2011 Stanley Cup Finals
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- Mister20
Cheap shot no.
There is no such thing as accidental hit in hockey. You hit them regardless. Luck of the draw if you get caught or other guy is prepared for it.
- eieio0
You can't rip someone's head off with your shoulder. He was knocked out because he didn't see it coming and landed kerplunt on the ice. In other words Rome didn't cause the head injury the fall did.
- ntslide0
I'm going to throw in a comment as a hockey player...
Put simply, you know what you're doing as you're doing it... There is no way a professional player didn't know he was going for the head, there is no way he wasn't trying to rip above mentioned head off...To say it wasn't malicious is a gross understatement from a players perspective. Sure he should have kept his head up, sure it was with the shoulder but bottom line is that you have to premeditate a hit like that. Even in the split seconds before the hit Rome had the chance (and ability) for it to be a body-to-body hit. He went for the head, and that's a cheapshot.
All this being said, I'm a boston fan, I love intensity, I don't like cheap shots like this because eventually the NHL will ban open-ice hits and they're a great part of the game... My rant is over...
- Jaline0
haha, pretty bad, for sure. Bruins got momentum after the first couple of goals.
- eieio0
Anybody actually notice the Canucks lost 8-1 in the end ?
- Jaline0
Some questions to think about:
- should a suspension be determined AFTER the play has already been done and there was a penalty issued? I suppose penalties are done in the moment whereas suspensions are done after, and both methods have their flaws.
- Should suspensions be determined by how hurt the hit player is? Or should they be determined by the intention, location, and specific situation?
In this case, I think 4 games is valid, but still questionable when you look at other hits that have gone on (even some by the Canucks themselves). In those situations, no one received suspensions for those because the victims could still play afterwards. But perhaps the angle was just off, and Horto's body couldn't sustain a hit like that.
- pastpastdue0
The hit wasn't malicious. I agree, poor timing, poor result. I think it was suspension worthy.
What you have to consider is the implication: Boston loses its number one right winger to a number five defenseman. The league doesn't want to see the best players in it getting hurt. I don't think it was worth four, but the number makes sense, it removes him for the rest of the series.
Total lip service to the Bruins, who undoubtedly wanted to get Horton's diagnosis out before the review. Murphy hears he won't be returning to the series, looks at the level of players, and says "well, there is no way to compensate. Rome should be out for the rest of the series if Horton doesn't return, which he won't."
- Rome left his feet after the hit. His elbow was down. As a referee, you are taught anything beyond two strides is a late hit.pastpastdue
- ... after dishing the puck off, it's a late hit.pastpastdue
- its a late hit... and thats iteieio
- it's totally normal to lift your feet during or after a hit. it's before that is illegal.Fanco
- aldebaran0
- doesn't get any cheaper than that.aldebaran
- LOL. It not cheap you pussy... its a big hit, why the fuck is Horton looking the other way? because he is a dumbasseieio
- you clearly don't understand how the game is playedaldebaran
- you clearly don't understand that a hockey player ALWAYS have to look where he's going, hockey basics.elektro
- it was late, but still a legal hit since it's with the shoulder and not the elbowelektro
- it was cheap. left his feet too.OP31
- his feet left after the hit, they were both going fast, it's physics in actionelektro
- ThePublics0
Here's the thing:
Hockey players get hurt. It's a fast, violent, dangerous game. Always has been, and that's why it's so exciting. There are plenty of safer games out there for people who get queezy about concussions.
Personally, I've had two major concussions with zero side effects or long term complications. One from skateboarding, one from a street fight.
The difference between myself and a professional hockey player is that I don't get paid millions of dollars for my trouble and no one ever called the waaaambulance over my spilled brain cells.
Hockey players aren't babies, they are gladiators. Let's hope it stays that way and that a creeping false morality doesn't corrupt the game.
- eieio0
well I am by no means defending Rome I am just calling it how i see it. You like a lot of other people want to make it into something its not like by claiming he had his elbo up when it was obviously way down. Late hits happen, suspend the guy, he's not playing in the finals anymore right? .4 milleseconds quicker and everyone would be calling the hit of the year and Horton still would have been knocked out and concussed.
- aldebaran0
I guess it's not surprising to see so many Canucks fans rushing to the defense of Rome. These are fans that still defend Bertuzzi's actions years later.
- I was at that game.ThePublics
- Bertuzzi punched a guy in the back of the head... this was a slightly late hit. Argument invalid.eieio
- aldebaran0
Rome's hit was a late dirty cheap shot. Plain and simple. And even though I'm cheering for Vancouver I'm glad he's been suspended for the play-offs. The game is losing to many of it's great players to head injuries.
The rule should be as follows : If you take someone out with a cheap shot you're suspended until that player is able to return to the ice. Problem solved.
- not dirty or cheap, just a tad lateeieio
- He left the ground and raised his elbow. He knew exactly what he was doing.aldebaran
- Actually his elbo is completely down. Its a perfectly good hockey hit just too late. There was zero intent to injure.eieio
- too late = 100% in the wrong = you're suspended. end of story.aldebaran
- a late shot with an unfortunate result. But please spare us the dramatic posturing.ThePublics
- It was under a second late in the middle of the ice. It was spendable but who cares. Just big late hit Horton should have been looking.eieio
- ...been looking where he was going.eieio
- eieio0
Rome didn't go head hunting, he went after the guy with the puck it was just bad timing. It was a split second after Horton passed, if he kept the puck the hit would have been huge and perfectly legal. On the other hand if Horton had kept his head up and watched where he was going it would have been a lot less worse.
- It was suspendable but it wasn't that dirty a hit really. Could have been better timing.eieio
- OP310
Bruins are gonna surge back, hope this goes 7 games b/c its shaping up to get real ugly and fun to watch ha
- spot130
Sorry, this is all my fault, I trimmed my playoff beard yesterday! Should have known better, I was over confident with Vancouver's two game sweep. Won't happen again.
- elektro0
Aaron Rome suspended 4 games after is move on Nathan Horton
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?…and Chara got nothing after is hit on Pacioretty ... at least it changed the nhl rules against head hits ..
- Good those kind of hits don't belong in hockey at all.Iggyboo
- Chara's hit was just as bad. But to his defense that dangerous spot should be corrected on the boards. they should not be sharp there should be rounded.Iggyboo
- there. it should be rounded edges on those corners.Iggyboo
- Rome's hit is the exact type of hit they are trying to get out of the leagueOP31
- heathen0
Kesler is definitely a workhorse. I wouldn't dismiss the Sedins just yet... even if you do, vancouver's line is way deeper than boston's. Plus they just gave up a 4th line D-man for a 1st line Bruin...
Having said that... Thomas is just killing it. I hope it goes to game 7. Always down for more hockey action.
- It's not that I'm dismissing them, I just think they have been spectacularly disappointing thus far.pastpastdue
- true. i hope this recent embarrassment lights a fire in their basement...heathen