GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Pittsburgh Penguins - 7:00pm ET - Wed. Feb. 13th, 2013

Hoags wrote:EK better be wearing Kevlar socks after this.

shabbs wrote:

Hoags wrote:EK better be wearing Kevlar socks after this.

Melnyk should shell out for a pair for everyone.

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:The Matt Cooke stuff needs to stop, it's embarrassing. He has been a COMPLETELY different guy the last few years. Really dug his game and the person lately. This was just an accident.

Dude, no he isn't. He was going in for a slew foot there and that's pretty clear. Just as dangerous as a head shot. You do not take guys into the boards with your knee up and you are not taught to do it that way either. The slew foot is the biggest on ice issue in terms of players safety right now and I am 100% of the opinion that anything deemed a slew foot should be suspendable.

If Cooke doesn't try and slew foot Karlsson or take his knee into the boards (w/e his intent was there) then Karlsson plays the rest of that game. It was reckless and it was a dangerous and pretty useless hit to begin with.

Then why is every single NHL person on the planet saying it was just a freak accident? c'mon man. It might be reckless but it's stupid for people to think he wanted to actually cut him.

Cutting Karlsson was an freak thing, no question. The fact that it was a dirty play or an attempt at one on the best player in the NHL makes it just as bad. There was ill intent that intire process and it ended worse than anyone could have imagined short of being paralyzed or something along those lines. The slew foot is the dirtiest play in the game.

He didn't try and cut him but he 100% was there to try and hurt him and he did, just not the way he intended to.

wprager wrote:A Pens fan called it to AM-690 (Montreal) and said he'll defend his team but not the player. Cooke is known for his dirty play and this was just another example. Nobody is saying he intended to cut him, but that knee was up for a reason -- probably to hit his knee into the boards, maybe a skate boot to the ankle. It was an unnecessary move (to raise the leg) and it was not a 100 mph play, either. He was in complete control therefore he intended to do something.

Donovan called up a player who still plays in the NHL (not affiliated with either team) and he said there was no doubt in his mind that Cooke went in intended to hurt Karlsson. Donovan himself with another ex-NHLer tried to re-create the hit this morning and could not come up with a good reason why his skate was where it was.

LeKing wrote:I've heard enough about Cooke. Let's just mourn in silence

Ev wrote:Sup

SpezDispenser wrote:He's so much smarter than a meathead like Lucic. He'd have trouble catching him if Karlsson was wearing sneakers on the ice.