Cooke suspended 7 games

7 games? This is his seventh suspension, he ended a players career, he just injured another player who will miss 4-8 weeks, and he only gets 7 games?

Anyone who had hopes that Quintal would be better at this then Shanahan, well, here's your sign..... The NHL had a chance to send a strong message and win back some respect from the public and players, EPIC FAIL.
 
The end of the video pointed out that under the CBA - he was NOT considered a repeat offender.

So there you go Don Fehr - negotiate it so that guys who intentionally injure other players consistently gets bailed out by a negotiation...
 
Hama said:
The end of the video pointed out that under the CBA - he was NOT considered a repeat offender.

So there you go Don Fehr - negotiate it so that guys who intentionally injure other players consistently gets bailed out by a negotiation...
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The technicality for suspensions, that after 18 months (or whatever the time frame is) without an offense, that previous occurrences do not fact into the suspension is appalling and downright ludicrous
 
Guy is a disgrace to the game. No respect for the other players or the game itself. I don't care how long it's been since he did something like this. Whenever it happens with him it is always vicious and intentional. Hopefully the teams themselves with take action by not signing this guy again if the league isn't going to give him the boot.
 
I'm not going to defend Cooke's history... but does anyone really think there was an intent to injure here? if that knee draws a 7 game suspension then Seabrook's head-hunting should be at least that. (and Shawn Thornton's sucker punch should have kept him out much, much, much longer.) if the measures of any suspension or fine is if, and how badly, a player was injured, that's a dangerous game for the league to play. if they can't be consistent it's hard to take them seriously.

Cookie has a reputation that he's earned and deserves... so he'll always be scrutinized. but while the injury was very unfortunate, that knee isn't the worst thing we've seen in the past week.
 
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ejs23 said:
I'm not going to defend Cooke's history... but does anyone really think there was an intent to injure here? if that knee draws a 7 game suspension then Seabrook's head-hunting should be at least that. (and Shawn Thornton's sucker punch should have kept him out much, much, much longer.) if the measures of any suspension or fine is if, and how badly, a player was injured, that's a dangerous game for the league to play. if they can't be consistent it's hard to take them seriously.

Cookie has a reputation that he's earned and deserves... so he'll always be scrutinized. but while the injury was very unfortunate, that knee isn't the worst thing we've seen in the past week.
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Your last statement is probably why he only got 7 games. Matt Cooke no longer deserves a shred of consideration in these matters. You cannot give him any benefit, simply based on his past. In my opinion, any dirty play he makes has intent because he.has proven over.and over that he wants to hurt players. Matt Cooke deserves zero leeway
 
There's an easy way to fix morons like this, and that is simply have the league get rid of the instigator rule, and let the players police things themselves. Make this idiot fight every team's tough guy every time he steps on the ice. Let him get the crap beat out of him night after night, and man up for all his cheap shots. This crap never happened that often when I was a kid, because you knew if you pulled something like that, you were gonna have to answer for it. Players need to be accountable for their actions on the ice. It maybe sounds barbaric, but this kind of stuff would be reduced to minimal at best.
 
Honestly, the next time he steps on the ice in a game, is there anyone who would be upset if he got run and never played again? I can't remember there ever being a player with this many suspensions, injuring as many people as he has, ending a career, and given chance after chance. Sure Tucker was a puke, Avery a complete tool shed, but not to this level. Tucker on Peca was bad, but that is the only incident i can remember where it was clear he was trying to hurt someone. Maybe Marchment might come close, but I think Cooke is in a league all his own on the gutless puke scale.

Do we really think there is a player, past or present, who actually respects this guy? Yeah his current teammates might "tow the company line" in the media because you don't want a divided locker room, but I bet every player in the league including the Wild players thinks he is a total worthless POS. Since the league allows him to keep playing, you know someone is finally going to snap and go McSorley or Simon on him, and the sad thing is, they will probably get suspended for longer then Cooke did here. He's going to get run or baseball swung to the head, the players can only take so much before they rebel against him and the league. We saw it with Hollweg, another turd like Cooke, and Simon had enough and baseballed him to the face, and the league banned him for it. What Simon did was wrong, but with the emotion of the game, and Hollweg refusing to stand up for himself, I don't blame or fault Simon for doing what hundreds of other players probably wish they could do.
 
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Look I am a die hard wild fan. I didn't like the signing of cook and still dont. I think he should have been kicked out of the league 4-6 years ago. But I will say the hit was not that bad. The other player was piviting on the leg trying to move away from the hit cook was going to lay down. So in planting that foot to move away from the hit put him in a very very bad spot. Cooks knee hit his and yes his leg kinda stuck out but just look at how both players were trying to avoid the hit.

Again I'm not a cook fan at all but it wasn't as bad as everyone thinks.

I will say it again he should have been kicked out of the league 4-6 years ago
 
wildfan1833 said:
Look I am a die hard wild fan. I didn't like the signing of cook and still dont. I think he should have been kicked out of the league 4-6 years ago. But I will say the hit was not that bad. The other player was piviting on the leg trying to move away from the hit cook was going to lay down. So in planting that foot to move away from the hit put him in a very very bad spot. Cooks knee hit his and yes his leg kinda stuck out but just look at how both players were trying to avoid the hit.

Again I'm not a cook fan at all but it wasn't as bad as everyone thinks.

I will say it again he should have been kicked out of the league 4-6 years ago
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Cooke's leg was stuck out well before contact was made. He knows what he is doing out there, he has done it many times. He will continue to do it until someone stops him, be it a player or the league.
 
yea what a shame for Colorado, barrie is a pretty decent offensive d-man. Cook for barrie is a bad trade off.

I agree also, ditch the instigator rule and let this guy get the crud pounded out of him.
I see Colorado doing just fine tho. But I feel bad for Tyson barrie
 
MMarch said:
Honestly, the next time he steps on the ice in a game, is there anyone who would be upset if he got run and never played again? I can't remember there ever being a player with this many suspensions, injuring as many people as he has, ending a career, and given chance after chance. Sure Tucker was a puke, Avery a complete tool shed, but not to this level. Tucker on Peca was bad, but that is the only incident i can remember where it was clear he was trying to hurt someone. Maybe Marchment might come close, but I think Cooke is in a league all his own on the gutless puke scale.

Do we really think there is a player, past or present, who actually respects this guy? Yeah his current teammates might "tow the company line" in the media because you don't want a divided locker room, but I bet every player in the league including the Wild players thinks he is a total worthless POS. Since the league allows him to keep playing, you know someone is finally going to snap and go McSorley or Simon on him, and the sad thing is, they will probably get suspended for longer then Cooke did here. He's going to get run or baseball swung to the head, the players can only take so much before they rebel against him and the league. We saw it with Hollweg, another turd like Cooke, and Simon had enough and baseballed him to the face, and the league banned him for it. What Simon did was wrong, but with the emotion of the game, and Hollweg refusing to stand up for himself, I don't blame or fault Simon for doing what hundreds of other players probably wish they could do.
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Well said dude. Somebody will take out that piece of **** and every Hockey fan and player not named Randy will drink to it!
 
Some blame has to fall on to the Wild organization as well. Why is this clown even given a roster spot?
 

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