GDT: Game #81 : KINGS vs. SHARKS - Thursday, 4/5/’12 @ 7:30 pm PDT {PRIME-Ticket TV}

[damacles1156]

Well Couture went down a little easy, But still CLifford should have not done that.

[Telos]

Shorthander coming up!

[ShattStar03]

It was a slight shove and he gets five.. Hockey is a physical game.

[RAZZIE King]

Not good KFC...

[cnshockey]

Clifford is ****ing useless. ******* it just send him down already. I doubt he finds that post season success like he had last year.

[KingKopitar11]

Originally Posted by Live in the Now

No doubt Clifford is meeting with Shanaban over that.

it was cheap but not brutal, chill

[Scottkmlps]

5? Are you kidding me?

[Willard]

I knew Couture got hurt, but that has got to be the smallest touch I've ever seen called a major penalty.

[Holden Caulfield]

He was just trying to pin him, which you see a thousand times, but Couture was off-balance and was further away from the boards than Clifford realized. Unfortunate.

[Sydor25]

Originally Posted by cnshockey

Clifford is ****ing useless. ******* it just send him down already. I doubt he finds that post season success like he had last year.

Over react much?

Kings and sharks are in the playoffs. Relax.

[DocWest]

The Clifford hit looked weak, but it was on a star player and he went down hard.

[Cook24]

Should've only been 2 minutes....stop freaking out ya tards. Couture went down extremely easy.

[vbaron]

Unlucky 1st for the Kings

[Jason Lewis]

Automatic 5 for injury. Easy call.


Jesus Mitchell and Couture out...

Ya know I thought I saw the Saints defensive coordinator coming out of the Kings locker room...

[lumbergh]

Need another camera angle on that hit.

[damacles1156]

Regardless Clifford knows better, You see numbers like that you have to stop.

It's the hitters job to stop.

[cnshockey]

Originally Posted by Sydor25

Over react much?

Kings and sharks are in the playoffs. Relax.

This isn't an overreaction. I've been saying this all year. He's had a handful of good games at best and the rest of the time, he's looked like an AHLer.

[Willard]

If Couture were not off-balance, Clifford's tiny little touch would already be forever forgotten. It's absurd to say Shanahan will be calling on that one.

[Cruel11]

Sharks were *****ing about penalites. Now they have one...a major one.

[Iron Chef]

Good 1st period guys. Other than Clifford's hit, you guys were fantastic.

[DocWest]

Rosen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> O'Neil

[Jason Lewis]

Originally Posted by damacles1156

Regardless Clifford knows better, You see numbers like that you have to stop.

It's the hitters job to stop.

Boom. End of discussion. Doesn't matter if he "just touched him" in the eyes of some people. He lined up a player in a vulnerable position. In today's NHL you gotta be smarter then that. Clifford time and time again this season has proven he isn't very smart.

And the injury on the play is the automatic 5. It has nothing to do with the volatility of the hit, if he was injured that's 5. And Couture was injured.

[SLang]

The only reason Couture goes off that quick is because the period's nearly over and the impression that he's hurt promotes the 5. Clifford barely hit him but was stupid for hitting him at all considering the calls we got in the first.

[Live in the Now]

It's very possible he gets a game suspension. Consider that he was already given a game misconduct for a needless check to the head in Phoenix.

[damacles1156]

Originally Posted by Jaygokings

Boom. End of discussion. Doesn't matter if he "just touched him" in the eyes of some people. He lined up a player in a vulnerable position. In today's NHL you gotta be smarter then that. Clifford time and time again this season has proven he isn't very smart.

And the injury on the play is the automatic 5. It has nothing to do with the volatility of the hit, if he was injured that's 5. And Couture was injured.

Exactly, and untill the NHL puts in a Rule about player's putting themselves in a Stupid position to get hurt, is in the book.

Then we can debate, but there is no such rule.