Warren Peters Suspended One Game

by nathaneide on Feb 19, 2012 3:44 PM CST in News

Brendan Shanahan, NHL Czar of all things punitive and such has decided to suspend Warren Peters one game for cross checking David Backes in the ear.

What was his reasoning?

Key Points

Cross-checking (penalty already handed out)
No apparent injury (NHL always punishes the result, never the intent)
No history (Doesn't mean you can't really screw up on your first offense)

Now, as I've made clear, I feel this was deserving of 6+ games. You can't wield your stick as a weapon toward someone's head. Did we learn nothing from Marty McSorely? How about any of the Wild players with concussions?

Peters needs to have a lesson made at his expense. You simply cannot (especially as the third man in on a fight against one man) hit someone in the head with your stick. Jesus, if anything, punish him for violating Rule 48. This pisses me off. This is the same thinking that leads to guys like Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Jarod Palmer suffering concussions. Until the NHL treats contact to the head as a cardinal sin, they will continue to lose superstars to brain injuries, and they deserve to lose them for their inaction.

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yup.

with you 100% there. it still really annoys me that the fact that Backeshole wasn’t injured factors into it.. Peters should have gotten five games. (Although Backes’ “brain” may have been still rattling around when he “scored” tonight!)

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by mightymike D on Feb 19, 2012 3:58 PM CST reply actions

Yeah, not enough, Shanny.

I can’t wait until the NHL takes hits like that more seriously. A cross-check to the temple. That’s fucking dangerous.

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by JSLandry on Feb 19, 2012 5:18 PM CST reply actions

im a blues fan

and its nice to see there are some reasonable fans out there… that was a coward move and shannahan and the NHL basically said because he said he was sorry its ok

when it comes to stuff like this.. it doesnt matter what team you root for.. like at the end of the blues-hawks game today.. i had a problem with reaves taking exception to a guy that had already fallen to the ice… thats just a classless move, much like the one by Peters

could carry some bad blood into next season… i dont wanna say this is becoming a rivalry but these 2 teams dont like each other and the games have gotten pretty chippy at times

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by bleedblue2009 on Feb 19, 2012 6:24 PM CST reply actions

I, for one, can't wait for the realignment

Wild-Blues has a very high rivalry potential.

And yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen even one Wild fan think what Peters did was OK. It was horrible. I think the only thing that pisses me off more than Peters only getting 1 game was PMB getting two games for Calvert lifting Bouchard’s stick in his own face. Way less intentional than Peters’ stunt.

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by JSLandry on Feb 19, 2012 6:27 PM CST up reply actions

yeah agreed

the only thing ive had to disagree with that ive seen (not on this website, but else where around the webs) is that backes had it coming because he ran down someone at the wild bench right before that

i have season tickets so i was there and had a great angle of that play and i dont even know that backes made contact with that guy before he went down…. was it kinda stupid to be going after the puck that hard with 3 mins left in a 4-0 game… yeah maybe but he just skates hard all the time and doesnt let up in any situations.. just the type of skater he is but still not a real bright move by peters

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by bleedblue2009 on Feb 19, 2012 6:37 PM CST up reply actions

I'll agree with that

I initially thought Backes ran Spurgeon because that’s how it looked from the replays (no slo-mo because the Peters/Backes thing happened next) On repeated views, yeah, it’s clear that Spurgeon blew a tire and backes actually did well pulling out of the check… agreed he shouldn’t have been playing like that, but that’s Backes. The Reaves cheap-shot on Scott was pretty grim as well.
But you’re completely correct: doesn’t matter who you root for, deliberate dangerous play like that (and the Cooke/Savard hit, the FCA Bertuzzi Sucker-Punch/Carcillo boarding Gilbert) should be heavily punished. It’s mere chance that Backes wasn’t badly hurt.

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by mightymike D on Feb 19, 2012 7:14 PM CST up reply actions

Shanahan is just as bad as the previous NHL police.

There is no consistency in his punishments at all. I’m with Bryan, this is a seven gamer at minumum, I don’t care if there isn’t an injury or if he said that wasn’t his intent. He pretty much stalks him on the ice and then makes more than one attempt at bashing him in the head. Pretty bush league and I’m a Wild fan saying this.

by cgp711 on Feb 19, 2012 6:44 PM CST reply actions

How the heck is that a 1 gamer and PMB was 2 games?

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by Chris Winner on Feb 19, 2012 6:51 PM CST reply actions

Good call there

PMB’s was incidental to, no way Peters’ was no matter what he says.

by cgp711 on Feb 19, 2012 7:10 PM CST up reply actions

too*

by cgp711 on Feb 19, 2012 7:10 PM CST up reply actions

this is one of the many, many reasons I like you guys

you don’t hesitate to call your own players out in situations like this. Way too often fans will try to justify a bad move by one of “our” guys.. not here though. Thumbs up, Wild fans.

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by mightymike D on Feb 19, 2012 7:16 PM CST reply actions

Like I said on the other thread

We wouldn’t want players pulling that shit on our players, so when our players do something stupid, we call him on it.

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by JSLandry on Feb 19, 2012 7:34 PM CST up reply actions

and that's a credit to you guys and your excellent blog..

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by mightymike D on Feb 19, 2012 7:37 PM CST up reply actions

Thanks :)

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by JSLandry on Feb 19, 2012 7:38 PM CST up reply actions

Thanks, guys.

It’s unfortunate, because I actually expected just the one game. Not because “the league hates the Blues” or anything like that, but because discipline is so darn random and scattershot that I actually expect the least for the most obvious offenses now. I think you could shove a bottlerocket under a guy’s helmet now and get the $2500 max fine.

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by hildymac on Feb 19, 2012 7:54 PM CST reply actions

Hahaha

Yeah, Shanny started off well, but it tailed off mighty quickly for him.

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by JSLandry on Feb 19, 2012 7:56 PM CST up reply actions

Started off well?

PMB gets 2 for the Calvert incident?

Shanny has Gotten many many calls wrong all season, this is just another example as to what shanny does wrong.

Peters should have gotten 5 games or more. But hey, when the “i am sorry” card flies, you will get away with it. Just ask Milan Lucic, oh wait, his was " I didn’t mean too…"

by wild32384 on Feb 19, 2012 8:12 PM CST up reply actions

Well ok, that was a very stupid one

But the others he gave in the beginning were better.

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by JSLandry on Feb 19, 2012 8:27 PM CST up reply actions

I'd say Shanahan has won more than he's lost

and is a massive improvement on the Campbell “Wheel Of Justice”..

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by mightymike D on Feb 19, 2012 8:30 PM CST up reply actions

You are one of a few that feel that way.

the only improvement I see is that he explains why someone got punished and why someone didnt.

But, when you look at 3 separate incidents that involve checks from behind in a matter of a week, and nothing is called when there are injuries involved, is just plain and simple biased stupidity. Shanahan is a very slight upgrade from Campbell.

Having Judge Jury and Executioner all in one will always have people screaming foul. They need a 3 person panel that would make it more fair, maybe a former official, a former player and a former GM…. or hire an independent out side company that has no ties to teams or the league.

by wild32384 on Feb 19, 2012 10:18 PM CST up reply actions