Wow @ Caps!

[BuddyLee]

Anyone just see that three goal comeback in the third period?

Anyone just see that exciting OT?

Anyone just see Backstrom make a great unassisted goal FTW?

Wow!

 

[dems4me]

Anyone just see that three goal comeback in the third period?

Anyone just see that exciting OT?

Anyone just see Backstrom make a great unassisted goal FTW?

Wow!

I did!!! I had written them down for a loss, and then within a 3-5 minute (?) period, they got 3 goals WTG Caps!! Helluva game!!!

 

[BuddyLee]

Alex Ovechkin's Boarding Major Video - NHL VideoCenter

I wonder how long Ovie will be gone. Looked like a late push and penalty worthy but not enough for a major or suspension.

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

Alex Ovechkin's Boarding Major Video - NHL VideoCenter

I wonder how long Ovie will be gone. Looked like a late push and penalty worthy but not enough for a major or suspension.

They are just looking for Ovie to do something wrong, even the annoucers said it was a bad call maybe 2 minutes or possible double minor, if the league goes and suspends him for any games its BS. Yeah maybe he should have been more careful because of where it was on the ice. They moved this game to the NBC game of the week because of Ovie and the 2 teams that were playing, and the ref's ruined their tv ratings, like the announcers said there goes the ratings.
But what a great comeback, Nicki's goal was awesome in o/t.

 

[Baz]

Alex Ovechkin's Boarding Major Video - NHL VideoCenter

I wonder how long Ovie will be gone. Looked like a late push and penalty worthy but not enough for a major or suspension.

Ovie's penalty is a textbook example of a push from behind into the boards.. Textbook.

He's a repeat offender, so he should sit at least the next game.

 

[Baz]

They are just looking for Ovie to do something wrong, even the annoucers said it was a bad call maybe 2 minutes or possible double minor, if the league goes and suspends him for any games its BS. Yeah maybe he should have been more careful because of where it was on the ice. They moved this game to the NBC game of the week because of Ovie and the 2 teams that were playing, and the ref's ruined their tv ratings, like the announcers said there goes the ratings.
But what a great comeback, Nicki's goal was awesome in o/t.

Ovie's a dirty player, and got away with it for a while because he was "Ovechkin". But the league is now looking to crackdown on cheap shots, so Ovie's antics will be penalized.

You could tell from his body language after the hit that he knew he douched it up. Again.

 

[SoMdDude]

Ovie's penalty is a textbook example of a push from behind into the boards.. Textbook.

He's a repeat offender, so he should sit at least the next game.

Repeat offender? how many times has he been suspended for something like this? Oh yeaaaa ONCE

NHL rules state that when a player has played in 41 consecutive games "without being assessed a boarding and/or a checking from behind major and a game misconduct," his current record will be wiped clean. Exactly 41 games have passed since the last boarding call (Nov. 25), so he should avoid an automatic suspension.. Its not like Campbell was standing a step away from the boards. Rewatch the video..OV was flying into the zone, the fastest I have seen him move all year...when he pushed Campbell, he was straddling the goal line (moving yes but he was looking at/trying to get to the puck)

OV is not a dirty player..how many clean hits has he had compared to anything even close to being dirty? Look at Avery for NYR, now thats a dirty player.

Funny OV has been boarded before much worse and it doesn't get called..here is an example..the guy that hit him didn't even get suspended for it..the way they are calling it this season has been very inconsistent!

YouTube - Craig Adams Dirty Hit on Alexander Ovechkin HD - Feburary 7th 2010

 

[Baz]

Repeat offender? how many times has he been suspended for something like this? Oh yeaaaa ONCE

NHL rules state that when a player has played in 41 consecutive games "without being assessed a boarding and/or a checking from behind major and a game misconduct," his current record will be wiped clean. Exactly 41 games have passed since the last boarding call (Nov. 25), so he should avoid an automatic suspension.. Its not like Campbell was standing a step away from the boards. Rewatch the video..OV was flying into the zone, the fastest I have seen him move all year...when he pushed Campbell, he was straddling the goal line (moving yes but he was looking at/trying to get to the puck)

OV is not a dirty player..how many clean hits has he had compared to anything even close to being dirty? Look at Avery for NYR, now thats a dirty player.

Funny OV has been boarded before much worse and it doesn't get called..here is an example..the guy that hit him didn't even get suspended for it..the way they are calling it this season has been very inconsistent!

YouTube - Craig Adams Dirty Hit on Alexander Ovechkin HD - Feburary 7th 2010

This was his 3rd game misconduct this season. But it looks like he will get away with it due to loopholes in the rules.

Despite this being Ovechkin's third game misconduct this season, he will not be suspended because the penalties were not assessed for the same infraction. His last game misconduct was handed out for a knee-on-knee hit on Tim Gleason of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Also, he has been cleared for his last game misconduct for boarding because it was assessed more than 41 games ago.

Report: Blackhawks' Campbell out for the rest of the season
He'll get his someday.

 

[BuddyLee]

He'll get his someday.

That's what they've been saying for years, however, he keeps gettin' his.

O should have been penalized, that's it. If the league suspends him they're off the deep end and going the way of the NFL, pussifying the league.

Burnside's take...

Alex Ovechkin should not be suspended for latest hit - ESPN

Another day, another challenge for the NHL's head disciplinarian Colin Campbell.



Fresh from his perplexing decision not to suspend Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke for the forward's potentially season-ending hit on Boston's Marc Savard, Campbell will now have to deal with another controversial hit by Washington captain -- and superstar -- Alex Ovechkin.



Here's a suggestion (and we know how much Campbell enjoys suggestions from the peanut gallery): Do nothing, again.



Only this time, Campbell will completely get it right if he simply lets Sunday's call stand -- Ovechkin was ejected in the first period of a key game against Chicago after pushing Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell into the boards behind the Chicago net.



Initially, it appeared as though Campbell was merely stunned (Brian, not Colin). Then, he didn't return the game. Finally, late Sunday, the news came that the NHL's third highest-paid defenseman could be lost for the season with a broken clavicle and broken ribs. While difficult for the Blackhawks, who are considered a top candidate to win their first Stanley Cup since 1961, Campbell's injury does not change our view about how the league should view the incident.



Ovechkin was tossed for the third time this season, assessed a five-minute major for boarding and a 10-minute misconduct and game misconduct. We understand the call -- we could have lived with a five-minute major (there is no double-minor for boarding, as we suggested earlier) -- but as for requiring further action, we don't think so.



There was much discussion earlier this season on Nov. 30, when Ovechkin caught Carolina's Tim Gleason with a knee-on-knee hit a week after being ejected for ramming Buffalo's Patrick Kaleta. A day later, Ovechkin was handed a two-game suspension by Campbell.



There will no doubt be calls for Ovechkin to be made an example of following Sunday's hit on Brian Campbell. You know ... "He's a repeat offender" and "Make an example of him" ... that kind of stuff. The kind of stuff that should have factored into Colin Campbell's ruling on Cooke.



We often criticize the NHL's curious method of dispensing supplementary discipline because it is so, well, curious and disjointed and often downright laughable. That flawed process was once again thrown into the spotlight last week with the contentious Cooke hit and NHL general managers' subsequent move to introduce a new rule to protect players from blindside hits to the head.



The Ovechkin hit, though, has nothing to do with any of that. Did he deserve a penalty? Sure. But was it reckless? No. Was it predatory or intended to injure? No.



And so, this Ovechkin incident should pass -- unlike the Cooke hit, which went unpunished -- because it is the right thing to do.

 

[cdrfunk]

Repeat offender? how many times has he been suspended for something like this? Oh yeaaaa ONCE
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OV is not a dirty player..how many clean hits has he had compared to anything even close to being dirty? Look at Avery for NYR, now thats a dirty player.

He's dirty. It's not some coindence that players around him tend to collapse into injury. There are other players that dish out a ton of hits without injurying everyone. How many knee on knee hits have been "accidental" by this guy now? He sure does a lot of dangerous to others by accident.

They've let ovechkin go for a long time. There's a chicken and egg problem with him until now. Everyone goes oh we'll let him go because he's not a repeated offender, but he's not a repeat offender because they keep letting him go. This isn't the first season he's had these issues. This is the first season that anyone stops cheering him long enough to talk about it.

Finally this season they'll pulling back on the reigns a bit, and his reputation as dirty will only increase because he has no intention of backing off with the filth. You can lay big hits without being a douche about it.

 

[OldHillcrestGuy]

He's dirty. It's not some coindence that players around him tend to collapse into injury. There are other players that dish out a ton of hits without injurying everyone. How many knee on knee hits have been "accidental" by this guy now? He sure does a lot of dangerous to others by accident.

They've let ovechkin go for a long time. There's a chicken and egg problem with him until now. Everyone goes oh we'll let him go because he's not a repeated offender, but he's not a repeat offender because they keep letting him go. This isn't the first season he's had these issues. This is the first season that anyone stops cheering him long enough to talk about it.

Finally this season they'll pulling back on the reigns a bit, and his reputation as dirty will only increase because he has no intention of backing off with the filth. You can lay big hits without being a douche about it.

The problem is Ovie is big and solid and many of these players arent built like him, when he lays big hits these little smaller guys crumple to the ice. Guess the hit he put on Jaromir Jagr in the Olympics was him being a douche bag.
Ovie plays at over 100% all the time and with his speed slower players sometimes get in his way and thats when the problems start. There is not one other player in the NHL that plays with the fire and intensity and desire that Ovie displays night in and night out.

 

[BuddyLee]

He's dirty. It's not some coindence that players around him tend to collapse into injury. There are other players that dish out a ton of hits without injurying everyone. How many knee on knee hits have been "accidental" by this guy now? He sure does a lot of dangerous to others by accident.

They've let ovechkin go for a long time. There's a chicken and egg problem with him until now. Everyone goes oh we'll let him go because he's not a repeated offender, but he's not a repeat offender because they keep letting him go. This isn't the first season he's had these issues. This is the first season that anyone stops cheering him long enough to talk about it.

Finally this season they'll pulling back on the reigns a bit, and his reputation as dirty will only increase because he has no intention of backing off with the filth. You can lay big hits without being a douche about it.

Having the leagues best player causes much jealousy. The aforementioned post sums that up best.