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Zetterberg leaves after 2nd Period; "upper body injury"

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When is the princess Franzen due back?

As much as I don't like him when he floats around and takes nights off, he may have a very real, and serious, concussion issue. At this point, his future quality of life could be a greater concern than his hockey career.

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I'm sure there's a Franzen thread to discuss this in.

A Franzen thread? As in one? Probably a few more than that.

Regardless, I didn't think what Benn did was a big deal, the same type of thing happened all the time in the rec leagues I played in. It just happened to have a worse than normal result.

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What about a Smith thread?

He seemed to hit his pretty hard on the ice when he went down last night.

Any word on his status??

Never mind. Found it in last nights GDT

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A Franzen thread? As in one? Probably a few more than that.

Regardless, I didn't think what Benn did was a big deal, the same type of thing happened all the time in the rec leagues I played in. It just happened to have a worse than normal result.

It wasn't worse. At all. It just happened to a Red Wings so, of course, it must be proof of some league wide conspiracy to let goons injure our stars and get away scot free.

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I'm not sure how anyone could even consider giving Benn supplemental discipline for that. If I were the ref and watching the whole play, I'd give them both two minutes, Z for holding or interference and Benn for roughing. Normally in these incidents though, it either goes totally unnoticed (no one gets called) or they call the roughing as they are following the puck off the draw and aren't paying attention to the interference.

This was in no way a sucker punch in my book. Z was tying him up, he made a forearm push to get free, which didn't work and then punched him in the head. A sucker punch would be when a player is just standing there and a guy punches him for no reason. Z was tying him up and Benn was trying to get away. That same play probably happens, on average, 5-10 times in every game....it just happened to have a bad outcome here.

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I'm not sure how anyone could even consider giving Benn supplemental discipline for that. If I were the ref and watching the whole play, I'd give them both two minutes, Z for holding or interference and Benn for roughing. Normally in these incidents though, it either goes totally unnoticed (no one gets called) or they call the roughing as they are following the puck off the draw and aren't paying attention to the interference.

This was in no way a sucker punch in my book. Z was tying him up, he made a forearm push to get free, which didn't work and then punched him in the head. A sucker punch would be when a player is just standing there and a guy punches him for no reason. Z was tying him up and Benn was trying to get away. That same play probably happens, on average, 5-10 times in every game....it just happened to have a bad outcome here.

Yeah, for all the people wanting a suspension, I want them to tell me when they've ever seen this type of play ever result in a 5 minute major?

If they haven't ever seen it, then I want them to tell me how a play that never results in a 5 minute major can result in a suspension?

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Yeah, for all the people wanting a suspension, I want them to tell me when they've ever seen this type of play ever result in a 5 minute major?

If they haven't ever seen it, then I want them to tell me how a play that never results in a 5 minute major can result in a suspension?

You are completely right, based on the precedent set by the NHL this should not warrant a suspension.

With that being said, if the question is how to we eliminate cheap head-shots from the game, IMO long suspension is the ONLY answer as minor penalties, short suspensions, and on ice policing have proven not to work.

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