In tonights matchup between the Ottawa Senators and the Minnesota Wild, we saw an absolute blow out of a game by the Senators but what will have everyone talking came with just 16 seconds remaining in the second period when Ryan Hartman received a match penalty for a nasty play on Tim Stutzle. In a game the Senators had been dominating, Hartman was noticeable in his efforts to try to spark emotion for the Wild. He wanted a fight after the game was 3-0 with Hamonic who turned him down. Hartman diverted his attention towards Stutzle shortly after. Again, with just 16 seconds remaining, there was a face off in the Wild end where Hartman pushed Stutzle to the ice face first. This was a nasty sequence that has absolutely no place in the NHL. Considering Hartman admitted to intent to injure just last season when he did something similar against Cole Perfetti, this is even more so a disgusting act. He is sure to receive a suspension as a result! As for the game, the Senators put on 52 shots in a 6-0 shutout. I cover it all and more in todays NHL hockey video!
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Hartman should be gone for the rest of this year and half of next year. If that does not make him realize that he is wrong, maybe a lifetime ban will give him a clue.
I'm a Wild fan but if Hartman went away I wouldn't miss him.
"Hartman with the pedigree! Oh mah gawd!"
Wrong, it does have a place in the NHL. It just comes with a penalty/cost. Quit talking in absolutes where you keep destroying / sanitizing the game into Soccer-on-Ice.
The moment the NHL/hockey gets completely neutered of violence and potential violence the show is over.
The league needs villains and it needs drama. It is a show.
The league is already extremely boring to watch compared to the 80s-2000s with completely white washed rules and everyone being off season golf buddies.
Fake tough guy. In the old days a guy like Probert would have crushed a D-bag like Harman.
I honestly thought this was the Perfetti incident until I realized this was 10 hours ago
Deserves 10 or 20 games. So of course he will get 2 or 3. DPS is hard to take seriously
Hartman is heading into having the reputation of Matt Cooke.
These types of plays are so bogus that no one shouldn't be made an example of.
I personally go way beyond this. For example, I think if a player high-sticks his own teammate he should get a penalty like it was someone on the other team. You must control your stick, being my point. Why should someone get off scot-free for being careless with their stick no matter whose career he may end.
10 games and $10 grand fine for that idiot…imo
Mark Stone also dove claiming a love tap caused him to dive at a players knees and only got 2 min minor
YouTube actually has normal people, X is just full of ppl trying to get a reaction out of others by saying it was clean or a dive
Interference if Timmy puts his hand out. Anyone play center here? Is this akin to a slewfoot where you know if you land on a guy on the faceoff theyll get hurt? Trying to sort out "intent to injure"
Yea, screw all you haters! Nobody bitches when half of the Wild are out hurt because of cheep plays and no calls to take out of our best players!
He's getting an in-person hearing, which means two things. First, he's suspended until the hearing. Minnesota's next game isn't until Tuesday, so that might be moot if they do that tomorrow.
More importantly, an in-person hearing means he's looking at a six game suspension, at LEAST.
Elbowing someone's head into the ice is dangerous. You can break somebody's NECK that way. Stützle is lucky he wasn't paralyzed.
Forget the book; they need to throw the entire library at Hartman for this.
Torres got 41 games for an open ice head shot on Jakob Silfverberg. Tell that elbowing someone's head into a solid patch of ice is less dangerous.
Hartman should be suspended for the season for this, playoffs included.
Dude basically DDTed him
Hartman should get a Marty McSorley penalty
typical wildness. saddest moment of their franchise is when matt cooke wasnt playing for them anymore
I'm not a fan of either team, but one thing is for sure, the league is 10% sport, 90% business. So any decision made by the league will be done based off of potential revenue generation. The League will want Tampa or Columbus in the playoffs before Ottawa. They'll want Minnesota in before Vancouver. There will be a punishment, but it won't be much.
provides no value to any team other than doing bs like this. terminate his contract and throw him out of the league. no room for this nonsense anymore
Goes around comes around. Cheap shot artists are always looking over their shoulders. One day someone will turn his lights out.
41 games. The league needs to handle it, before someone else feels the need to
Wild fan here and that was bush league. Hartman needs to be suspended.
Wild fans like to say Winnipeg’s a dirty team but forgets to remember what kinds of players they have. Jets own them badly anyways and we swept the season against them AGAIN. 8-0. 😂
This had vibes from 2004 when Todd Bertuzzi was charged with assault and sued for breaking Steve Moores neck.