(Updated 5pm) Trevor Gillies Suspended 10 Games: News and Reaction Links

I agree the suspension was going to be longer than the last one, there was no doubt

We all know the NHL is laughably inconsistent, even from one day to the next, but if they don’t do something about Lucic delivering a crosscheck to Moore’s head — as third-man in, no less — then we’ll know once again Campbell’s words mean nothing.

“There can be no justification for a player delivering a dangerous check to an opponent in this manner.”

Show it to me, Colie.

ASSHOLE!

to see what y’all thought….
Clusterfutz should get 2 games for faking an injury…. he played last night and registered 6 hits….
He knew that Gillies wanted more than to jam him through the boards… Clusterfutz has been there before as a PREDATORY OFFENDER. Clusterfutz knows there’s a price tag on his hits… but he doesn’t want to pay it because there’s no cash in his account. HE IS BANKRUPT OF COURAGE…. so he turtles… and figures, "hey, while I’m down here I can grab my head and the refs will shoo that goon away"…. then he gets up and laughs.
Amazingly the same tactic was used by Sean Avery last year when Gillies confronted him… UNFORTUNATELY tangradi appeared to be doing the same thing samwiched between two gutless predatory DOUCHEBAGS… and Gillies is eating 19 games worth of his salary because of it.
Clutterdouch should send him a check.

I can see missing some contact in traffic, but after you blow a play dead for an initial penalty, and all eyes go to that incident, how do you miss Looch’s xcheck to the back of the head? That’s a five-minute major plus intent to injure.

Campbell, I believe, must recuse himself from any supplementary discipline for that because Greg Campbell plays for Boston. If the league suspends Lucic for even five games during the Bruins’ stretch run, then I’ll believe that the NHL takes this sort of thing seriously.

can I add more links to this while people are in here or no?

I’m just curious.

The game of hockey I learned to love growing up is gone forever. 25 years ago the high low for Gillies crime would have been 2 mins. for roughing. And I would have taken low. This offends my senses.
An aside- THANK YOU Trevor Gillies for doing the job you are paid to do. I hope you are rewarded with anouther contract to make back some of the wages that have been STOLEN from you.

I agree with the general feeling here that

a) Trevor was being very stupid and deserves another time off for just that;

and b) The NHL is ridiculously inconsistent when it comes to discipline. Dangerous actions should be punished in an even an consistent way.

Unfortunately (b) has become very hard to take. Shouldn’t there be some sort of backlash against this sort of thing? There may in fact be actual laws in either of the two countries against arbitrary rulings within an organization. Shouldn’t someone be looking into this?

what frustrates me most is the vehement ire coming down on gillies from MSM and other teams’ fans. It is painfully superficial. i really think the hatred stems from two basically innocuous things: (1) his screaming at tangradi after being removed from the game (which was insane and did look bad) and (2) his moustache (seriously, i think people see him as more of a goon because of it)

You got to think a lot of this publicity (negative and all) will help us in the long run.
I mean a team comes in to play the Isles and they got to be thinking "these guys are not choir boys; some of these guys are Hanson Bros. material, I better have my head on a swivel." Am I just reaching on this?

it’s not that he was suspended, even though it is very excessive, its the fact that as usual, the media took it and ran with it. Then last night in the Bruins-Bolts game we have Lucic coming into the fray and cross-checking Moore in the head. Head or shoulder it doesn’t matter, it was a blatant attempt to injure. Yet where’s Milbury and the rest of the media hacks! Lucic’s check was far more dangerous then Gillies erroneous hand to the face, this was freakin’ stick!

“…may have been avoided if the NHL had been tougher on HIM the first time”

Oh really, just him? He was the progenitor of this league-wide head-hunting plague? Oh yeah, I forgot that only reared its ravenous head on the night of February 11, 2011 Massacre of the Penguins. It wasn’t until we let the Gimp out that the shit-show really started.

I agree on the suspension, but here we have some more fresh front-page fodder for everyone to run out to join the Islanders protest rally.

Of what I’ve read over the past couple months the media has been doing a much better job of recognizing the imbalance in the prosecution of these types of plays, but they need to fully extract their collective head out of Colon’s ass to get the real stink of what’s been going on.

i think it speaks volumes that the referees gave the penalty for a hit from behind (WHAT?!?!?!?). what color is the sky in that world where that is a hit from behind?and then colon says the suspension was for a hit to the head. why didn’t the refs call it a hit to the head? because they saw it was gillies and penalized him for his reputation.
it looked to me like gillies just grazed his head, not intentionally, but more from the force of the hit carrying his arms upward. you see it all the time when players go shoulder to shoulder, and right after the hit, the arms come up and make it look like an elbow was delivered, but it clearly happened after the hit.
10 games for that hit is ridiculous. yeah, he got him in the head, but 10 games? i was fine with 9 games for his hit on tangradi, and that was a much worse hit and obvious case of head hunting.
by those standards, lucic should get AT LEAST 10 games… he was 3rd man in and clearly went head hunting with his stick on a player who wasn’t even looking at him…and he probably won’t even get 1 cuz he plays with that dipshit campbell’s kid.
what a joke.
and speaking of jokes,where the fuck does milbury get off saying stuff like that?? he was a friggin goon when he played ( a whole 49 goals for his CAREER) and actually went in the stands and beat a fan with his own shoe!!! (granted, that was funny shit to watch, but still….) what’s next, is he gonna start calling out gm’s for bad trades and horrible management skills? talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

and i have to say are you kidding me? thats a million times worse than the Gillies hit. Where mike ass millbury now? SERIOUSLY THIS EFFFING NHL IS TURNING INTO THE WWF. and im not talking about the violence im talking about the justice.

The Minnesota broadcast NEVER mentioned the fact that Clutterbuck hit Dibenidetto from behind.