Kronwall and Stuart may be hitting a lot less now

[TheXym 2,606]

Will this be the first double digit game Shanaban? That was pretty bad, especially so soon after his last involuntary vacation.

[BigWillieStyle 662]

I don't think this will effect Stuart in any way, as he usually goes ass first and lays a pretty mean Johnny Bucyk on most of his targets. As for Kronwall, he had better be wearing weights on his skates to keep his damn feet on the ground. He knows that the league is watching this now. He has no excuse now. He needs to aim at the crest on the front of the sweater to make sure that he's not head hunting.

I'm sort of baffled at where the "exploding upward" hit came from. What ever happened to the days when Stevens, or Robinson, or Potvin, or Horton, or Marotte, would just run your ass over, and keep skating? And what was so wrong with those hits, that they had to change the style of hitting to more resemble a perfectly executed tackle in football?

[13dangledangle 958]

All I can say is I told you so to the people so naive not to see this coming.

[toby91_ca 620]

he was suspended for THAT??

As already pointed out, no, suspended for a different hit in the same game. However, the hit on Skinner was pretty borderline as it looked to me like he led with his elbow. His hit on Poni was absolutely pathetic though and deserves suspension for sure.

[haroldsnepsts 4,826]

I don't think this will effect Stuart in any way, as he usually goes ass first and lays a pretty mean Johnny Bucyk on most of his targets. As for Kronwall, he had better be wearing weights on his skates to keep his damn feet on the ground. He knows that the league is watching this now. He has no excuse now. He needs to aim at the crest on the front of the sweater to make sure that he's not head hunting.

I'm sort of baffled at where the "exploding upward" hit came from. What ever happened to the days when Stevens, or Robinson, or Potvin, or Horton, or Marotte, would just run your ass over, and keep skating? And what was so wrong with those hits, that they had to change the style of hitting to more resemble a perfectly executed tackle in football?

Absolutely agree.

Even though the skates are often on the ice during contact, launching up into a guy is in essence still charging. It just slowly became acceptable over the years. So it looks like the league is trying to get it back to where it was.

The good news is that though it looks like they may be trying to take hitting out of the game, the game used to have tons of hitting without players launching up like that. Players just need to learn to get back to that.

[Red Wings Addict 787]

Fistric just got suspended for a legal hit exactly in the manner in which these two players make hits.

All I can say is I told you so to the people so naive not to see this coming.

"I informed you thusly" is better.

[jollymania 162]

Will this be the first double digit game Shanaban? That was pretty bad, especially so soon after his last involuntary vacation.

it was 2 min charging penalty, sutton didn't need to do that but what the hell was ponikarovsky doing?

[BryceWings 0]

Ummm...Keep your head up. Most of those hits you can see the guys not looking. They're looking down and don't see the hit coming to move out of the way or position themselves to make it a less aggressive hit.