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  • Dr. Lecter
    Zero for Zero!
    • Mar 2003
    • 67938
    #1

    NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

    DETROIT -- Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin won't be suspended for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals despite drawing an instigator penalty in the final 19 seconds of a 3-1 loss to Detroit in Game 2 on Sunday night.

    Under NHL rules, any player drawing an instigating penalty in the final five minutes is to be suspended for the next game, but the rule allows considerable flexibility depending on the circumstances.

    "None of the criteria in this rule applied in this situation," NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell said in a statement issued by the league about an hour after the game ended. "Suspensions are applied under this rule when a team attempts to send a message in the last five minutes by having a player instigate a fight. A suspension could also be applied when a player seeks retribution for a prior incident. Neither was the case here and therefore the one game suspension is rescinded."

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    Ummmmm... Wasn't Malkin seeking retribution for Zetterberg hitting his teammate? HTF does the rule not apply?
    Originally posted by mysticsoto
    Lecter is right in everything he said.
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  • LtFinFan66
    Registered User
    • Mar 2005
    • 47199
    #2
    Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

    Because it's Malkin...duh

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    • Dr. Lecter
      Zero for Zero!
      • Mar 2003
      • 67938
      #3
      Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

      I think it is more because it is a big name (any big name) and it is the SCF.

      The NHL sometimes does not like to follow their own rulebook in the SCF. They would have done the same for Crosby, Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Hossa, Datsyuk (if he was playing), etc.

      They look bush league doing this.
      Originally posted by mysticsoto
      Lecter is right in everything he said.

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      • LtFinFan66
        Registered User
        • Mar 2005
        • 47199
        #4
        Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

        their ratings are hurting enough as it is I would guess

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        • Nighthawk
          Getting old waiting for a championship in Buffalo!
          • Jul 2002
          • 15437
          #5
          Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

          And this is why the NHL is a joke to most of the sports world. They can't even follow their own rules! Bush league!

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          • Nighthawk
            Getting old waiting for a championship in Buffalo!
            • Jul 2002
            • 15437
            #6
            Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

            Originally posted by Dr.Lecter
            I think it is more because it is a big name (any big name) and it is the SCF.

            The NHL sometimes does not like to follow their own rulebook in the SCF. They would have done the same for Crosby, Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Hossa, Datsyuk (if he was playing), etc.

            They look bush league doing this.
            Ha, ha...I didn't even read this before I wrote my previous post...pretty funny, we were thinking the same way.
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            • rbochan
              Zamboni Driver
              • Jun 2008
              • 5060
              #7
              Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

              NHL uses only rules that are convenient

              The National Hockey League rule book spells out 87 rules and hundreds of sub-rules that govern its game. There is an 88th rule that goes unwritten: The league’s braintrust can invalidate any of the others, so long as it behooves their short-sighted and selfish interests...
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              • OpIv37
                Acid Douching Asswipe
                • Sep 2002
                • 101255
                #8
                Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                The only criteria that applies is the ability to sell tickets/jerseys and attract viewers. If it were a 4th line winger that no one outside of Pittsburgh has ever heard of, the guy would be sitting tonight. But there is no way in hell the NHL is going to sit one of their most marketable players during the finals.

                Think Kaleta, Brashear or Avery would be playing if they did the same thing? Not ****ing likely.

                It's very bush-league and I'm sick of this NHL fence-sitting on the fighting issue. The hardcore fans like the fighting, but the violence is one of the things that reduces the sport's mass appeal. So the NHL wants to appease the hardcore fans by allowing fighting while at the same time appease the masses by appearing to limit/reduce fighting.

                Either let them fight (my personal preference) or have the balls to take it out completely, but don't make up these BS fighting rules only to invoke them only when they are convenient.
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                • SabreEleven
                  Registered User
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 39563
                  #9
                  Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                  Originally posted by rbochan
                  NHL uses only rules that are convenient

                  The National Hockey League rule book spells out 87 rules and hundreds of sub-rules that govern its game. There is an 88th rule that goes unwritten: The league’s braintrust can invalidate any of the others, so long as it behooves their short-sighted and selfish interests...
                  Like ignoring a foot in the crease?
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                  • Ebenezer
                    Give me a minute...
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 73867
                    #10
                    Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                    Originally posted by SabreEleven
                    Like ignoring a foot in the crease?
                    Or ignoring when Mario Lemieux threw a stick at a referee from across the ice???




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                    • JD
                      Sabres Zone
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 13752
                      #11
                      Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                      They would never suspend him, that would take away from the competitiveness of the game. Now, if it was a Detroit player.. I could see it happening because it would help Pittsburgh extend the series equaling more $$ for the league.
                      “You hold a players only meeting and get each guy to stand up and say what he can bring to the table... and if he doesn't, you punch him in the face.” ~~ Harry Neale, on how to fix the Sabres season.

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                      • Dr. Lecter
                        Zero for Zero!
                        • Mar 2003
                        • 67938
                        #12
                        Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                        Originally posted by Nighthawk
                        Ha, ha...I didn't even read this before I wrote my previous post...pretty funny, we were thinking the same way.
                        Funny and scary!
                        Originally posted by mysticsoto
                        Lecter is right in everything he said.
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                        • SabreEleven
                          Registered User
                          • Aug 2002
                          • 39563
                          #13
                          Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                          more scary

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                          • LtFinFan66
                            Registered User
                            • Mar 2005
                            • 47199
                            #14
                            Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                            Originally posted by Ebenezer
                            Or ignoring when Mario Lemieux threw a stick at a referee from across the ice???
                            figures Frank would get a stab in at the pens

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                            • SabreEleven
                              Registered User
                              • Aug 2002
                              • 39563
                              #15
                              Re: NHL will not suspend Pens' Malkin

                              or when what's his face from the Penguins threw the puck in the stands and scored the game winning goal in OT like a minute later.

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