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When Fighting Is Roughing
by Paul on 01/08/09 at 09:28 AM ET
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from Jean Lefebvre of the Calgary Herald,
Oh, how Andre Roy tried his darnedest to collect a fighting major Tuesday....
After emerging from the sin bin 120 seconds later, the antagonists quickly found each other again, once more rid themselves of the mittens and gave it another go. In Round 2, punches were thrown and punches were landed, with the last two shots being Roy lefts that stung Semenov.
“They’ll get five minutes for this one,” said Sportsnet analyst John Garrett with confidence.
Ah, but no, roughing minors were again assessed.
“When I saw the two minutes,” said Roy. “I started laughing. Is he kidding me? I don’t know, man. If that’s a roughing, I’ll take a lot more of that. I’ve seen some way (less violent) fights than that were called for five minutes.”
read on and watch the roughing penalty call below…
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“When I saw the two minutes,” said Roy. “I started laughing. Is he kidding me? I don’t know, man. If that’s a roughing, I’ll take a lot more of that. I’ve seen some way (less violent) fights than that were called for five minutes.”
The discrepancy is just as pronounced at the ECHL level. It does affect the outcome of the games because sometimes your best player is in a scrum and there’s a lot of pushing and shoving after the playing and he goes to the bin for five for fighting but he never threw a punch. More often he’s just trying to help cool things down.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/08/09 at 03:25 PM ET
Seems like the NHL is concerned about the increase in fighting majors this year.
By calling it a roughing minor, it will not add to the increase.
I’m usually not a conspiracy theorist, but that’s exactly what I thought after I saw the video. This was a fight, plain and simple.
Posted by K24 from NYC on 01/08/09 at 10:39 PM ET
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Seems like the NHL is concerned about the increase in fighting majors this year.
By calling it a roughing minor, it will not add to the increase.
Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 01/08/09 at 01:04 PM ET