Ex-Bruin Craig Cunningham lost part of his left leg as a consequence of his near-fatal arrhythmia before an AHL game back in November.
Ex-Bruin Craig Cunningham lost part of his left leg as a consequence of his near-fatal arrhythmia before an AHL game back in November.
Yet the DPS has said repeatedly that reputation does not come into play unless it is determined to be a suspendable offense, and then it factors into the suspension. Either an action is suspendable or it isn't. If 2 players do the same thing, 1 isn't suspended due to past history and another gets away with it.Except Marchand's developed a pretty nasty reputation in the league, so he may get suspended just because. It's not fair, but Marchand's closer to Matt Cooke than Paul Kariya in DPS' eyes.
We're not arguing. I'm pre-emptively getting angry at DPS and it's bleeding into my writing. I'm basically addressing them right now, because I know they're gonna fuck this up.I don't think we're really arguing here. I'm just bracing for the fact that the narrative around Marchand outside of New England is "bigtime dirty player," and that DPS isn't immune to this. I'll enjoy being proven wrong, but I don't have a good feeling it'll happen.
Go listen to the DPOS podcast on Puck Soup with Wyshynski and Lozo. They spent about 20 minutes condescending explaining the position I wrote above, and now they're going to complete ignore it and come up with some ridiculous explanation for it. It's infuriating.Oh he is definitely getting suspended, no doubt about it. Only because his name is Brad Marchand.
I was going to link the Tkachuk one. Don't believe he even got a phone call from DPOS.
Today's Marchand is a much "cleaner" player than the young Marchand, but slewfooting is some nasty shit. This isn't the first time he's done it.Whether it is suspendable or not, can we at least agree that it was a stupid play by Marchand? I mean wtf is he doing there? That was completely pointless and unnecessary and he shows once again that he has a tendency to make a lot of moronic choices out there sometimes.
Ay yi yi. I looked at it again, three times, and you are right. My humble apologies.Once again, that's not a slewfoot.