Honestly, the keeper can only be expected to make that first stop, and he makes a fine one at that. The real question is where are the parents of the defensemen and why haven’t they pushed their children into the way to help back?? It’s bad parenting if you ask me.

Others have posed your same question with less of an open mind.  To you and to others I would suggest you consider the sentiment “live and let live” and focus less on actual mortality.  

Karl Welzein, is that you?  

Dude, what the hell are you even on about here? “Whiff of plantation” ??? GTFOH with that nonsense. I’m not for enriching the owners through this or even really penalizing the players for the sake of being punitive. The whole idea is to disincent and eliminate the behavior. Heck, I’d even be for something creative…

1) Yeah, it’s a lot. That’s the point. Why is it dumb? You’re dumb! By the way, I think the guy makes $25M/yr. While $610k IS a lot of $$, how meaningful is it to him? If you made $50k/yr, it would be like getting fined $1240. A lot, yes, and hopefully enough to be a significant deterrent.  It’s got to be meaningful…

Why is this hard for the NBA? Have the league look at things like this after games.  If it’s obvious like this, fine the player that game’s salary + 1 game more for the first offense and escalate from there. That would cost Joel Emblid about $620,000 for this clown act. See if that doesn’t get this garbage out of the…

You sonofabitch.  You know I chuckled at the use of pringles.  I loved that you took cavier to a hot dog.  I raised an eyebrow at attempting to feed it to your dog.  But you goddamned animal, Annie’s over Kraft?!  I slammed my laptop shut and got up and paced angrily for several minutes before I came back and…

I just don’t know man. I am fascinated by this story and have seen El Capitain in person once and would love to see this and especially know more about the filming, which sounds like it’s part of the story, in fact. But I just watched that trailer for 2 minutes and my legs were jelly and my stomach was in my throat…

It’s not a classic story, is it.  

I didn’t expect Matt Cooke to chime in so quickly.  What an honor!

I agree with everything you say here.  I wish Wilson could figure out the balance between playing a heavy game and not making stupid dangerous hits.  He’s hurting players, hurting his team, hurting his career.  

No, but Wilson’s gotta avoid contact with the head, the onus is on him largely. The only benefit of the doubt I might give Wilson here is that he probably expects the puck handler to anticipate the hit just a little. And he doesn’t, he keeps head down and away.

Hey fella, thanks for chiming in twice to the make the same point. And no, that’s not what I said or meant. I hoped the phrase, “in the same pattern of escalation,” would make clear that I meant, I guess it did not.  But I kind of doubt you’re actually looking to make sense of it and would rather just say Tom Wilson’s…

Matt Cooke was never suspended for more than 10 games. Brad Marchand has never been suspended for more than 5. Radko Gudas got 10 for slew footing and then attempting to decapitate Mathieu Perreault. I’m not saying every hit like Wilson’s deserves 20 games (maybe it does?). I’m saying the league has a shitty history…

Caps fan checking in. Can’t defend Wilson, that hit, or the frequency with which he’s delivered them. This is more than I thought it would be, I would have guessed 10. But if the league suspends others with the same intolerance and severity consistently for all head and from-behind hits, in the same pattern of…

You gotta love guys who refer to themselves in the third person, by their last name. Those guys are NEVER unrepentant douche canoes. Almost never.

But they didn’t stomp puppies, did they?  You seem to be angry about what you believe “companies” will do, and completely dismissing what Nike DID do.  I don’t get that.  

You know what? This is the very concept I have a problem with. You are assuming that they knew that “the right thing” that they were doing would be good for business. And I’m saying they couldn’t have known that, it was actually risk, that’s what I believe. I’m heartened as an American human that it WAS the right…

I gotta tell you, this feels a lot like you’re hearing galloping, seeing a mane and tail, and you’re looking for a zebra instead of a horse.

You’re on an island you Weird-ass Gritty-ugalos. This thing, possibly weaved out of repurposed Trump hair clippings, is ... not good.