Sam Bennett Breaks Silence and Defends Himself After Brutal Hit on Anthony Stolarz
Sam Bennett tried to play innocent when he explained his actions from Monday night, as the league also decided that he did nothing wrong.
While the NHL does its best to preach about player safety, they seem to do very little in the sense of actually following through with that. Perfectly content with allowing Sam Bennett to hit Anthony Stolarz so hard he falls ill, one wonders what's going on.
Well, for Bennett, he thinks he's just playing hockey.
Reaching out to Anthony Stolarz last night, Bennett tried to make amends, but the bizarrely tried to play innocent and act like what he did wasn't wrong.
I heard that he went to the hospital last night and Stolie's a good friend of mine. Reached out to him and he responded.
Never want to see an injury like that. From my point of view I'm just taking a puck to the net I didn't even know we made contact until after.
Never want to see an injury like that. From my point of view I'm just taking a puck to the net I didn't even know we made contact until after.
Perhaps Bennett should think twice about laying in an elbow and his not realizing he made contact is a bit egregious.
NHL Needs To Do Better At Protecting Players Before Serious Injury
You can clearly see as Bennett shifted toward the central part of the net, he stuck his arm out and essentially jaw-jacked him but in the side of the head instead.
The biggest problem about this whole thing though isn't Bennett's innocence act, or Paul Maurice trying to say that Florida playing dirty is the same as playing hard.
It's the NHL's brazen and blatant favoritism when it comes to punishing Toronto, or allowing their opponents to get away with everything.
How can you punish one incident (on the same team no less) but then turn around and do nothing?
The goaltender gets stretchered out after exhibiting serious concussion symptoms and you think the best response is to say "Oh well, better deal with it?"
Wake up NHL, this is going to get a player seriously injured and could affect their livelihood for the rest of their existence.
So it's time the NHL does a better job an policing and protecting their players.
Otherwise we're going to go back to the players policing things, and we know how ugly that can end up being.
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MAI 6 | 1420 ANSWERS Sam Bennett Breaks Silence and Defends Himself After Brutal Hit on Anthony Stolarz Do you think that Sam Bennett is remorseful or not for hitting Anthony Stolarz? | ||
| Hs Is! | 199 | 14 % |
| He Isn't! | 1221 | 86 % |
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