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Boulerice Gets 25 Games
by Paul on 10/12/07 at 01:50 PM ET
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from the AP via the Globe and Mail,
Philadelphia forward Jesse Boulerice was suspended 25 games by the NHL on Friday for cross-checking Vancouver’s Ryan Kesler across the face, the second Flyer in three weeks to receive a ban of at least 20 games.
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Cote is better fighter than Boulerice anyway. flyers will release him.
isnt amazing that two longest suspensions where flyers players inwhich the canadian media and canadian team bitched like little girls until they got there way
Posted by FlyersFan on 10/12/07 at 02:13 PM ET
BTW
Broad Street Bullies are back with an Vengence…...
Posted by FlyersFan on 10/12/07 at 02:15 PM ET
To Be HOnest, in a league that has made real accountability a joke, that is just the kind of message the Flyers & Boulerice needed to send to place the rest 29 teams on notice
Posted by FlyersFan on 10/12/07 at 02:22 PM ET
“BTW… they will/should insert Riley Cote and they really haven’t lost anything in all of this.”
Which is why, if the league truly wants these suspensions to have an impact, it should be ruled that the player cannot be replaced on the roster for the duration of his suspension, and the player’s salary cap hit should remain during the suspension. Because otherwise, what do the Flyers care right now that Downie and Boulerice have been suspended?
Posted by Randy from Fredericton, NB on 10/12/07 at 02:26 PM ET
As a Flyers fan, there’s no way I can condone Boulerice’s actions at all and I don’t see what sort of “message” it sent other than he made a bad decision and now the Flyers are paying for it when they still have Downie’s suspension to deal against the salary cap. Kesler may have being a pest but Boulerice could have handled matters with a good, clean hit or by calling Kesler out for a scrap.
Posted by FlyerCub on 10/12/07 at 02:41 PM ET
Seems fair considering the Downie suspension, and this act involved a stick (which the NHL has generally looked at as a more serious incident).
Flyers going for an entire practice squad of suspended players?
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 10/12/07 at 02:51 PM ET
0 game suspension: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FFp2dlMrv0c
20 game suspension: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItMqF6_G0I
3 game suspension: http://youtube.com/watch?v=07lzWueATqw
25 game suspension: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8-Y3x0mr_Ik
The only difference, orange and black jerseys.
Posted by FlyersFan on 10/12/07 at 03:37 PM ET
from Pierre LeBrun at Sportsnet,
The NHL won’t tolerate vicious hits to the head.
I was hoping for something in the 25-to-30 game range and Campbell-the league’s disciplinarian—didn’t disappoint.
Enough is enough.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 10/12/07 at 03:48 PM ET
The NHL won’t tolerate vicious hits to the head.
I was hoping for something in the 25-to-30 game range and Campbell-the league’s disciplinarian—didn’t disappoint.
Enough is enough.
you can do something about this. get rid of instagator rule and let the players police themselves and NONE of this will happen
Posted by FlyersFan on 10/12/07 at 04:11 PM ET
I think it’s great that FlyersFan has time to post here during filming breaks on “Cavemen.”
Posted by Blackcloud on 10/12/07 at 06:08 PM ET
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This is terrible, he should have been banned for life. Check out his history in this Mirtle post.
http://mirtle.blogspot.com/2007/10/boulerice-facing-suspension.html
Is everyone so young they don’t know about the Eddie Green/Ace Bailey incindent ?
Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 10/12/07 at 02:02 PM ET