Sabres forward John Scott will have his in person hearing with NHL Department of Player Safety next Thursday for his head hit on Loui Eriksson.
Scott has never been suspended by the NHL.com.
He is not a repeat offender.
Here's the hit in question:
On Thursday, Scott spoke about this regrets about the hit on Eriksson.
Thanks, WGRZ.com
Here's the NHL's statement:
Buffalo Sabres left wing John Scott will have a hearing with the NHL Department of Player Safety on Thursday, Oct. 31 for a hit on Boston Bruins forward Loui Eriksson during the game Oct. 23 at First Niagara Center.
Scott was offered the opportunity for an in-person hearing as required by provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for any suspension that can exceed five games.
At 5:49 of the third period, Scott came across the ice and hit Eriksson in the neutral zone after Eriksson had moved the puck. Scott received a match penalty for illegal check to the head, as well a five-minute fighting major for an altercation with Boston's Adam McQuaid that followed the play.
Eriksson received assistance leaving the ice and did not return. The Bruins announced Thursday that Eriksson has a concussion and is out indefinitely.
The following grounds are being considered for supplemental discipline: Illegal check to the head. The Department of Player Safety retains the right to make adjustments to the infraction upon review.
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Tired of the 2012-13 Buffalo Sabres already? Dreaming of a Darcy Regier blockbuster trade? It could happen. History has a way of repeating itself.
22 years ago today, the Buffalo Sabres seized the opportunity to acquire a dynamic, future Hall of Fame centerman and some other key contributors. They had to trade a former first overall pick in th ethe NHL draft and a few good men in orderto seal the deal. So be it.
Pat LaFontaine was well worth it! If you are an NHL GM, you do whatever you have to do and trader whomever you have to in orderto acquire a difference maker of LaFontaine’s ilk. Patty was was the best player on very bad Islanders team (25–45–10). In the 1990-91 season. LaFontaine saw the great times having gotten to the Islanders just as their early ’80s Stanley Cup winning dynasty had just ended in 1984 whenWayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers stole the torch from the Islanders. He saw the terrible times, too. In the Fakk of 1991, LaFontaine gave the thumbs down to a four year, $6 million contract offer from the Islanders. He promptly said no and the held out of training camp and the beginning of the season. Let me say it again: 4 years and $6 million TOTAL!!! Not per season. TOTAL dollars. Sorry, Islanders. Pat LaFontaine is not a $1.5 AAV player.
On October 25, 1991, LaFontaine got his wish and was traded, along with Randy Wood and Randy Hillier to Buffalo for former first overall pick Pierre Turgeon, Uwe Krupp, Benoit Hogue, and Dave McLlwain.
In 1987-88, Turgeon scored 14 goals and added 28 assists his rookie season in Buffalo. The Sabres made the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. Turgeon blew up during his sophomore season, scoring 88 points on 34 Gs and 54 As. In his third season, “Sneaky Pete” became an NHL star when he scored 106 points (40 goals, 66 assists). He cooled off the following season by scoring only 79 points (32 Gs, 47 As).
LaFontaine stuck it to the Islanders by scoring a career best and Sabres franchise high 148 points (53 Gs and 95 A’s). His 148 points are still the most points ever scored by an U.S born NHL player in one season. LaFontaine was the perfect partner in crime fror Russian rock star Alexander Mogilny who himslef set a Sabres scoring record record with 76 goals that season.
Per Wikipedia, LaFontaine is one of five players in NHL history to skate for all three teams based in the state of New York. The others were Mike Donnelly Jason Dawe Martin Biron and Taylor Pyatt. Unique amongst them, LaFontaine played his entire career in the state of New York while Donnelly, Pyatt, Biron and Dawe all played for additional teams outside the state in their careers. LaFontaine once joked about it, saying "I think I'm the only player in history who has been traded twice and hasn't had to change his license plate.
The 2013-14 Buffalo Sabres sure could use another Pat LaFonatine right about now.
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The clock is ticking on Patrick Kaleta’s secondary appeal process. Will the Sabres winger be the first player to activate his appeal to a neutral discipline arbitrator?
Kaleta still has six days to make his decision to pursue his appeal or to drop it and accept his 10 game suspension. He’s already missed 7 games, when you include tonight’s game in Sunrise, Florida. Game 8 will be tomorrow night in Tampa. Game 9 will be Monday night at home vs. his former head coach Lindy Ruff and his Dallas Stars. Game 10 will be on 10/31 vs. the NY Rangers. Kaleta is eligible to return to the Buffalo lineup on Saturday November 2 when the Sabres host the Anaheim Ducks.
Agent Anton Thun said Kaleta's camp will decide by Friday afternoon whether to appeal Bettman's decision to uphold 10-game suspension.
On Thursday, Kaleta’s appeal of his 10 game suspension was denied by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who made it clear in his seventeen page summary of the Kaleta case that he and the NHL are none to impressed with Kaleta’s pattern of behavioral repetition:
"Regrettably, Mr. Kaleta stands out for his repeated violations of — and seeming indifference to — the Playing Rules put in place to protect other Players, and, particularly, other Players’ heads,” Bettman wrote. “Specifically, Mr. Kaleta has committed a series of other serious, head-related Playing Rule violations in each of the four most recent prior seasons.”
Ryan Miller play tonight in Sunrise. Tim Thomas is injured.
However, two Swedes will get it on instead. Jhonas Enroth will face young Markstrom.
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John Scott has an in-person hearing with the NHL Department of player Safety to answer for his hit to the head of Bruins winger Loui Erikssoon. Scott violated NHL Rule 48 for making his opponent's head the principle point of contact. Thats the rule.
Why then does Bruins captain Zdeno Chara get to skate Scott Free? Chara blasted San Jose forward Tommy Wingels in the head on Thursday night. Wingels would leave the ice under duress and would not return for the rest of the game. No penalty was called on the play.
According to the NHL , Chara is not scheduled to face a disciplinary hearing for his hit on Wingels.
Thanks, CSN
Boston. Typical.
To me, this Chara head hit, and thats what it was, is a perfect combination of the Patrick Kaleta hit on Jack Johnson and the John Scott hit on Loui Eriksson.
Not even a whisper of a suspension or even a fine for repeat offender Chara.
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