Raffi Torres Suspended 25 Games…Is this RIGHT? NO!
That is total BULLSHIT! Torres is a menace to the integrity of hockey. Twenty-five games is NOT sufficient penalty, especially since he has done this MULTIPLE times to other players. Why is this ASSHOLE still allowed to play??? I heard he was supposed to be suspended “indefinitely” not for 25 games…he should be suspended indefinitely…he should NEVER be allowed to play hockey again. So, he’s charged, what half a million for the total # of games lost? Out of his, no doubt, multi-million dollar contract? BIG WHOOP! He’ll do it again if this asshole is allowed to continue to play the game.
What is it going to take to get him removed indefinitely from the sport? Until he actually KILLS somebody or puts them in a wheelchair for life for breaking their cervical spine??? This is TOTAL BULLSHIT! Hossa could’ve been KILLED and if this bastard is allowed to play, he will, no doubt, end up KILLING somebody else. What the hell is wrong with the NHL? Don’t they have any brains in their friggin’ heads? This is an outrage! He should be suspended INDEFINITELY — not for only 25 games — for multiple violations of NHL rules: interference, charging and an illegal check to the head. What kind of justice is that for Hossa and all the other players he has injured in the past? Hell, they should bring CRIMINAL charges against him for ASSAULT with intent to injure. He should spend time in JAIL not just be penalized 25 games and fined $25,000+ per game he misses. They need to make a rule that states if you intentionally charge at an opponent with intent to seriously injure that takes that player out of the game, that player should be suspended INDEFINITELY immediately following the offense.
Also, the fucking referees on that game should be charged and FIRED for not even calling a penalty on the play itself. Are they friggin’ BLIND? Why wasn’t there a call made on that illegal play?
This is how they’re trying to cut back on the amount of illegal hits??? Are you kidding me???
A cheap fine and a 25-game suspension. BULLSHIT! He should be suspended INDEFINITELY from the NHL IMMEDIATELY.
Raffi Torres should NEVER be able to play professional hockey in the NHL or anywhere ever again for unsportsmanlike behavior. He’s a menace to the game of hockey and ruins what hockey is supposed to be. He should’ve been suspended indefinitely A LONG TIME AGO and should not have been playing so he couldn’t have attacked Hossa.
His punishment is NOT enough, not by far. The NHL really needs to come down on these ASSHOLES who deliberately go out to HURT or INJURE other players. That is NOT what the sport of hockey is about. A good check, yes, is fine, but when the player’s feet LEAVE THE ICE as he JUMPS and TURNS to make illegal contact with another player’s HEAD, THAT has got to STOP! The only way it will stop is if they make an example of Raffi Torres and SUSPEND HIM INDEFINITELY from the NHL so he never can play hockey again.
Shanahan, you’ve been a good VP of Player Safety and Hockey Operations and you’ve ruled with an iron fist….UNTIL NOW!
Something more stringent needs to be done to RAFFI TORRES so he gets the message that this kind of behavior is NOT okay and is NOT going to be tolerated.
Missing 25 games and a wee fraction of the millions of money he’s been paid is NOT going to make that impression. He’s laughing at you and he will do this again.
Torres, and others like him, must be STOPPED now!