(5) Philadelphia Flyers vs (4) Pittsburgh Penguins Round 1: There will be blood

[soulxflare]

Puh-lease don't bring Mario into this. I'm sure he's just thrillllled with the way the series has gone. The team made HIM look like a fool today...that won't fly. If I were him I'd stampede into the lockerroom and flip tables.

I like Mario, I always have, but this team is a reflection on him. If he continues to allow them to play like cheap thugs, then he's a hypocrite.

 

[awaz]

Puh-lease don't bring Mario into this. I'm sure he's just thrillllled with the way the series has gone. The team made HIM look like a fool today...that won't fly. If I were him I'd stampede into the lockerroom and flip tables.

i agree w/ this.. i hope he did.. mario is a classy dude and matt cooke is proof he's not about that kind of play

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

Did Adams get tossed for 3rd man in like Dubinski?

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]

Lil Bizz is really enjoying this series

He's out in the garage, firing slapshots and looking for someone to fight.

He's inspired.

Atta boy

 

[Dacks]

If Giroux isn't hurt, Neal won't be suspended. Unless it was a clearcut headshot, I haven't seen a clip yet.

Asham will be. Adams probably at least a fine, and maybe more depending on how the Carkner ruling went.

 

[sbb122]

So what does Grossman get for kneeing Neal?

 

[SLY]

any clips of the end of the game? I missed the fun in the 3rd.

 

[soulxflare]

If Giroux isn't hurt, Neal won't be suspended. Unless it was a clearcut headshot, I haven't seen a clip yet.

Asham will be. Adams probably at least a fine, and maybe more depending on how the Carkner ruling went.

He left his feet hitting Couturier. That, if I'm not mistaken, is usually an automatic suspension.

 

[Dacks]

Mario can't control when players lose their minds. Cooke had a consistent history - he was sent a message, and he's shaped up.

Adams doesn't usually pull that shit. Neal either.

I could see Asham being let go though. Just a few too many instances to defend, and that crosscheck was the worst of the day.

 

[Darkstone42]

He left his feet hitting Couturier. That, if I'm not mistaken, is usually an automatic suspension.

No, it's an automatic 2-minute charging. There was no contact to the head, so I don't see anything coming from that hit.

 

[soulxflare]

So what does Grossman get for kneeing Neal?

There was no intent to injure there, and he (correctly) got penalized for it.

 

[awaz]

I don't think Neal has ever been suspended, and neither player seemed seriously hurt, which I am sure he will factor in.

i hopeful that they wont botch this, but you're so right it hurts.

 

[PhillyPhaithful48]

So what does Grossman get for kneeing Neal?

The same thing Vitale got for kneeing Grossman

Knee-on-knee hits in the NHL are up, starting in Pittsburgh - Broad Street Hockey

 

[sbb122]

He left his feet hitting Couturier. That, if I'm not mistaken, is usually an automatic suspension.

Then Nicklas Kronwall would have been out of the league 3 years ago...

 

[sbb122]

There was no intent to injure there, and he (correctly) got penalized for it.

Exactly, so the only person who should and will get suspended today is Asham. No doubt Neal's hit was idiotic but i doubt he gets suspended.

 

[awaz]

So what does Grossman get for kneeing Neal?

i wouldn't be outraged if he got a game either.. that's nasty shit

that being said and the rest of the game occuring, i wish he blew neal's knee apart so he wasn't around to go after people's lives later in the game

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

So what does Grossman get for kneeing Neal?

Precedent set on that when Orpik got nothing.

Grossman gets nothing.

 

[Darkstone42]

Exactly, so the only person who should and will get suspended today is Asham. No doubt Neal's hit was idiotic but i doubt he gets suspended.

Adams might be for throwing punches from behind.

Pending another view of the Neal hit on Giroux, I'll reserve judgement on him.

 

[pixburgher66]

I like Mario, I always have, but this team is a reflection on him. If he continues to allow them to play like cheap thugs, then he's a hypocrite.

You're right in that this reflects TERRIBLY on him, but it doesn't make him a hypocrite...because he's not the coach or the player going out there and doing it. I think there'll be a change though in the mentality of the team coming up...because something is WAY wrong right now. The D will be shaken up this summer, no doubt.

 

[soulxflare]

Exactly, so the only person who should and will get suspended today is Asham. No doubt Neal's hit was idiotic but i doubt he gets suspended.

Sadly, I doubt anyone gets suspended. If Weber and Carkner didn't get a game, I don't know what you'd have to do....