Mike Fisher hit on Kaleta

[jeff48109 474]

This is my biggest fear with the league implementing the new rules and being so sensitive over supposedly dirty hits. Now you have punks like Kaleta diving around trying to get their opponent tossed from the game. Fisher got a boarding major and game misconduct for a love tap.

That's the problem with implementing so many rules. the other Buffalo players didn't even react, they knew it was a dive... If it was a dirty hit, they'd have gone after Fisher. The players know whats a dirty hit and what isn't. Leaving the officials to decide just messes things up. Get rid of the instigator and let the players police themselves. Edited March 27, 2010 by jeff48109

[Z and D for the C 712]

He should be suspended.

For diving.

[jeff48109 474]

He should be suspended.

For diving.

I agree. This won't be the last of punks diving around.

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

If suspended, Fisher at least will have Carrie Underwood to help him through it.

[jollymania 162]

A hit?

[HelmerFan 28]

I cant even call that a nice dive. that was just plain silly.

[edicius 3,269]

Wow, that was ridiculous. Not even a good dive. Who were the refs for that game? Just curious who's incompetent this time around.

[Finnish Wing 110]

Nice dive. Except it doesn't have to be a big push from behind when you're racing for the puck like that.

[Hockeytown_Ryan 122]

Kaleta flunked out of diving school... that was crap....

Wow, that was ridiculous. Not even a good dive. Who were the refs for that game? Just curious who's incompetent this time around.

I think I heard the name Fraser?

[ltgator333 3]

Well on the one hand you should leave a guy be when you're headed straight for the boards and he's got his back to you, but on the other hand that was weak as hell and fairly obvious that the result (OMGZ he pushed me into the boards!!) was intended. He knew the guy was there, turned his back to him, and then went down rather easily at the right moment. Either the guy really needs to work on his ability to stay on his skates, he hit a rut, or he sold that perfectly.

More rules means, in my thinking, that you have to not only be smart about your physical play (stay within the traditional standards of what's ok) but you also have to be smarter than to be suckered into something like this. So you literally have to think twice before hitting somebody by this logic, and I'm not sure I like that. The spontaneity of the game is a big part of what makes it so great.

[Finnish Wing 110]

Well on the one hand you should leave a guy be when you're headed straight for the boards and he's got his back to you, but on the other hand that was weak as hell and fairly obvious that the result (OMGZ he pushed me into the boards!!) was intended. He knew the guy was there, turned his back to him, and then went down rather easily at the right moment. Either the guy really needs to work on his ability to stay on his skates, he hit a rut, or he sold that perfectly.

More rules means, in my thinking, that you have to not only be smart about your physical play (stay within the traditional standards of what's ok) but you also have to be smarter than to be suckered into something like this. So you literally have to think twice before hitting somebody by this logic, and I'm not sure I like that. The spontaneity of the game is a big part of what makes it so great.

If you're a great player then you know what's okay and what's not even without doing any thinking.

[ltgator333 3]

If you're a great player then you know what's okay and what's not even without doing any thinking.

You have a point here, but these guys aren't 'great players'. They're good enough, but nothing special along with vast majority of players in this or any league.

[Carman 387]

I dislike Kaleta.

And I like Fisher.

[Wombat 26]

the other Buffalo players didn't even react, they knew it was a dive... If it was a dirty hit, they'd have gone after Fisher. The players know whats a dirty hit and what isn't.

I live out in WNY and truth be told, this Sabres team NEVER reacts to anything. Sort of like the Wings, they don't challenge guys after cheap shots. Heck, their playoff chances last year were ruined when Gomez hurt Miller behind the net and no one even put a glove on the guy.

That said, I'm not really sure if I'm seeing a dive in this video. Sometimes it doesn't take much when in that position to lose balance. Do you really think he's going to dangerously dive head first into the boards and risk serious injury just to draw a penalty? If so, he's a lot gutsier that he's being given credit for...

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

After the hit, was Kaleta picking his nose skating to the bench, trying to make it bleed?

[superstarsingh 23]

It was a dive but that is not the issue here. Fisher makes unnecessary contact with Kaleta which is what needs to be phased out of the game. If a few guys have to get tossed because of embellishments in order to see this sort of play decrease and ultimately eliminated, that is fine. When did it become legal to INTERFERE with an opposing player before he touches the puck? I agree with this call because it is helping the greater cause, eliminating dangerous hits from behind nearing the boards.