Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs

[sneakypower]

12 minutes into next game, Shanny enters the visitor's locker room and says "OK, you may go play now."

[jersey cubs fan]

Torres is suspended indefinitely. Hearing Friday. I'd set the over/under at 15 and take the over.

 

I will take the under.

 

He moved it to Friday in hopes that there will be news of improvement of Hossa's health, therefore increasing his opportunity to have a reduced suspension. Shanahan is a moron and the league desperately wants the Coyotes to stay in Phoenix.

[Magnetic Curses]

if the suspension does not at all fit the crime, then you have to take somebody and run them at whitney or doan until they are injured.

[jersey cubs fan]

I hope Shanahan realizes the Hossa injury is on his shoulders. When he completely negated all of the tough talk on suspensions and safety with that ridiculous fine he made it very clear to all players that all bets are off and head hunting was back in season. You can't give the players that kind of clear signal and expect them to interpret it in any other way. A swift punishment with suspension right then and there and you cut back significantly on what came next.

[gflore34]

Torres is suspended indefinitely. Hearing Friday. I'd set the over/under at 15 and take the over.

 

I will take the under.

 

He moved it to Friday in hopes that there will be news of improvement of Hossa's health, therefore increasing his opportunity to have a reduced suspension. Shanahan is a moron and the league desperately wants the Coyotes to stay in Phoenix.

 

Why is a hearing necessary? What can Torres or Tippet say in defense that won't completely be refuted by the visual evidence? Shanahan' looking for a reason to lessen the suspension.

[jersey cubs fan]

Torres is suspended indefinitely. Hearing Friday. I'd set the over/under at 15 and take the over.

 

I will take the under.

 

He moved it to Friday in hopes that there will be news of improvement of Hossa's health, therefore increasing his opportunity to have a reduced suspension. Shanahan is a moron and the league desperately wants the Coyotes to stay in Phoenix.

 

Why is a hearing necessary? What can Torres or Tippet say in defense that won't completely be refuted by the visual evidence? Shanahan' looking for a reason to lessen the suspension.

 

It's a player's right to have a hearing, I assume, bargaining into the CBA.

[Banedon]

Hossa is out for Game 4.

 

"There's no change from where the (news) release was (Tuesday night) to where he is today," Quenneville said Wednesday at the United Center. "He's home resting.

 

"I'm going to rule him out (for Game 4)."

 

When asked if Hossa's injury could be long term, Quenneville said: "We'll see."

[kujay]

Torres is suspended indefinitely. Hearing Friday. I'd set the over/under at 15 and take the over.

 

I will take the under.

 

He moved it to Friday in hopes that there will be news of improvement of Hossa's health, therefore increasing his opportunity to have a reduced suspension. Shanahan is a moron and the league desperately wants the Coyotes to stay in Phoenix.

 

Well he's out for Game 4 and there likely won't be a decision on Game 5 by Friday (unless it's just obvious he's done for the year or something), so I don't think there will be resolution on his condition prior to the hearing.

 

I'll take the under on 15.

[kujay]

Oh, and Q said Saad is in tomorrow night.

 

Does say much for Brendan Morrison.

[UMFan83]

I hope Shanahan realizes the Hossa injury is on his shoulders. When he completely negated all of the tough talk on suspensions and safety with that ridiculous fine he made it very clear to all players that all bets are off and head hunting was back in season. You can't give the players that kind of clear signal and expect them to interpret it in any other way. A swift punishment with suspension right then and there and you cut back significantly on what came next.

 

I completely agree that Shanahan deserves a big chunk of the blame here. The Blackhawks have really gotten shafted by his decisions this playoffs, from giving Shaw a 5 minute major and essentially a 4 game suspension, to not suspending Weber, which led to the type of intentional injury that Hossa received, to the ref somehow missing a malicious illegal hit right in front of him and not penalizing him.

 

So far the Hawks have lost 3.5 games of Shaw, at the very minimum 3 games from Hossa (including him missing most of game 3) and 10 minutes of power play time against them (5 minutes that Shaw served, and 5 minutes not given for Torres)

 

Is that an acceptable penalty for what Shaw did? Since Shanahan is all about using outside factors in his rulings, maybe he should take into account that his rulings made this happen, and that Torres was able to play the rest of the game unpenalized. It sickens me that goon was allowed to continue playing in the game.

[UMFan83]

In an unrelated but still depressing note, is anyone else worried that with all the talk about the Hawks not being physical enough, Bowman goes into his second offseason planning to 'toughen up' the Hawks? Hopefully he will blame most of it on Carcillo's injury and actually address improving the team this summer.

[kujay]

And what does Dave Tippett want to talk about today? Keith's hit on Danielle.

 

Of course.

 

I think I hate that dude more now than I hate(d) Laviolette.

[kujay]

In an unrelated but still depressing note, is anyone else worried that with all the talk about the Hawks not being physical enough, Bowman goes into his second offseason planning to 'toughen up' the Hawks? Hopefully he will blame most of it on Carcillo's injury and actually address improving the team this summer.

 

What he can do is sign guys that can actually skate enough to keep up with our skill guys, unlike Brunette and O'Donnell.

 

Mayers was a good signing, and I think Carcillo was too.

[SouthSideRyan]

 

So far the Hawks have lost 3.5 games of Shaw, at the very minimum 3 games from Hossa (including him missing most of game 3) and 10 minutes of power play time against them (5 minutes that Shaw served, and 5 minutes not given for Torres)

 

And the 2 minutes hilariously penalizing us after the Torres hit.

[UMFan83]

I wish there was a way that the refs would be allowed to go back and review all situations where a hard check injures a player to determine if the hit was illegal.

 

On paper it seems like a good idea, but its pretty obvious player would feign injuries in order to make sure illegal hits got called, or sketchy ones get looked at closer. It just makes me so mad that we had to go on the PP immediately after one of our best players was unable to move for several minutes and carted off the ice in a stretcher because of a blatently illegal hit. That should not happen and I wish there was a way to prevent that in the future.

[Prizefight]

Dave Tippett might just be an [expletive].

 

 

So is Ray Whitney.

[kujay]

Still pissed. Just kill someone please.

[bcl412]

Still pissed. Just kill someone please.

 

Me too. No in game punishment (aka 5:00 powerplay that we should have gotten) and even with a suspension, losing Hossa hurts the Hawks more than losing Torres hurts them. They took out the Hawks best scorer and there is a good chance it wins them the series. It sucks.

[Magnetic Curses]

Still pissed. Just kill someone please.

 

kill whitney, kill him dead. then kill doan.

 

it's literally the only way you can put yourself back in the series.

[Magnetic Curses]

The Iron Sheik ‏ @the_ironsheik Reply Retweet Favorite · Open

Raffi Torres have to play cheap only because he mexican and mexican dont know how to play real way ask the @JoseCanseco #teamsheikie

[Theo]

In an unrelated but still depressing note, is anyone else worried that with all the talk about the Hawks not being physical enough, Bowman goes into his second offseason planning to 'toughen up' the Hawks? Hopefully he will blame most of it on Carcillo's injury and actually address improving the team this summer.

I'm worried because Bowman appears to have no clue. The only thing he has proven is being able to dump bad contracts

[UMFan83]

Former NHL player and current Phoenix Coyotes broadcaster Tyson Nash says he's received death threats after saying a questionable hit by Coyotes forward Raffi Torres on Chicago Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa was "as clean of a hit as you're going to get."

 

"You have to love the Twitter world," Nash told "The Waddle and Silvy Show" Wednesday morning on ESPN 1000. "I had a few people mentioning they'll be meeting me for breakfast, so we'll see how that goes."

 

Nash said that as the fourth broadcast entity for Game 3 Tuesday at United Center, he didn't get a chance to see a good replay until Blackhawks announcer Eddie Olczyk brought him into the home television booth and showed him. Olczyk confirmed the exchange.

 

"I wish I didn't say what I said," Nash said. "You have to pick more of a middle ground. When you see Hossa lying there longer and longer, you say, 'Oh jeez, let's really take a closer look at this.' I thought he was going to get right back up. Obviously that wasn't the case."

 

Originally, Nash said he didn't "have a problem with this (the hit)," but admitted Torres' feet left the ice and his left shoulder hit Hossa's jaw.

[Soul]

Still pissed. Just kill someone please.

 

:)

 

Yes.

[Magnetic Curses]

17 Apr The Iron Sheik ‏ @the_ironsheik Reply Retweet Favorite · Open

Raffi Torres [expletive] ultimate warrior mom with paint on her face while he wear mask of the obama #teamsheikie

17 Apr The Iron Sheik ‏ @the_ironsheik Reply Retweet Favorite · Open

Raffi Torres have worse dog breath than the mexican @JoseCanseco they both need to cheap ass themself together till they die

17 Apr The Iron Sheik ‏ @the_ironsheik Reply Retweet Favorite · Open

the Raffi Torres i rape his dog while he choke on his own ass he deserve to get fucked old country way worse than michael jackson sister

17 Apr The Iron Sheik ‏ @the_ironsheik Reply Retweet Favorite · Open

Raffi Torres dirty [expletive] monkey mexican no good [expletive] [expletive] piece of garbage he play cheap worse than hitler and mel gibson

[Soul]

lol wut?