Why is brendan shanahan in the garbage

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Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! But the presence of an injury will get you more games. Intent vs. Injury vs. There are so many factors at play in these decisions that consistency might be impossible to achieve — but it's not without a lack of trying.

Part of the consistency issue is that players and GMs have long memories. They don't mark the start of time at the start of Shanahan's tenure — they think back to hits that were legal and accepted 10 years ago that aren't today. Shanahan tells them he probably did the same thing as a player. So did many of Shanahan's peers. But it's a different time and a different philosophy in the NHL. Coaches and GMs spent decades complaining about getting "that garbage" out of the game.

When Brendan Shanahan arrived in the Department of Player Safety holding a couple of trash cans, some of those protesters celebrated and others bemoaned the idea that the NHL had gone too far, too fast in policing physical play.

We have an answer. You may not agree with it. It's not uncommon for Shanahan to receive an angry phone call from a general manager after a suspension is announced, sometimes staying on the line for 30 minutes "about whether something that got four games should have been three," he said.

We're on the same planet. But we'll have a real concern if I think something's 10 and [the general manager] thinks it's zero. The consistency issue has baffled some media critics who see Shanahan has having been too soft on certain offenders.

It's also affected players who see two similar players and can't quite understand what's legal and what isn't. Shanahan acknowledges that confusion, which is why he's had an open-door policy on interaction with player. That the message was heard. That's the direction I got from the general managers and the players," he said.

More than injury or intent, having been previously suspended is the Department's greatest suspension multiplier. Whether it's a frequently banned player like Dan Carcillo or a relatively clean player like Kris Letang, having had a run-in with the NHL before players a huge role in the sentencing — even if it's not an automatic trigger for additional games out of the lineup.

How recent is it? Was it similar? So it's not a box that we check," said Shanahan. Now that he's been in the job for half a season, Shanahan is starting to see some of the players he's already disciplined come back for another hearing: Carcillo before an injury ended his season , Rene Bourque, Andy Sutton and Jean-Francois Jacques have each been suspended at least twice in Marchand and Pat Kaleta have been given a fine and a suspension.

Shanahan was given a lofty mandate by the NHL and its managers: To not only reprimand repeat offenders, but to slowly change the way every player approaches potentially injurious hits. Critics view it as changing the fundamentals of the game; i.

There's sense. Scott Stevens had very few elbowing minors in his career. There are a lot of people who want to hit like Scott Stevens but don't have his timing.

In the short-term, there's keen interest in what Shanahan does with a team that made the playoffs in the lockout-shortened season and fell short in following a memorable collapse. But beyond hinting that in-season changes could also be coming, he intends to look elsewhere in the organization for big-picture alterations. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.

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