Corey Perry Suspended Four Games

[HardHitt3n]

NEW YORK - Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry has been suspended for four games, without pay, for elbowing Philadelphia Flyers forward Claude Giroux during the third period of NHL Game #564 Friday night, the National Hockey League announced.

Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and based on his average annual salary, Perry will forfeit $114,516.12. The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.

Perry will miss Anaheim's game against Phoenix Jan. 4, the home-and-home series against Los Angeles Jan. 6 and 8, and versus Tampa Bay Jan. 9. He will be eligible to return Jan. 11 against New Jersey.

[shaud19]

Can anyone find a video of this? Can't seem to find one...

[Sukoshi84]

i was waiting for this...... knew it was gonna be atleast 2 games, a Blatant elbow.

[taylormade4]

Originally Posted by Sukoshi84

i was waiting for this...... knew it was gonna be atleast 2 games, a Blatant elbow.

...and the cheap shot on Gagne got nothing?

[ScottRasner]

Good, little cocksucker needs to learn a lesson, cant stand the way he plays, let alone fight.

[Phillyfan11]

Oh great, Shaud19 is here and ready to cry foul that this was a suspension and Gauthier got nothing...

I saw the "bo" and it was pretty blatant. wasn't even a case of him getting his arms up on a hit or anythign. Giroux was driving to the net and Perry on the back check went and just elbowed him in the head. They called it a high stick but the replay shows that Perry did it intentionally. He looked right at his head before throwing it. Not sure why he was throwing the elbow either.

I do know that Knuble and Getzlaf got tangled up earlier in the game and Getzlaf was p'd at Knuble so maybe he thought Giroux was Knuble and was getting payback? Either way, its unfortunate it happend in the third or else I'm certain Richards and Perry would have had a date.

I'm not sure 4 games is necessary. In my mind 2 would have been suffice enough.

[xELi]

great! never thought he would get a suspension. What he did was very ugly. The elbow of elbows.

[NickDoh]

perry's always been a little dirty, glad to see this. right amount of games too. send a little message to him to clean up his game. prongers rubbing off on him a little too much i guess.

[thepolishkid88]

Damnit! I need him for fantasy hockey! ****ING BETTMAN!

[icehockeychick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrr1...layer_embedded

If that doesn't work the video is called "Corey Perry elbows Claude Giroux". It was a well deserved suspension and was deemed the appropriate amount of games.

[Gunslinger]

Thanks icehocheychick(a newbie!). Cheap play, deliberate to the head, well after the play. Deserving of 4 but I am surprised he got that many, that fast. I wonder if the Sanderson tragedy helped"speed things up"?. Rough, tuff hockey is great(or else none of us would be on this site,duh!) but this sort of thing is'nt. Any word on how Giroux is?

[Isles4life]

Now that I've seen the clip, that was definitely a deliberate elbow to the head by Perry, and it warranted discipline from the league. Any word on if Giroux was injured on the play? Because if he wasn't, than this is more inconsistency by the league when it comes to their headshot crackdown. They give Perry 4 games, yet when a flying elbow from Mottau directly causes a 3 month injury for Frans Nielsen, he gets 2 games. Either way, the league needs to create a precedent and stick to it for this kind of disciplinary action, because they've been all over the place so far.

[Flyers2001]

Originally Posted by Isles4life

Now that I've seen the clip, that was definitely a deliberate elbow to the head by Perry, and it warranted discipline from the league. Any word on if Giroux was injured on the play? Because if he wasn't, than this is more inconsistency by the league when it comes to their headshot crackdown. They give Perry 4 games, yet when a flying elbow from Mottau directly causes a 3 month injury for Frans Nielsen, he gets 2 games. Either way, the league needs to create a precedent and stick to it for this kind of disciplinary action, because they've been all over the place so far.

Giroux returned to the game, but he is not playing tonight. Woke up woozy, possible concussion.

[Isles4life]

Originally Posted by Flyers2001

Giroux returned to the game, but he is not playing tonight. Woke up woozy, possible concussion.

If it is a concussion, that makes it more legitimate to give Perry 4 games, but the league still needs to be more consistent on this issue.

[Snipes19]

Originally Posted by ScottRasner

Good, little cocksucker needs to learn a lesson, cant stand the way he plays, let alone fight.

Agreed. I hate Perry. He's a cheap player who pulls a ton of horse-sh*t moves, so it's about time he got suspended.