This is the exact reason it makes me crazy when people accurately say the lack of injury will cushion the punishment or even eliminate the possibility all together. I say accurately because the league states in their little suspension videos that injury does play a role. That's BS.
Concussions aren't predictable and take time to present in some cases. If a hit is illegal .... it's an illegal, suspendable hit. The scope of punishment should be tied to the actual event and the history of the player.
Otherwise, if injury is going to play a role then any player who commits an illegal hit shouldn't be allowed to return until the player they injure is healthy. That's just as dumb a statement and situation as deciding a head hit that a player somehow escapes without an injury is an OK, legal hit.
I don't think it was particularly smart to put him out there for the shootout either. Gulutzan's got to be able to recognize when one of his players is "off" like that.
I have a feeling that was more Benn's doing than Gully's. When your best player is saying he's good for something as simple as a SO, you almost have to let him take it.
That said, I don't know why he was even back in the game. Should've left after the Vermette hit.
I have a feeling that was more Benn's doing than Gully's. When your best player is saying he's good for something as simple as a SO, you almost have to let him take it.
That said, I don't know why he was even back in the game. Should've left after the Vermette hit.
He did. He didn't take another shift until the SO. Did you mean the Doan hit or the Morris hit?
This is the exact reason it makes me crazy when people accurately say the lack of injury will cushion the punishment or even eliminate the possibility all together. I say accurately because the league states in their little suspension videos that injury does play a role. That's BS.
Concussions aren't predictable and take time to present in some cases. If a hit is illegal .... it's an illegal, suspendable hit. The scope of punishment should be tied to the actual event and the history of the player.
Otherwise, if injury is going to play a role then any player who commits an illegal hit shouldn't be allowed to return until the player they injure is healthy. That's just as dumb a statement and situation as deciding a head hit that a player somehow escapes without an injury is an OK, legal hit.
If we use their logic about injury playing a part then there is no way on earth Todd Bertuzzi should have ever been allowed to put skates on again.
If we use their logic about injury playing a part then there is no way on earth Todd Bertuzzi should have ever been allowed to put skates on again.
Yeah it's dumb. Even Shanaban's Doan video mentioned there was no apparent injury to Benn. How and why does that matter when you are justifying a suspension for an illegal hit?
Stars defenseman Mark Fistric is expected to miss at least one week with an abdominal strain. He was injured in Tuesday's 4-3 shootout win over Phoenix.
"It will be a week for so for sure, and then after that it will be day-to-day," Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said of Fistric's status.
I see no reason to rush Nystrom back, and if Fistric is ready to come back, might as well dress 7 D if you're going to ride the top 6 guys through the stretch.
