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Should Jordan Staal have received any supplementary decipline for his sucker punch on Brandon Prust?
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Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jordan Staal received no supplementary discipline on Wednesday after he was assessed a match penalty for a sucker-punch on Rangers forward Brandon Prust during Tuesday's game.
The league decided on Wednesday that no further action will be taken regarding the incident. An automatic one-game suspension applies when a player is given a match penalty, but the league chose to rescind the ban.
The NHL reserves the right to rescind a match penalty if they find reason to, or otherwise could have fined Staal if they chose.
The incident occurred during the second period, when Prust delivered a late hit to Pittsburgh's Tyler Kennedy. Staal entered the fray and sucker-punched Prust in apparent retaliation. Staal was given the match penalty, while Prust was able to stay in the game.
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jordan Staal received no supplementary discipline on Wednesday after he was assessed a match penalty for a sucker-punch on Rangers forward Brandon Prust during Tuesday's game.
The league decided on Wednesday that no further action will be taken regarding the incident. An automatic one-game suspension applies when a player is given a match penalty, but the league chose to rescind the ban.
The NHL reserves the right to rescind a match penalty if they find reason to, or otherwise could have fined Staal if they chose.
The incident occurred during the second period, when Prust delivered a late hit to Pittsburgh's Tyler Kennedy. Staal entered the fray and sucker-punched Prust in apparent retaliation. Staal was given the match penalty, while Prust was able to stay in the game.
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What do you see at :06 (and again at :35)? I see Prust throwing a forearm/elbow at Staal's face just before he gets hit with a gloved punch that put him down for a few minutes but didn't even injure him enough to keep him out of the game. It all seems rather tame. If the NHL saw what I saw, it's no wonder they didn't go too hard on Staal. Prust was obviously instigating trouble with the late hit to Kennedy, and then the forearm/elbow to Staal's face. When you skate in starting trouble, you can't really call the retailiation a sucker punch, implying that Prust was unaware of the possibility that he would get hit? Really? In what league would you knock one player down with a late hit and elbow another to the face, then act surprized that you get hit in retaliation? Certainly not the NHL. Prust was certainly ready to fight (not being ready is required for a sucker punch, by definition).
There is as much talk about so-called tough guy Prust taking a dive as anything else.
Staal is apparantly not known for instigating or fighting, which probably didn't hurt his case.
I think the league got it right, if he had intended to injure him, wouldn't he BE injured? a gloved punch that knocks a man down (maybe) for a few minutes is just not as serious as some folks seem to think, in my opinion.
http://www.nesn.com/2011/02/jordan-staal-brandon-prust-part-of-nhls-latest-installment-of-on-ice-injustice.html
There is as much talk about so-called tough guy Prust taking a dive as anything else.
Staal is apparantly not known for instigating or fighting, which probably didn't hurt his case.
I think the league got it right, if he had intended to injure him, wouldn't he BE injured? a gloved punch that knocks a man down (maybe) for a few minutes is just not as serious as some folks seem to think, in my opinion.
http://www.nesn.com/2011/02/jordan-staal-brandon-prust-part-of-nhls-latest-installment-of-on-ice-injustice.html
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