From
where I sit it looks like Stephane Quintal has passed his first test...
There's
plenty of overused and abused cliches to describe the situation
Quintal has been forced into. You can pick your favourite line.
I'll go with 'jumping into the deep end'. In any case, he has
started up where his predecessor left off. After Brendan Shannahan
left NHL Head Office to join the Leafs in Toronto there was some
concern about the next head of discipline. Thankfully, Quintal is
already showing he studied Shannahan's methods and the League's
standards and kept things rolling along. Matt Cooke's 7 game
suspension is a solid number for a repeat offender. He is gone for
the remainder of this series and, should the Wild advance, some of
round two as well. It's a solid decision and it signals to the rest
of the league that the punishment will continue to be consistent.
Now, if only we could do something about the players who are
consistently idiots.
And
speaking of idiots...Michael Pineda deserves a special spot in the
pantheon of idiots...
Congratulations!
You managed to cheat twice, get caught at it twice, and the second
time was more obvious than the first. Sure, he didn't get ejected in
the first game, but after everyone saw what Pineda was doing you'd
think he'd try to hide it better! Add to that the fact that he was
doing it against the same team! After their manager called him on it
in the pre-game media briefing! I believe this meme best sums up the
situation:
At
least that's how I see it and I sit in the cheap seats.
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