Thursday's news: Anaheim's Wisniewski delivers latest scary head shot

Wisniewski almost kills Seabrook and the announcer sounds like he’s trying to justify the hit. At some point you have to forget which team you like and worry about the guy who was just knocked unconscious.

The commentary on this excerpt is completely irresponsible in view of the severity of Wisniewski’s hit and Seabrook’s immediate reaction. It’s inconceivable Pete and Crispy would indulge in this kind of ridiculous and disheartening chatter. We should all appreciate that.

send him home for the rest of the year. It was so blatant. The hit Seabrook put on Perry was just a regular hockey play (note,Perry had the puck), there was nothing dirty about it. The “retaliation” was just stupid…all arms and elbows to the head. Wisniewski makes a B-line from from his defensive position at the blue line down below the goal line to deliver this nasty hit on Seabrook (note, he didn’t have the puck). In other words he came way out of position to make that dirty hit. Blatant.

…and where do I get the glasses!? Are they the old school blue and red kind, or those new ones? Can’t imagine what it will look like.

Perry was playing the puck and Seabrook threw his shoulder into him, Seabrook was already throwing the shoulder when Perry leaned into it unintentionally. It was a clean play. For Wisniewski to make a B line directly for Seabrook from center ice and leave his feet to launch himself into Seabrook’s head with elbows is outright vicious. After the game, Wisniewski was saying he did nothing wrong, which is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. The head shots are beginning to be a problem in the league. As a Blackhawks fan, I wasn’t upset with Ovechkin for hurting Campbell because it wasn’t that dirty, it was just careless. This Wisniewski hit is as bad as there ever has been solely for the fact he made a direct run on a guy from center ice and threw himself at him when he wasn’t even playing the puck. The league needs to stand up and make a statement and this is the best chance they will get because this hit is not clean hockey at all. Wisniewski should sit for at the very least 5 games, if not the full season. There is absolutely no justification for this hit whatsoever, no matter what Wisniewski, Duck Broadcasters, or Duck Bloggers are saying.

Hayward saying that Seabrook was selling the hit may have been the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard. He waited until they played the replay to make that comment when he was clearly watching Seabrook go down to the ground and looking like he was out cold. Being a Hawks fan here in Nashville, I have to watch most of my Blackhawks games on Center Ice so I hear alot of broadcasters from teams and yesterday nights display of announcing was horrible. I sure am glad to have Crispy and Pete here in Nashville because they are a class act and certainly wouldn’t try to justify a hit like that.

they seem so much more upset about the hit on perry, which i think perry made worse by himself by turning and ducking. and they seem to be trying to change what actually happened. they are trying to argue that Wiz targeted the chest and didn’t leave his feet. but mostly they are trying to call a suspension on seabrook for his hit on perry. they are some definite homers of the worst kind.
oh and if seabrook is trying to sell the penalty then he took some coaching from don king on how to dive.

…that really irks me. After watching a game on ‘Gamecenter’ with the Florida announcers, I pay much more attention to the way each broadcast team makes calls and commentary. Unprofessional in my opinion.

Wisniewski gets an 8 game suspension. and the ducks blog still lives in imaginationland where he never did anything wrong.

The Wisniewski hit definitely deserves 8 games and is nothing like the Ovechkin or Cook hit. Ovechkin was careless and late on his hit but was at least trying to play a man with the puck. Cooke’s hit should have been a suspension I agree but it was nowhere near the head-hunting of Wisniewski who had absolutely no intention of playing the man on the puck. He skated from center ice, left his feet and propelled himself into a player who wasn’t even playing the puck. This hit is nowhere near the same league as any hit we’ve seen this year. I can’t even comprehend how some people are saying he did nothing wrong and doesn’t deserve a suspension. The league could have used this hit as an example for everyone else and made him sit the rest of the year seeing as how this was 100% malicious with intent to injure.