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 | Pronger stomp ruled to be clean |
 Radio writes "Chris Pronger's skate stomp to the ankle of Ryan Kesler was ruled to be a non-suspendable offence by the NHL today.
You can view the clip here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y7kRKus2FRQ
Article here: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=231940&hubname=nhl
Really this article should be called:
"League: Stomping okay when done by Anaheim"
Didn't this already happen twice this season? Chris Simon anyone? How is this different? There's clear intent to injure, only the team logo and name on the back of the jersey is different.
Once again, the NHL has shown that Anaheim is held to a lower standard then the rest of the league.
In your opinion, should Pronger have been suspended? Why or why not? And if so, for how long?"
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by BruMagnus (PensCup2010@hotmail.com) on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is a *****ing joke!! Thank you for bringing it to our attention Radio!
This just furthers the proof that the NHL is a corrupt League sliding further downhill every year.
In December, New York Islanders forward Chris Simon received a 30-game suspension for trying to step on Pittsburgh forward Jarkko Ruutu's foot.
With that previous case already established, I'd have expected Pronger to get at least 30 games himself, if not more...
Pronger proves, yet again, what a dirty player he is. How disgraceful and disrespectful. I almost hope someone does something worse to him so that karma comes around. And yet again Pronger gets away with it... disgusting... you can bet if Avery had done this.... well... It's interesting to note that in that not-so-long ago poll Pronger was voted the 2nd dirtiest NHL player behind Avery. This is further evidence of his brutality and patheticness. There should be no place for this in the NHL... I cannot believe they let it slide. I can't wait to hear Nonis's reaction to this atrocity! |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Rico420 on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | UNFORTUNATELY
The NHL is just like any other league where your star players get protected - No matter what protect the stars!! I mean obviously Pronger should be out for 30 games just like Simon was but for some reason this is the Golden Boy who's who's seen a lot of one game suspensions and he should have been thrown out of the playoffs last season - and shouldn't be allowed to play in them this season.
It's an outrage that an example has already been made of Simon - a case that should easily be transfered to Prongers ass and he skips out unscathed - is it because Kesler wasn't hurt? I'm sure Ruutu wasn't hurt either..
If anything Soupy Campbell should be fired - what a joke.
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by habswinthecup-again on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | Pronger is the dirtiest player in the league but continues to get away with murder. The fact that Campbell did not suspend Pronger is a complete joke just like Campbell is him self.
I think the players and coaches should do something about him because he is the main person that is ruining the NHL. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Vinnypleasecomehome1 (monkeyspunk12@hotmail.com) on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | I mentioned the other day that Pronger is the best player in the league. I forgot to mention that he's also the dirtiest. I am all for rough hockey. Stick work, elbows, boarding are all fine with me. The only action in hockey that I cannot tolerate is kicking or in this case, stomping. There is no way to protect one's self from this action and we've all seen what kind of damage a skate blade can do. Just ask Richard Zednick. If Pronger's skate missed the protective boot and sliced Kesler's achilles tendon, would we be talking about criminal charges, a la Todd Bertuzzi? He's trying to end a career here and this is not ok. Pronger should be gone for the rest of the season and playoffs. I thought the thirty games for Simon was excessive. Mostly because I hate Ruutu. I like Kesler. Pronger should be gone, along with Campbell, who is a world class douche bag for not being consistent and thus making a mockery of our game. I think Zack Stortini should also repeatedly pummel Campbell's son (what's that little bastard's name again? I hate that kid) as punishment for Campbell Sr.'s incompetency.
The only thing I have to say in Campbell's defense is that that he undermines Gary Bettman's attempts to sell ***** hockey in the States when he doesn't rule on issues like this one. This is good for hockey. Everything else Campbell does is bad for hockey. Someone please punch out his son and perhaps stomp on his achilles tendon. Also someone should punch out Bettman's children, even if they don't play hockey. If they are children then they should only be punched by other children. Adults shouldn't punch children but children should punch Bettman's children. If Bettman's children are adults then it's open season on punching them. If they are female then maybe leave the punching to
08-09's wife, she's butch.
Have I offended enough people? Hope so. Have a nice day everyone. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Kramer (cosmo@self_made_pizza.com) on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | People, lay off Pronger!!! Of all the cheap rotten dirty players in the league, Pronger is the cleanest. He would never do anything to kill another player.
Oh, and I like Pronger's name spelled backward....Regnorp! It sounds more hockey like. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Kyleton on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | Pronger will be in the running for the Norris Trophy this year, so I don't think the NHL will touch him, although if you wanted to set an example I would make it of him as it sends a clear signal to all players even the stars that stupid moves will not be tolerated.
I disagree that it has anything to do with the Ducks as a team getting away with this, but I believe it is because Pronger is a star.
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Archion113 on Friday, March 14
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I think its pretty safe to say that if this was a Flyer Player he would have been suspended for the remainder of the year or something crazy.
The league has an obvious bias towards who the suspend and who they do not. Its frustrating to see my team get handed suspension after suspension while other players in the league are doing the SAME exact stuff and going unpunished.
How may boards have gone unpunished this year (jones)? How many elbows to the head gone unpunished (cote)? How many borderline hits that have caused injuries gone unpunished (hartnell)?
The standards were set early on for the Flyers and only the Flyers while the rest of the league has been running a muck. This is what we flyer fans expeted to happen but prayed wouldnæt. We were ok with being punished if it helped rid the game of injuries caused by borderline hits, but instead nothing has changed and only the rules have become more lenient. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by HABSSTAR (loserleafs@hotmail.com) on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | WHAT? Pronger getting away with a cheap shot again? I don't believe it! Of course the NHL isn't going to suspend him, even if they did it would be another 1-2 game suspension with some type of BS about how this is different. Of course it is...it's Pronger and the NHL sweetheart Ducks.
No one should be surprised by this. This is right up there with Burke pulling a fast one on the salary cap by having two star players take some time off before coming back for a playoff run. How come that hasn't gotten the attention of the League? What a joke. Maybe Campbell was afraid of what Burke would say about him. Maybe Burk wouldn't talk to him anymore like Lowe! |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by MTL_HABS_24 on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | I'm a HUGE hockey fan and if a Habs player had done this I'd be the first one to call for his punishment. In this case, we're talking about a dirty player - albeit a very skilled and dominating one - in Chris Pronger. I doubt very much that that little weasel Bettman will punish Pronger for the obvious reason that, without him in the lineup, the Ducks wouldn't be as dominant and may not repeat as Stanley Cup champs and the commish wouldn't want that to happen.
I read on another "Sports Network" more than a few comments actually justifying Pronger's action. These imbeciles went so far as to say that Kesler was deserving of the stomp since he "had his legs locked around Pronger's" and that Kesler should be the one to be punished! I was incredulous when I read the first comment but got angry when I kept reading and found that 1 in 10 actually praised Pronger for his dangerous and egregious action. What kind of people are these???
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by leafy on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | | So much for zero tolerance when it comes to using your skate blade as a weapon. Looks like the Simon incident to me. What's the league thinking? |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Radio on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The only difference I can see is that Simon's stomp was after the whistle. But that shouldn't make any tangible difference in punishment. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by habsrock99 on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | I hate Pronger and I consider him the dirtiest player in the league by a wide margin. Sure the guy's a world-class athlete and possible future Hall of Famer(maybe first ballot) but the guy's an a$$hole who shows no remorse to his actions and is a world-class dick. What I don't understand is that just two or three days ago the NHL execs were trigger happy handing out something like 5 suspensions in 2 days. Now they get cold feet when something SERIOUS happens. I've said it time and time again, the NHL NEEDS to oust Bettman, Campbell and any other of these a$$holes who could care-less about the integrity of the sport and who could care-less about the health and safety of the players.
On a side-note, I heard an interesting comment from one of my buddies who follows the Western Conference quite closely and he said that he's watched probably 50 Ducks games this year and he's noticed a trend that the refs seem to let Anaheim get away with murder and give them royal treatment at home but on the Road they call them for every little infraction possible. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by canuck67 on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Pronger is out for the rest of the regular season is he not? |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by prayin-for-the-wce on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | Pronger is a dirty player PERIOD. Pronger did deliberately try to step on Kesler. And to put it to rest, it hasn't been ruled clean, because they are reinvestigating it in light of a "new angle" that sportsnet played which clearly shows him doing it on purpose. Looks like he's heading for a suspension, maybe the NHL will drop the hammer on him and give him 2 games and teach him a lesson. Man the NHL is a joke with their suspension, or lack-there of.
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by diehardavsfan on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | Why are you guys shooting your mouths off?? The first video was inconclusive so nothing could be done. The second video clearly shows Pronger is guilty Therefor they are having a hearing with the outcome of Pronger being suspended.
All you guys saying Pronger and the Ducks get away with everything is ridiculous. Pronger was suspended twice last year in the playoffs and the Ducks are the most Penalized team in the NHL this season.
Somebody please explain how the ducks get away with murder, because the way I see it they get caught and punished constantly.
On a side note I would love nothing more then see Pronger get a very harsh suspension hurting the ducks chances at repeating for the cup.
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Radio on Friday, March 14
(User Info | Send a Message) | Update: Based on the "new camera angle" the NHL is again reviewing this issue. Pronger has been indefinetely suspended until they rule on a length for the punishment. (My guess is 8 games)
Question tho: Does the NHL not check ALL angles when reviewing issues like this to begin with? If not, we have a worse problem then any one non-suspension.
Anyway that "new angle" reason for a re-review seems to simply be a cover for going back to punish Pronger, after the league saw the huge negative reaction the stomp and their ruling recieved. |
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Rico420 on Saturday, March 15
(User Info | Send a Message) | Maybe the NHL should have an American Idol style voting competition for the fans to determine how long Pronger should be suspended - after watching it again it kinda looks like yeah Pronger did stomp on him but after Kesler was trying to wrap him up with his feet (also pretty stupid and dangerous) heat of the moment blah blah - point is Pronger still stomped him - this isn't any different the slew footing someone, back to the voting
If you think Pronger should be gone for the remainder of the season (including playoffs) text your vote to 4455
If you think Pronger should be gone for the remainder of the regular season (excluding the playoffs) text your vote to 4456
If you think he should go undisciplined text your vote to 4457.
Tabulating ballots...............
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by DandoEagle on Saturday, March 15
(User Info | Send a Message) | Wut is the big deal really?
Kesler wasn't hurt, Luongo wasn't the one who got stoped on by Prongs who is a good Canadian Boy from Dryden Ontario and plays a really tough gritty style yup, if he gets's suspended it's aoutragoeus!!!
Prongs got tangled up and was trying to get his skate loose, Kestler didn't even get tocuhed by his skate so no suspendion.
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by CofRED on Saturday, March 15
(User Info | Send a Message) | It has been reported on nhl.com that Pronger has now been suspended 8 games for the incident.
Is this a fair sentence?? Or is this still a case of a light sentence being handed out to a high-profile player??
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Re: Pronger stomp ruled to be clean (Score: 1)
by Radio on Saturday, March 15
(User Info | Send a Message) | Radio scores 100 points with his correct prediction of 8 games.
Booya. |
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