Nhl random wheel9/11/2023 ![]() Granted, Ott is known as a repeat offender by the NHL and I’m sure the NHL was focused more on his history than than comparing the two hits against each other. Yet today, Steve Ott was given a two game suspension for a similar hit that was nowhere near as bad. This is Scuderi’s first incident like this and the NHL took that into account when giving out his punishment. Fair enough, but the fact that Chimmer was penalized and Scuderi not is the issue at hand. I am ok with that, because you can’t leave the bunch to fight. ![]() He was given a game misconduct and the Jackets were given a too many men penalty. Apparently he was a little too anxious getting on the ice. ![]() Derek Dorsett was also penalized for going after Scuderi. He got a 10 minute misconduct for being pissed off. The guy who’s face was a mess with blood. That said, here’s my issue:- the guy who made the hit- Rob Scuderi- wasn’t penalized. You go in for a hipcheck, but you are so close to the ice that you end up just nailing a guy in his knees, obivously sending him ass over tea kettle. Scuderi was given an undisclosed fine for his hit, but Mike MacLean of The Cannon says the big issue is with the penalties handed out during the game.įirst of all, the hit was what my teammates and I used to call “torpedoing a guy”. “Rob Blake’s name came up and Kyle McLaren’s, but they hit guys with their rear ends and they hit them in the hips and they hit them hard … low.” “He does hit guys with a hip check,” Campbell said. But he came back in the game, Chimera, so I didn’t think it was a fair play and we fined him.”Ĭampbell compared Scuderi’s hitting style to that of fellow NHL defensemen Rob Blake and Kyle McClaren. He did hurt him on the play, as far as receiving a cut. “Scuderi went really low and I felt it was a clip,” Campbell said Hockey Night in Canada Radio. Colin Campbell seems to imply that since Jason Chimera wasn’t hurt, the hit wasn’t so bad. The big debate centers around the hip checks for Steve Ott and Rob Scuderi who have been punished in two completely different ways for very similar hits. Never before has the NHL’s seemingly random version of justice been more apparent than this past week when four separate but similar incidents were treated so differently by NHL Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell. The big issue concerning the punishment of Steve Ott, and the punishments of Tuomo Ruutu and Rob Scuderi combined with no punishment for Mike Richards has caused a stir in the hockey community.
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