Flyers' Daniel Carcillo to meet with NHL today at 3pm

Thanks for clearing up who hit ‘em. It looked to me like a pretty obvious hit to the back. And honestly I try to look at things like this in as unbiased a view as possible. Honestly I think the entire Guerin/Coburn thing was stupid. Talbot was hit but I didn’t really think it was that bad until further review. The obvious cross check to Matt Cooke went unnoticed and apparently the Staal thing can swing either way.

I just think that for all the Philly fans who think VS. is on Pitt’s side (or the refs for that matter) you can easily look at those examples and see that the Pens don’t get the call sometimes either.

Hooks, the philly center probably got kicked out of the faceoff for excessive gooning…

No, the center was not kicked out. Carcillo lined up to take the face off either at his own discression or the coaches and actions like that should be looked into. This was not a “heat of the moment” rivalry thing it was an angry rivalry thing. I will conceed that this is what happens when two rivals meet in the post season but the intent of Carcillo was obvious and the league has to look into it in order to maintain credibility.

The fact that we can all have our own idea of what hits should be looked at says a lot about the Flyers.

Guerin was slashed at the drop of the puck. So now you know what prompted the hugfest. Carcillo is being treated this way because he should not have been taking the face off and he caught Talbot with the butt end of his stick in the head on an intentional move.

They only showed the overhead view once I think. I thought it was clear and so did Toronto. Later in the game Errey clerified the situation by pointing out that it was not the kicking motion that mattered but the fact that Crosby got a stick on the puck after the kick. The Effing refs were garbage last night. They couldn’t even relay that message properly.

I thought him taking out Fleury was the first cheap shot of many. Hartnell was shoved very lightly, and kind of used that to plow through him.

Fairly poor sportsmanship was resorted to when they figured they weren’t able to out physical the Pens. I believe they out hit us in the first, but they were no where near as solid or powerful as, say, one Kunitz slam.

Game 2 should be splendid :)

I don’t think Hartnell likes Hartnell. The guy is just dirty.

I think that trip was on Letang.

I watch no teams other than my own. Even when they’re playing another team. :)

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t get it. On one hand, yes, Darius Kasparaitus and Ulf Samuelsson played in Pittsburgh, and neither was an angel. I constantly have Bruins fans complain to me about Ulf’s hit on Cam Neely (well, the Bruins fans who knew that hockey existed as a competitive sport before January. Which is, like, 9 people.). I guess, for me, it’s one thing if that happens in the heat of a tightly contested game. I just have a problem with the cheap shots that happen after the play and after a game is out of reach for one team. The worst example, for me, did not involve the Flyers at all; it involved Brent Sutter’s Flames against the Red Wings in the first round in 2007; when they basically just gooned it up in response to having their asses handed to them by Detroit, culminating in Jamie McLennan’s baseball-bat slash against Johan Franzen. So my response is: play as hard as you want when the game’s still a contest; but if you’re losing take the loss like a man. Period.

They just discussed this during the first intermission on Verses.

Apparently the league forwarded to all teams that they want to crack down on final minute “sending a message” antics, and clearly, there were many more than just that one incident that deserve a look into, but I think a one game is ok. Glad they didn’t overkill that when the hit on Staal was a tad bit dirtier.