Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your em

Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your emails at cmonref@tsn. Borje Salming Jersey .ca. In Sundays Blackhawks-Penguins game, Pittsburgh defenceman Brooks Orpik laid a huge hit on Chicagos Jonathan Toews. Now in my view, Orpik can be clearly seen leaving his feet while delivering a moderately high hit. Why wasnt there supplemental discipline, and should there have even been a penalty? I thought anytime you leapt or left your feet, a penalty is called! Am I missing something? Stu Alderson Stu: You and I are not the only ones missing something here as players continually elevate their posture and leave their feet at impact to deliver devastating hits. Dangerous and significant contact to the head of their opponent almost always results whenever a player leaves his feet to make a big hit. In the here and now, these hits are deemed "legal." With an eye firmly set on the end game, which I hope still remains to greatly reduce contact to the head and resulting concussions, it is irresponsible to continue down this path any longer. While each camp can passionately debate their respective position on whether to allow or eliminate high hits where significant contact to the head of an opponent results, I respectfully submit this issue should no longer be a matter of personal opinion. Instead, it should only be about "science." Through irrefutable medical evidence, we now know the short and long term effects of blows to the head. This road map can provide us with a clear picture of the end game! Brooks Orpik set up to deliver a body check as he slowed and glided toward Jonathan Toews in the corner. Toews sole intent was to advance the puck around the end wall. In doing so, Jonathan Toews lowered his body posture to place him (and particularly his head) in a vulnerable position and must share the responsibility for the location of where he was hit. The onus of "how" the contact was delivered and the "degree of force" utilized is exclusively on Brooks Orpik and taken into account by the referee to determine the legality of the check. No differently than the vast majority of current players, Brooks Orpik finished his hit on Jonathan Toews with considerable force as demonstrated by his upward launch with skates high off the ice. This intensified the velocity and violence of the hit regardless of whether Toews was in a vulnerable position or not. In many cases I would even suggest that an opponents apparent vulnerability is something a player will capitalize on to enhance the degree of force exerted through a hit. We certainly dont see many players let up! Rule 42.1 tells us that a minor or major shall be imposed on a player who "jumps into" an opponent. The "jump" element of this rule was once applied when a players skates lost contact with the ice. Charging is seldom called in the current era of the game, where players leave their feet with far more frequency in the act of delivering a body check than ever before. The most common "excuse" for not calling this infraction is that a players skates did not completely leave the ice prior to initiating body contact. This generous and liberal interpretation is extended to include times when the toe tip of one skate remains in contact with the ice at impact. Referees should be directed to impose a charging penalty in every case when a players skates leave the ice in the act of delivering a body check, period. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to see the end game; just a medical scientist! 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That would give him a month to get well before Denver would host a divisional round game the weekend of Jan. 10-11.The Broncos claimed Davis off waivers Nov. 13 from New Orleans, where he played primarily on special teams, although he didnt arrive in time to play at St. Louis three days later.I just wanted to bring something to the team. Special teams, backup on defence, whatever it was, I just wanted to do something positive and just bring something to the team every day, Davis said.Davis found an immediate comfort level in Denver. Not just on special teams, but on defence, where he fits the mould that defensive co-ordinator Jack Del Rio favours in his linebackers: smaller, quicker, instinctive.It felt like home. It didnt feel like I was coming here as much as an outsider or anything, Davis said. It just felt like the right fit. As soon as I got here, it felt good.And he proved a quick study.He quickly began appearing in some of the teams specialty packages ahead of drafted rookies Lamin Barrow and Corey Nelson. When Marshall got hurt Sunday, Davis logged 28 snaps from scrimmage and with Von Miller lined up at defensive end, he was often the only linebacker on the field when Denver sealed its 22-10 win at San DDiego. Frederik Andersen Jersey. I think hes adapted quickly, coach John Fox said. He does have good football awareness and football character. I think hes done a very good job in this short time.Davis could find himself with an even bigger role over the next two weeks as the Broncos await Marshalls return.Its quite a turn of events for Davis, who went undrafted after earning All-Big Sky Conference honours with 131 tackles his senior year at Sacramento State. His poor times in the 40-yard dash scared away NFL scouts.Aw man, yeah. I think it was just me putting too much on myself, trying to go out there and be fast and trying to do too much, Davis said. I think it was just me putting too much on myself, trying to do too much, trying to be too fast. I mean, Im out there running sprints the day before, trying to be the best I can be and then by the time I got to pro day my body, I think my body was just gassed.The Saints signed him a month before training camp started, and he was waived every month starting in August, bouncing back and forth from the practice squad to their 53-man roster.Hed been through this drill so many times, he thought nothing of it when he was demoted in November.Their plan was to bring me back, he said.So, he turned off his phone when he went to work out on the Saints off day.When he turned it back on, his phone began buzzing with all the messages hed missed.It was crazy that my phone was off at such a critical time, Davis said. 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