but if someone breaks a rule they should still be punished… for instance the low shot that scudari gave to whoever that was should be fined.. he has no history.. ott on the other hand should get 2 games prolly because he has history and that wasnt the only questionable incident in the game

you want to STOP people from boarding (see ruutu vs tucker) not slap someone after they take down a player. you can’t stop kneeing, boarding, elbows to the back of somone’s head by waiting for blood to hit the ice then doing something. you gut the kneeing by everytime its 5 minutes power play then back it up with suspensions and/or fines. if you don’t hurt the team AND the player, i’m not sure how you will get on top of the issue. you hurt the team and they start self policing, you hurt the player just cos its fun and they deserve it.

saying that, however, eaach incident deserve an individual look. zero tolerance may be zero tolerance, but that doesn’t mean 100% same punishment.

for the hit on Cola…

At least he got something…maybe that hit wasn’t what was supposed to get the punishment but Ott’s whole game deserved something. The shit head.

If one Lady Bing winner knees somebody, and another Lady Bing winner throws a elbow to the head, guess what? It’s a match penalty and a suspension. What goes for one should go for everybody…then you factor the “repeat offender” variables.

on tucker

and he got 3 days, the blues will not face him as a result. i guess beware the ruutu.

now did ruutu (who apologized to tucker and stuff) get three days for an idiot obvious boarding situation or did he only get 3 games cos the player he hit was dropped? half the comments on that video claim this was a clean or near clean hit. wow. do they need stop signs on players backs in the nhl level now?!?!

Watch some of his hits on Youtube. He’s very fond of waiting until the whistle blows and players are off guard and then he cranks them. He can’t fight and he can’t hit fair so I’m baffled where this tough guy label comes from.

Otter isn’t really the best nickname for him either I think, rabbit would be better since he hops away to hide after every cheap hit. Even turtle would work better since he’s quick to throw his the arms up like a shell and duck under the raining blows.

He wound up with 2 games for the hit on Cola, nothing for the knee-on-knee.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Hip-Checks-Ott-gets-2-game-suspension-Scuderi-?urn=nhl,198499

Wysh does a pretty good job of explaining why this hit v.s Scuderi’s is a joke, but I think I pretty much said the same thing above.

Ott is a cheap player. A coward. Has been his whole career, and is the only reason he’s had a career.

Then you are no doubt trying to hurt someone, If its a big hit and its not dirty then as a result there is injury, I think no fine or suspsnsion should happen, but if theres an elbow or blatant irrefutable intent to injure, kind of like these besides Ott’s knee, which was more of neglect to move compare to the other hits when players moved into position for a large hit and target below the hip.

I think they should be treated like guys in prison who are there for reasons other than violent or non-drug reasons, the bottom bitch.

Jaarko Ruutu is already a hated player, as was Darcy Tucker for a while but he has calmed down, even known vicious at times enforcers rarely take such blatant disregard. Steve Ott is repugnant, I think unspeakable things about him, at least here.