Ben-Amor/ Peltonen Incident
 

hey guys! did you see that game? What do you think about that incident? seems that there will be some police investigation......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWKZL3zjJQ

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/sm-liiga/a...li_likea%22%7D

anyway imo you can ban player for a long time, but police-investigation has nothing to do there. You cant compare a situation in hockey to real life emotions etc etc.....anyway it was dirty.

Why won't these idiots like Ben-Amor and Melart just fight each other...:rant:

Would be the best scenario but Melart (7th dman) just tries to take our top-3 forward (Yes Ruutu) out of the game in almost every game so it's kinda hard. Plus Ben-Amor was injured almost 1.5 years.

Btw this topic has been discussed a lot in the line-ups thread.

ok , thx, didnt saw that one. will check it out.

SM-liiga: Semir Ben-Amor cheap-shot on ex-NHL player Ville Peltonen
 

Firstly, I apologize that I post this in the "wrong" forum, but it was posted in the Finnish sub forum and didn't get much of an audience. I just want to see what you guys think and what you would think if something like this happened in the NHL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZWKZL3zjJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwkK2K6sNxE

So basically Ben-Amor (a goon) hit's Ville Peltonen (Finnish NT legend, ex-NHL veteran) from behind, takes him down, and just goes bananas on him with punches. According to the official report, Peltonen was knocked unconscious from the first punch, Ben-Amor keeps firing away at now limp Peltonen for another 6-7 punches in the head. All this with no warning to Peltonen who didn't even have the puck, and didn't have any chance to defend himself. I've never seen something like this in a game tbh. It looks like he's deliberately going after Peltonen and trying to injure him. Peltonen is his team's captain and a very appreciated player. This is the equivalent if Donald Brashear would've attacked Steve Yzerman or Mike Modano.

And now Peltonen is in the hospital with reportedly "at least a concussion". Btw this was a pre-season game in the Finnish SM-liiga with Helsinki teams Jokerit vs. HIFK.

Opinions?

1. They should kick that guy out of the league forever
2. His teammates and the refs should have come to the rescue much quicker

Ben-Amor is an *******.

I'm a HIFK fan so my opinion would get me an infraction.

Waiting for the Jokerit fans to come and defend this with old clips and pseudo arguments.

This is NHL section. Im sick and tired of reading this in finnish newspapers already.

Result: Concussionhttp://static.iltalehti.fi/smliiga/p...etu0309_sm.jpg

Meh. 1 game suspension.

Good points. What makes it sicker is that this was a European Trophy game, and ET doesn't have any type of punishment system for these types of cases. Most likely it will be the SM-liiga itself that will ban him for X amount of games (hopefully a VERY long ban) but he can still keep playing in ET games.

Yep, the most common thus far has been "HIFK did the same thing during the game".

Btw, the game had already gone out of hand with other cheap-shots and fights, but this one is in a league of its own

read the first paragraph of the first post.

He seems like a real tough guy attacking people from behind.

Peltonen probably would have tuned this *****'s ass had he had the balls to face him face to face.

He'll probably get a contract from Vityaz's team.

Melart's attack on Ruutu that started the whole vendetta in this game...included's also Salmi's attack on Filppula.

20+ games in the NHL, easily.

It was a deliberate attempt to injure and nothing short of it.

What's with the club music in the video portraying a vicious attack? :shakehead disgraceful act, that stuff belongs in the octagon not hockey.

Agreed. The only difference between these attacks is the fact that Ben-Amor took on "MM95 Kulta-Ville" and actually got his punches in.

What goes around comes around.
 

Maybe the first poster should have explained what happend before that.

IFK's Ilari Melart (7th dman) attacks Jarkko Ruutu (believe it or not he is imo Jokerit's top-3 forward) plus this dbag Melart has been trying to get Jarkko out of the game whole last season also.

Jokerit has old school assistant coach Tomek Valtonen now who doesn't eat crap like that what IFK have been throwing around the league for years... Ben-Amor shows the message after Melart's attack... though I admit he went too far there.

Here is Melart's case that started the whole show and IFK's Salmi going after Jokerit star Filppula (after Peltonen case) and that was nothing but head hunting.

Disgusting. Makes you wonder what some people think, or are made of.

Oh that whats going on... Jarkko is just this skill player who is without reason targeted by goon like Melart? :laugh: C'mon, Melart has been asking Jarkko to dance for a season I give you that but there is a reasons for that and Jarkko goes as far as waving his gloves until he runs away.

Semi Ben-Amors actions are not justified by anything you posted here, the other incidents are incidents of their own and weren't even in the same scale of idiotism.

^^ Jarkko has orders not to drop his gloves...he is too important player for the club and needs to stay on the ice (check the stats). Melart is 7th dman. Who benefits when they fight and gets thrown out of the game?

Ben-Amor went too far there...stupid move definately but IFK fans should remember the way the IFK plays the game that sometime you will bleed too.

And Salmi's case is equal idiotism with Ben-Amor.

Jarkko clearly said something to Melart. Then didn't fight.

Nice to see him fight Liivik like a man though.

If Jarkko has been ordered not to drop his gloves because he is too valuable player he should keep his mouth shut.

And he did drop gloves against Liivik after leaving Melart without a dance partner earlier in the same game. Funny how the orders work.

Jarkko dropped mits in the 3rd when the game was already over...Melart attacked him in the beginning. Understand?

Yes, the orders are that Jarkko can fight when it suits him. :laugh: