Adams suspended; Bylsma fined
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Adams suspended; Bylsma fined
Before Brendan Shanahan even gets to his scheduled hearings with Penguins forwards James Neal and Arron Asham, this much we know:
Pittsburgh will be without forward Craig Adams for Game 4 and coach Dan Bylsma's pockets will be a little lighter.
Adams was suspended one game on Monday, a mandatory suspension as per NHL rules for being handed an instigator penalty in the waning moments of Game 3. The rules (46.12, 46.22) stipulate that a player receives an automatic suspension for an instigator call with under five minutes to play in regulation or in overtime.
It's the NHL's way to try and curb games from getting out of hand late.
It didn't work on Sunday.
Bylsma was fined $10,000, also an automatic penalty, since coaches are supposed to be in control of players late in games. His fine money will go to the NHL Foundation.
Adams was simply caught in the middle. He was forced to clean up for Sidney Crosby's dirty business, once Crosby grabbed Scott Hartnell by the back of his jersey and tried to tangle. Adams needed to step in since Crosby does not normally fight. Now, it has cost him a playoff game.
Neal and Asham are scheduled for hearings on Tuesday. Asham's is of the "in person" variety, meaning that he will need to be seen in person by Shanahan at the league's New York headquarters.
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Comments (69)
6 pm Eastern, and still no word on Asham and Neal. Is one of Giroux' cousins married to one of Shanny's? Don't want to look biased...— element_104- Neal got 1 game and Asham received 4 games. Time to close this thing out tomorrow night! — Phlyer00
- my co-worker's sister-in-law makes $41/hr on the computer. She has been without work for 5 months but last month her income was $18485 just working on the computer for a few hours. Here's the site to read makecash30..........— hornQueen
Comment removed.- @steelfan: All those championships and winning can't wash away the horrid taste in your mouth of your Pens being embarrassed on a national stage, can it? You are bitter and who can blame you? Your team is being exposed for the fraud it is. The Pens ducked the Flyers three seasons ago when they tanked games in the regular season; but they couldn't save themselves in the first round this time. Don’t feel too bad though, the Pens just ran into a better team with a better game plan and more heart.— Coop Junior
- one of the biggest disgrace of that game ( notice i said one of) is how a professional, former NHL coach of they year loses total control of his players like that. I for one don't believe he was sending out there to do that. When the chaos broke they were basically going goal for goal, so they where technically still in the game. I say let them try to keep gooning it up as long as none of our players get seriously injured, that means the pens will spending more time trying to bully the flyers (LOL) & less time playing their puck control style of game.
— mos19delta - Fly boys need to humiliate the Pens in game 4. How about 8-1!— amblereagles
- If Neal also gets suspended it's really over. He's their best offensive player in this series— farley
- Neal will get off only with a weak fine. There's no way the NHL is going to remove a 35-goal scorer from the Pens' lineup in an elimination game, even if he richly deserves it.— Snap Crackle Propp
- Brenda Shanahan tosing up a few cookies to distract from Neal not getting a face to face (gee, the video only had him airborn for a moment). Bettman and his cronies are screwing up a great sport playing pick & choose with the ruse.. err... rules.— raoool
- snipesmorris- good one- the sc hattrick— Bobby Danger
- Nowhere else I'd rather be, steelfan. And when I wake up tomorrow, I'll be 5 hours and a chain of mountains away from the yinzers crying into their Arn Cities. We have culture and history; you have ketchup and abandoned steel mills. Enjoy your fading glory.
Did you really misspell Lemieux AND Pittsburgh? Yowzah. Our statues include Dr. J, Wilt Chamberlain (they played pro basketball, which doesn't exist on the wrong side of the Appalachians) and Mike Schmidt, the greatest 3rd baseman ever. We have plenty more too, all real heroes.— Doctor D - Good night Philly, sweet dreams because when you wake up tomorrow, you'll still be in Philadelphia...........— steelfan
- As opposed to being in Pittsburgh? Ive seen people from NY, LA , and Boston talk smack about living here and there are many instances where they have a leg up but Pittsburgh? HAHAHAHAHAHA. Hold on i have to laugh again HAHAHAHAHA. Just keep bringing up the Steelers cause thats all you got man. The only time I stop in Pittsburgh is to take a dump before i get to Chicago. Go 10 mins outside the city and you feel like your In Kansas. Give me a break and go slap buttchecks with Cindy somewhere else ya nitwit — Bob Sacamano
- I wonder if Adams, Asham and Neil are the new Hanson brothers? Crosby is probably "putting on the foil" thinking he is tough.— zombieboy_215
- In Pittsuburg we honor real sports heros with statues, Clemente, Stargell, Lemeuix, Mazeroski. In Philly they have a statue of Rocky Balboa. What's that tell ya? Starved for a winner.— steelfan
- That is FOUR brown paper bags they will be wearing over there heads tomorrow. They will be hiding their faces behind that famous Steel Curtain. Make that Three statues, Lemeuix will probably ask to have his removed. To bring up those MEN in the same breath as that cry baby Crosby is disrespectful to their memory.
— DUDESKINS - That is FOUR brown paper bags they will be wearing over there heads tomorrow. They will be hiding their faces behind that famous Steel Curtain. Make that Three statues, Lemeuix will probably ask to have his removed. To bring up those MEN in the same breath as that cry baby Crosby is disrespectful to their memory. — DUDESKINS
- Let's see we have statues of Dr. J, Kate Smith (sang God Bless America at Flyers games) , Robin Roberts, Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Broadcaster Harry Kalas (the fans paid for this one), Richie Ashburn, and Connie Mack. Typical yinzer about as bright as a bug zapper. — zombieboy_215
- Doctor D, you forgot Rocky. He beat Appolo Creed, Clubber Lang....Oh wait, he was a fictional character. But I'm sure in the minds of Philly fans he was real, very real.— steelfan
- Pity The Fool Penguin Fan ! Clubber, what is your prediction for Wednesday's game? "PAIN" — DUDESKINS
- I can't believe there are Pittsburgh fans on here talking trash with the Flyers on the verge of finally taking out the black and gold trimmed trash.— Bob1
- You left out Smarty Jones and Barbaro... God, I am grasping. That is kinda crappy when it's laid out like that. Ugh.— Doctor D
- I wish we had that mindset, steelfan. We've been conditioned to expect the worst. 10,000 losses, and no Super Bowls has a nasty effect on a city's psyche. You have the envy of the NFL, no doubt about it. And after a mediocre first 25 years, the Pens developed a real place in the NHL. So why don't you expect it from the Pirates? They have a history and a pedigree, and yet they have been mediocre for 20 years.— Doctor D
- Yeah, steelfan, they do. Do you get all warm and fuzzy remembering the glory days of 1903, when the Pirates were good, and Pittsburgh had a purpose? We do too. It's why we get so geeked up about the 1948 Eagles. Wake me up when the Pirates are relevant, or when you become a 4-sport city. Enjoy Oakmont if you can - Cindy and Jenny Malkin have probably already snagged the good tee times.— Doctor D
- Doctor D, Thanks for the kind words. Here's the difference between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. In Pittsburgh, we expect to win. We demand it. And in my life time I've been forunate to have witnessed 2 World Series Championship, 3 Stanley Cups, 6 Superbowls and a Nation Championship in college football (If we want to count Penn State, we can up that number). In Philadelphia, you've accounted for 2 Stanley Cups and 2 World Series and 1 NBA title. That's it. In Philly, your just happy to be there.— steelfan
- You couldn't be more wrong with this statement. As a Philadelphian living in Pitt the difference between us is that we support our teams NO MATTER WHAT. "yinz guys" turn your backs on your team at the slightest sign of adversity. As soon as the team does good again all of a sudden EVERYONE has been a life long fan.
Hey remember when The pens almost ended up in KC becasue they were terrible and couldn't fill the stands until the tanked 3 seasons to lock up some first round draft picks? I do.
All over the radio today you are counting your team out and praising the Flyers (mostly to save face so you don't look like a bunch of hypocrites). Its a good thing you all still have the tags on your Crosby jerseys so you can take them back to Giant Eagle after the bandwagon stops.
Your city thrives on nothing but sports. You manufacture championships becasue you have nothing else. Take away all your titles and what does your city have? Sandwiches with fries on them and sh*ty beer? Nice legacy. What about Philly you ask? Well, for starters, freedom ( see declaration of independence)...Your welcome by the way. - Comment removed.
- It's amazing, the Flyers have played goon hockey since 1967. Philly is finally getting a look at what the rest of us real hockey fans had to put up with when they played the Flyers. Now, all of the sudden, you don't like it. It wouldn't suprise me if the Flyers found a way to choke in this series. It ain't over till the fat lady sings. And Kate Smith is dead (video replays don't count).
As for the Pirates, who by the way took 2 of 3 from Philly, they stink. But they've still have more championships than your Phillies. Did I mention the Philllies have the most losses in MLB history? By the way isn't a philly a young female horse too young to be called a mare. Thought so.
As for having an NBA team, if you want to count the Sixers, well I guess they're in the NBA. The NBA needs door mats too.— steelfan - I'll give Steelfan credit for having the stones to show up here today, unlike most of the yappy yinzers from the Burgh.
That said - the Flyers are playing with house money, bro. They traded away their 2 biggest stars over the summer and lost their captain for the season. As such, they weren't expected to do much. The Pens were the chic choice to win the Cup, and they are being trounced from one end of the state to the other. The Flyers can't choke at this point, as expectations were relatively low for such a young team. The Pens, however... ouch.
Baseball? You wanna bring up baseball? 10,000 losses is ancient history, chief. You want to make fun of the Phils being terrible for the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, go ahead. You have the nicest park in MLB and NO ONE GOES. Because the last time the Bucs were good, I was in high school. The last time they won anything, I was in PRESCHOOL. Don't even bother with that.
The Sixers are mediocre, true; and your team is... oh, what's that? You say you don't even HAVE a team? Why, any self-respecting city has a team. Christ, Sacramento, Memphis and Salt Lake City have teams. That sucks, dude.
And as far as the Steelers go, um... uh... you have a very nice team, sir.— Doctor D - steelfan....Philly has an NBA team and a MLB team...Pittsburgh has neither because Pittsburgh fans are fair weather (rival Atlanta sports fair weather-ism).
Pittsburgh does have the Penguins, however, who sit down to pee, are installing a tampon dispenser in their locker room and are the laughing stock of the NHL (even Canadians fans are pointing & laughing out loud at Pittsburgh now). The Penguins will easily win the NHL's Liberace Award for the most gay team in the league this year.
Steelers are a great franchise. No doubt. But waving towels at an NFL game is, well, NFL Liberace Award worthy. You get the point.— kelprod2 - Where is Gary Bettman's apology for poor officiating in Sunday's game? He was so quick to kiss the Penguins' butts with his mea culpa concerning that missed off-side call on Briere's goal in the first game. No player was put in danger of serious injury because of that. The only thing hurt were the Penguins' feelings. Yesterday, Courterier could have been seriously injured because the officials totally lost control of the game. Bettman has no creditability - PERIOD!— Original #11
- steelfan, you and cindy can share a pacifier and bib— Fast Eddy
- steelfan waited all year and his pens collapsed..He and Cindy have a lot in common— Fast Eddy
- wondering why pens(orpik then crosby) felt the need to say "no one in here is pointing fingers" whats going on over there they may just blow this thimg up after this is over someone will go mark my words— pittsvilleflyer
- steelfan is one of the few frustrated Pen fans that cant admit his team sux and just let it go..— Fast Eddy
- not so fast hockey fans that suspension is evidently not automatic-see malkin vs phi during betmans dream season of 09-not sure think maybe game 2 malkin got a instagator league did not feel it was typical for him no suspension maybe it was detroit not sure little help— pittsvilleflyer
- The Penguins fans' comments in the online Pitt newspaper make it clear that they are totally embarrassed and disgusted at the way the Pens are playing.— Fast Eddy
- Dude, I live out here and I don't buy it for one minute. Pittsburgh has the largest population of flip-flopers in the world. The only reason they are saying this is becasue the realize their team is doing what they have been protesting for years and now they look like a bunch of hypocrites.
Its nothing more than an attempt to save face and appear to leave the series on a high note. I guarantee EVERY pens fan at home watching Sundays game was up out of their folding chair when Neal took a run at both Giroux and Coutier and when Asham cross checked Schen to the throat. - To the people of Philadelphia, enjoy this while you can. Most likely the Flyers will be bounced in the next round. If the do luck out and go far, they'll probably choke like most Philadelphia teams do. Short of the Phillies getting lucky, your sad city has been title starved for years. Even with 19 years of losing the Pirates are still over .500, Your Phillies have the most losses in MLB history, so please no baseball comments. Your Eagles stink. When they win their next Superbowl, they'll only be 5 behind the Steelers. The Sixers? Who cares, if your lucky, maybe a lottery pick. The Flyers, don't worry, they'll choke somewhere in these playoffs. They haven't won anything yet. It must be hell knowing that every day you wake up, you wake up in Philly.— steelfan
- Nobody can choke like the Pens:
2010 - Penguins eliminated in Pittsburgh by the number 8 seed Canadiens.
2011 - Pens blow a 3-1 series lead over Tampa and choke out of the playoffs in the first round.
2012 - Game 1 Pens jump to a 3-0 lead over the hated Flyers, but choke the game away.
Game 2 Pens jump to a 2-0 lead and hold four different leads over Philly, but choke in the end
Game 3 Pens jump out to a 1-0 lead and then draw a power play. They promptly surrender another short-handed goal en route to a humiliating 8-4 loss. - Winning a cup is what this is all about. I applaud Lavi for keeping the guys disciplined and out of the penalty box. We have too much talent and skill for the Pens and no longer need to play our historical style to win. Refreshing change and credit to 17 for masterminding a re-build of this team inside of 1 year. Today's NHL is a finesse league and Homer (despite his credentials as the most rugged right wing this club has ever featured) correctly has built the squad to win given the current rules.— Northcountry
- Cry baby Crosby made this happen. Shanahan should be talking to him too. I guess he thinks he is giving his fans their money's worth. Someone should set him straight. Maybe Wednesday night someone will. Let's go Flyers!— OldSouthPhilly
- Neal should be suspended without question; if not, this league is a farce!!!!!— JBinPA
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- A MUST READ---
Kovacevic: Don't bother showing for Game 4
By Dejan Kovacevic, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, April 16, 2012
Last updated: 12:58 pm
Read more: Kovacevic: Don't bother showing for Game 4 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/s_791501.html#ixzz1sFkyqR9D— paulfromtheoblongtable - Bullies win, Goons lose.........— daisy99
- The next time Lemieux complains to the league office about getting the head shots, and goon play, out of hockey, I hope they send him a tape of game 3 and tell him to clean up his own backyard first.— C-Note
- remember the Montreal series 2 years ago when they sprayed graphite metal shavings mixed with saw dust across the visitor's locker room all the way down the corridor and toward the ice???,...game 3 i believe,....it forced every flyer to abort his first shift of the game to have skates sharpened,....heck, Briere i believe went twice,...or Richards maybe,.....these Penguins are right up with the Canadiens as far as sportsmanship goes,....in some ways its worse cause we expect it from Montreal— SyddBarrett
- Bylsamic role is to simply set the lineup. He's proven he does not know what hockey strategy is. Crosby runs the team - right into the gutter!— jsqrd
- If a player is automatically suspended for instigating in the last 5 minutes than why isn't Crosby suspended? He was the one who actually "instigated" the fight, Adams just got beat up for it— yourdaddy!
- Would love to see Adams slap Crysby around, since he's cost Adams a playoff game. Blysma should also demand Crysby pay the fine. Then again, he probably has no idea there was a scrum there at the end. After all, he did think Asham hit Schenn low on the chest....— C-Note
- Penguin fans are like Cowboy fans...nothing less than complete humiliation is acceptable, resistance is futile. Crosby is the Romo of the NHL and must go down like a French harlot!— BirdinParadise
- You guys need to look at this blog in the Pitts paper...Kovacevic wrote a great column yesterday that people have commented on. It's amazing how many Pens fans have been turned off by their bad sportsmanship.
http://blog.triblive.com/dejan-kovacevic/2012/04/16/wakeup-call-the-art-of-focus/— Mark1npt - Mark: Check out this 2008 article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Gary Roberts punching Johan Franzen in the head:
It's not just that the Penguins are losing badly in the Stanley Cup final, reputations are being lost as well. Unless they want to be remembered for nothing more accomplished than Gary Roberts' awful, chicken-scat cheap shot left hook to the temple of concussion-recovering Johan Franzen.
http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/08148/885120-150.stm
Roberts punches Franzen in the head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSGShYjQX2s - Giroux scored the Gordie Howe Hat Trick yesterday, but what about the newly designated Sidney Crosby Hat Trick, consisting of a dive, crying to the ref, and a sucker punch? Word is Crosby pulls off the "trick" in at least half his games.— snipesmorris
- Crosby dives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7kXHhj8eM
Crosby cries to the ref:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBs1SCgfFJg&feature=related
Crosby sucker punches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wqR17KrLKw - "Adams was simply caught in the middle. He was forced to clean up for Sidney Crosby's dirty business, once Crosby grabbed Scott Hartnell by the back of his jersey and tried to tangle. Adams needed to step in since Crosby does not normally fight. Now, it has cost him a playoff game."
Huh? If all that is true, then maybe Crosby needs to not start things he can't finish. This is as stupid as Crosby's reason for smacking the glove away. They're all responsible for their own actions, they didn't need to do any of it.— jasvic - Shanahan was a ranger and like cindy, is no fan of the Flyers. Expect as much leniency as you would punishment if it was the other way around. That said, I don't see any way he can skate around Neal leaving his feet and Asham's clear intent to injure.— drenner
- I didn't think there was any way Shea Weber could not be suspended. With the NHL, there is always a way — mech820
- How come Malkin never received his suspension for instigating a fight with under 5 to go in a game three years ago?!?! I don't mind the rough stuff or even the cheap stuff, but the inconsistency with the refs and supplemental discipline is mind numbing.— toproveapoint
Since Capt Horsetooth has had concussions this year and to see him push Claude head into the glass, means the knucklehead should not get any special treatment from the league office - he is fair game. Let him pick a fight with Simmonds - HE WON'T- I'm still having a hard time processing the fact that everybody is up in arms about violent, dirty play in a Flyers playoff game, and it's not the Flyers they're up in arms about!— 1980
- it's not the fight,.....it's the double standard,...do you see that? — SyddBarrett
First instinct is to cheer this suspension, however I don't trust the NHL. In the past, they have justified waiving this 'automatic suspension' when the facts allowed. By canning Adams now, it gives Shanny cover to hit Asham with a couple games, then let Neal get off under the guise of "2 Pens already got suspensions so we were tough enough". Adams got hosed by his crybaby captain yesterday, and the league's double standard today. I will be SHOCKED if Neal gets a game.- that was exactly what i was thinking. Neal was the nastiest of all of them and he is going to get off.
- Cindy is a helluva team player...way to hang out your teammates D bag. Grow a pair, stop whining, and maybe you'll get some respect. Webster's definition of a skilled prima donna: See Sid Crosby— glove69
- The Pittsburgh Penguins sit down to pee. I hear they are installing a tampon dispenser in their locker room. Crosby will be first in line to pick up supplies. — kelprod2
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