Nope.

You can add me to the yes column. That was low and dirty. Of course, if you are into that, so be it. (shrugs)

Watching the post game interviews with the Blue Jackets’ players, you can tell they didn’t just lose the game, they were embarrassed. It all started with the first two goals, and was heightened Chimera’s face plant. He was still pouting about it after the game. They came in confident and sure of getting into first place in their division, and left dismantled and embarrassed by the Kings.

I think the NHL will fine Scuderi, but I don’t think it was intentionally dirty. The rule says that the player should get called if he lowers his body to hit at or below the knees. Technically Scuderi hit Chimera’s thigh, but I’m sure the “supposed” intention of Scuderi aiming for the knees is what the NHL will look at.

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Scuderi’s not generally a dirty player that I know of, but this one wasn’t one of his finer moments. I was watching this game last night on Center Ice, and it sure looked like a clip (rule #45 in the NHL rulebook). Scuderi’s lucky he wasn’t sent to the showers for this one – clipping is a minor penalty, major if the guy is injured (which Chimera was), and the major comes with an automatic game misconduct.

That said, Dorsett was a RETARD for jumping off the bench on this one. This is one of those situations where a player on the bench takes names and numbers and comes calling later – repeatedly. If you’re on the ice and that’s your teammate taking that hit, yeah your gloves and stick hit the ice and instigator be damned.

*I’ll always remember a Kings game a while ago where Marty McSorley got a penalty for slew footing. They zoomed in on him as he went to the penalty box and I read his lips as he said, “What the fuck is slew footing?” I ask myself that sometimes.

I said that same exact thing last week, when I read that Artyukhin was suspended for slew footing. I know now, only because I looked it up.

The Scuderi hit, I don’t know, looked clean to me. I think it’s unfortunate that the guy landed on his face, but it looked clean to me. Either way, I don’t think it was his intention to injure the guy.

Scuderi’s not a repeat offender like Artyukhin is, so I say no. It was a pretty bad hit, but I think Chimera just got unlucky.

i think he misjudged it though and didn’t actually mean to hit him at that angle

doesn’t mean the hit was dirty or even low. The reason people react to this as though it were “dirty” is that Chimera landed awkwardly. But check it out: it can’t be dirty if it’s not intentional, by definition, and you can’t intend to hit somebody on the knee with your ass. Or with your hip. It’s not possible. Chimera is EMBARRASSED because not only was he hip-checked in a highlight reel fashion that is going to be played forever on youtube to his eternal shame, but he landed horribly. I’ve hip-checked people dozens of times and taken a few (though neither in the last twenty-five years) and the idea that someone could intentionally try to take out someone’s knee with a hip check never occurred to me. Frankly it sounds like you would be sticking your ass where it might get hurt. But that’s just me. I think Chimera’s whining about the hit being dirty is just his attempt to stave off the inevitable humiliation at the hands of youtube which is his reward for all of this.

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I remember people bitching about Vladimir Konstantinov’s hip checks back in his day too for being low. It was a bit low, and I would be pissed if it was a King, but it’s not a penalty. Chimera needs to grow a pair and just try to fight Scuderi next game, not whine to reporters.

From TwitterLand:

Campbell just told us on hnic radio that scuderi was fined today for chimera hit.

So it looks like no suspension.