Vancouver Canadian defender Aaron Rome has been given a suspended four games by the NHL today, the first episode hit Boston forward Nathan Horton Stanley Cup Game 3 on Monday night.
The decision, which means that Rome will miss the rest of the Cup final, was announced in early afternoon after a 20-minute hearing with the league.
Hours before the hearing, issued a statement saying that Horton Bruins would miss the rest of Cup finals with a "severe concussion."
"Two factors were considered in making this decision," said Mike Murphy, vice president, chief operating officer of NHL hockey today in a press release "The coup in Rome was clearly beyond what is acceptable in terms the time it was issued after Horton was released on record and caused major damage. "
Roma will miss the rest of the series Stanley Cup final. In the event that the series ends before Game 7, the suspension will be deferred until the start of the regular 2011-12 season.
Rome Horton hit was late and appeared to catch the Bruins wing in the jaw. Horton fell immediately to the ice and stayed there for several minutes when treated with a number of medical staff and trainers.
It was finally moved on a stretcher with wheels ice and transported to a Boston hospital.
Rome through the release of the Canucks' injury had to say about Horton.
"I want to express my concern for the welfare of Nathan and we wish him a prompt and complete recovery. I'm trying to play this game with honesty and sincerity. As someone who has experienced this type of injury, I am very conscious of the gravity and the second player does not want to experience. I do not focus away from my teammates' task at hand and the intention to speak at the appropriate time in the future. "
Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said he and the team disagrees with the decision of the league.
"We hope the young man discovers that his health is most important," said Vigneault. "Aaron is not a dirty player, was never, never. He was beaten that unfortunately has gone wrong.
"In my opinion, this is not the right call."
Boston coach Claude Julien said that the League supports the decision to suspend four games in Rome, but said he also supported the NHL, when they decided to kill in Vancouver forward Alex Burrows, and Game 1 of the accident bite.
"I want to leave things up to the NHL to resolve these issues and move," said Julien. "I do not want the job to be honest with you. It 's a tough job and I am one of the coaches about what they do. Humans, who are now disappointed with the Burrows case, I moved here, and we have taken a decision, and I think it's important for our whole season to protect players in these games.
"If you agree or not, who support them. I placed my Burrows decision, and I support him too."
suspension means or Rome or rookie Chris Tanev Keith Ballard will be inserted in the lineup for Game 4 Wednesday night. The Canucks are already wounded, without defender Dan Hamhuis and Rome had completed Hamhuis with Kevin Bieksa defensive stop in the pair of Vancouver.
But the loss of Horton, who played with David Krejci and Milan Lucic of Boston, in the first row is a significant loss of the Bruins. Horton had not done much in the series, but already in the playoffs was Game 7 of the two winning goal in Boston.
Michael Ryder and Horton completed the rest of the game 3
Murphy met with reporters in Boston in the early afternoon to explain his decision.
"Probably, like most of you seen," said Murphy. "I thought it was a hit late, I thought that the body contact, but I also thought that his head was hit and caused serious injuries to Nathan Horton So the key factors behind the blow, and stood by me another late. - We're out of their own formula in (activities), NHL and late hits - and it was late and we saw the seriousness of the injury with Nathan on the ice.
"That's basically what we discussed. We tried to compare with some of the others in the past, but it is the only one, and that's why we made the decision."