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Avyran wrote:Holy inconsistency.
shmenguin wrote:matt cooke feels vindicated
seriously. the guy had infinite chances to clean up his act and he ignored them. he deserves the cooke treatment. odds are he'll make an effort to play clean now.
bhaw wrote:shmenguin wrote:matt cooke feels vindicated
seriously. the guy had infinite chances to clean up his act and he ignored them. he deserves the cooke treatment. odds are he'll make an effort to play clean now.
This. After watching the video, I agree with the ruling. My only comment in the other thread was that it's a shame he was able to injure so many guys before they finally came down on him.
comatose wrote:In a vacuum this is the way you send a message. Considering everything else that's happened, this is a joke and completely unfair to Phoenix. 25 games? Weber got 0. Neal got 1 for almost the exact same hit. Torres may change as a result of this, but the rest of the league won't because they have no clue if they'll get the small end or the big end.
Digitalgypsy66 wrote:comatose wrote:In a vacuum this is the way you send a message. Considering everything else that's happened, this is a joke and completely unfair to Phoenix. 25 games? Weber got 0. Neal got 1 for almost the exact same hit. Torres may change as a result of this, but the rest of the league won't because they have no clue if they'll get the small end or the big end.
Did you watch the video? Near the end, they showed about 4-5 hits that Torres has done since 2007, including two this season alone. I know the 2007 hit doesn't count (per the CBA, a player's record is cleared after 18 months), but it shows a pattern of head hunting and charging.
Gaucho wrote:Clean hit.
bhaw wrote:If you do the math, 25 games is what is required to keep him out of the playoffs if Phoenix goes 7 games in every series through the Cup.
Happened in game 3 so 4 more games in Round 1 plus 7 games x 3 more rounds (21 games). 4 + 21 = 25.
Maybe that's not what they were thinking, but it makes sense.
npv708 wrote: Torres is far worse than Matt Cooke. His rap sheet should be about 10 pages longer than Cooke's, too. He's already been suspended once for the playoffs, and has had 2 other incidents that should've been suspensions. The thing is, is that the stuff is does, is typically far worse than what Cooke does, with maybe the exception of the last suspension for Cooke, which was just pure stupidity. Same in the regular season, it was one cheap shot after another. He's the main reason I dislike the Nucks as much as I do. Torres is one of the dirtiest players in the league, but the league already made an example of Matt Cooke, so they have no need to consistently punish Torres.
npv708 wrote:It still amazes me that Torres gets away with what he does.
Dave Molinari @MolinariPG
Matt Cooke, asked directly about the Torres suspension: "We have Game 6 tomorrow. That’s the most important thing."
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