Shanahan Explains 4-Game Suspension Given To Colorado's Porter For Knee-On-Knee Hit On David Booth
by Sean Zandberg on Dec 8, 2011 11:13 PM PST
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PrintNot gonna lie. When I saw the news on the Sportsnet scrolling marquee that Colorado's Kevin Porter was suspended for 4 games for his knee-on-knee hit on David Booth I was surprised at the length of the suspension. I didn't think it was intentional. I knew Porter had a clean track record in the NHL. But the boys threw the book at him. Here is why:
Huh. Well what the hell do I know, anyway? I was wrong. I thought he'd get a slap on the wrist or a warning. But I think I am lost in the incidences recently where no discipline was handed out at all. But hey, Booth is out for over a month and kneeing is a violation of NHL policy. Whatever. Glad I don't have Shanny's job.
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I thought he'd get 2 games.
I’m fine with 4. That shit’s dangerous.
And from Porter’s body language after the hit, I think he knew it too.
Yeah, he sure kept his head down and said nothing
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by Sean Zandberg on Dec 8, 2011 11:19 PM PST up reply actions
Avs fans keep crying about Lapierre hitting Wilson in response, and I have no effing idea what happened. our broadcast didn’t show it. Is there a video? otherwise I am forced to assume the hit was clean because only they give a fuck.
Here's the hit they're talking about:
http://video.canucks.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hlg=20112012,2,399&event=VAN12&fr=false
Google Lapierre Wilson
It’s the first result.
They’re partly right: it’s definitely a hit from behind that probably should have been called boarding, but I don’t think it’s as egregious as they’re saying. It’s the kind of hit that happens all the time on the forecheck, but defencemen normally put themselves closer to the boards so that they absorb the hit more easily. It can be argued that Lapierre didn’t drive him like we’ve seen in boarding penalties that have received suspensions, but he probably should have avoided contact.
Still, I can understand why Avs fans are upset. It didn’t look all that bad live, but it’s definitely a hit from behind that could have been avoided and caused an injury. Joe Sacco obviously thought there should have been a penalty but in the next breath called the kneeing penalty a “marginal call” so his credibility is in the toilet.
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by skeeter_dan on Dec 9, 2011 12:22 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I think
they called that no penalty because, by the very littlest of margins, the guy was slightly turned when Lappy got him.
It could have been a penalty, for sure.
But to compare that to hanging a knee is just dumb. I had that done to me once as a young man, it almost ruined my knee. ( Ice and a knee up for a month…during hockey season!! Fucking Nakusp guy!) In the days before arthroscopic surgery, it ended careers.
Thats the thing Sean. Having a recent player in that position, you could tell just by watching Shanny and listening to him that he was almost pissed off with this one. He let everyone know that the kid got off easy because of his spotless record. Because he knows what that can do. Its why there is a specific rule #50 that covers that. I thought 4 games was enough. I was hoping for 6-8. But the way the Sheriff laid it out, 4 games sends a helluva message.
Can you imagine if some guy with a “record” does that?
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Imo it wasn't totally a clean hit
Lappy should have been called for boarding for hitting from behind because Wilson had his back mostly turned. It’s one of those hits in the no-man’s land behind the net (again). But it didn’t look like Lappy went full steam (or else Wilson would have been absolutely plastered into the boards), so it didn’t look suspension worthy either.
Hats of to Shanny for this.
The way Porter skated towards Booth, with his knee extended, it was clear that he had no intention to check Booth, other than to take his knee. He had all the time in the world, to avoid the contact, but he has chosen to do the wrong thing. It’s time he pays for it.
Targeting the knee is potentially career-threatening for the victim. This is why it deserves the 4 game. I would have given him 8, so that he will never ever does it again. This is not even a check, but a reckless, sneaky play. I don’t give a shit about what his “intentions” were.
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I thought Booth was gone for the season after watching the initial replays
That hit looked really brutal.
It looked like Porter wasn’t trying to change directions, so I’m going to guess he was simply playing some lazy defense by sticking his knee out and trying to get in the way of Booth? If it wasn’t intentional that is, which I’m assuming it wasn’t.
And Sacco downplaying the hit after watching the video? I know he’s the Avs coach and all, but yikes.
If it wasn’t intentional that is, which I’m assuming it wasn’t.
The question is, did he intentionally stick his knee out? The obvious answer is, that he had all the intention to push his knee between Booth’s legs. The knee was stuck out when he was 10 feet away, and then kept it like that while hitting Booth. That cannot be an accident. Of course he did it on purpose.
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Nah
he’s not the ‘hurt a guy and put him on IR’ type of player. I’m almost positive he did intend to trip him, but not cuz he wanted to hurt his buddy, more cuz he panicked and made a really poor choice. Sometimes players take a hooking or tripping penalty to save a goal, and my personal opinion is that was he was going for there. Doesn’t mean I don’t agree with the suspension, I do…just find it hard to believe he was trying to end a guy’s season/career on purpose. I’m sure there are players in the NHL who don’t give a shit about anyone else (ovechkin comes to mind) and if someone’s career is finished on the way to win that’s just too bad for guys like that, but I don’t think porter is one of those guys…he would have been on the trouble radar already if he was.
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You are probably right
a poor choice from Porter’s part may be the best explanation. But I think that at the current level of skills in the NHL, one should make a conscious effort to protect the opponent from getting hurt. That would be true sportmanship. In this case, Porter not only did not make any effort, but he chose to make a very risky move, that he well knew that it could end up hurting Booth. After all, every hockey player knows that a knee-to-knee contact is dangerous.
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The guy had him beat to the net
he knew he was beat, and tried to “make a hit anyway”. The way he was cutting in though, it was always the knee that was going to hit first. Thats why he got such a suspension. Because he put it there, left it there, and did not think.
I agree that the guy did not mean it, and is sorry for hurting his friend. But the explanations and excuses were troubling. He did not “move at the least minute” Kevin. He was on a hard cut to the net, and could not have fought gravity and physics without breaking something to “make a move”.
I personally love how Shanny came down relatively hard. That is a very dirty play that started bench clearing brawls in the past. It ended Neely’s career. Others the same. Just because surgeons can help a knee along better, does not mean it is open season.
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Oh, what I meant by that was
Whether he intentionally targeted the knee, which I don’t think he did.
From whichever angle you look at it Porter had no reason to have his knee out in that fashion aside from trying to “get in the way” of Booth, so sticking the knee out was clearly intentional.
I agree.
When considering intent, one can only consider the intent of the player performing an action, and not what the player intended to achieve with that particular action. So, if Porter was pushed into Booth (just for example’s sake), then he could say that there was no intent. In this case, he stuck his knee out by his own choice.
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Shanny took into account Porter's clean record for 4 years (which he emphasized)
and then suspended him for 4 games. Imagine if he had had a few suspensions in the past… Shit would’a “got real” in the immortal words of CC…
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