My earlier post on Pierre McGuire’s controversial system of anatomy was picked up by Puck Daddy. Kudos to Greg Wyshynski for choosing to shine a light on Pierre’s ridiculous dissembling about this hit.
A few minutes after I posted the video (and my writing on the subject) last night, I saw another clip on TSN where the panel discussed Zack Kassian’s hit on Petr Senkeris. As you’ll see in this clip, to Bob McKenzie‘s credit, he’s no longer really disputing the fact that Kassian’s hit on Senkeris was high, calling it a “pretty obvious” penalty. Good for him.
As for our friend Mr. McGuire, it would appear that he has abandoned his novel Chinstrap Impact Postulate (by which the wearer of a helmet may – remarkably – cause himself to be struck in the area of the teeth, otherwise known in this logical construct as “the chest”, simply by loosening the chin strap). Ah well, theories and theses are often abandoned rather summarily in the hurly-burly world of exploratory physics. Replacing the Chinstrap Impact Postulate, however, is a Theory of Temporary But Extreme Random Opacity, according to which some unknown physical phenomena appeared near centre ice at the HSBC Centre last night, and then briefly disrupted the properties of all light waves emitting from the general vicinity of this collision, causing certain portions of the event to be temporarily but totally obscured from view.
I wish him better luck with this theory.
Oh, and to the YouTube commenters who want to talk about the Czech player “having his head down”, “needing to be more aware, etc.” – please wipe the spittle off your chins and go back to watching Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em 9. You’ve missed the point again.
Sounds like Jay Feaster is a proud alumnus of the Pierre McGuire School of Anatomy:
“We strongly disagree, not only with the length of the suspension, but also with the fact that Tom was suspended,” said Flames acting general manager Jay Feaster in a prepared statement. “While we are sorry the player was injured, we maintained in the hearing the hit was a legal check. The player was batting at the puck and Tom hit him in the chest and finished his check through him. He did not target the head, and we do not believe the head was the initial point of contact.”
Mistake us for a tree-huggin’, recycle-advocatin’, why-can’t-we-be-friends? softie, and fully acknowledging that everyone (us included) liberally enjoys the visceral physicality of the sport, but legal jolts to the chest area don’t fracture people’s mandibles in two places.
He didn’t cave in the man’s sternum, he busted his jaw.
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/Flame+game+sounds+fair+crime/4083752/story.html#ixzz1AeE0qXsP