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Rinaldo disagreed he said the hit was clean actually. That hit was a 2 minute penalty and nothing more. If you're going to suspend based on that hit, then every boarding call should be suspendable.

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Deserved the suspension, regardless of what Rinaldo said.

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That hit was most definitely not clean. When you see a guy's numbers the entire time and still throw him head-first into the boards, that warrants a suspension. Simple as that. When you see so many players going down with concussions, the league has to send a message that plays like that are not okay.

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Completely disagree. There's been much worse boarding calls this year that haven't even resulted in a phone call from Shannahan. The only reason he was supsended is because most people felt he should have been suspended after the Miller incident.

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So why wasn't Cole suspended for a hit that was much worse than the hit Lucic put on Rinaldo?

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You shouldn't make a decision based off what Shanahan does or fails to do. The hit is illegal, case closed.

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Illegal and suspendable are 2 different things.

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It was suspendable. Be glad it was one game because it could and should have been more. You see numbers, you can hurt someone seriously.

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So every boarding call should be a multiple game suspension?

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The big issue I see Shanahan and others having to begin to address soon is the line between what is a penalty that warrants supplemental discipline, and what can be settled by the on-ice officials. That line is getting increasingly more grey, IMO. The league needs to come down hard on the head shots, but at what point are they starting to micromanage the job of the on-ice official? For example, IMO, Leino's elbowing penalty from a couple weeks back could have been settled by the referee.

Shanahan has done a great job so far, I'm as big a fan of his as anybody. But as the season progresses, that's something he needs to be careful of.

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Until it's weened out of the sport, yes. You want head injuries decreased, start cracking down on any unnecessary hit, including elbowing, hits from behind and boardings.

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I was right. Hit wasn't too bad and he's being suspended primarily because of his history.
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/con...d=60&id=143408

If the Miller incident doesn't happen Lucic doesn't even get a phone call on this.

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And I'm not sticking up for Rinaldo because he's "my guy." There shouldn't be a gray area anymore. Either go hard on penalties or not at all.

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I agree with you to an extent, but if every hit like that is suspendable then 75% of the players in the league will get a suspension this year.

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“It’s hockey, you hit and go into the boards, I don’t think it was dirty at all,” Rinaldo told CSNPhilly.com reporter Tim Panaccio. “[It was] shoulder-to-shoulder and just momentum. He’s big guy, maybe double my weight. His momentum carried him into the boards awkwardly. I don’t think it was dirty at all.”

Rinaldo doesn't seem to think he got hit in the numbers.

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Rinaldo also said he wants to be labeled a goal scorer this year :lol

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So because of that we won't listen to what he said about a hit he received. What does he have to gain from saying it was a clean hit?

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It was a joke, DJ :rolleyes

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saw that Giroux had a pretty good (albeit non-contact) practice...felt much better then last week...good sign!

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Giroux was moving around like he never skipped a beat.

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in OMGCG world, you concuss concussions.

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:lol :lol

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:lol:lol:thumbsup

OMGCG once visited a psychic... to warn her.

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Two games for Bourque. What an ugly hit... Surprised he didn't get more. Combination of no big injury and lack of priors are what kept the number of games low.

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Look, we get it, you're a Bruins fan. But he delivered a violent hit to a guy whose numbers were facing him and was in a compromising position. He eventually made first contact with Rinaldo's shoulder, but the guys shoulders were parallel with the boards and Lucic had plenty of time to minimize the hit.

This is nonsense. Of course his history has to do with it. A player who has never been suspended might have simply gotten a fine or slap on the wrist. But Lucic has previously been fined and suspended on different occasions, so it's obvious that had something to do with it.

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Yeah. I think it was right. Seabrook lost the puck and turned a bit at the last second and I think that made it worse for him.

But, I wouldn't rule out injury yet. It's been less than 24 hours since the incident.

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Very true. Shanny said there's no apparent major injury, but who knows what symptoms might surface in the next day or two.

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Yikes, I don't even know where to begin.....

You watch the game? I'm guessing not. If you did, I'm sure you'd remember that your boy got a major for boarding and a game misconduct.

Dirty hit from a player that has a checkered history. Yea, he absolutely deserved to be suspended. Take the homer glasses off.....

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I watched the game and I disagreed with the call on the ice. Thought it was 2 for boarding then and I think the same thing now. I'm not a homer when it comes to stuff like this. Thought Chara should have been suspended last year, thought lucic probably deserved a couple games for running miller, and I thought mcquaid probably should have got a game for kneeing this year. He was only suspended because of his history.

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this was my favorite Teemu back in Winnipeg video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tbpxclxg7I