Skate Stomp

ray a

NY Islanders hockey player Chris Simon has been banned 30 games for stomping on an opponent with his skates. First he tripped him up, which in itself drew a penalty, then stomped on the back of his leg. Earlier this year he completed a 25 game ban for uncivil behavior on the ice.

The guy is 35 years old - almost as old as Paul and Q - he should know better. If one of your employees knocked over a coworker and stomped on the back of their leg presumably to inflict bodily harm, would you send them to a "time out", or would you show them the door? Why can't professional sports act more professionally?

HRQ

I am fairly certain we'd fire him AND call the police.

Hey, Michael Vick got a whole four years of prison. I think some of it was "time served" though. Are you impressed?

joannie

Doesn't it seem that professional sports has become the modern day "Colliseum"?

HRQ

I really do not follow this stuff, but you just cannot escape some of it.

Some rough play makes the game more fun, but stomping with skates? That is pretty dang rough. On the street that would be more like aggravated assault or even attemped murder.

ritaanz

They act they way they do because we let them. Sometimes they even get cheered.

If professional sports were held to the same standard as you and I, it would be a different world out there. Ergo, the brute, after his first uncivil behavior, should have been thrown out on his royal behind.

But nooooooooooooo, maybe they will put an asterisk after his name.

joannie

Ray,
I find it interesting that the 1st three responses to your post were from women.;;)

ray a

Joannie... I thought you were a woman, too. Was I wrong? If you are, then the first 4 posters are women.

joannie

Ray, you'd better count again. Other than you, all of the posters have been women. Right girls?

allsteaks

Too much time on their hands perhaps or were they just anxious to respond to that mean ole Ray's posting even when it wasn't anti-feminists.
Sorry Ray, I broke the streak.

ray a

Guess I was counting you as 2 posters.

lrobb

I think the league needs to step in and ban players like this from the game. If I am a team owner and I release the player he will only move to another team and then nothing is settled. NBA seems to be the worst at this. But all sports are guilty of aloowing this behavior.

ritaanz

Who cares if these guys beat their brains out? Not the fans, they root when the blood and guts get spilled. Not the players, the more they get in trouble, the bigger the check. Not the team owners, they just rake in the money.

The public does not care. It is obvious. They continue to go to the games, pay the outrageous prices for the tickets, and hoot and holler whenever their team gets a leg up. Whether that is a point or a cheap shot at the opponent.

Paul in Cannon Beach

The video of the stomp that I watched didnt seem really that bad. I was expecting worse. So I am actually suprised at the penalty.

ray a

Probably because last spring he took his stick and swung it an opponent's face like swinging a bat at a baseball. He just came off a 25 game suspension earlier this fall for that.

ACU Frank

My question is simpler...

What the heck does hockey have to do with sports? You can't really connect the two.

ray a

Good point. Hockey is an evolved form of boxing. Boxing is called the Sweet Science. So, maybe hockey is a science too, rather than a sport.

joannie

Oh My Gawd! Quite rationalizing and just start throwing people into the lion pit if you want to see gore.

ray a

Jo... I am not a fan of boxing. And I wasn't supporting hockey, either. And did you mean "quit" rationalizing? Your post was almost irrational.