Cam Janssen Suspended Five Games For Hit On Matt Bradley - TWO UPDATES

Not a repeat offender, no track record at all of dirty hits, showed remorse, no injury, and most important of all, no intent to injure. How in the hell can they give him five games suspension when they give people far less for significantly worse? Mike Green got three games for the elbow on Michael Frolik, which was significantly worse and intentional. If you take a look at the suspensions for this year, the only other five game regular season suspension was on Laraque for a knee on knee of Kronwall, which was intentional and came from someone with a history. Hell, Sutton’s awful boarding of Dupuis only got 2 games. Did Andy cry?

This is unwarranted, and I agree with Brad, has a really weird timing – right at the start of Capitals practices? What? If they knew they were going to suspend him, do it at the event of the incident. Don’t wait until 2/3rds of the Olympics are over before you pipe up and you say something. The wheel of morality needs to be tightened up. There are no standards, no consistency applied… unless you count DGB’s flow chart.

right below me, but i didnt see it cos i was watching the play. does that mean cam can check me too? lol.

no seriously. i had to wait for the replay, and i thought it was late. worse, i got the tony twist review of it after i got home, whom i believe listed cam as the number one reason we won that game. I said when we got cam i hated him and would stop wathcing the blues if he ran around injuring people (and had an incident in his pre blues days) however in the note, as far as i’m concerned cam is a “clean” agitator (as far as it goes) respects the game, the fans, the players, and loves being in the loo. i’d take two games off just for that.

hell buttman doesnt do any of those things!!

relooking at the backes hit (video on game time about half a week lower) i thought backes was the better hit. the player he bonked had the puck in his skates, and the player he bonked was unprepared for several reasons (he just sumersaulted, he from europe, cam was yelling SMASH from the second row, etc) since the feed we got is forgien, the only thing i’d question would be if the elbow was high. NOT because backes elbowed the guy, but merely because the guy was looking at his skate laces and hunched over when hit.

those wacky euro games though, anything near the head is an instant guilt trip

im fine with the initial penalty that was called… it was interference, he did appear to be hurt on the play so that is automatic 5 and a game misc. that i have no problem with

i agree with the suspension to some degree.. it was a late hit.. he didnt necessarily hit him up high really.. i think it was clean except for the late part.. 5 seems a little excessive but whatever.. hopefully dj can fill that gap and give us that spark that cam gives us every night

deja vu all over again ask Kaberle, if he has any recall of those tweety birds in that game. Way late hit, elbow, appears to be jumping again off his feet but that is open to debate.

If the refs won’t mete out fair punishment the players should, or at least they used to. The cure for that dirty late shit is the butt end. Once you plant one in a guy ‘s solar plexes that is charging in full steam ahead I guarantee you he ain’t coming in like that again, if he even stays in the game. Then agin if you miss, you’d better be good with your paws.

and furthermore LOL

I dig Cam’s energy but he can still do his thang and stay out of the box and off the suspension list. With those late hits and leaving his feet Cam becomes a liability as Brad points out.

As far as needing Cam on the roster I think Kinger would give us almost the same energy charge from hits and be able to handle the heavyweights, unlike Cam. For those who say the era of the goon has passed and we don’t need knuckledraggers, well, put yourself on the other end of this hit. Say Teej or Poutine gets waylaid by a goon who ya going to ask to step up? Crombeen? Backes? Weaver? Please. You carry a goon as a deterrent for this shit. Cam had to answer to no one on that game due to the Caps not having an enforcer. Yeah I know Cam drew the gamer but he could have stayed in the game too and knocked out another Cap. What’s to stop him?

Call fairy penalties, put windsheilds on the players, tie their jerseys down like horse saddles but sweet jeebuz, allow us old farts at least one pugilist and a fight once a every couple of games.

 Even if Cam thought Bradley had the puck, he clearly jumped into the hit and it looks like he lead with his elbow. However, as much as I like Cam, I don’t buy his “I thought he had the puck” excuse. Bradley’s stick was up from the time Cam started lining him up, so unless Cam thought they were playing soccer he’s full of crap.

As far as the timing goes, Bob McKenzie mentioned at the start of the break that the NHL was going to wait until Cam appeared at the hearing, and Cam had already planned a vacation, which they let him go on.

I would definitely give it points for accuracy.

So fuck it. Here it is.

I’d agree that five games is too much. Bettman has to look out for his high profile teams, he has to protect the Caps and the Penguins. I would probably be more if it was the NBC Sunday Penguins game of the week. What a doucher.

It was a dirty hit though, so in the end, I would rather see the league clamp down to protect everyone. So I HOPE this sets a precedent so that the Hollowegs, Parros, and Otts of the world get 5 – 10 games from now on.