SUSPENSIONS FROM GAME #2

[lordstanley]

03/22/10 Josh Cowen Red Deer Four games for charge major and g.m. at Saskatoon on March 21.

03/22/10 Red Deer $250.00 for warm-up violation at Saskatoon on March 21

03/22/10 Saskatoon $250.00 for warm-up violation versus Red Deer on March 21.

03/22/10 Saskatoon $500.00 for second multiple fight of season versus Red Deer on March 21

03/22/10 Saskatoon $3,500.00 for actions of Club versus Red Deer on March 21.

03/22/10 Randy McNaught Saskatoon Five games for instigator, fight and g.m., and repeat offender versus Red Deer on March 21.

03/22/10 Lorne Molleken Saskatoon Four games for g.m. versus Red Deer on March 21.

03/22/10 Sena Acolatse Saskatoon Three games for instigator, fight and g.m. versus Red Deer on March 21.

03/22/10 Darian Dziurzynski Saskatoon Three games for one man fight and g.m. versus Red Deer on March 21.

03/22/10 Duncan Siemens Saskatoon Three games for instigator, fight and g.m. versus Red Deer on March 21.

Yikes be interesting to see how Struch can coach these boys now

[Wheat Kings #1]

Kudo's to the WHL for hitting these guys hard. As Bruce Luebke states in his blog,the WHL is "fighting" a recruiting issue with kids thinking of going the college route all the time. This only hurts the whole league. My only problem with all this is Lorne Molleken getting off with only 4 games. Sure he cost the Blades $4,250 but how much harm is he costing the WHL. Look at his deadline deals, he only added to the "animal kingdom" he runs up their. Hopefully the Blades have a short playoff run AGAIN, because this kind of hockey is supposed to be long gone. Hopefully someone lets Molleken in on this and if not keep suspending him HARD. It was obvious right from the start when you deal young prospects (Crooks) for Thugs what kind of show you are running.

[lordstanley]

OUT
Benson: Shoulder Injury
McNaught:5 games
Dziurzynski:3 games
Acolatse: 3 games
Siemens: 3 games
Molleken: 4 games

IN
Thrower
Kiziuk
Bews
Sutter
Struch coach

[reims]

Kudo's to the WHL for hitting these guys hard. As Bruce Luebke states in his blog,the WHL is "fighting" a recruiting issue with kids thinking of going the college route all the time. This only hurts the whole league. My only problem with all this is Lorne Molleken getting off with only 4 games. Sure he cost the Blades $4,250 but how much harm is he costing the WHL. Look at his deadline deals, he only added to the "animal kingdom" he runs up their. Hopefully the Blades have a short playoff run AGAIN, because this kind of hockey is supposed to be long gone. Hopefully someone lets Molleken in on this and if not keep suspending him HARD. It was obvious right from the start when you deal young prospects (Crooks) for Thugs what kind of show you are running.

absolute ridiculous post...blades added some players that are hard to play against!...acolatse has been the 2nd best dman behind elliote....and dzuirzynski was player of the month for the blades in february...and siemens was edged out for rookie of the year...so get real...these were not thugs on the ice when this happened...were they tuff guys...absolutely...but play the game with skill too...they were only doing what was asked of them...did lorne over react???...ya probobly, but he is a players coach and was standing up for his goalie...if thsi was the calgary hitmen players doing this would they get such a harsh suspension...NOT...this is brutal to say the least

[WHEATMAN]

Absolutely stupid move by Lorne to 'send a message' by putting the goon squad out. The only message he sent is that he can't coach in the playoffs. As an neutral observer who isn't rooting for either team, one would think that this gives the Rebels a big confidence boost.

What Lorne did was beyond stupid, if you want to get retribution do it later the way the Stone/Teubert incident played out.

[Jaybird]

I think the officiating was an issue in this game. The Rebels were running the Goalie quite a bit and nothing was called, not even a warning. The NHL is having trouble with setting a strong policy for "hits to the head". As long as the NHL can't say no the dangerous hits then the hits will continue in all leagues and teams will want to set the tone by fighting to defend their teammates. Yes maybe Molleken was wrong but the suspensions to the Blades are too harsh. Cowen's suspension seems too minimal compared to what the Blades were handed.

[wango tango]

the developmental league, with developmental refereeing started off on the wrong foot in warmup in game 2.

the rebels deagle was shooting pucks across the red line at blades players who were stretching and warming up. deagle wasn't shooting them hard, just enough to be an azz. when a couple blades players took exception heated words were exchanged. the refs should have handed out penalties right there to both teams. first mistake.

rebels started crashing the net in the first period. i think from where we were sitting the refs warned them to cut it out. cudos to them there.

when the rebels started crashing the crease again in the third the referees didn't assess penalties like they should have. it could've prevented all this garbage from happening. second mistake.

after cowen elbowed stanford the referees took forever to make a call. it was a pretty straight forward play imo. five, 10, and a game. escort him out, drop the puck. instead the officials were indecisive and it gave the blades and coaches time to stew, and time to 'plan' their move. third mistake.

if molleken gets four games, why does wallin get zilch?

i hope the league has read the riot act to both teams about staying away from goaltenders from here on out, or face the consequences.

[Trevor]

Just watched the highlights on the blades website. Cowen's play didn't look as bad as the Blades guys on here made it out to be. Stanford was way out on the white ice. Not trying to justify what happened to him, just pointing it out.

[sbtatter]

Just watched the highlights on the blades website. Cowen's play didn't look as bad as the Blades guys on here made it out to be. Stanford was way out on the white ice. Not trying to justify what happened to him, just pointing it out.

I just went and watched the video, looked like a few of the Blades were continuing to punch away at Red Deer guys when they were down, maybe the length of suspensions reflect that?

[SectionNDeserter]

Anybody got video of the scraps? Nothing on hockeyfights for some reason.

I don't think you could even call those fights, I don't know if more than one of the Rebels even got their gloves off.

if molleken gets four games, why does wallin get zilch?

What exactly would he get a suspension for? He had nothing to do with the reckless contact with the Blades goaltender. He also didn't put three of his biggest knuckledraggers out on the ice at the end of the game for a powerplay, and actually put out a penalty killing unit out with three out of the four players being players that I don't recall ever having a WHL fight before. Four does seem like a lot for a coach though, I was expecting one or two. If you look at the body language of the refs in this game, they looked PISSED, and I suspect that they had some input into the suspensions.