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He brought up the suspension teammate Raffi Torres received for an egregious hit earlier in the playoffs and said, “If Raffi Torres gets 25 games for a hit during the play, then this guy should be done forever.” NHL vice-president Brendan Shanahan, who...
Wednesday, May. 23, 2012 10:30PM EDT For the NHL, it was hoped the start of the playoffs would divert attention away from a regular-season where the league’s reputation was battered by continued incidents of head shots and concussions. Instead, the...
TORONTO, ON - NOVEMBER 14: Brendan Shanahan speaks with the media prior to the 2011 Hockey Hall of Fame Induction ceremony at the Hockey Hall Of Fame on November 14, 2011 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. View Photo »
First, this violent and dangerous hit caused a severe injury
Prust has been suspended for one game by the NHL for his elbow to the head of New Jersey Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov during New York's win in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals. New York leads 2-1 in the series that continues with Game 4 in...
Rangers’ game at Newark on Monday was their 100th of the season, and Brandon Prust would have been one of six players to skate in all 100 of them. But Prust was handed a one-game suspension Sunday night by Brendan Shanahan, the N.H.L.’s chief...
FILE - in this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, file photo, Calgary Flames left wing Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (24) throws a punch at Vancouver Canucks' Matt Clackson during the first period of a preseason NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia,... View Photo »
How many times do we reset the standards? As players, the severity of a punishment like that, if you know it's going to continue, that's the way of dealing with hits like that. It's a tough job for [NHL executive Brendan Shanahan ] to do. No hit is exactly the same. He's looking for differences in the h...
"We're trying not to get picked," Rangers forward Brad Richards said. "Sometimes you get picked. We're trying to let the refs know and have them look at it." Prust had a chance to present his version of the hit during a telephone hearing with NHL...
Tortorella isn't always willing to talk about the Rangers' opponent, but he was feeling chatty yesterday when talking about the Devils, a day after Brandon Prust's elbow to the head of Anton Volchenkov earned him a hearing with NHL dean of discipline...
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ST PAUL, MN - JUNE 24: NHL chief disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan looks on before day one of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft at Xcel Energy Center on June 24, 2011 in St Paul, Minnesota.
View Photo »NHL senior vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell (L) and Brendan Shanahan attend a press conference before Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final hockey playoff in Vancouver, British Columbia June 1, 2011. Shannahan has been appointed as the head of a new department of player...
View Photo »FILE - in this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, file photo, Calgary Flames left wing Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (24) throws a punch at Vancouver Canucks' Matt Clackson during the first period of a preseason NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Brendan...
View Photo »ST PAUL, MN - JUNE 24: NHL chief disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan looks on before day one of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft at Xcel Energy Center on June 24, 2011 in St Paul, Minnesota.
View Photo »First, this violent and dangerous hit caused a severe injury
How many times do we reset the standards? As players, the severity of a punishment like that, if you know it's going to continue, that's the way of dealing with hits like that. It's a tough job for [NHL executive Brendan Shanahan ] to do. No hit is exactly the same. He's looking for differences in the h...
It is clear that he sees Hossa is no longer in possession of the puck because Torres takes a one-handed swipe at it with his stick
I want to thank Brendan Shanahan and his staff for their thorough review of this incident ... The ruling is very severe for Raffi and our Hockey Club. Raffi plays a hard, physical game yet this contact crossed the line on what is acceptable in our game today. We hope Marian Hossa makes a full and speedy...
Despite knowing that Hossa no longer has the puck, Torres decides to finish his check past the amount of time when Hossa is eligible to be bodychecked
Brendan Shanahan will announce Saturday whether the NHL Department of Player Safety will assess further supplemental discipline
This is one of those things where you had to play it to feel it to get it
If Weber was suspended for seven games, every player would have taken notice ... It was the first significant head shot of the playoffs, and (NHL senior vice president of player safety) Brendan Shanahan did nothing. That lack of action said, 'This is business as usual.' That opened the floodgates.
Who knew what kind of plays we were going to see first?
I’m Brendan Shanahan of the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety … and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.
What we defined as an illegal check entering this season was one with two components: The head is the principal point of contact, and the head is targeted intentionally and recklessly
I’ll let (NHL disciplinary VP) Brendan Shanahan see what he thinks about it
To be frank, we all played at a very profitable time for players
Any intentional or reckless use of the skate blade in this manner is extremely dangerous and unacceptable
Oh, there is a slim chance that NHL Hanging Judge Brendan Shanahan will go easy on a first-time offender, but the more you see Keith deliver that elbow so perfectly and blatantly, there’s no chance that Shanahan doesn’t send the Blackhawks defenseman to a timeout.
I think it’s difficult when you are asked to play a physical game on skate blades
Everything is getting reviewed, which I think is a good thing ... You just try to play the game and let Shanny (NHL vice president of player safety Brendan Shanahan) and his guys take care of the rest.
Nobody notices all of the safe landings at the airport
I spoke to (Brendan Shanahan, the NHL vice-president of discipline) ... It is what it is. I can't do that.
It's always strictly about the player who is in front of me
We try to do the job with as much honesty, integrity and accuracy as we can ... We do the job the best we can with as great of consistency.
So sometimes people say that the (opponent) didn't get hurt so there is no suspension ... No, that's not true. The injury would make a suspension worse. The absence of an injury does not make a suspendable offense unsuspendable.
We don't think people are way off base to think it should have been a one-game suspension because we considered that. (But) I don't think Andrew Shaw decided to run a goalie because of Shea Weber. I don't think he woke up that day and said, 'I think that decision means I can run goalies.'
It's a convenient theory after the fact
