Whata joke...what does Smith get for his flop job?
- keatondixon

The same as Giroux gets for all of his dives.

The same as Giroux gets for all of his dives.
- Oneonta Penguin

The same as Giroux gets for all of his dives.
- Oneonta Penguin

You might be the biggest hypocrite/moron I have ever seen on hockeybuzz

Please do us a favor and stop watching Hockey forever

so let me get this straight someone like lucic can completely run over ryan miller and concuss him and not be suspended, but when a player nudges a goalie they get suspended?

shanny needs to go.
- LizzyJo

Didn't Buffalo come out and admit that Miller was not concussed? It was more of a neck issue, if he was actually concussed he would have come right out of the game. Miller stayed in for the rest of the period at least, and if I remember correctly the entire next period. As a B's fan I believe Lucic should have gotten at least a game if not two, but let's stop changing the story about the a ailments caused by the hit

Didn't Buffalo come out and admit that Miller was not concussed? It was more of a neck issue, if he was actually concussed he would have come right out of the game. Miller stayed in for the rest of the period at least, and if I remember correctly the entire next period. As a B's fan I believe Lucic should have gotten at least a game if not two, but let's stop changing the story about the a ailments caused by the hit
- bdh1980

The Bruins Dr initially claimed it was only a neck issue but when Miller went back to Buffalo and was examined by other Dr's he was diagnosed with a concussion and was out for 12 games or so and even when he came back wasn't quite right until after the all star break.

So you're telling me that a team who's doctors probably have a better handle on concussions than any other team was wrong in their diagnosis, and only when he returned to Buffalo (where it benefitted them to call it a concussion) he was properly diagnosed. So he's a phenominal talent because he played much better than you'd expect from someone who had a concussion. A sore neck for a goalie would keep them out for that same amount of time. Don't forget the Bruins have dealt with severe concussions to Bergeron, and Savard. In addition to many other smaller concussions over the past few years. How many players with a concussion have you seen have the presence of mind to swing his stick like a weapon at the offending player, let alone get back up on their skates that quickly and start yelling at Lucic. Apparently Ryan Miller is a physical/neurological specimen and the league should ask him what he does so that concussions don't affect him like they do other players

“I feel good symptom-wise,” Miller told the Buffalo News. “It was more neck and something where I aggravated a disc in my neck pretty good and we had an MRI and CT-scan showing that which kind of backed that up and was the source of a lot of the tension and a lot of the discomfort.”


Just an an FYI, I can also cut and paste the part where he told the Buffalo news that they initially called it a concussion in an effort to get Lucic suspended

“I feel good symptom-wise,” Miller told the Buffalo News. “It was more neck and something where I aggravated a disc in my neck pretty good and we had an MRI and CT-scan showing that which kind of backed that up and was the source of a lot of the tension and a lot of the discomfort.”


Just an an FYI, I can also cut and paste the part where he told the Buffalo news that they initially called it a concussion in an effort to get Lucic suspended
- bdh1980

you mad bro?

I love to see a goalie get smacked when they are out, but I don't think they should be fair game in that trapezoid. This isn't like years ago where goalies would be in the corner every dump or come out to the top of the circle to play the puck. They have limited space and I think they shouldn't be a target when in it, out of it is fair game for me.
- Lahey

First sensible, non-blinded by homerism post in this thread, took me two pages to find it. First two-three pages are just angry fans who've either had a guy suspended or have seen an opposing player not suspended.

Shanahan is doing what everyone has always done before him - if you're a star, you get less than what you deserve, if you're a role player, you get more than you deserve.

To me, the only error he has made so far is only giving Neal one game, he should be out for two, one for each attempted killshot.

Weber giving Zetterberg a little ouchie on his delicate face is not worthy of a suspension. It would do no more damage than punching a guy in the face, and that would only be a roughing penalty.

Shaw maybe didn't deserve three games, but it was a clear message sent to everyone else - run the goalie and you're gone. To anyone comparing this to the Lucic incident, you're a total idiot. Smith was in his trapezoid, where the goalie is permitted to play the puck without being run over, and Shaw specifically leaned his body into Smith's head. It was comPLETEly intentional and deserved a suspension, whether or not it got called. Now, if Smith wants to skate out to the hashmarks and gets run over in a race for the puck, I say fair game. But a shot to the head inside the Crease or Trapezoid is worth a suspension.

Great job on the Hagelin, Backstrom and Asham suspensions.

Pretty clear precedents being set here:

- Crosschecks to the face will be suspended harshly.
- Elbows to the head will be suspended harshly.
- Blatant attempts to check a players head at speed will be suspended.
- Running a goalie in his crease or trapezoid will be suspended.
- over the top roughness will get a fine for the first offence, likely a suspension for the second (just a guess here, but if Weber stepped out of line again I think he'd sit for a game.)

I don't see what's so confusing about the guidelines, aside from everyone thinking their guy deserves less than the other guy.