Roenick acting tough? Was Chelios off camera?

FIGHT!

Jeez, Milbury vs Roenick. I'm cheering for meteor.

// if Milbury knew anything about hockey he'd still be a coach
// Roenick's right; he'd knew something about hits to the head, ne?

One of those guys on his own is too much. Together, they are unwatchable. Then again, I never watch intermissions or pre-game shows or the like. Pointless babble. And sometimes, as in the case of these two clowns, blatant ploys for attention and ratings.

And now I feel like a tool for caring enough to weigh in.

One great coach, one great player: but two total idiots when they get in front of a microphone.

Seriously, for our non-hockey readers, this is kinda like Craig James fighting Matt Millen.

RsquaredW: Jeez, Milbury vs Roenick. I'm cheering for meteor.

Agreed, it's impossible to pick a side here because they're equally loathsome and stupid.

Why the fark are Deadspin videos never able to be played at work?!?! Just a still picture, no option to play.

On a side note, I was expecting JR to start crying as he did when the Hawks won the cup because he's never hoisted one.

I don't think he got the head, but I'd still give a game suspension. If you have to go soft when you see a player turned towards the boards is in a vulnerable position, you have to go soft when you see a player is in a vulnerable position because he's reaching.

Meh, fighting will be gone from hockey within the next generation. USA Hockey and Hockey Canada are banning it, so it will eventually be weeded out of the younger players coming up.

I was at the game and didn't think it was even worthy of a 2min minor. Letang extended to get the puck, Nystrom connected with Letang's chest and shoulder, NOT his head.

/Pens fan
//JR made the right call
///Will offer to buy Milbury a Shirley Temple if I ever see him

Rev.K: Milbury versus JR?

Gotta take JR on that one and what would be extra fantastic is to see Milbury on Satellite Hotstove on CBC the following Saturday with a huge shiner.

I'm not sure who would win... does Milbury get to use his shoe?

I_Am_Weasel: Eh?

They're analysts roundtables are often like that, especially when Milbury is involved. Add in a dick like Roenick and it's going to happen. It would have been better if they added Nick Kypreos.

Can Damien Cox be there as well? You know, just for fun.

CommieTaoist: That was a surprisingly good game and it was interesting to hear everyone disagree about rather that was a suspendable play or not. I personally agree with the two minute penalty but don't think anything further should come from it. Of course the NHL has the final word and I've been pretty impressed with the explanation Shanahan has been giving in the Player Safety (new window) videos on NHL.com. A clear, concise explanation (even if you don't agree with it) is better than a one sentence press release that doesn't explain anything.

You know I've gone from being annoyed at Shanaban for being so harsh to being annoyed when he misses one, especially when it is a shot to the head. I'm a Blues fan and the number of concussions and "concussion like symptoms" experienced this year is ridiculous.

I do have to ask if there has just been an unusual number of them this year or in previous years they just continued to play on anyway.

One is an idiot and the other is stuck in an infinite loop.

Blatant embellishment anyway, his chin might have been grazed by the elbow pad at most...shouldn't be leaning in like that in a high collision area. Don't be a pussy and try to feather the puck ahead in the corner when you know a fore-check is coming. Cover up, protect yourself and the puck, strong play to move it out.

"Could" have been charging...not worthy at all of a suspension though. 2 minutes at most, but even I would say that was a stretch.

Mike Milbury is a boil on the ass of hockey and probably one of the worst GMs the game has ever seen. How anyone could mistake him for a hockey expert is beyond me.

dallylamma: Mike Milbury is a boil on the ass of hockey and probably one of the worst GMs the game has ever seen. How anyone could mistake him for a hockey expert is beyond me.

He's not there as an expert, he's there as a noisemaker.

Slaves2Darkness: I do have to ask if there has just been an unusual number of them this year or in previous years they just continued to play on anyway.

When you severely loosen the parameters of what constitutes a concussion, you will see a rise in cases. Just another case of the NHL putting kids mittens on all the watered-down talent that feels the need to skate everywhere with their head down, or in Letang's case, willing put themselves in jeopardy instead of protecting themselves.

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It used to be, "Hey, you see Nystrom bearing down on you, forget the puck a sec and brace for the hit."

Now it's, "Hey, you see Nystrom bearing down on you, he needs to slow up and stop and let you make whatever play you want unmolested."

And I'm sorry, all these newjack, Mighty Duck movie loving post lockout Crosby & Ovechkin pink hat fans who disagree can suck my shiat. That's how the game was played for almost a hundred years. If you don't like it, go watch women's hockey. If you play pro, you might get concussed. You might get farked up. To try to eliminate these from the game is useless. It comes with the territory. You can reduce the retarded, premeditated James Wisniewski dumbshiat. But these plays? Stop trying to make the NHL a squirt league. These are big boys who should have brains and talent enough to protect themselves. The Letang hit is a classic example this year of a player making a stupid choice/risky play and willfully putting himself in a compromising position. But that's Nystrom's fault, "he's headhunting". GTFO pink hats.

S.A.S.Q.U.A.T.C.H.: Slaves2Darkness: I do have to ask if there has just been an unusual number of them this year or in previous years they just continued to play on anyway.

When you severely loosen the parameters of what constitutes a concussion, you will see a rise in cases. Just another case of the NHL putting kids mittens on all the watered-down talent that feels the need to skate everywhere with their head down, or in Letang's case, willing put themselves in jeopardy instead of protecting themselves.

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It used to be, "Hey, you see Nystrom bearing down on you, forget the puck a sec and brace for the hit."

Now it's, "Hey, you see Nystrom bearing down on you, he needs to slow up and stop and let you make whatever play you want unmolested."

And I'm sorry, all these newjack, Mighty Duck movie loving post lockout Crosby & Ovechkin pink hat fans who disagree can suck my shiat. That's how the game was played for almost a hundred years. If you don't like it, go watch women's hockey. If you play pro, you might get concussed. You might get farked up. To try to eliminate these from the game is useless. It comes with the territory. You can reduce the retarded, premeditated James Wisniewski dumbshiat. But these plays? Stop trying to make the NHL a squirt league. These are big boys who should have brains and talent enough to protect themselves. The Letang hit is a classic example this year of a player making a stupid choice/risky play and willfully putting himself in a compromising position. But that's Nystrom's fault, "he's headhunting". GTFO pink hats.

You just made my favorites list.

Flappyhead: dallylamma: Mike Milbury is a boil on the ass of hockey and probably one of the worst GMs the game has ever seen. How anyone could mistake him for a hockey expert is beyond me.

He's not there as an expert, he's there as a noisemaker.

James Duthie at TSN said once that when Milbury worked at TSN they used to get him to shut-up by listing off his most infamous trades. Duthie said Mike would go off and pout giving the rest of the hockey panel 30 minutes of peace.

S.A.S.Q.U.A.T.C.H.: It used to be, "Hey, you see Nystrom bearing down on you, forget the puck a sec and brace for the hit."

Now it's, "Hey, you see Nystrom bearing down on you, he needs to slow up and stop and let you make whatever play you want unmolested."

And I'm sorry, all these newjack, Mighty Duck movie loving post lockout Crosby & Ovechkin pink hat fans who disagree can suck my shiat. That's how the game was played for almost a hundred years. If you don't like it, go watch women's hockey. If you play pro, you might get concussed. You might get farked up. To try to eliminate these from the game is useless. It comes with the territory. You can reduce the retarded, premeditated James Wisniewski dumbshiat. But these plays? Stop trying to make the NHL a squirt league. These are big boys who should have brains and talent enough to protect themselves. The Letang hit is a classic example this year of a player making a stupid choice/risky play and willfully putting himself in a compromising position. But that's Nystrom's fault, "he's headhunting". GTFO pink hats.


Yes.

S.A.S.Q.U.A.T.C.H.: And I'm sorry, all these newjack, Mighty Duck movie loving post lockout Crosby & Ovechkin pink hat fans who disagree can suck my shiat. That's how the game was played for almost a hundred years. If you don't like it, go watch women's hockey. If you play pro, you might get concussed. You might get farked up. To try to eliminate these from the game is useless. It comes with the territory. You can reduce the retarded, premeditated James Wisniewski dumbshiat. But these plays? Stop trying to make the NHL a squirt league.

Didn't look like a penalty at all. Shoulder to forearm and chest. Boards were irrelevant, no one ever made contact.

/My little girl plays squirts against the boys. Toughest kid out there.

Fighting is on its way out of hockey in the next decade. The junior leagues will be banning it this coming summer. The NHL should also expand the size of the ice to reduce the number of severe concussion causing hits.

The NHL will be better off when its best and most bankable athletes aren't being erased by concussions.

germ78: Fighting is on its way out of hockey in the next decade. The junior leagues will be banning it this coming summer. The NHL should also expand the size of the ice to reduce the number of severe concussion causing hits.

The NHL will be better off when its best and most bankable athletes aren't being erased by concussions.

F that...let those fancy European lads have their figure skating space. People like their villains, let em fight. Give me Ogie Ogilthorpe over Cindy Crosby any day.

Milbury is mouthy and ignorant, and JR is mouthy.

Don't forget that elbows to the head are okay when a Penguin does it.

WhiskeySticks: germ78: Fighting is on its way out of hockey in the next decade. The junior leagues will be banning it this coming summer. The NHL should also expand the size of the ice to reduce the number of severe concussion causing hits.

The NHL will be better off when its best and most bankable athletes aren't being erased by concussions.

F that...let those fancy European lads have their figure skating space. People like their villains, let em fight. Give me Ogie Ogilthorpe over Cindy Crosby any day.

Jonathan Toews is able to count to potato as a result of his concussion.

/the 'Hawks are very average, borderline bad without him.

germ78: The NHL should also expand the size of the ice to reduce the number of severe concussion causing hits.

Would be great. Players are much bigger/faster than they were back in the 30's and 40's when the ice size was set.

germ78: Fighting is on its way out of hockey in the next decade. The junior leagues will be banning it this coming summer. The NHL should also expand the size of the ice to reduce the number of severe concussion causing hits.

The NHL will be better off when its best and most bankable athletes aren't being erased by concussions.

Somebody didn't read the study that found the majority of concussions are caused by legal hits to the body Link (new window)

Should head hunting be outlawed? Of course, nobody here ever objected to that, but when over 40% of concussions are caused by clean, legal hits to the body I don't see how you are going to eliminate them. Hockey is a collision sport, injuries are going to happen. Oh, expanding the rinks may, MAY, reduce hit related injuries, but it'll ruin the game. Sportsnet broadcast Swedish Elite League games during the lockout, it was unwatchable garbage.

germ78: Fighting is on its way out of hockey in the next decade.

Start with making fighting an automatic 10 and game misconduct...make players really think before goading a fight just because they're sore about a previous hit in the game, or "want to lift their team's spirit" (one of the dumbest reasons to risk your face getting pounded in, ever).

I don't mind fighting at all, but at least 70% of the fights I see, and the "rationale" behind them that I can interpret, are petty or downright asinine.

Expanding the rink could also give a chance to get more speed going into your hit. Keep your head up, son!