Flyers' Harry Zolnierczyk Suspended Four Games for Charging

[Flyers967]

4 games....bull****. What about alfredson's cross check trouble the face? He deserves a hearing, but we all know that since he is a star player, he will get nothing. Shanahan is a ****ing joke.

[slashtrey]

I predicted 3 games. I'm really not surprised. Who's gonna take his spot? I know Shelley is on IR. Is his career over?

[IcePlayer]

I thought the hit was worth of suspension, maybe not 4 games but he left his feet none the less. That being said, if Chris Neil would have done that to Harry Z it would have delighted me, but wouldn't have disagreed with a ban either.

Alfie's cross check should be looked in to I agree, but lets be honest it's a 1 gamer if anything, and I don't think anyone else would get anymore.

[acdcrocksno1]

Bull****, every hit is going to look dirty when you slow it down to a million frames a second, he left his feet a fraction of a second before hitting him.

I'm not sure with Shanahan to hate him for handing out the ridiculous suspensions if they are actually all his idea, you'd have thought he'd understand a hockey play or whether to hate him for being a puppet for the league

[hockey doc]

4 games was the correct call, but they should have been divided up evenly. Two games for Harry Z for the hit and two games for Lundin for having his head down when Rinaldo and HZ are on the ice. Lundin is lucky Rinaldo didn't get to him first.

[caps87]

Looks like youth coaches wont have to teach keep your head up anymore. Head down has become a great way to draw penalties on good hits.

This is crap to me. He leaves his feet maybe a split second before contact. I can make any hit look bad if I slow it down enough. Z did what you're supposed to do: blow the guy with his head down up. I can see a penalty for the charge but four games is stupid.

It also doesnt help that he got tossed against the Caps recently. Rescinded or not, theres no way Shanahan just forgot about that.

[D Y B FLYERS]

4 isn't surprising to me, as it is about what I was expecting, but it is a bit much. I would have gone with 2 games. Shanny really forgets where he came from and how the game was played, but like I said I am not surprised anymore.

[NewNHLHater]

So you can blatantly elbow a guy to the head and get two games but steam roll a guy with an over agressive check and get 4?? More inconsistency from Shanahan.

[Oil Can Henry]

...quite frankly, I found it very hard to discern if, in fact, the hit was legal or a punishable offense -- it certainly wasn't dirty and in my estimation wasn't worthy of a major if it indeed was a penalty at all.
In NO WAY was he "targeting" the head -- he WAS however making sure to drive his hip into the offensive player,...that much is clear. If you want to say his skates were off the ice and he launched himself,...I won't argue with that because I'm sure the disciplinary commission countlessly reviewed the tape over-and-over in an effort to justify their decision -- but, PLEASE --- don't confuse "driving" oneself into an opponent with "launching" -- that's a HUGE and SIGNIFICANT differance.
I know Shanahan is hell-bent on his Crusade to clean-up hockey,...but save it for the obvious, blatant dirty-acts that deserve fines and suspensions.