You’ve all seen the videos by now or at least if you haven’t seen the video you have surely heard of the incident. If you haven’t seen the video it’s worth a quick look but the camera angle is terrible and you don’t see the violence that brought the game into such disrepute that the infamous ‘Travesty of the Game’ penalty was handed out to two players. Brad Voth and Adam Knight went at it behind the players benches on their way to the dressing rooms after being ejected from the game for an on ice brawl moments earlier. Everyone tried to wade in by climbing the plexiglass behind the benches as punches were traded and even a stick thrown in spear like fashion from ex-Giant Curtis Huppe. It dragged the game into the gutter and the EIHL have handed out bans like they were going out of style.

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News has broke to me that Jason Rushton will not lace up his skates in tonight’s re-match against the Newcastle Vipers due to his instigation of a fight in the final five minutes of a game. This is a rule the NHL brought in a couple of years ago and which the EIHL must have slipped through the cracks sometime since. The upshot means that the Giants enforcer from last night will not take to the ice and will disappoint many of the fans who came out last night and will likely be coming out tonight to see some of the action.

The Giants who will be looking for another two points first and foremost will miss their fighter who last night completely distracted a normally goonish Andre Payette from his game long enough for the Giants to go about winning the game with the space it created. Tonight will be an interesting one to watch with Rushton missing and whether the Vipers will look to extract some revenge on Giants players not quite as interested as Rushton.

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So I am getting ready to head out to the Odyssey Arena for my first Giants game of the year and what will likely only be the first of two I will see this entire season. I flicked onto the KotG forum to see any team news to be hit with the news that Steve Thornton has been handed a two-game suspension for the ‘accidental’ tripping of Curtis Cruickshank against Hull a week ago. Whoever made this decision needs hung from the rafters of the Odyssey Arena. Click below for the video. Read More»

Following Steve Thornton’s game winning goal in the dying seconds of the Blaze’s game against Belfast, Blaze coach Paul Thompson has called the league ‘a joke’ because Thornton was supposed to be serving a nine-match suspension. Thornton had applealed the decision but after two weeks with no appeal heard he was still able to play in the game that he scored the winning goal in to keep the Giants at the top of the Elite League. Read More»

The Elite League allows an appeal process for suspensions to players but they don’t actually have rules to govern appeals. What next? I mean we’ve had the on/off two-referee system and now appeals with no rules to govern them? It all comes off the back of Steve Thornton’s 9-game ban which he is yet to serve as he waits for his appeal to be heard. Interesting though that the cost of an appeal at two-thousand pounds are in place but no rules to govern it exist.

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