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So Rivalred noshowed on Number 9. Weak Sauce, RivalRed. Number 9 is a young man. If you have any hair on your chest, you should be able to rear naked choke him into submission. Would it make you feel more comfortable if there were a couple guys like FMichael and myself there to break it up at the right time?

Gotta play this to remind myself of the good times in the past and hopeful for the future...Commercial circa spring/summer 2008.

I can't believe anyone would want to punch either of you.

Who goes to Flint? Vladdy16 says hi!

NHL discipline works the same way as an outside court of law? If that’s the case why wasn’t Wilson charged with aggravated assault and battery when he went after Panarin - or at least a lengthy suspension given his prior history. DoPS does their own thing - partly based on what the NHL/NHLPA have agreed upon - partly based on public opinion and/or outcry. As others have said - the primary reason for the punishment was courtesy of the injury. No injury - probably a fine at most - especially taking into consideration he’s the Jets best player and has no prior suspensions/discipline by the DoPS.

You should try real life and stop watching movies

This is my thought on this hit more or less. You could argue charging at best due to the distance covered to make the hit. But besides that it was clean by definition of the rules. Having said that, it was gross and shouldn't have happened. More black and white rules must be added to protect players in the end. Head contact, distance covered to make a hit, leaving feet, etc. should all be heavily reviewed. There would be frustrating cases early on where players get punished for a legit accident. But players would adjust accordingly, and we'd see cleaner hits where guys don't leave on stretchers with scrambled egg brains. Also, punish the action whether the player on the receiving end is injured or not. The condition of the player on the receiving end should have zero implications when deciding punishment for a hit. It's as stupid as getting 4 minutes for drawing blood. Comes down to sheer luck.

First, checking the puck carrier (Evans) is a perfectly legal way of separating the man from the puck. In every facet of the game you're allowed to legally hit a player to get the puck from him. Second, Evans put the puck in the net less than a second before the hit. Watch it at full speed. It's not like he got rid of the puck and then Scheifele took a few more strides and blew him up. It was literally a fraction of a second between Evans putting the puck in the net and Scheifele delivering the hit. You're allowed to skate the entire length of the ice and hit another player as long as that player has the puck. That's literally what backchecking is. To me the only questions worth asking are, A) did he target the head?, and B) even if the hit isn't "illegal" should he ease up anyway as a courtesy to another player. I don't know about the first one, the hit seems high but hard to say if he "targeted" the head. To the second question I'd say he absolutely should lay off that hit, despite it not being illegal. Reminds me of the hit Matthew Tkachuk threw on Kassian a few years back behind the net. Not illegal, but pretty much every player agreed (in the wake of the hit) that he shouldn't have done it and Kassian beat his ass for it.

No, because the internet was not available back then to generate said hype.

A fine IS the DoPS doing something. And even if Evans got up immediately and skated away, there still would have been disciplinary action against Scheifele as those are the kinds of hits that the league is now trying to eliminate. Thank the lawyers. And injury is relevant to the punishment. People complain about greater disciplinary action if there's an injury, but that's how the world works. Not just hockey. You are just as responsible for the consequences of your actions as much as you are the act itself. Todd Bertuzzi got a season long suspension for his cross check on Steve Moore based solely on the fact that he ended Moores playing career with that hit. He did not intend for that to happen. But lack of intent did not make what happened a simple 10:00 penalty and game misconduct, which he might have gotten if Moore just skated away. Would have been the same in the real world. Bertuzzi just got busted in Feb for a DUI. Luckily, his actions didn't result in an accident, but wouldn't the punishment have been more severe if he did? What if that accident caused an injury or death? Think he'd get the same punishment as a simple DUI? Of course not. NHL discipline works the same way.

The Caps' pick is officially 23rd. 22nd if you take the Yotes into account.

Treasure these larkin moments in your life while you still can

We're more likely to see a team built similar to the Blues Cup team unless we manage to draft some Datsyuks, Zetterbergs, and Lidstroms. Not likely. Yeah. Not the kind of team you try to build, but the kind of team you can still win with if you have to.

Based on the thought above. Sooo we need a coach with a system that allows our hard working less talented team win? I am good with that mindset kind of goes back to the blue collar grab your lunchbox and work mentality of Michigan... I am enjoying watching the Habs run. It seems they are running a great system and busting their collective nuts every shift. Curious what happens next for them

Imagine if Seider was from Frankenmuth!!!!

? - ? - ? Raymond-Larkin-Vrana Bertuzzi-Veleno-Zadina Berggren-Rasmussen-Fabbri Seider-? Hronek-? Lindstrom-Cholowski ? That top line is our weak spot. We do not have a superstar on this team to start a top line. And we keep getting jammed in the draft, preventing us from getting one. Yzerman should take the best left handed defenseman available this draft with the first pick and shore up that 2B D spot. Then look for a goalie with the 2nd pick. He can address 2 holes that way. In UFA, he should throw the book at Dougie Hamilton. Adding Hamilton would put us in the playoffs next year, imo. If Yzeeman can get those 3 moves made, we are a lot closer to being competitive.