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Stick To Black & White Rules
by Paul on 11/29/07 at 09:33 AM ET
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from the Windsor Star,
Last season, defenceman Sean Hill was suspended 25 games by the league after testing positive for steroids.
For his attack on Moore’s brother, Bertuzzi - like Shore a player with a history of violence - missed only 20 games.
In other words, in a span of more than 70 years, not much has changed when it comes to the NHL disciplining its violent offenders.
Hockey remains the only sport where the rules vary as the game progresses. Penalties in football and fouls in basketball are called the same way no matter how much time remains on the clock.
“Make the rules black and white and enforce them as they are written,” is Moore’s challenge to the NHL.
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Sean Hill was suspended for 20 games, not 25. And what does that have to do with on-ice violence?
Posted by Muéro from Ohio on 11/29/07 at 11:24 AM ET
Hill’s crime wasn’t done as an attempt to inflict harm upon anyone other than himself. Bertuzzi, by harming Moore took an action and imposed it on another. For that alone, Bertuzzi should have been punished accordingly - at least a year-long suspension - for an NHL season. Instead he was suspended 20 games, and sat out for the lockout much like everyone else.
There needs to be guidelines for penalties. Players who intentionally injure someone should be penalized for as long as the person whom they intended to injure is out with their injury - or, if they aren’t injured, then they should be out as long as their act, had it been realized, would have caused the other player to be out. So that someone like Chris Simon would miss more games then he did.
Posted by bsalamon on 11/29/07 at 12:34 PM ET
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“Penalties in football and fouls in basketball are called the same way no matter how much time remains on the clock.”
Really? He obviously never watches the end of close basketball games where unless you draw blood or tackle someone a foul isn’t called (unless you are a superstar, then it’s called). And in football the phantom holding calls against a visiting team that is either trying to come back or put the game away, ditto for pass interference as well. Besides, penalties called during the games does not appear to be the message Moore is talking about, but the suspension as the result of actions on the ice. To that, I don’t think anyone out there would disagree that the NHL needs to be more consistent in its penalties.
Posted by phillyd from New Jersey on 11/29/07 at 09:53 AM ET