Trevor Cox Suspended - 1 Game
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TBF Halbert was being 'antagonistic' (is the polite word I'll use) throughout to various smaller Devils - we need to unleash the Lou rather than getting our skill players thinking they need to settle the score themselves. Did I see Halbert change lines last night to AVOID Lou after the first few niggles at our boys?
All for team toughness but at the moment we seem to have gone from repeated Third Man In situations to our bigger lads breaking stuff up - and in the case of Thompson last night, getting penalised for it. Reckon we probably have enough about us to let whoever is taking exception to matters just go an handle it themselves....which I know is completely contradictory to what I said in the above paragraph!
All for team toughness but at the moment we seem to have gone from repeated Third Man In situations to our bigger lads breaking stuff up - and in the case of Thompson last night, getting penalised for it. Reckon we probably have enough about us to let whoever is taking exception to matters just go an handle it themselves....which I know is completely contradictory to what I said in the above paragraph!
Yes he was, so was Tallberg. But the reason they do it is to draw penalties, which we seem to fall for everytime. We lost our rag at McNulty from Guildford too, where we had a powerplay coming then we evened up the call doing something stupid. Trevor Cox could have been thrown from the game yesterday, and I'm not sure we win that game if he was. And now it's carried over to a league game today. No way was it worth it.
I saw it on the night, thought it was spearing, rather than the slashing call. Not surprised at all. I don’t like this “third man in” that we've seen too in recent games. Thompson was lucky last night to get away with it, stepping in between Cox and the Blaze player. The refs could have called that quite easily and he would have been ejected from the game. Cox is game enough to stand up for himself, stupid play from Thompson.
Well spotted... 6 minutes after the original hit. I stand corrected.
The point still stands however, there is always an action/reaction in hockey. I would be pretty confident that Cox did not do the spear randomly so the Sisyphusian process of revenge/more revenge will no doubt continue next game.... which does make these match ups a bit more exciting
The point still stands however, there is always an action/reaction in hockey. I would be pretty confident that Cox did not do the spear randomly so the Sisyphusian process of revenge/more revenge will no doubt continue next game.... which does make these match ups a bit more exciting