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    Bertuzzi suspended for the season

    in Habs & Hockey Talk

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    http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=75890

    TSN.ca Staff w/files from CP

    3/11/2004

    The NHL has come down hard on Todd Bertuzzi for his actions Monday night against Colorado's Steve Moore.

    Bertuzzi has been suspended for the remainder of the season and the playoffs after he sucker punched Moore and drove his head into the ice during the third period of Colorado's lopsided win over the Vancouver Canucks.

    NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will determine whether or not Bertuzzi will be allowed to play again next season prior to the start of training camp.

    The Vancouver Canucks have also been fined $250,000 by the NHL.

    "Mr. Bertuzzi pursued Mr. Moore on the ice, attempting to engage him in a confrontation," said Colin Campbell, NHL Executive Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations. "When Mr. Moore declined to engage Mr. Bertuzzi, Mr. Bertuzzi responded by delivering a gloved punch from behind to the side of Mr. Moore's head, rendering him unconscious. Upon falling to the ice, Mr. Moore suffered additional serious injuries."

    "We want to make clear that this type of conduct will not be tolerated in the NHL."

    Bertuzzi choked back tears Wednesday night as he offered a remorseful apology to Moore, who remains in a Vancouver hospital with a fractured neck, a concussion plus facial lacerations and abrasions to the forehead, right cheek and upper lip. He is expected to make a full recovery but will miss the remainder of the hockey season.

    "Steve, I just want to apologize for what happened out there," said Bertuzzi, wiping tears from his eyes throughout his statement. "I had no intention of hurting you.

    "I feel awful for what transpired."

    Bertuzzi also apologized to the Canucks' organization and to hockey fans for his actions.

    Vancouver police are still investigating the incident to see if criminal charges should be laid. Those charges could range from simple assault to assault causing bodily harm to aggravated assault, which involves endagering someone's life.

    Maximum penalties range from six months for a summary conviction on simple assault to 14 years for aggravated assault.

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    HABS @ COYOTES (Gamethread)

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    Great!, Just fuc*king great, we finally get a big name player and this happens. :mad:

    Well at least we won and did you guys see the hit Begin gave Comrie? lol he almost killed him, and the Koivu hit on Doan? Thats what Doan gets for that elbow he gave Markov.

    Ryder - Highest scoring Newfie?

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    A local sports writer Don Power has a column today agruing that Ryder is the highest scoring Newfoundlander to play in the NHL - does that make him the best?

    and the article.....

    Oh, you mean the born and bred Newfs

    By Don Power

    As Michael Ryder approaches 50 points in his NHL rookie campaign – to become the first Montreal Canadiens rookie to reach that plateau since Claude Lemieux – it’s time to recognize his as one of the highest scoring Newfoundlanders in NHL history.

    Already, Ryder has surpassed the point total to Tony White, who scored 25 goals and added 17 assists for 42 points in 1975-76 with the Capitals.

    That makes him, to me, the highest scoring Newfoundlander.

    Some other people don’t agree, and on semantics, they are right.

    Dave Pichette scored 17 goals and added 40 assists for the 1984-85 Devils. He was born in Grand Falls in 1960. Technically speaking, that makes him the highest scoring Newfoundlander in one NHL season.

    However, Pichette is not a born and bread Newfoundlander. While he was born here, he learned the game elsewhere.

    The same can be said of Keith Brown, who enjoyed a lengthy NHL career, mostly with the Blackhawks. Brown was born in Corner Brook in 1960, but moved off the island when he was two.

    So do you take his 876 games played and 342 points (68-274) and count them among the top Newfoundlanders?

    I’m not so certain.

    To me, the Newfoundlanders in the NHL are the kids who played here, at least through the formative part of their years.

    I consider former NHLer Mark Fitzpatrick – a goalie who played with six teams in a 12 year span – more of a Newfoundlander than Brown. At least Fitzpatrick, whose parents and family all hail from St. Lawrence, spent the better part of his youth in the province, living here from age two until 11.

    That’s longer than Brown or Pichette.

    Granted you have to leave home to advance your hockey career, and any player who has achieved anything in the sport left home to do it.

    But they still learned the game here.

    Brown didn’t. Neither did Pichette.

    Ryder, obviously, did. That’s why he deserves the accolades.

    HABS GET KOVALEV!!!

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    I'm happy that Bob went out and got us a top notch player in Kolalev, but at the same time he is a UFA at the end of the year and I think if the Habs can't re-sign him then giveing up a young player like Balej is a to high of a price for someone that won't be around next season.

    Souray could start skating this week

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    It's been 20 days since Habs blueliner Sheldon Souray crumpled to the ice in Florida. His pain was felt by every Canadiens fan, and an MRI three days later confirmed the injury, which didn't require surgery, but shelved the team's best defenceman for roughly six weeks.

    Tuesday, as the Montreal Gazette reports, if he gets the go-ahead from Canadiens orthopedic specialist Eric Lenczner, Souray will be back on skates for the first time since Feb. 10. He'll test his knee with the close supervision of Scott Livingston, the team's strength and conditioning co-ordinator, whom he's gotten to know well during three injury-riddled seasons here.

    "Out of 10, I'd rate my knee today at 6, maybe 61/2, which is very good," Souray said. "The strength is coming back, and I think I'm way ahead (of schedule). It's tough to say before I start skating, but I feel good and I'm doing a lot of stuff in the gym that maybe they didn't think I'd be doing this early.

    Mcguire on what Gainey's up to

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    Pierre Mcguire on the TEAM 990 was asked about the go ahead Gainey was given to invest significant money on a player before March 9th...

    Here's what he said...Bob Gainey unlike other Gms is very tight liped and never lets anything slip out with regards to his trade talks...Mcguire mentioned that there are other Gms who aren't in the tight lipped category and that he got word from two specific gms that Gainey has spoken to about trades...I guess Mcguire is talking about these two Gms when it comes to the ones who aren't keeping things a secret...

    About Lindros...Mcguire has tremendous respect for Mckenzie and he's very credible...he believes there's something there with regards to Lindros coming to Montreal...he also said it wouldn't cost us much...

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