Morning Skate: Dipenta Suspended For Ugly Slash

by David Oleksy on Oct 7, 2009 6:02 AM EDT in Daily Links

I am happy the Sabres decided to add some toughness to the big squad and the Portland Pirates but there is no place for an ugly slash like this. It was tough to see what caused the reaction from Dipenta but his reaction was uncalled for.

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This is a ridiculous slash by Dipenta. He deserved much more than a one game suspension for that slash.

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Dipenta

He slashed the guy in the shins! It’s not like he Chris Simon’d the guy. Big deal. Should be no suspension in my mind. If he wanted to hurt him he would have gone higher with it.

"Potential just means you haven’t done sh## yet"

by willgarr15 on Oct 7, 2009 10:56 AM EDT reply actions

DiPenta’s slash was bad. But…it does make me want to call him up for Toronto games.

by krytime on Oct 7, 2009 4:24 PM EDT reply actions

How many people vote

to determine the weekly SB Nation Power Rankings?

by ccthemovieman on Oct 7, 2009 5:46 PM EDT reply actions

there were 14 people that voted in the Eastern Conference rankings and 21 voted for the top ten

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by David Oleksy on Oct 7, 2009 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions

thanks for replying

The only problem I have with polls is that too many voters (not necessarily you) go strictly on W-L records, which means that some team who is piling up a good record against lousy teams gets overrated. At least over a long schedule (as opposed to football), the good NHL teams will earn their ranking. Who’s your “sleeper” team?

by ccthemovieman on Oct 7, 2009 6:59 PM EDT reply actions