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Not only should suspensions remove the player but it should also not allow the team to replace him in the games he is suspended from. The organization is just as responsible for his non-hockey action on ice as the player himself and everyone should be forced to deal with the penalty until it's served.

yes

Can we be Swami's anyways?

K. Clifford beginning of the 4th OT

The environment doesn't seem to cater to them. How is it simply a coincidence that the moment they leave all their stats take considerable jumps? The problem isn't the players its clearly the system being fostered in Philly they don't mesh with. All this praise Bobs gets and I still don't think he'd have played as well in a philly uniform as he suddenly started playing in a Columbus one, even if he got the playing time he deserved.

To be honest, the miracle leighton pulled off in the 2010 playoffs I don't think they fully deserved or were ready to be playing against the hawks that year and as it turned out when the second line stopped scoring and the first couldn't start and leighton started coming back down to earth the team was exposed. I just don't think that Carter was in an environment to thrive (outside of Richards). Similar to players like Bryz and Bob, they needed to go elsewhere to make names for themselves. I feel players like Leino and Lupol would have been a better duo to keep(albeit one of them disappeared since he left). Williams would have been one worth keeping as well. I don't think I'd need a barf bag, the guy needed a new scene and with his depature you got to see Giroux rise to prominence. Even if our new young captain sometimes doesn't lead from the front.

Soon there will be a sub-forum simply for bragging about users kids

Every sport applies more weight to something the moment the end result is discovered rather than punishing for the severity of the incident itself. This is a terrible analogy, you attribute breaking 1 law as less serve than breaking 3+ laws. The McCarty fight was far more violent with a lesser result not less violent with a worse result as is the case with Bertuzzi. Should Pronger would be justified suing Mikhail Grabovski for ending his career? After all the concussion he caused Pronger was accidental just like the brain damage Bertuzzi caused Moore. The way it happened isn't important its the end result right?

Doug Williams is a lot like Leino, Nobody knew who the hell he was until he set the play-offs on fire and after that everyone knew exactly how to squash him.

I think everyone is on the same path with Crosby walking away with it. It's also a shame that Stamkos only played 37 games this year.

Most of these players should have been out a year or two ago. But if we are getting rid of homer, can we send Jeff Reese with him?