Hooray for Shanahan!
http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/41593-New-sheriff-in-town-Shanahan-prepares-to-assume-new-role-as-NHL-disciplinarian.html
Showing posts with label campbell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campbell. Show all posts
Friday, August 26, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Colin Campbell is Killing the NHL
The NHL needs to enforce the rules consistently, and Colin Campbell will ensure that never happens. The hit by Chara on Pacioretty was deliberate and nasty. But the Boston Bruins had purchased several insurance policies.
First, they hired Campbell's son Gregory. After the hit on Savard, the Bruins knew that Campbell was for sale. Savard angered Campbell when Campbell was the incompetent manager of the NY Rangers. Campbell let many great players go, most of them Russian (such as Zubov), but none left with more rancor than Savard. Savard wanted more money and Campbell would not give it to him. Years later, Savard had proved Campbell wrong by becoming one of the game's best players, when Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke effectively ended his career with a deliberate concussion-causing hit.
Zubov was let go because he angered Campbell by insisting on not playing with a broken wrist.
Colin hated Savard because his son Gregory had hit Savard in the face with his hockey stick. In a note to referees, Campbell called Savard "a little fake artist," in effect calling open season on hits to Savard.
Cooke received no punishment for ending Savard's career in March of 2010. During the summer of 2010, the Bruins acquired superstar Nathan Horton and also Gregory Campbell from Florida in exchange for several valuable draft picks and underrated defenseman Dennis Wideman.
In Campbell, the Bruins acquired not only a fourth line player earning less than a million dollars per year. They also acquired a license to kill from Colin Campbell.
The Bruins increased their investment in Colin Campbell by helping him get a contract extension that's work $35 million over five years.
The NHL has to change.
Campbell's policies are a joke to some, but they cause real harm to the league, the players, and the sport.
Even journalists in Toronto, hockey's corporate HQ, are losing their patience. "The league did once kick out two players – both with the Bruins – for life. But that was for gambling back in the 1940s. In 2011, it is the league itself that is gambling. But not on games – on lives."
The game is getting ridiculous and Campbell's part of the problem. "If it wasn't embarrassing, it was at least another extremely awkward moment for the NHL, vis-à-vis its Director of Hockey Operations, Colin Campbell, and the involvement of his son, Gregory, in Thursday night's WWE-style game between Boston and Dallas. It had to be awkward for Commissioner Gary Bettman to see his chief of discipline forced to recuse himself from meting out punishments for a game that had several fights -- three within the first four seconds -- and one cheap, blindside hit that earned its perpetrator a four-game suspension."
Mario Lemieux has threatened to leave. "If the events relating to Friday night reflect the state of the league, I need to rethink whether I want to be a part of it."
Lemieux needs to stay, Campbell needs to leave, and someone in hockey journalism or among hockey's owners needs to call out Colin Campbell.
First, they hired Campbell's son Gregory. After the hit on Savard, the Bruins knew that Campbell was for sale. Savard angered Campbell when Campbell was the incompetent manager of the NY Rangers. Campbell let many great players go, most of them Russian (such as Zubov), but none left with more rancor than Savard. Savard wanted more money and Campbell would not give it to him. Years later, Savard had proved Campbell wrong by becoming one of the game's best players, when Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke effectively ended his career with a deliberate concussion-causing hit.
Zubov was let go because he angered Campbell by insisting on not playing with a broken wrist.
Colin hated Savard because his son Gregory had hit Savard in the face with his hockey stick. In a note to referees, Campbell called Savard "a little fake artist," in effect calling open season on hits to Savard.
Cooke received no punishment for ending Savard's career in March of 2010. During the summer of 2010, the Bruins acquired superstar Nathan Horton and also Gregory Campbell from Florida in exchange for several valuable draft picks and underrated defenseman Dennis Wideman.
In Campbell, the Bruins acquired not only a fourth line player earning less than a million dollars per year. They also acquired a license to kill from Colin Campbell.
The Bruins increased their investment in Colin Campbell by helping him get a contract extension that's work $35 million over five years.
The NHL has to change.
Campbell's policies are a joke to some, but they cause real harm to the league, the players, and the sport.
Even journalists in Toronto, hockey's corporate HQ, are losing their patience. "The league did once kick out two players – both with the Bruins – for life. But that was for gambling back in the 1940s. In 2011, it is the league itself that is gambling. But not on games – on lives."
The game is getting ridiculous and Campbell's part of the problem. "If it wasn't embarrassing, it was at least another extremely awkward moment for the NHL, vis-à-vis its Director of Hockey Operations, Colin Campbell, and the involvement of his son, Gregory, in Thursday night's WWE-style game between Boston and Dallas. It had to be awkward for Commissioner Gary Bettman to see his chief of discipline forced to recuse himself from meting out punishments for a game that had several fights -- three within the first four seconds -- and one cheap, blindside hit that earned its perpetrator a four-game suspension."
Mario Lemieux has threatened to leave. "If the events relating to Friday night reflect the state of the league, I need to rethink whether I want to be a part of it."
Lemieux needs to stay, Campbell needs to leave, and someone in hockey journalism or among hockey's owners needs to call out Colin Campbell.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Which Other Players Are On Campbell's Concussion List?
It's official: the NHL is corrupt.
Mark Savard was an extremely talented player when Colin Campbell was an incompetent manager of the NY Rangers, getting rid of the talent and keeping the deadwood. He seemed to be particularly nasty to Russians like Sergei Zubov.
The fans are calling Campbell some unpleasant names. The real answer is this: fire colin campbell.
The dispute between Savard and Campbell appears to have been expunged from the internet, but it was bitter and real. Savard was traded. He did well in Calgary and then years later became a franchise player and league leader in Boston. In 1998, Savard was sixth on the team in points, and the Rangers missed the playoffs due in part to Campbell's consistent incompetence.
Who else does Campbell hate? Some suggest Avery. I wonder about Brodeur. In 1998, the Rangers drafted Malhotra, who is now a key part of Vancouver. Does Campbell hate him too?
There are two other players from that team who are still around. Knuble now plays for Washington. MacLean is the coach of the Devils.
Mark Savard was an extremely talented player when Colin Campbell was an incompetent manager of the NY Rangers, getting rid of the talent and keeping the deadwood. He seemed to be particularly nasty to Russians like Sergei Zubov.
The fans are calling Campbell some unpleasant names. The real answer is this: fire colin campbell.
The dispute between Savard and Campbell appears to have been expunged from the internet, but it was bitter and real. Savard was traded. He did well in Calgary and then years later became a franchise player and league leader in Boston. In 1998, Savard was sixth on the team in points, and the Rangers missed the playoffs due in part to Campbell's consistent incompetence.
Who else does Campbell hate? Some suggest Avery. I wonder about Brodeur. In 1998, the Rangers drafted Malhotra, who is now a key part of Vancouver. Does Campbell hate him too?
There are two other players from that team who are still around. Knuble now plays for Washington. MacLean is the coach of the Devils.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Playoffs -- and injuries -- start tomorrow
Will Campbell allow players to harm each other? Alfredsson is out due to a head shot. End head shots now! And I don't even like Ottawa!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
There Must Be Consequences for Ruutu's Hit on Kovalchuk
Even during the Olympics, I nicknamed this guy "the dirty Finn" because there was only one Finnish player playing like this. Now he eliminated one of the young stars with a dirty hit. Colin Campbell has been practically begging for more dirty play, and the result is more hits like this.
In the past, he's certainly condoned it during the playoffs (see Hartnell on Cheechoo, Tucker on Hecht).
The league claims to be investing in players like Malkin, Crosby, Staal, and Savard; but it actually wants more of Downie, Hartnell, Avery, and the dirty side of Ovechkin.
The league will eventually be sued by an injured player, and the tool that will condemn the head office is called Digital Discovery. His own words, in his own e-mails, will condemn him.
In the past, he's certainly condoned it during the playoffs (see Hartnell on Cheechoo, Tucker on Hecht).
The league claims to be investing in players like Malkin, Crosby, Staal, and Savard; but it actually wants more of Downie, Hartnell, Avery, and the dirty side of Ovechkin.
The league will eventually be sued by an injured player, and the tool that will condemn the head office is called Digital Discovery. His own words, in his own e-mails, will condemn him.
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