The
@injuryninja visited the Boston Bruins again as both
Joe Corvo and Johnny Boychuck left the game on Saturday night after big hits. The
Chris Neil hit on Johnny Boychuck was clean, the Kyle Turris hit on Corvo was a dirty hit that warranted supplemental discipline from the NHL.
True to form the Senior VP of Player Safety and Hockey Operations
Brendan Shanahan did nothing again and proved that he is no better than the guy that preceded him. Hell, let's bring back the Colin
Campbell Wheel of Justice.
If we learned anything from Shanahan this season, we have learned that if you're a player that plays for the Boston Bruins or the
Minnesota Wild, don't expect the NHL to protect you, because your fair game and the NHL isn't going to do anything a player that takes a run at a player from either team.
The
Boston Bruins now have three to four players on the shelf with post concussion type syndrome. In my opinion, three of the four hits where of questionable and of the dirty variety, lets review the hits, there was the
Tom Sestito hit on Nathan Horton, the sneaky elbow by
Hal Gill on Richard Peverly and of course the elbow by
Kyle Turris on Joe Corvo (video embedded above) all questionable hits that should have warranted some kind of supplemental discipline in my opinion., I mean the could have at least humored us and given the offenders the max fine.
This morning while I was reading my twitter feed today I saw this tweet come up today. Apparently,
Joe Corvo is expecting Kyle Turris to answer the bell and fight him on Tuesday Night. That ought to be an entertaining slap feast that will be an instant non classic on Youtube.com
Personally, I would rather see
Milan Lucic beat Kyle Turris to a pulp so the Boston Bruins can send a mess that it's not acceptable to run one of their players, especially if the League isn't going to protect them.
With all of the talk from the hand wringing puritans that want to banning fighting in the NHL, lets point out to them, that none of the four players listed above suffered a head injury from a hockey fight, three of the four player were hit and concussed with questionable, dirty checks, that I would classify as bush league and hits that need to be eliminated from the game of hockey.
