Last night during the Penguins-Rangers rematch, Tweets began popping up about Ovechkin being injured by a knee-on-knee hit with Cane's D-man Tim Gleason. My immediate thought was, shamefully, "good for him; maybe he'll learn now" and the response wasn't much different for John when I told him about it.
Ovechkin received a major penalty for kneeing AND a game misconduct (his SECOND in THREE GAMES!). But that's not warranted, is it Coach Boudreau?!
As always, Boudreau removed his lips from Ovi's ass long enough to report that he felt it "did not warrant an ejection."
"It looked like he leaned with his shoulder to me," Boudreau said. "He tried to hit him, Gleason put a good move to the inside and his leg followed through with him."
WHATEVER!! It's not like we haven't seen this kind of thing before -- Ovechkin charging someone KNEE-ON-KNEE (reminder: his hit on Gonchar during last year's playoff run!). The only difference now is the fact that it looks like the officials / league aren't going to put up with Ovi's BS anymore. So what else is Boudreau going to say, I suppose?!
In another bizarre incident last night, Panthers goalie Tomas Vokoun had to be rushed to the hospital last night during the first period of the Panthers/Thrashers game after HIS OWN TEAMMATE (Keith Ballard) literally whaled him in the head with his stick. In his defense, the defenseman was trying to take out his frustrations after Ilya Kovalchuk scored to give the Thrashers a lead of the game and instead of hitting the goal post as planned, he missed and hit Vokoun. The goalie was on the ice for 10 minutes before he was replaced by their back-up goalie, Scott Clemmensen.
Vokoun had an ear laceration and was alert when taken by ambulance to a local hospital, a Panthers spokesman said. Ballard declined to speak with the media.
''He's probably pretty bummed. Nobody feels worse than Keith,'' Florida GM Randy Sexton said. ''There was no internal ear damage, just a laceration. They stitched him up, took a CAT scan and there's no additional injuries.''
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While I would not have wanted this to be a season ending injury, I also did not feel sorry for him while I watched him trying to get off the ice. This is a problem he brought on himself.I can't believe he hasn't been injured before. But the most amazing thing is the league finally grew a pair and suspended a star player
I hate to say it, but I'm kind of glad that Ovi got hurt himself. I'm tired of him getting away with these knee on knee hits. Maybe he'll learn his lesson now....doubt it, but there's always a chance I guess.
As for Vokoun and Ballard....I'm sure Ballard felt about an inch tall after he hit Vokoun. I've seen players time and time again whack their sticks off the goal posts and am usually amazed that they don't hit the goaltenders. I think it was just a matter of time before someone got hit....Glad to hear that Vokoun is ok though....that had to really hurt cuz he just dropped like brick.
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