Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and, based on his average annual salary, Torres will forfeit $440,860.29 USA, money that will go to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.
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That’s 100% right. Get one suspension (or fine) for a unsafe play, shame on you. He also has been warned twice for illegal hits and fined three times.
I didn’t want Raffi Torres on my team. Joe Thornton and Logan Couture were named alternate captains.
The video reveals Torres glided across the ice and drove his shoulder directly into Silfverberg’s head with the hit.
Torres has been suspended four times for a total of 33 games since 2011 for late or illegal hits. Coach Peter DeBoer said after the game Silfverberg was OK and he isn’t expected to miss time. Silfverberg, though, did not practice Monday.
“Same player every year”, Ryan Kesler told the Orange County Register. I simply cannot see the union protecting Torres’ right to cripple more of their members.
Because in an era of faster, bigger, stronger players who are far more susceptible to injury – especially to the head – such cheap shots simply cannot be tolerated.
The massive time that Torres will be missing should be a lesson for certain enforcers on the Ducks going forward.
Many observers were cautiously hoping he’d be handed a 20 game suspension. But it’s just repeatedly happening with him.
The hit that Dreger is talking about was one with no really good angle of the impact to determine whether or not it was a hit straight to the head.
Amen. The game is a better place without them. There is no doubt his colorful past has caught up with him and the league is more than fed up with his style of play.
Torres has played just 12 regular or postseason games the past two years because of knee injuries. Gibson started for the Gulls on Monday against the Ontario Reign in an AHL preseason game.
Boston’s Billy Coutu received a lifetime ban in 1927 for assaulting two referees and starting a Stanley Cup bench-clearing brawl.
No word yet on whether Torres will be suspended, but given his history, it seems extremely likely the league will come down hard.
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But because of the type of player he is, Torres made this one easy. It reeked of Doug Wilson’s bad habit of coveting and acquiring players that specifically made the Sharks suffer before in the playoffs (in this case, when Torres was an Oiler and demolished Milan Michalek, and the Sharks forward depth and ultimate playoff hopes). National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman has to approve the move.
