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Playoff Justice

by Alanah McGinley on 05/12/08 at 04:38 PM
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From Al Strachan at FoxSports,

This is NHL playoff justice. Anything short of an ax-murder is likely to be ignored. But don’t blame the current dispenser of justice, Colin Campbell. It has always been this way.

There has been the occasional exception. When Gary Bettman was in the first few months of his regime, he didn’t understand hockey tradition very well (insert your own cheap shot here) and seeing Dale Hunter deliver a cross-check to Pierre Turgeon after a goal, decided that Hunter had earned himself a 21-game suspension.

But since then, the NHL has followed a firm policy. First of all, suspensions, when they occur, are much shorter than they would be for a similar incident in the regular season. Secondly, every effort is made to keep the stars in the game.

At one time, the league used to defer playoff suspensions. One of the more notorious examples was the vicious slash that Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Ron Hextall delivered to Edmonton’s Kent Nilsson in the 1987 Stanley Cup finals.

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Gotta love Strach telling it like it is.

Sneaky Old Man Osgood clipped him neatly, so it wasn’t without provocation, but Riberio is a tool and should have showed better judgment with his stick (even though it was merely a love tap).

Posted by Cloud9 Sports  on  05/12  at  05:00 PM

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