Officials should be just as accountable for missed or bad calls. I hope he appeals the fine.
Are the refs being fined for the horrible lack of call? The hit was blatant and horrible, and the refs should be held responsible, too. And I’m an old-school hockey fan. I like the fights. But I don’t like dirty players and dirty hits, and that was a dirty, dirty hit.
It will be interesting to hear Grape’s perspective on this
on Saturday’s edition of HNIC.
Doesn’t the fact that Torres is suspended indefinitely—yet he did not receive a penalty—prove that Quenneville was right in his remarks?
Is it my imagination or has the violence/brawls/penalty minutes skyrocketed in the NHL playoffs this year?
Sheesh, gets fined for telling the truth. Looked like coach Q’s head was going to explode. Torres left his feet and his shoulder made contact with Hossa’s head, Hossa didn’t have the puck. The ref’s swallowed their whistles. I thought the league wanted to curtail this kind of play.
Obviously it was payback for Shaws brushing Yotes goalie Smith, who then went down like he was shot. He should have been given an embellishment penalty instead of Shaw getting a penalty and suspension. Makes me wonder if they want this type of game played for the playoffs, with all the crap allowed in the other series also.
Proof that hockey is contrary to American values. Let’s organize a nationwide ban of the ‘sport’ and send it back to Canada, Russia, and other totalitarian states.
I saw that hit. It’s disgraceful.