Skinner gets a Three Game Suspension

[Brawndo]

Per NHL

 

[LGR4GM]

I thought 2 but not surprised. 

 

[Norcal]

Appeal

[Sidc3000]

A bit excessive 

[Rhyno716]

Seems excessive. I think he will appeal it down to 2 games. Matthews got 2 for the Dahlin cross check last year.

[nfreeman]

The suspension is a bummer, but as others noted in the GDT, it's about time the Sabres inflicted some punishment for taking liberties with their goalie.  Danny Gare, a somewhat comparable player to Skinner, would've done the same thing.

[Sidc3000]

11 minutes ago, Rhyno716 said:

Seems excessive. I think he will appeal it down to 2 games. Matthews got 2 for the Dahlin cross check last year.

I assumed it was going to be two games but Matthews didn’t draw blood 

[shrader]

Does he have any suspension history? I have a hard time seeing that as worse than someone with a couple suspensions under his belt getting 2 games for trying to poke a goalie’s eye out. 

[inkman]

4 minutes ago, shrader said:

Does he have any suspension history? I have a hard time seeing that as worse than someone with a couple suspensions under his belt getting 2 games for trying to poke a goalie’s eye out. 

He was suspended in 2012 for kicking Scot Nichol 

[nucci]

51 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

The suspension is a bummer, but as others noted in the GDT, it's about time the Sabres inflicted some punishment for taking liberties with their goalie.  Danny Gare, a somewhat comparable player to Skinner, would've done the same thing.

Gare and Skinner are not very comparable. Gare would have beat the crap out of Guentzel

[inkman]

2 minutes ago, nucci said:

Gare and Skinner are not very comparable. Gare would have beat the crap out of Guentzel

I suppose it needed to be said but there are strong grandpa vibes in this post 😎

[matter2003]

Wow...seems like a lot when routine offenders get one game for far worse.

How many games did the guy get for slashing the dude in the back of the head the other night??

 

UPDATE:. It was Leafs Pierre Engvall and he got one game...so Skinner gets 3 for a crosscheck and Engvall gets only 1 game for literally swinging a stick at the back of a guy's head??

WTF is with the NHL? Total BS.

Edited December 10, 2022 by matter2003

[Dreams Burn Down]

4 minutes ago, nucci said:

Gare and Skinner are not very comparable. Gare would have beat the crap out of Guentzel

It was a different game, then.  The stick-swinging prior the cross-check to the face would have drawn a much more severe response from both sides in Gare's day, let alone the cross-check itself.  It would have been a line brawl, at the very least.

[Taro T]

6 minutes ago, Dreams Burn Down said:

It was a different game, then.  The stick-swinging prior the cross-check to the face would have drawn a much more severe response from both sides in Gare's day, let alone the cross-check itself.  It would have been a line brawl, at the very least.

Line brawl would've happened for the slash on Anderson.  Never would've gotten to the point of the cross check.

[tom webster]

1 hour ago, nfreeman said:

The suspension is a bummer, but as others noted in the GDT, it's about time the Sabres inflicted some punishment for taking liberties with their goalie.  Danny Gare, a somewhat comparable player to Skinner, would've done the same thing.

Danny Gare would have knocked Guentzel out and not been suspended at all unless he killed him. For that he would have gotten 3 games.

[John Tucker]

3 hours ago, tom webster said:

Danny Gare would have knocked Guentzel out and not been suspended at all unless he killed him. For that he would have gotten 3 games.

Would've loved to see someone remove that smirk on Guentzel's face!!

[PerreaultForever]

4 hours ago, nfreeman said:

The suspension is a bummer, but as others noted in the GDT, it's about time the Sabres inflicted some punishment for taking liberties with their goalie.  Danny Gare, a somewhat comparable player to Skinner, would've done the same thing.

Not a chance. Gare would have punched his lights out man to man, face to face. As would have Dudley and a host of others back then. Spinner might have whacked him with his stick but we all know how psycho he turned out to be. 

In no way are they comparable either. But that's a whole other topic. 

[Zamboni]

Not surprised at a suspension. 
Surprised it’s three games. 
Expected two.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

[Sidc3000]

After some thought I’ve realized three games is appropriate. Matthews got two games after he cross-checked Dahlin in the head during the Heritage Classic and that was without causing injury. Skinner caused injury so an extra game for that . 

[JohnC]

19 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

I thought 2 but not surprised. 

 

"Seattle Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak was suspended by the NHL for three games for an illegal check to the head of Washington Capitals defenseman Alexander Alexeyev." Wash Post

Skinner got what he deserved. 

[Quint]

 

Never again!

[PerreaultForever]

9 hours ago, Quint said:

 

Never again!

lol, there is nobody on this roster that would take on Lucic now that he's old even, yet alone back then. 

[Quint]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

lol, there is nobody on this roster that would take on Lucic now that he's old even, yet alone back then. 

Does that make the entire Sabres organization, now and then, Hollywood Finocchios?

 

[Eleven]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

lol, there is nobody on this roster that would take on Lucic now that he's old even, yet alone back then. 

This is BS and always has been.  Two guys got on him immediately.  The linesmen split it up before Lucic paid the price, and the 2 minute minor was typical pro-Boston *****.

Edited December 12, 2022 by Eleven