Reading the page on NHL.com, Colin Campbell remarks from The Situation Room, it seems that there will be no suspensions for the Montreal Canadiens who started scrums in the final minute of game 1 yesterday. First it was Maxim Lapierre who went after Phil Kessel, after Kessel scored an empty net goal to put the game away. Milan Lucic then went after Lapierre to protect Kessel. Then after that scrum, in the final seconds Guillaume Latendresse went after a Bruin player and Steve Montador came in to protect his teammate, which then led to everyone getting involved. Mike Komisarek came in and tried to rough up Matt Hunwick by throwing gloved punches at his head, who ended up with a bloody right eye, which I thought was an eye gouge but I haven't heard anything from other sites reporting this. So not sure how Hunwick got the bloody eye, maybe Komisarek's stick, as I think he still had his gloves on.
So let's see, Dan Carcillo punches Talbot in the head, gets suspended for a game, who by the way Talbot is not a star in this league, more of a grinder. Phil Kessel, a young star in the league gets roughed up after he scores an empty net goal by Lapierre, and Komisarek repeatedly throws gloved punches at Hunwick's head/face and there are no suspensions? Uuummmm, well looks like the NHL is just going to pick spots to suspend players. I wonder if it was Georges Laraque who was out there throwing punches at a Bruin he would probably get suspended. So with no suspensions from last night, it looks like the NHL is just going to watch the tough players/enforcers on teams to make sure they don't start trouble at the end of a game but a player like Lapierre, Latendresse or Komisarek can do all they want. Wow, way to go NHL.
Don't get me wrong, I love the rough stuff and message sending at the end of playoff games. But the NHL sent out a message to all teams before the playoffs saying if that happened, suspensions and fines would happen. We saw it with Carcillo. And when the Bruins didn't put out Shawn Thornton or Zdeno Chara in the final shift, and you had Montreal trying to rough up the Bruins and send a message, it sounds like it falls into the category the NHL didn't want.
Update @ 2:50 PM
I just found a video on TSN showing more at the end of the game last night. Something I did not see was the Tom Kostopoulos attempt of an elbow to Hunwick's head at the end of the game, and then the eye gouge by Komisarek. You can watch it here on TSN. Kostopoulos should be suspended for that crap, that's just gutless cheap shot shit. I'm not surprised though, that's Montreal's way, cheap stuff by cheap players.
Here's a picture of Matt Hunwick with the bloody eye and Mike Komisarek being escorted off the ice by a lineman.
Image courtesy of AP
Update @ 4:35 PM
Here's a YouTube video of the last scrum with the Komisarek eye gouge on Hunwick.
On the events at the end of Boston-Montreal Game 1: "People take things out of different incidents last night (and say:) 'Oh boy! Same thing (as Philadelphia-Pittsburgh)! How many games are you going to suspend him?' You've got to let the games unfold. You've got to let hockey be hockey, playoffs be playoffs. You've got to let the energy flow. And then, when they cross that line, you do what you have to do."
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So let's see, Dan Carcillo punches Talbot in the head, gets suspended for a game, who by the way Talbot is not a star in this league, more of a grinder. Phil Kessel, a young star in the league gets roughed up after he scores an empty net goal by Lapierre, and Komisarek repeatedly throws gloved punches at Hunwick's head/face and there are no suspensions? Uuummmm, well looks like the NHL is just going to pick spots to suspend players. I wonder if it was Georges Laraque who was out there throwing punches at a Bruin he would probably get suspended. So with no suspensions from last night, it looks like the NHL is just going to watch the tough players/enforcers on teams to make sure they don't start trouble at the end of a game but a player like Lapierre, Latendresse or Komisarek can do all they want. Wow, way to go NHL.
Don't get me wrong, I love the rough stuff and message sending at the end of playoff games. But the NHL sent out a message to all teams before the playoffs saying if that happened, suspensions and fines would happen. We saw it with Carcillo. And when the Bruins didn't put out Shawn Thornton or Zdeno Chara in the final shift, and you had Montreal trying to rough up the Bruins and send a message, it sounds like it falls into the category the NHL didn't want.
Update @ 2:50 PM
I just found a video on TSN showing more at the end of the game last night. Something I did not see was the Tom Kostopoulos attempt of an elbow to Hunwick's head at the end of the game, and then the eye gouge by Komisarek. You can watch it here on TSN. Kostopoulos should be suspended for that crap, that's just gutless cheap shot shit. I'm not surprised though, that's Montreal's way, cheap stuff by cheap players.
Here's a picture of Matt Hunwick with the bloody eye and Mike Komisarek being escorted off the ice by a lineman.
Image courtesy of AP
Update @ 4:35 PM
Here's a YouTube video of the last scrum with the Komisarek eye gouge on Hunwick.
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