Billy Bagron Banned for 4 Matches

[ted logan]

www.eliteleague.co.uk/ban-for-bagron--p187803

After a review requested by (shock!!) Fife Flyers

The 4th game of the ban is at Panthers

[Yotes]

BBR picked the wrong team to mess with.

Hope Moray's been able to explain away all these phone calls from the same number to Mrs Hanson

[sparkymark75]

Ah, the righteous have returned!

I note you don't mention that DaCosta was injured on the play and looks like he'll be out for 4 weeks, far longer than any ban Bagron has received. But hey, don't let facts stand in the way of a good dig!

[ted logan]

Oct 15, 2013 20:05:05 GMT sparkymark75 said:

Ah, the righteous have returned!

I note you don't mention that DaCosta was injured on the play and looks like he'll be out for 4 weeks, far longer than any ban Bagron has received. But hey, don't let facts stand in the way of a good dig!

Ice hockey player in getting injured shock.

[Yotes]

Oct 15, 2013 20:05:05 GMT sparkymark75 said:

Ah, the righteous have returned!

That's a bit much... I've not been away

[tootootrain]

Oct 15, 2013 20:18:09 GMT ted logan said:

Oct 15, 2013 20:05:05 GMT sparkymark75 said:

Ah, the righteous have returned!

I note you don't mention that DaCosta was injured on the play and looks like he'll be out for 4 weeks, far longer than any ban Bagron has received. But hey, don't let facts stand in the way of a good dig!

Ice hockey player in getting injured shock.

I know! Whodathunkit?

Countdown to stupidity that is the suggestion players should be banned for as long as the injured player is off for.....

[Doom]

There certainly seem to be a lot more bans around this season and for longer as well.

I don't think the league is any dirtier than in the past, so I can only assume it's an attempt to clamp down.

I guess time will tell whether it's a good thing, my biggest concern is that generally in this country we do tend to have quite short benches, so lots of bans along with injuries could well lead to us watching very short benched teams playing, which isn't a good thing.

I guess it brings up the old question of whether the ban should be on the club or the player? I certainly think there should be a limit on how many games a club should play an import down, with perhaps 5 being the maximum.

Regards

Doom

[andrew1972]

Oct 16, 2013 7:07:27 GMT Doom said:

There certainly seem to be a lot more bans around this season and for longer as well.

I don't think the league is any dirtier than in the past, so I can only assume it's an attempt to clamp down.

I guess time will tell whether it's a good thing, my biggest concern is that generally in this country we do tend to have quite short benches, so lots of bans along with injuries could well lead to us watching very short benched teams playing, which isn't a good thing.

I guess it brings up the old question of whether the ban should be on the club or the player? I certainly think there should be a limit on how many games a club should play an import down, with perhaps 5 being the maximum.

Regards

Doom

Spot on. Too many lengthy bans floating around the league this year. It seems you only have to sneeze towards somebody these days and Moray will boot you for 5 games.

Dangerous acts need to be acted upon but we also have to think about what it's actually costing the clubs to be continually missing players through over zealous suspensions for what accounts to very little.

[GuinnessMan]

Agree with the above.
imo it was the consistency issue that needing sorting, not more and longer suspensions.

[5+game]

the thing is tho, Hanson in most cases is just handing out the minimum ban for the offence as laid out by the IIHF so what can you do.

[Peacock]

Oct 16, 2013 8:49:58 GMT GuinnessMan said:

Agree with the above.
imo it was the consistency issue that needing sorting, not more and longer suspensions.

Play by the rules and avoid a minimum tariff ban then.

[wagstaff]

I'm not really qualified to comment on whether the tariffs are correct but there does now seem to be some consistency of the follow up punishments however the quality of the refereeing on the ice seems to be consistently poor!

So maybe we need a little more than consistency!

[andrew1972]

Oct 16, 2013 10:02:47 GMT Peacock said:

Oct 16, 2013 8:49:58 GMT GuinnessMan said:

Agree with the above.
imo it was the consistency issue that needing sorting, not more and longer suspensions.

Play by the rules and avoid a minimum tariff ban then.

All this minimum tariff stuff is rubbish. We've never implemented it before, why start now?

[Yotes]

Oct 16, 2013 9:38:39 GMT 5+game said:

the thing is tho, Hanson in most cases is just handing out the minimum ban for the offence as laid out by the IIHF so what can you do.

Not having a go at you or anything 5+G, but how can the IIHF supply a minimum tariff when they cover so many different league structures? A 5 game ban here might be far harsher, or more lenient, as a proportion of total league games than a 5 game ban in another structure.

[5+game]

Oct 16, 2013 12:55:36 GMT Yotes said:

Oct 16, 2013 9:38:39 GMT 5+game said:

the thing is tho, Hanson in most cases is just handing out the minimum ban for the offence as laid out by the IIHF so what can you do.

Not having a go at you or anything 5+G, but how can the IIHF supply a minimum tariff when they cover so many different league structures? A 5 game ban here might be far harsher, or more lenient, as a proportion of total league games than a 5 game ban in another structure.

That is a question for the IIHF to answer. Moray has stated tho a couple of times that he is using the minimum tariffs that they set out.

[Peacock]

Oct 16, 2013 12:48:58 GMT andrew1972 said:

Oct 16, 2013 10:02:47 GMT Peacock said:

Play by the rules and avoid a minimum tariff ban then.

All this minimum tariff stuff is rubbish. We've never implemented it before, why start now?

Yeah, I mean why would you ever want to change anything? Screw progress!  

[Shorty]

I see Keefe has another match penalty tonight for checking to the head......