Vancouver Canucks disagrees with Aaron Rome’s suspension, terms it as a clean hit –NHL Updates
Game 3 might have been one of the most regretful nights of the series for both, Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins, as each lost extremely valuable players in a flash of a second. Nathan Horton and Aaron Rome will not be returning for the remaining games
of the 2011 National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup Finals which has surprised all stake holders.
After a hard hit on Nathan Horton, which sent him out of the stadium on a stretcher and declared unable to play for the remainder of the series due to concussion related problems, Vancouver’s key defenseman, Aaron Rome, was suspended on Tuesday for the remaining
four games.
Mike Murphy, the NHL’s Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations and in-charge of discipline during the Stanley Cup Finals, made the announcement after talking with both teams and the players involved in the incident.
"It was a little bit late, but anybody that's played this game knows that you have to make a decision in a fraction of a second", Canucks’ head coach, Alain Vigneault, said. "He's engaged in the hit. I don't know how the League could come up with that decision
really".
Canucks is very hopeful of Horton’s return, but at the same time it is also wondering why the league would put its foot down on Rome so hard. Canucks blamed the hit on quick decision making since at the time Horton had the puck and suddenly passed it but
Rome was already on his way to tackle him.
"Romer gets killed down in San Jose and nothing happens, and obviously now he laid the hit and he gets four games", Daniel Sedin said about Rome’s injury during the Conference Finals against San Jose. "It's a tough call. I've seen the same kind of hit before
and nothing happens".
Now the decision has been made and both teams can only continue playing. Game 4 will begin on Wednesday at the TD Garden in Boston before the series heads out to Vancouver’s Rogers Arena again for Game 5.
It will be crucial to see how Canucks and Bruins perform without their top players and if the series will make a u-turn or not.
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