Filed under: NHL Fans, NHL Discipline
It appears as if NHL discipline czar Colin Campbell has some explaining to do. Mc79hockey blogger Tyler Dellow posted a series of e-mail conservations between Campbell and former director of officiating Stephen Walkom on Sunday night that leave open a number of questions regarding favoritism and bias for and against players in the NHL. The e-mails were originally evidence submitted by former NHL official Dean Warren in October, 2009, while disputing his termination by the league.
The e-mails, which have had the individual players and team names removed, paint a bizarre picture of Campbell referring to one player (whom after piecing together all of the evidence appears to be Bruins center Marc Savard, a player that Campbell coached with the New York Rangers) as "that little fake artist" and the "biggest faker going."
It's worth pointing out that when Savard was on the receiving end of a vicious blindside hit from Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke (which led to an NHL rule change eliminating east-west blindside hits to the head ... well, making them illegal, anyway) there was no supplemental punishment from the NHL. Perhaps it's a coincidence, and perhaps it's not.
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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2010/11/15/colin-campbell-e-mails-raise-questions-about-favoritism-bias-in/
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