The hockey league NHL saw exceptionally violent revenge over the weekend. Urheilu’s expert Ismo Lehkonen calls for a big suspension for the second case.
In the NHL, the cases in which the players have shared the right of their own hand were talked about over the weekend.
of Columbus Erik Gudbranson avenged Florida Nick Cousins a violent tackle that later knocked him to the surface of the ice and beat him with his fists.
Florida got the upper hand for seven minutes. Alexander Barkov took advantage of the ice and scored a decisive 3–1 goal for Florida. Florida eventually took the game 5–2.
for the sports expert Ismo Lehkonen the first thing that came to mind was wild speculation about Gudbranson’s motive.
– It occurred to me that the Columbus player informed the club management that he wanted to leave quickly. That was a brain fart. Absolutely incomprehensible, Lehkonen was amazed.
– There was almost half of the third set left and it was all about getting the lead. Then seven minutes of cooling. I have used the phrase myself that avenging injuries is more expensive than enduring them.
Columbus has been this season’s crisis club in the NHL and Jarmo Kekäläinen the club led by the weakest teams in the league.
Gudbranson, who played more than 700 NHL games, moved to Columbus as a free agent last season. The Canadian defender signed a four-year, $16 million contract last year.
Of the current Columbus team, Gudbranson has the most NHL seasons behind him.
There is also a bigger concern in the background
Gudbranson’s case is not the only extreme violence in the NHL in recent days. On the weekend in Detroit David Perron beat Ottawa Artyom Zubia with a cross stick to the head.
Perron became Detroit’s star player by Dylan Larkin about doing. Larkin was left lying unconscious on the surface of the ice when Ottawan Mathieu Joseph had executed him.
Lehkonen sees a wider threat picture behind Perron’s fight.
– I think that the players are full of transverse sticks up to their throats. You can give it near the goal and the side quite sad. There will be quite small penalties. However, the pain from the blows is severe. They can also cause really bad injuries. I see these as a symptom of using a transverse racket, says Lehkonen.
The expert needs a quick response from the league’s decision-makers in order to avoid excesses in the future.
– I don’t understand why the managers and owners of the clubs let people play like this. Why can’t they get the cross stick cleaned out? Lehkonen questions.
The NHL’s Department of Player Safety said Gudbranson will be heard on Monday about the incident with Cousins.
The hearing makes it possible for Gudbranson to be suspended for more than five games. Hearing, however, does not directly mean that the punishment is that severe. The same hearing is ahead at Perron in Detroit.
Lehkonen believes that Gudbranson will get away with the current disciplinary line of the NHL with only a two-game ban. However, Perroni may receive a bigger punishment on the scale of the NHL.
– A cross stick hit the temple. It was lucky that it didn’t hit the middle of the nose. I have such an itch that it could become a ten-match ban, says Lehkonen.