Welcome to another addition in “This Week in NHL Stupid”, where we track the stupidity of the hockey world. Let’s start with Toronto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYojvkK9wTY
You might remember this head shot by Nazem Kadri on Daniel Sedin from last Saturday. The stupidity was the lack of discipline by NHL Player Safety on a hit that wasn’t too safe. I mean, we want to eliminate head shots from the game, right? That’s not going to happen if only some of them are punished. Consistency, gentlemen. Please.
(And a column about NHL stupidity wouldn’t be complete without mentioning that the King of Head Shot Stupidity … Raffi Torres, retired this week. Too bad this column wasn’t around for his career. He’d have frequent flier miles.)
Speaking of Toronto, we had a couple of crazy blowouts this past week … a 10-0 loss by Montreal after they were undefeated in regulation, and a 7-0 loss by Toronto which caused a bag skate in the dark. The lights went out in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke and left 2,000 without power. Seems like both the team and the city have some infrastructure problems.
Hey, here’s a Sam Gagner goal (technically) that was pretty stupid:
Okay, so it was actually a Corey Miller goal … into his own net. I guess it was more of a bad accident than stupidity, but I bet that wasn’t what Corey was thinking at that very moment.
But don’t worry Corey, because even future Hall of Famers can get stupid sometimes. Check out what Evgeni Malkin did to Ryan Suter after the Penguins’ go ahead goal on Thursday … watch closely:
https://youtu.be/dEf5iy8lLUY?t=2m54s
Did you miss it? Here’s another look:
#savage #mnwild #penguins #nhl #suter #malkin pic.twitter.com/oxD5tem6du
— Brim (@BrianMarcellus) November 11, 2016
No Geno … you can’t do that. And that’s being a sore winner.
And finally, I realize that Martin Brodeur is an NHL legend, and one of the best goalies of all time. But how in the world do you get on the Blues alumni game roster for playing seven games in that uniform? Wayne Gretzky is a stretch too, as he played 18 regular season games with St. Louis along with 13 playoff games and also made the roster. But Marty Brodeur: Blues Legend is a tough one to wrap my head around.
