27 • Friday, March 26, 2010 OAKVILLE BEAVER • www.oakvillebeaver.com Get off the streets & Head shots must stop. Period. into Friday night youth drop-in programs By Clayton Ward-Theriault Head shots have to stop. change, players like Sidney GRADE 12, T. A. BLAKELOCK There is no room for them Crosby and Alex Ovechkin in hockey. Period. are going to get seriously www.ymcaofoakville.com t’s inevitable – somebody is I’ve heard friends and injured. going to get killed, and acquaintances say, “If head MVP players are much Imillions will see it. shots are gone then hockey too important to their I’m talking about a very is ruined.” In no way is that teams to be lost. WE HAVE MOVED! hot topic in the sports statement true. Let’s be They are leaders and world: head shots in the honest, do you want to see a should not be sidelined NHL. guy lying motionless on the because of deliberate cheap The most recent example ice? Well, I certainly don’t. hits to the head. of this increasingly com- The NHL has no other There is no question that mon ‘contact’, in what is a option, but to make a rule head shots in the NHL have very physical sport, was that bans hits to the head. to stop. Somebody is going repeat offender Matt Cooke’s On HNIC, Don Cherry to get killed. hit on Marc Savard. blasted the NHL and said The NHL has come to the This was a blindside head first time you hit a guy in sad reality that head shots that sidelined the defenceman Anssi Salmela the head, you get a 10-game have become part of the Boston Bruin’s star centre was the victim of another suspension, second time, 20 game. for the rest of the season head shot by another Flyer, games, and third time, What is it going to take to and (if the Bruins you’re suspended for the remove these hits from the Top row from left: Aba Mohamed, Lou Odorico, Mike Tourond, Guyanu Pokharel. Jeff Carter. Bottom row from left: Maggie Balint, Anita Roth, Linda Kraav, Christine Davis. make the playoffs). Salmela only missed two rest of the season. game? This is not the only con- games, however, it could Rule 21.1 of the NHL rule When will the NHL We are now comfortably set in our new office on the 3rd troversial hit that has hap- book states, “A match penal- decide to add a rule to ban Floor at the Hopedale Mall in Oakville. Our new office is have been a lot worse. professional, private and spacious compared to our old pened this year. David All three hits have three ty shall be imposed on any head shots? This week? The accommodations at Diversified Financial Services and Booth was forced to miss things in common. One, player who deliberately Playoffs? This the Can-Am Tax Center. We look forward to taking care of 45 games (four months) they are all head shots. Two, attempts to injure an oppo- summer? Next season? your bookkeeping, tax, preparation and financial planning because of a blind side no penalties were assessed nent or who deliberately That is not up for me to requirements this season, whether you are a new client or a returning customer from Diversified or Can-Am. open-ice head shot by on the play. And three, no injures an opponent in any decide. captain suspensions were handed manner.” Until then, hockey fans Diversifi ed HOPE DALE MALL . If the National Hockey will have to grin and bear it Financial 1515 Rebecca St. Suite 301 out even after further 905-847-0029 Devils League does not make this or stop watching hockey. Services Inc. review by the league. email: [email protected]

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