MacK_Attack

Well, there's a difference between a junior suspension and an NHL suspension. The difference is simple, money. Cormier gets around $60/week from his junior team. Because of that, the only way to really a punish a junior player is via suspension. In the NHL, where players are making millions, they are suspended without pay. That means that not only is that player being punished by missing games, but they aren't paid, either. That can cost a player hundreds of thousands of dollars. I would assume that Cormier wouldn't get paid while suspended for this, but it's such a pittance that it really doesn't make a difference. He signed an ELC with the Devils, so he's got his signing bonus in the bank.

I don't think he can. The transfer rules state that he can't play pro until his junior team's season is over. Liambas could play pro because nobody owned his rights and he was an over-ager.

I think the statute of limitations has expired, so he can't sue James. Believe it or not, his motivation might actually be something other than money.

Sheldon Kennedy, the first kid to have Graham James thrown in jail.

James has already been convicted of molesting a kid before (Sheldon Kennedy), so I think it's implied that it's sexual assault. Theo came public with the allegations a few months ago.

"I sought out some good advice from my lawyers and advisors on how to go about dealing with Graham James for abusing me when I was a kid," Fleury said in an email to TSN.

The belief is that some of the owners of the Thrashers (they have that big mess of owners that like to sue each other) would like to sign Kovalchuk for the sole purpose of franchise value, as they would like to sell soon.

Is that what Chicago really needs, though? I think they're set up front.

A strange series of events in tonight's Leafs/Penguins game. Tied 1-1 in the 2nd, Pittsburgh was on the powerplay. Gonchar gets a shot off from the point, which hits the right post, then off the back post (in the net) and out. Nobody realizes it's in and the play continues. A few seconds later, Alexei Ponikarovsky gets hooked on a breakaway and is awarded a penalty shot. At that point, they get the call from upstairs and realize that Pittsburgh has a goal. Because you can't have two goals on a single play, the Leafs have the penalty shot taken away from them and instead get a 2:00 powerplay (Gonchar for hooking), on which they fail to score. Never seen anything like that before.

Actually, if the team that gets scored on takes a penalty before the play is stopped, the penalty is wiped out.

It's really not an easy situation to figure out. You have a good goal, and technically the play should end there. But because it goes in and out so fast, the play continues. Now, the team that scores is going to argue that the play should end there and anything that happens between the goals and when the whistle is blown should be wiped out, which I tend to agree with. My opinion is that it should be all (goal, penalties, hits, shots, etc.) or nothing on that type of play. Allowing penalties to be called on a play the technically doesn't exist isn't right. But to actually have to change a call (penalty shot to regular minor penalty) because there was a goal is just ridiculous.

The Penguins goal would count and the Leafs goal would not. That's why the penalty shot was taken away, because you can't have two goals at the same time, technically speaking. The reason the rule is there is so that one team doesn't score two goals at once. Meaning, scoring like the Pens did and having the play go on and then scoring again on the same play.

The whole play isn't erased anymore, like it used to be. The only remnants of that rule is that there can still only be one goal on a play. The clock doesn't get set back to the time of the goal any longer, anything that happens from the goal until the stoppage of play still counts (penalties, hits, shots, etc.) unless there's a goal. Makes no sense. Everything or nothing.

That noise you hear is Martin Biron packing his bags.

Tomorrow night. 8pm Eastern.

He won't be unemployed long.

http://twitter.com/sportsnetmurph/status/7165683706

He cleared waivers.

Milan Jurcina & Chris Clark to Columbus for Jason Chimera.

Pretty damn good up front. Defense is clearly their weakest link, but it's still pretty good.

No, John Forslund is the Canes play-by-play broadcaster.

The only venue to have it at in Toronto is BMO Field, and it's fairly tiny.

Rogers Centre doesn't have the drainage in the floor that would be required to keep the roof open in the winter. Calgary seems like the most logical place to have it, since McMahon Stadium doesn't have a roof.

Chicago will take a stanglehold on 1st place once they make up those five games in hand on L.A. & Colorado. And they have Carolina tonight, which is as close to a "gimme" as there is in the league.

Hey, he leads with his chin sometimes.