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Ludicrous. If this is the standard, Ulf Samuelson must be hunted down and castrated immediately. By Darcy Tucker, using his helmet.

Go leafs go :)

They'll miss the playoffs again, I'm sure :(

Chris Simon is a thug and a history of intent to injure did and should have played in to his suspension. 30 games for that is a joke. 2 games, extenuated to 5, perhaps, but 30? Ridiculous. I am happy the Islanders put him on leave, even though it is payed.

On suspensions, though, Mathias Ohlund got 5 games for a lumberjack 2-handed slash on Mikko Koivu that broke his leg and has him still out 1 month later. For flagrant, injury causing infractions like that, as well as the Bertuzzi incident of old that left Moore out to this very day I am all for a you don't play until he does approach.

Stepping on someone is something that you just don't do in hockey. The same goes with kicking and jumping on a person's back and driving their face into the ice.

To put this into perspective, these guys have their skates sharpened between periods. They aren't like the skates you have hanging in your closet, they're razor sharp and can easily cut someone. That could've easily ended Jarkko's career and he's extremely lucky that there wasn't any damage done. It's really classified as an attack with a weapon.

Combine that with Simon's history of lowering the bar (kicking, two handed slashes, vicious attacks) and you get 30 days. A lot of people think that he should've been banned for life.

I'm all for fighting, hitting and all the good stuff that's in the NHL but going out of your way to hurt someone on purpose it way too far.

And yes, go Oilers go.

Why the hell did I think Moe was an Avalanche fan?

This is not inclusing his last suspension for 25 games and this one for 30.

Edited, Dec 21st 2007 5:00am by Tare

Any Canadian cities?

Montreal is a pretty amazing place to watch a hockey game.

Edmonton is amazing too. Such a hockey town. Too bad the fans aren't rewarded more often.

Calgary. Once. That cage they call an arena doesn't make the top 5 as far as spaces I have seen for hockey (views, overall experience, etc.), but the fans are ok.

I know hockey is bigger, as a rule, in Canada. National sport, and all, I get it. But in the U.S., you can't get any more Canadian than Minnesota. This is the land of 10,000 lakes, for Bob's sake. In the winter, 9,000 of them have rinks on them. (right next to the ice fishing villages). During 1st intermission at Wild games, they have mites come out and play a 3 minute scrimmage at one end of the ice. Nothing but 20 kids moving in an amoeba from one side to the other, but its the highlight of those kids' lives. They pick one to interview on the Jumbotron at the end. Its awesome.

Hell, we even have our own Anthem.

I was watching that game and I saw when it happened in real time. I'm a huge Penguins fan and I'm a huge fan of all hockey teams in general. I think that the length of the suspension is warranted.

Chris Simon has been suspended in his career seven times. Seriously, seven times. You can only argue that it was the heat of the fight for so long. Simon has shown he has absolutely no issue with attempting to injure a fellow player, and more often than not he will take that opportunity to do something.

All game Ruutu and Simon were in each other's faces. Both are instigators, both are fighters. You don't see Ruutu slewfooting Simon and then stepping on the back of his leg.

If Ruutu's skate was an inch or two lower his career might very well be over. And let's face it, if Simon swings a little bit lower during his two handed lumberjack swing on Ryan Hollweg, he hits him in the throat. He very possibly could have ended his career as well, possibly his life(collapsed trachea anyone?)

I love hockey because it's fast paced and brutal. But Simon has absolutely no place in the NHL. This guy has shown time and time again that given the opportunity, he will attempt to injure a fellow player.

Fuck Simon. And fuck comparing that to bad language. You should be shaking your own head for thinking this is some tiny little incident instead of yet another idiotic violent attempt to injure someone by Simon.

Edited, Dec 22nd 2007 8:23am by Brill

Oh no. Ruutu's a ***** too. But it's not a kick with a skate. Adam summed it up perfectly. These guys skates are as sharp as a razor, he could have not only ended Ruutu's career, but also affected his quality of life. Nobody wants a bum wheel. I don't think this guy has any business in the NHL. After what he did to Hollweg last year how many chances is the NHL going to give him? I personally would love to see him out of the NHL playing somewhere in Podunk. But that's me

Well at least in Bertuzzi's case he was honestly contrite about the situation. He accepted his punishment and when it was up, came back top stink up the league. The difference between those two is you have Chris Simon who is a rent-a-thug and you have Todd Bertuzzi, who was a bonafide star in Vancouver.

Bertuzzi never did anything prior to that to suggest he would go ******* on Moore. And since he's come back he's not had another incident. Simon on the other hand is a ticking timebomb.

It's only a matter of time before he tries to stab somebody with his skate. I can only hope that it's Jagr.

Brill makes me want to move to Pittsburgh.