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01-19-2010 01:40 PM #31
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01-19-2010 06:16 PM #32
David Branch was just on OTR and he said that there is an agreement between the OHL and NHL/AHL to honour suspensions both ways. Liambas is playing in the IHL and Branch said that he had a converstaion with the commish of that league about how he feels about Liambas having the opportunity to play so soon after that incident. He would not go into more details about their conversation.
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01-19-2010 07:34 PM #33
Maybe someone was reading our posts here ...OK very unlikely.
TMAC, I completely agree with you that this was not a hockey play at all. All I was saying about some things injuring some players and not others is that a league can't base what is and isn't a punishable offence because someone was/wasn't injured. That's why I think the extra 2 minutes if you draw blood on a high sticking call is BS. Some people get cut and bleed a lot easier than others. If a stick hits someone in the head, it should be a big penalty no matter what. Same thing with Cormier...there might be a player or 2 (probably not but maybe) that wouldn't have been in convulsions on the ice, however that shouldn't change the opinion of what the act was, and that is a disgusting mess.While I'd like to play better, I have zero interest in practicing.
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01-19-2010 07:40 PM #34
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01-19-2010 07:43 PM #35
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01-25-2010 11:55 AM #36
Reports have Cormier gone for the rest of the season and the playoffs. Fitting.
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01-25-2010 05:46 PM #37
yes, it sounds fair to me, based on the intent to injure and malicious intent he showed. A bonus to the decision handed down is that the Devils have publicly said they would honour the suspension, which sounds like they won't allow him to play on their AHL affiliate, which I think is the right thing to do.
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01-26-2010 10:59 PM #38
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01-26-2010 11:17 PM #39
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01-27-2010 12:18 AM #40
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01-27-2010 11:05 AM #41
my bad. i was too eager to jump Lou L.
You only get out of something what you put into it
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01-27-2010 12:46 PM #42
I don't want to sound patronising but I'm not sure you fully undersatand the law in this example. Assault, as this surely was, is a criminal offence not a civil offence. Therefore it is up to the state to indict the accused, no-one has to "press charges". If the police believe there has been a criminal act committed they can investigate and the Crown proscecution service can decide whether to charge the accused or not.
Just because something happens on ice, or a rugby field, or a football field field does not make it exempt from the law. This is what the rule of law means...the law applies to EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE even hockey players. Obviously there is risk you have implicitely consented to by taking part in sport (otherwise boxers would be arrested after every fight) but that implied consent only covers actions intergral and acceptable to the sport. I believe this hit was way beyond that. I would have absolutely no sympathing if he was criminally charged here. If someone did this in a bar, or on the street, he would/should be charged.
As you mentioned, all this sympathy/discussion on what should happen to the perpetrator and little discussion of the victim. If he serves his season suspension, big deal, he'll be back. His victim (much like Moore) could have had his career ended or worse because of this cowardly, premeditated assualt that has absolutely NO place in sport.
sorry for the rant
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