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Did Briere Get Suspended Because He Is A Flyer?
by Paul on 11/28/09 at 06:29 PM ET
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from Tim Panaccio of CSNPhilly,
A day later, Briere gets suspended two games for driving Hannan into the back boards. Yeah, like Briere drives people with the kind of authority of Chris Pronger.
Briere’s hit was nowhere near as vicious as Jarret Stoll driving Dan Carcillo in the back of the neck, sending him into the boards with whiplash effect in Los Angeles last week.
Did we mention no penalty on that play, either? Of course, Carcillo wears a Flyers jersey. That says it all.
So, now we have Washington’s Alex Ovechkin finally getting tossed from a game for a dangerous hit to Buffalo’s Patrick Kaleta, who isn’t much of a saint, himself.
A world-class player Ovie may be, the Capitals’ winger often leaves his feet to bury people and gets away with it. Why? Because he’s Ovie. He didn’t leave his feet this time, but he leaned hard coming across ice to nail Kaleta on the boarding call.
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If running the goaltender were an olympic sport the Flyers would get a gold medal…that’s the closest they’ll come to raising a piece of metal in the modern age.
Posted by stoneman from vegas on 11/28/09 at 09:56 PM ET
TIM, come back to Earth!
Briere DID NOT get suspended for driving Hannan from behind into the boards. BRIERE got suspended for hitting Hannan in the jaw AFTER he scored a goal. In order for BRIERE to do that, he jumped off the ice to make contact with Hannan’s head.
Oh here’s a link to YOUTUBE, where you claim there is no clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytoQr21PCCc
His action is clear and if I find the clip from the other camera angle, it shows the hit to be that much worse.
Posted by SensNation on 11/28/09 at 10:22 PM ET
Let’s see I’ve got some Baby Swiss, Gouda, Colby, Brie and oh darn no Wine. Shut up and quit whining.
Posted by Shanny14 from Philly, PA on 11/28/09 at 10:24 PM ET
Why are the majority of sportswriters fraking idiots?
Posted by Harrald The Red on 11/28/09 at 11:25 PM ET
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he’s just trying to get people to read his column. Did anyone write about why philly inquirer fired him?? It’s not shocking to him devote a section of his weekly column to his Pittsburgh Penguins.
Posted by FlyersFan on 11/28/09 at 07:26 PM ET