Erik Gudbranson has a hearing today too, by phone. And I’d expect Ryan Strome’s phone to be ringing today, after his knee hit on Kyle Connor.
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CanadaCanes
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Joseph trying to play the part of "what did I do"...it was just a hockey play...that's criminal that he gets off scot free...
Fayettenamcanesfan
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Accident? He literally cross checked him on the side of the head. Then he got a little cross check action to his own face. They should both be gone.
The refs' decision to reduce Cousins' major for that atrocious hit on Gudbranson to a standard 2 minutes was ... something. I'd go with indefensible, personally. But whatever it was, it triggered everything that followed. If I was in Gudbranson's shoes, I'd lead with that in the hearing. As for Strome, I'm sure he'll be paying a $12 fine soon enough.
Gudbrunson will have earned his suspension but it's all due to the refs not doing their jobs.. It should still have been a major but due to "no injury" it might not have met the match threshold.
Hit by Cousins:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfShpOFYqZs&t=1s
The Revenge:
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Hit by Cousins:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfShpOFYqZs&t=1s
The Revenge:
View: https://twitter.com/CamandStrick/status/1733942816139551225
I’m assuming those were the Panthers announcers trying to justify that crap? Cousins chased him down from the red line.
It was their feed.
TheBigKahuna
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Cousins had that coming. Those homer Fla announcers are just terrible. Blaming Gud by saying he has to protect himself in that position.
Yep, victim blaming at its finest.
Perron has prior, so ... whatever. Seems about right.
Gudbranson's suspension should be served by those two idiot refs. And they should have to make up his game check as well.
The Blues put Jakub Vrana on waivers. Talk about someone's career falling off a cliff. Back to back 20 goal seasons in 18-19 and 19-20. But he got into Laviolette‘s dog house and was traded to Detroit in April 2021. He played 50 games between the Caps and Red Wings in 2020-21, but he hasn’t played more than 26 NHL games in any of the last 3 seasons. He‘s had injuries, COVID and time in the NHLPA player assistance program.
Monumental owns Capital One Arena but they lease the land from the city. They’re also building new studio space adjacent to the arena.
This probably puts the old RFK Stadium site back in play for a new stadium for the Commanders.
True, but it's got downtown major metro area hosting two pro franchise miles on it. Last time I was in there, that place had gotten pretty shaggy.
DC’s mayor announced a plan to provide $500 million in financing toward an $800 million plan to renovate the arena. Leonsis said he’d stay in DC if they provided $600 million.
The WNBA Washington Mystics will move to Capital One Arena from their current home at the Emtertainment and Sports Arena in Southeast DC. The G-League Capital City Go-Gos would remain there and not move. The arena will also continue to host concerts and college basketball games, Georgetown uses it as their home court.
The proposed arena is less than 20 minutes from the current arena on the Metro Yellow Line. But how many fans from Maryland will they lose with that move?
I'm sure the team knows their fan demographics better than we ever could from the outside. Leonsis is no dummy. If this didn't make sense, he wouldn't be doing it. Plenty of pro sports owners just don't have any kind of market savvy, but not this one.