The Swamp

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 11:25 am Yeah, as I posted earlier, you knew the NHL wasn't going to just let that Rangers' statement go without a response, after fining the Sharks $100k for a much more benign statement after the Raffi Torres year-long suspension.

Rex wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 11:31 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 11:25 am Yeah, as I posted earlier, you knew the NHL wasn't going to just let that Rangers' statement go without a response, after fining the Sharks $100k for a much more benign statement after the Raffi Torres year-long suspension.

These fines make it seem like the league is a little cash poor. Wouldn't you normally punish a team by taking away draft picks or docking them points in the standings?

Giff wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:35 am Listening to The Lead this morning had my blood boiling. I very casually follow hockey and knew about Tom Wilson, but holy shit the league is fucked up. How do you have someone like that as the Director of Player Safety??

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:42 ama brilliant non-cheapshot/fighting ex-player like Henrik Sedin should be the next head of discipline if they want anybody to start taking them seriously.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:46 am

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:42 ama brilliant non-cheapshot/fighting ex-player like Henrik Sedin should be the next head of discipline if they want anybody to start taking them seriously.

Ehhh ... I get not having a guy who would only have been on one side of any potential incidents and by being "clean", Parros kinda fit the middle. But then again maybe the perfect middle was Shanahan so I don't know. Maybe have a neurologist run DoPS.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:01 am Fighting is legal, Max!

Middle meaning he was never (I'm almost positive) suspended, so as the deterrent/enforcer he was the literal middle of guys who are targeted and guys who played cheap.

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:42 am jeez this stuff is beyond maddening.

respect that Parros may be intelligent or whatnot but frankly it's irrelevant to me and so fucking NHL to have a former fringe-ECHL goon be the head of discipline. Whether they want it to or not, it creates the very-real image that the league steers towards protecting the (so-called) tough players rather than the actual skill players.

a brilliant non-cheapshot/fighting ex-player like Henrik Sedin should be the next head of discipline if they want anybody to start taking them seriously.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 12:41 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 8:42 am jeez this stuff is beyond maddening.

respect that Parros may be intelligent or whatnot but frankly it's irrelevant to me and so fucking NHL to have a former fringe-ECHL goon be the head of discipline. Whether they want it to or not, it creates the very-real image that the league steers towards protecting the (so-called) tough players rather than the actual skill players.

a brilliant non-cheapshot/fighting ex-player like Henrik Sedin should be the next head of discipline if they want anybody to start taking them seriously.

I have a pretty eclectic YouTube feed, and one of the guys that pops up is Pat McAfee... Admittedly knows very little about hockey. Tuned in to the shitfest game SPECIFICALLY because he was aware it was going to be a shitfest.

Folks on his staff let him know who Parros was and he was like..."Oh, so, he's just protecting a fellow goon."

I relay all that just to say I totally agree that Parros needs to be on the right side of things, or it just looks really really bad.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 2:56 pm Well, I also should've relayed that he LOVED the shitfest game and he and his staff think that should happen once a week.

/grain of salt

We've talked on this board a lot on this topic over the years. The league made carrying a goon not really feasible due to rule changes. The problem is when a freak (size + athleticism + psychopath) like Wilson comes along and you don't really have anyone on the roster capable of meting out on-the-ice justice to him.

It's one thing to board guys. What he did with Panarin really was borderline criminal. If he'd put his head into this... Really had flashbacks of Bertuzzi-Moore.

rass wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 3:44 pm I was talking about that with my dad over the weekend and decided I'm still a little too close to the 0-4 sweep by the Isles a couple of years ago to be reasonable about it. Plus they haven't played NYI in months. Don't know if that's good or bad either.

brian wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 8:26 pm Not like it's one of the biggest regular season games in team history or anything.