Colin McDonald - #13, Signed 2 year extension

Fair suspension. Was a nasty hit. We lose out leading hitter responsible for 1/5th of our teams hits thus far.


http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=414803

It was deserving of the penalty and suspension but I've seen much worse with much less punsihment....many times

Not sure I would agree with "Nasty" though

I don't have a problem with it only because it was a hit from behind. That's something the league desperately needs to get rid of.

It was deserving of the penalty and suspension but I've seen much worse with much less punsihment....many times

Not sure I would agree with "Nasty" though

Resulting injury wasn't nasty CANADA but the hit itself was IMO.
Lovejoy's face/neck was dangerously near the edge of boards where glass meets.
Could have been very serious injury and as we've seen, the worse the injury, usually, the worse the suspension.

Check out in slow mo at 35 seconds...point of impact.

It was deserving of the penalty and suspension but I've seen much worse with much less punsihment....many times

Not sure I would agree with "Nasty" though

Resulting injury wasn't nasty CANADA but the hit itself was IMO.
Lovejoy's face/neck was dangerously near the edge of boards where glass meets.
Could have been very serious injury and as we've seen, the worse the injury, usually, the worse the suspension.

Check out in slow mo at 35 seconds...point of impact.

ok, you got me !

No worse than Phaneuff on Tavares. That warranted a major and a suspension. Perhaps longer since that coward has a history of these types of plays.

this was one was worse but Dion didn't even get a penalty

Simple. You see numbers, back off the hit.

He deserved 2 and is lucky he didn't get 5. Love his physical game and he stated he is not out to hurt anybody.

If he does it again he gets 5 in a hurry.

If it was Sid, Alex or Zach he would've gotten 5 this time.

Guy was falling at the time of the hit which made it worse, IMO.

how will life go on as we know it

I feel bad for my friend, who works closely with McDonald's cousin. They were supposed to go to the game tonight (they live/work in jersey) and go backstage, meet players, the whole vip. Now I haven't spoken to him or messaged with him so it may or may not be off, especially if McDonald got sent home. Not sure if he is with the team.

I don't think they sent him home, I would guess he is at least with the team. They are on a road trip.

You really think Wang bought him a ticket when there was room on the charter? Not a chance.

Hope it works out for your friends, tho.

I don't think they sent him home, I would guess he is at least with the team. They are on a road trip.

You really think Wang bought him a ticket when there was room on the charter? Not a chance.

Hope it works out for your friends, tho.

The team went home after the Pittsburgh game before traveling to NJ today. I'm not sure what the league's rules are regarding whether suspended players are allowed in the building.

I don't think they sent him home, I would guess he is at least with the team. They are on a road trip.

You really think Wang bought him a ticket when there was room on the charter? Not a chance.

Hope it works out for your friends, tho.

I messaged him earlier and he didn't answer so maybe he did go to the game. I'm sure I'll hear tomorrow if he did. Guys had to be excited after this win. He floated to me a few weeks ago having this "in" if McDonald made the team so I had hope he'd have invited if he could.

He's a Sabres fan (from Rochester, have several friends there) but a big hockey fan so he would appreciate all of it. He missed a big win by his team over the Bruins if he did go.

So my buddy did go to the game with his good friend who is Colin's cousin. McDonald was there but they didn't get to go up and meet/hang out cause Colin said Garth was around the whole night and kept texting Colin (wonder what for)

At one point, Colin's cousin texted Colin "."Man it's really "boarding" sitting in the stands, anything you can do for us". Needless to say, Colin didn't seem to like that.

My friend owns JT in our fantasy league so he was quite happy with the performance.

From Newsday. This guy must stay in the lineup. If it's at the expense of Cizikas, then so-be-it. I'd rather Casey go down and continue to develop his offensive game, in which I believe he has some upside. He made a GREAT play tonight to set up Martin on that delayed penalty that Martin couldn't bury. Snow won't sit Reasoner because it would kill any trade value he could potentially have. An Edmonton paper has already mentioned him as a potential trade target for the Oilers.

I can't believe anyone would be in the market for Reasoner. The only team interested in a washed up vet like him already has him signed.

Bingo.

Waive the bastid. eat his salary and bring Nino up.

Period.

Bingo.

Waive the bastid. eat his salary and bring Nino up.

Period.

Nino should be brought up but not be dicked around on the 4th line like he was last year. He needs regular minutes up here or he should stay at the Bridge.

From Newsday. This guy must stay in the lineup. If it's at the expense of Cizikas, then so-be-it. I'd rather Casey go down and continue to develop his offensive game, in which I believe he has some upside. He made a GREAT play tonight to set up Martin on that delayed penalty that Martin couldn't bury. Snow won't sit Reasoner because it would kill any trade value he could potentially have. An Edmonton paper has already mentioned him as a potential trade target for the Oilers.

Getting rid of him and getting something back as well? Ohh, that is a good one.

Bingo.

Waive the bastid. eat his salary and bring Nino up.

Period.

Nino should be brought up but not be dicked around on the 4th line like he was last year. He needs regular minutes up here or he should stay at the Bridge.

If he has one point this season? He's an immature punk. He gets his agent to demand a trade and now is slumping. He's gotta grow up. If we learned anything about NYI, it's that when you leave the kids alone until they're mature and developed, they might work out.

Right now, Nino is Rick DiPietro year three.

Maybe we'll trade Moulson so we can say to ourselves Nino deserves a shot on the top line?

I want Nino to work out.....we just gotta pretend he doesn't exist until he makes us unable to ignore him. Pretend we're a REAL hockey franchise.

And for the record, Nino was awful because of his inability to skate, go to his position, skate with his head up, make good passes <not one assist even when on line 3> and shoot. Not because he was on the fourth line. By this logic, Okposo should stay on Tavares' wing until he's able to prove he belongs there.

I'd rather demote Colin McDonald and bring up Persson and Sundstrom than touch Nino, but ideally, we leave them alone too so they can continue to develop given the S.Tigers are playoff bound and doing good.