Update - Shea Weber does have a concussion, announced earlier today.
Update Two - I have received updated information on the controversy over the second goal last night. Neither ref made the call, they were assisted by the linesman who did see the puck cross the goal line, therefore the call on the ice was a good goal.
The Predators lost to Detroit last night 4-1, due mostly to a second period meltdown and the absence of their captain. On the day after Christmas, the Predators got a nasty surprise. Shea Weber has an “upper body injury.” After seeing the clip of Mark Fistric’s hit at the end of the Dallas game on Friday, well, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened.
What I wonder is why the NHL’s head of player safety didn’t seem to even recognize there was an issue. The prevailing sentiment among a lot of the media before yesterday’s game was that the Predators needed to make a bigger stink over it. My question is…
Why?
Why should the franchise have to lobby for the VP of Player Safety to do his job? The league office has a wonderful war room that captures every play of every game… so again I ask… WHY?
Take a look at the play yourself…
Fistric played last night so the offense will go unpunished with nothing but silence coming from the league office.
Shameful.
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Random Notes
- Another sellout at Bridgestone Arena last night. If my count is right, that was number nine.
- Still don’t understand the review call on the second Wings goal. No call signaled on the ice… according to Ryan Suter one of the refs made a “no goal” call. Then they changed their mind, and confirmed the call on the ice??? There WAS no call on the ice…
- Very impressed with Ryan Ellis last night (who, inexplicably, got a little bit of Twitter hate pregame.) He played a smart game. One thing I really noticed as he sat in the penalty box… he kept laser focused on the defensemen on the ice… you could almost see him making mental notes, learning what the team was doing, and how it was doing it. Then I saw him apply it as the game went on... Very smart player.
- ESPN’s SportsCenter does a Year in Review and in their review of deaths in sports for 2011 there is no mention of Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien or Wade Belak… and no mention of the Lokomotiv plane crash. Pathetic ESPN… simply pathetic, you cannot call yourselves the “Worldwide Leader” and not at least mention those stories.
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