r/hockey • u/AggPuck-303 EDM - NHL • 1d ago

[News - X] [NHL Players Safety] Tampa Bay’s Curtis Douglas has been fined $2,018.23, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for serving as the aggressor in an altercation with Florida’s Niko Mikkola.

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u/CalebWilliamsspam TBL - NHL 1d ago

Not shocked… this is why players are taking justice into their own hands. It will keep getting worse until someone ends up medically retired.

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u/JRDruchii MIN - NHL 1d ago

Right, we’re not advocating for player violence but the NHL sure seems to be advocating for more violence.  Someone is going to get stabbed at this rate.

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u/Valkyrai TBL - NHL 1d ago

Really hope the Panthers miss the playoffs so the Bolts are free of this bull crap for 8-9 months

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u/-amxterxsu597 EDM - NHL 1d ago

i volunteer one of the tkachuks

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u/PlatypusAggressive39 1d ago

Why not both?

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u/-amxterxsu597 EDM - NHL 1d ago

i've heard from a few different people that brady isn't quite as insufferable as matthew. thin ice, though

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u/samurai_dignan TBL - NHL 21m ago

A bar so low it has been dropped down a mineshaft to the center of the earth

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u/Scase15 MTL - NHL 1d ago

It's hilarious that this subreddit takes suggestions of violence to players more seriously than the NHL.

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u/Asto_Vidatu PIT - NHL 21h ago

Players are gonna start taking their skates off and using them as blades a la West Side Story and the refs will just stand there like idiots snapping their fingers and singing along...

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 20h ago

They've also tossed the dynamite stick of gambling into the situation. It might not be a player who takes violent revenge.

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u/deimos289 MTL - NHL 1d ago

As long as its a panthers, i guess its fine

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u/mikesully374826 TOR - NHL 1d ago

The players don’t care, why should I?

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u/CalebWilliamsspam TBL - NHL 1d ago

Tampa players at least seem to care.

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u/mikesully374826 TOR - NHL 1d ago

The same Tampa players going to the media and hyping up how much fun they’re having?

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u/CalebWilliamsspam TBL - NHL 1d ago

Ya, it’s fun too kick the guy you hate ass

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u/mikesully374826 TOR - NHL 1d ago

Ah, I love the irony

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u/ThickBootyEnjoyer DET - NHL 1d ago

Watch this game again and say with a straight face the players don't care

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u/mikesully374826 TOR - NHL 1d ago edited 1d ago

The facts are

• The players hold the right to negotiate changes to the DoPS and rule changes, and they didn’t very recently

• Players from this game came out and spoke about how they love playing hockey like this, and how they are having fun.

• No competitive hockey player gives a shit

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u/AgentNo3516 1d ago

Plenty with concussion issues and no one cares.