a bit ridiculous...there are people that are actually in that state thats not a term you should just throw around to make a joke

He's got a fractured vertebrae, a broken neck, and a severe concussion, and you're calling me out for sensationalism?

I can't blame you, Chara would fit in just great with the Flyers.

sparky_fry

I will agree that it is a dirty hit. But on any given night there are mutiple dirty hits, the only difference is if the player gets hurt or not. If he shook of the hit, we wouldn't be talking about this right now. It is hockey, this stuff does happen, sure its dirty, but a criminal investigation??? get outta here.