NHL 2010-2011 Season Thread

[Lara Emily]

Originally Posted by KleptoKlown So what you're saying is that you would have bitched no matter what the NHL did??? If this were Chris Simon, Marty McSorley, Dale Hunter, Bryan Marchment, Ulf Samulesson...etc....this would have been the same. Repeat offenders repeating yet again, despite numerous warnings and previous small suspensions... Cooke...being who he is, and what he's done...got exactly what he deserved.

Cooke got exactly what he deserved, when have I said the penalty is wrong. Oh wait I haven't. Once again the number is right the reason is wrong.


But let's talk Trevor Gilles then, only 9 and 10 game suspensions and those were in back to back games (and Gilles is a guy who has zero redeeming qualities, Cooke is at least a competent hockey player when he's not losing his mind). Again I'm saying this is the right decision but I'm also saying the NHL needs to be consistent and punish everyone severely. This was an easy one for the NHL, Cooke is public enemy #1, look at Heatley worse hit way more premeditation 2 games, Marchand similar hit 2 games, Chara breaks a guy's neck almost no games (and before anyone says not the same thing, it was interference and thus an illegal hit) Let's start setting the precedent high for these hits regardless who is doing them. It should be 5-10 games for this kind of thing plus more if you are a repeat guy like Cooke. Instead what we have is 2 games for the hit and upwards of 15 games for being Matt Cooke