Wilson, and those with deep hockey knowledge realize that keeping players safe is a top concern, but not at the expense of the game itself. Those with even moderate hockey knowledge see the Torres hit as “hard nosed hockey” and good clean hit. The more you put the responsibility on the player being hit, the better the rulings will become and the less watered down the game will be.

Anyways, I’m excited to see what Pearson can bring in the coming years. It seems our LW position is a little wonky and I have no idea what’ll happen to Penner, which, if he leaves, could very well open up a spot for Pearson.

The only thing I slightly disagree with is the fact that an injury occurred is an automatic suspension. While I do agree that a suspension should be assessed based on the recklessness of the play and not whether an injury occurred or not (e.g. Nash/ Kopecky), I think there could be an exception if the player is severely injured, it’s a career ending injury (not an accumulation from previous injuries, but the actual injury itself) or possibly if the player requires a stretcher to leave the ice (i.e. Torres on Hossa).

There should be very, VERY strict and very, VERY CLEAR exceptions to the rule and they should absolutely be very rare.

That’s my 2 cents 2 days late…

think of them more as “suggestions”

The following was his response:

“The entire hockey community needs to clearly understand and accept that hits such as this where the head of an opponent is signifantly contact, regardless of the presence of injury, will result in a suspension!”

The video shows, conclusively, that while Torres first made contact with Stoll’s shoulder, the primary, or principal point of contact was Stoll’s head, which took the brunt of the hit.

Those denying that are the biased ones. The video proves that.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Playoffs/SanJose/2013/05/17/20831796.html?cid=rsssportsslam!

it is truly unbelievable to read yer amazing bullshit

how can one take away the fact of initial point of contact, while the impact on stolls shoul;der with torres shoulder whiplashed his own head, that was clearly up and stoll placed himself in a careless vulnerable postition.
Principal – adjective (prin·ci·pal) \ˈprin(t)-s(ə-)pəl, -sə-bəl\

1: most important, consequential, or influential: chief

Ini·tial – adjective \i-ˈni-shəl\

1: of or relating to the beginning: incipient

2: placed at the beginning: first

it was totally stated that the initial point of contact was not the head,
clearly principal declares, the first , most important, the beginning.
clearly shanahan and you have interpreted wrong and thinks principal means intent, when it does not.
pretty easy to declare that by definition
principal is initial, and is not not the byproduct or consequence or intent of intial.
shanny blew off initial contact as a glancing blow and turned principal into intent, never applying how the hit player put himself into a vulnerable position. besides who plays the puck with their hand while they are on their feet with a stick 6 ft from the D blueline in traffic. stoll has a concussion history because he is a careless player, it aint cause he has been the recipient of illegal hits to his head.
torres is a repeat offender from illegal hits to the head, 5 min majors with gm miscons.
ya do that ya ger hearings and suspensions.
YOU DONT GET HEARINGS FOR A 2 MIN MINOR. if this was an illegal hit why not the 5 and a gm?? why wernt the kings on the ice furious and attacking torres? why did stoll get up immediately into torres face and skate to bench?? he wasnt laid out, helped off.
it was a bullshit call, a clean hit, and bigger bullshit discipline hearing buy a former big hitter, whinner crybaby in shanahan. having him for player discipline is like giving the convict a badge.
GET REAL SCRIBE, READ YER OWN POSTED DEFINITION STICK TO THE FACTS
AND THE FACT IS YER DEAD WRONG, BIASED AND INCAPABLE OF COMPREHENDING THE TRUTH