Bulmer Suspended

[Dirkster23]

2 games for checking to the head/neck

[chasingthepuck]

Crowder might end up with suspension as well

[jeeves]

Will Bulmer be missed....some guys need t extract the digit.

[ronniemac]

I just watched the DOPS video and it doesn't look as serious as the headline would suggest in my opinion, if that's worth 2 games there will be a lot of long suspensions this year.

[rossco]

Just what I said on THF as I am lazy

I'll go with Bulmers 2 games if DOPs can apply consistency across the season.

They have already failed.

Their explanation try to describe the action as something heinous which it us not, so much waffle surrounding what players do when delivering a check - "he rises up into the hit and shows no regard for the puck" - the second part is just absolute garbage, the delivery of a hit is not a play on the puck so of course the primary intent is not the biscuit, most players elevate into the hit and also those being hit, it's physics and how players can hit without simply both bouncing of each other and landing on their butts.
Ok so he leans in and makes contact with the upper chest area, the video slowed as much as it could shows marginal contact with the head, if more and the point of contact would have been the jaw then Bissonette would have been in big trouble and if course we don't want that so I get where they use this as a MUST not happen scenario.

I get it.

Now let's see it applied every game and punished equally every game. As I've said this is already not the case and players sitting 2 for this sort of example is going to see a lot of bodies in the press box, or is it ?

[rossco]

Sept 16, 2018 20:59:21 GMT chasingthepuck said:

Crowder might end up with suspension as well

Highlights show Lundvald somehow stumbling as Crowder makes contact. Very noticeable how Crowder hits along the boards, he does it old school and hugs players in, so much so he could be called for holding but it is a safe way to check, responsible, he was doing the same last night on the Lundvald hit.

All that said it will probably be a stick on 2 games.

[mtsparky69]

Not really getting this “Bulmer is lazy” I personally thought he was mom on Saturday and created chances as well as tracking back. Think the guy desperately needs a goal and has been unlucky. Think guys have got to adapt to the bigger ice to be fair. If anybody has been poor this season it’s goat, he has the ability but is reckless in his hits and will face a suspension sooner or later. For some reason we are playing a different style this season, back to dump and chase.

[tackleberry]

Sept 17, 2018 15:54:39 GMT mtsparky69 said:

Not really getting this “Bulmer is lazy” I personally thought he was mom on Saturday and created chances as well as tracking back. Think the guy desperately needs a goal and has been unlucky. Think guys have got to adapt to the bigger ice to be fair. If anybody has been poor this season it’s goat, he has the ability but is reckless in his hits and will face a suspension sooner or later. For some reason we are playing a different style this season, back to dump and chase.

I actually thought he was one of our better players on Saturday too. I also agree he badly needs a goal to lift his confidence. What I would say tho is that he really needs to be hitting the target with that wrist shot of his, on three or four occasions now he has found himself one on one with the nettie (albeit at an angle) and lifted the puck high and wide each time. 
On another note, I don’t think I have ever witnessed a team dump and chase on the PP as much as we have this season, could be because we don’t have puck carriers like Moyer and Young on D?

[mtsparky69]

I agree I preferred the drop pass last season, dump and chase rarely works, prob right about no confidence in defense coming forward. I think once he gets a goal he will be fine. Seems to be controlled on the puck and tracks back. I think people think he is lazy cause he doesn’t rush about like Bloods or Chase but don’t think that makes him lazy, just a different style. Guess time will tell.

[joestoyanovich]

Sept 17, 2018 12:16:24 GMT ronniemac said:

I just watched the DOPS video and it doesn't look as serious as the headline would suggest in my opinion, if that's worth 2 games there will be a lot of long suspensions this year.

I agree Ronnie I don't think it was checking to the head at all. Poor call and if this is how things are going to be a lot of players are going to be in trouble this year.

[kermit]

Sept 17, 2018 19:36:24 GMT mtsparky69 said:

I agree I preferred the drop pass last season, dump and chase rarely works, prob right about no confidence in defense coming forward. I think once he gets a goal he will be fine. Seems to be controlled on the puck and tracks back. I think people think he is lazy cause he doesn’t rush about like Bloods or Chase but don’t think that makes him lazy, just a different style. Guess time will tell.

I agree he is still adjusting, a goal will be huge for him hopefully it comes soon just as bloodoff last season took a while but once he got going he never looked back. He carries the puck well in the zone and cycles it around the back of the net and creates a shooting opportunity for himself or look for a tip or even could drop it back to a d man for a one timer. He is definitely for me still adjusting but he was for me our best player on Saturday and he is only going to get better. People say he looks like he doesn't want to be here and he looks sad, look at the goal against clan that was scored in the last second he looked happy to me. Might just be hard on himself like Iles last season after a loss.