Raffi Torres Suspended Two Games for Hit on Nate Prosser

by BReynolds on Jan 2, 2012 8:55 PM CST in News

After waiting the appropriate amount of time so as to not ruin the spectacle of the Winter Classic, the NHL's Department of Player Safety Jokes has issued their ruling on the Raffi Torres hit on Nate Prosser from the New Year's Eve game. They have suspended Torres 2 games, and the video from Brendan Shanahan shows a few views of the hit we did not have access to before.

Here is the video:

The reasoning comes down to Torres leaving his feet to jump into the hit, and targeting Prosser's head. Shanahan also feels that Torres didn't quite get the message in the fine he slapped on Torres earlier that very day for targeting the head of players. Adding in the fact that Torres had "caught the attention of the Department of Player Safety" three times in three games, Shanahan felt it was time to lower a shoulder of his own into Torres.

Not exactly the most brilliant of moves by Torres. Knowing his history of questionable hits, and the recent run of mercenary style play, I may have gone bigger than the Sheriff did here, but that said, it sure is nice to see a player pay for a dirty hit against a Wild player, isn't it? Anyone really think Torres stops? I'd be willing to put money on the fact he is back at it as soon as he can be.

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Should Torres be suspended? Yes.
Were the proper criteria applied? Yes.
Rewind to the very hits that have caused Wild fans to cry for Shammy’s head and apply the same criteria:
Illegal check? Yes.
Player injured? Yes.
Suspensions? No, no & no.
I know, I know, I need to move on, but I was so hopeful at the start of the season.

by Mike Murray Jr. on Jan 2, 2012 9:20 PM CST reply actions

Never let it go. Swallow it down. Starve it until it becomes mean and cruel. Then pressurize it into bitterness and sarcasm. ;-)

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by BReynolds on Jan 2, 2012 9:41 PM CST up reply actions

well said sir

and i will go w/o comment since you said it all

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by jerem77 on Jan 2, 2012 9:22 PM CST reply actions

Maybe i'm wrong...

But didn’t Bouchard, who has no disciplinary record, get a 2 game suspension for hi-sticking? Surely Torres, who was fined the day of that hit and has a terrible record, should get a much heavier punishment?

Regressing to the top of the league.

by GerDevine on Jan 2, 2012 9:51 PM CST reply actions

Should...

But this is the Department of player Safety Jokes… So no. because prosser really put himself in that position to be hit in the head… and torres said he couldnt avoid the hit.

by wild32384 on Jan 2, 2012 10:05 PM CST up reply actions

But… but… one play does not effect the results of another play. Please, quit with your logicy logic and your reasoning. It simply isn’t acceptable.

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by BReynolds on Jan 2, 2012 10:13 PM CST up reply actions

Blue Jackets fans have to be scratching their heads

Wiz, a repeat offender by virtue of his ’’gesture’’, gets 8 games for a hit on Clutterbuck. Meanwhile, Torres, a repeat offender by virtue of being one of the most dangerous and stupid players in the NHL, gets a 2 game suspension for a leaping blow to the head of Prosser, ONE GAME after he had a fine for a hit on the game AFTER he had another questionable hit.

Shanny fucked up.

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by JSLandry on Jan 2, 2012 11:51 PM CST reply actions

Blue Jackets fans should be pissed

all 13 of ’em.

Joe Mauer grounded out to second
Bill Smith - Buy high, Hold high, Sell for a bag of chips

by GWST11 on Jan 3, 2012 1:16 AM CST up reply actions

Oh, so 2 games will teach him

Grow a pair, Shanaban. 10 games. Send an actual message to the league you’re “protecting”.

Regressing to the mean since 1981.

by dlfedie on Jan 3, 2012 7:43 AM CST reply actions

They've started to weaken suspensions

Or not suspend at all. The first two months, seemed like everyone was being suspended but now, in the thick of the season, they don’t want to suspend too many players because they are needed now. It’s such crap. Those earlier suspensions were obviously the league trying to send a “message.” Well obviously it has gone on deaf ears.

by cgp711 on Jan 3, 2012 12:30 PM CST reply actions

My Huge and Main question,

is with the looming suspension of Danny Carcillo, How is the Hit Carcillo laid on Gilbert worse than the Hits Wild players have received over the past 2 weeks? from what I saw, Carcillo got the shoulder and turned Gilbert, as to not drive head first into the glass, all 3 Wild players were driven into the boards HEAD first. if Gilberts leg doesn’t get caught, as shanny would say, “Toe Picking”, we wouldn’t be talking about the play. There was a lot of speed, and a big hit, but it wasn’t in the numbers and wasn’t head first into the boards.

I just wish the NHL would make consistent calls from the first game to the last.

by wild32384 on Jan 3, 2012 9:39 PM CST reply actions