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Evaluating KHL Exhibition Games
by Paul on 10/07/10 at 01:53 PM ET
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from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,
NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly has read the stories and heard the concerns from Paul Maurice, Eric Staal and others associated with the Carolina Hurricanes about how SKA St. Petersburg approached the exhibition game Monday night in Russia.
Staal and Maurice said they felt the SKA players were making pointed attempts to take out Staal’s knees in the first period and early in the second. As a result, Maurice pulled his captain from the game with 13:26 to play in the second period. At the same time he also pulled No. 1 goalie Cam Ward.
Daly said in a press conference prior to the 2010 NHL Compuware Premiere game between Minnesota and Carolina on Thursday that the League still has to evaluate the potential for future games against Kontinental Hockey League teams before agreeing to send teams to Russia again.
“I don’t think it’ll affect our relationship with the KHL generally, but it is something we’re going to have to take a look at on a going forward basis,” Daly said. “The approach to the game taken by the two teams was obviously a little different. The Carolina Hurricanes treated it as an exhibition game to prepare for their regular season. I think the St. Petersburg team approached it a little differently. That can create some issues and we have to look at that going forward.
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Wow..there is no grey area here..the guy made absolutely no attempt to hide the fact that he was going after the knee. That you don’t see very much. Is that the level of the KHL? One would think that they would have guys who are at least good enough in the imagination department to make it look like an “accident.”
Posted by UMFan from Denver, Colorado on 10/07/10 at 06:09 PM ET
Daly is a j-arse. No good reason for our NHL players to be going over to Russia to play a KHL team in the preseason when we all know their KHL owner hold contempt for our NHL and losing his countrymen to go play here.
This was having cops from a big city going into a big prison and playing their inmates in football game. What do you expect the game to be clean? lol
Common sense and the NHL front office don’t go together.
Posted by Slumpy from Detroit on 10/07/10 at 07:00 PM ET
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Crazy. Just crazy shit for an exhibition game.
Posted by SYF from the bottom of my, what, 11teenth pint of Guinness? on 10/07/10 at 03:17 PM ET