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Posted on 02/22/2005 11:16:08 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
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Hockey coach suspended for offering bounty on rival player
2/22/2005, 10:17 a.m. ET
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Motor City Mechanics coach Steve Shannon has been suspended without pay for the rest of the season for offering his players a $200 bounty to take out Flint Generals forward Kevin Kerr on the ice, United Hockey League Commissioner Richard Brosal said Tuesday.
Brosal said Shannon never admitted to offering the money, but a UHL investigation found that he placed the bounty Feb. 2, when the Mechanics played the Generals in Flint.
A message was left Tuesday morning on Shannon's cell phone. Shannon lives in Sterling Heights.
Brosal said Shannon will miss 24 games. The Mechanics are 17-33-6 and are in last place in the league.
Mechanics President John Tull said Tuesday that former coach Garry Unger will reassume the head coaching job until further notice. Tull said he and the team's owners would meet Tuesday to discuss the situation.
"We regret that Steve's been suspended, but we back the league's decision," Tull said. "Neither the league nor the Mechanics would ever condone headhunting out on the ice."
Tull said Kerr was slightly injured in a clean check in the Feb. 2 game, but no one collected any money from Shannon.
"Nothing ended up happening. Most of the players realized that is not the way to conduct yourself as a professional," Tull said.
Brosal said Shannon won't be automatically reinstated for the 2005 season.
"I would review that again if it came up. We'll just have to wait and see," he said.
Before the game, Kerr criticized National Hockey League players who had joined UHL teams, saying they were taking time from minor league players. Detroit Red Wings Chris Chelios, Derian Hatcher and Kris Draper joined the Mechanics on Feb. 1. More recently, Red Wing Jason Woolley joined the Generals.
Brosal confirmed that the bounty was $200, but said the amount wasn't important.
"I don't care if it was $5. You do not put a bounty on another player's head," Brosal said.
The Mechanics face Flint again in the Detroit suburb of Fraser this Friday.
"We're just trying to put a fire out and ... have a professional, clean hockey game this Friday night," Tull said.
Don't forget Tim "Doctor Hook" McCracken
Anyways, i guess Tonya Harding's bug came and bit this coach huh?
Ping
Old time hockey?
Eddie Shores?
Piss on Eddie Shores!
Put'n on the foil.
A real old school hockey player would have done it for free. Today's athletes are coddled way too much.
Trade me right F**kin now.
could be one of the greatest, most quotable movies of all time. Should be in everyone's DVD collection along with CadyShack and King Pin
"They called us names!"
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Gotta love hockey!
Did he rent an ambulance?
In ice hockey they're a little friendlier about it, if you can't stop the puck stop the man.
Correct. Comments like Kerr's are best left to the players themselves to do the policing. The coach should have known enough to keep his trap shut. Now it is possible that what was said in the room didn't remain in the room, and that is never good.
If anything, he now has more time to play with the slot cars.
Hockey question: If you've got Gary Unger around, why would hire Steve Shannon?
Boy, could Unger skate.
It was real cool when Jimmy Hart & Andy Kaufman put the bounty on Jerry Lawler's head, and guys came in from other regions to collect.
Oldschool wrestling was so cool!
I could never figure out why the Polish Hammer was so devastating. Now the camel clutch...that was devastating.
Figure 4 leg lock was also a favorite.
Do you know if Jake the Snake is dead now? I knew he had a huge crack problem.
Yes those moves were awesome!
I think Jake is still among the living - rent the 'Beyond the Mat' DVD for some genuinely creepy insights into The Snake.
Yes those moves were awesome!
I think Jake is still among the living - rent the 'Beyond the Mat' DVD for some genuinely creepy insights into The Snake.
I saw that and that is why I asked. He really looked like a hollow shell of what he once was. The whole thing with his demand for crack or he wouldn't do the interview was strange. I guess with the stuff his family went through, he has the right to be strange.
Rowdy Roddy is still one of my favorites of all time.
The fight scene in his movie "They Live" was used for the cripple fight scene in South Park.
He should sit in the penalty box and feel ashamed. :^)
Haha! South Park 'lost me' a while back and wasn't aware!
I prefer oldschool wrestling to modern incarnations!
LMAO!!!!!!!! Too Funny!
"Dave's a Killer!"
"Dave's a mess"
"You can't put a bounty on a man's head!"
"Dunlop you suck c---!"
"All I can get."
Chiefs radio announcer interviewing Carlson:
"You know I was watching some little kids playing hockey the other day, cute little guys, and this one kid says 'I'm Dave Killer Carlson.' Well he just goes and beats that other kid to a pulp, I bet that must make you feel proud Dave."
"The next motif is being displayed by Cheifs defensman Billy Carlson who hails from, if I can read this correctly, MooseJaw, Saskatchewan."
"You better keep an eye on that boy of yours...by the looks of him, he'll be $u##ing #oc@ before you can say Jack Robinson!"
"Reg that reminds me...I was coaching in Omaha in '48 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy who was a terrible masturbator. He'd get deliberate penalities just so he could get over in the penalty box all by himself and damned if he wouldn't...un un un un...what was his name?...un un un un un"
Like I said, Slap Shot has to be one of the most quotable movies of all time.
Anyone dared to watch Slap Shot 2? I hear it makes CadyShack 2 look like an Oscar winner.
The only way they could have made it better was add a monkey to the cast.
""You know, your son looks like a fag to me. You better get married again or he's gonna wind up with a @#^# #% #@^ @&### before you can say Jack Robinson" - Reggie Dunlop
Slap Shot 2 has its moments. Pretty good basic plot (Chiefs sold to be the equivalent to the Washington Generals in a new clean Harlem Globtrotters on ice thing), got the Hansons, some pretty good jokes, some excellent callback jokes to the first one. Of course there's no way to re-combine the magic of the first movie, but it's a better hockey movie than any of the Mighty Ducks.
You were close. #@^## in his mouth before you can say Jack Robinson.
so is this a MITE team or what...? ; )
This is UHL - two steps below NHL.
my son plays at the Bantam level and i tell you, i can EASILY see this happening, with some of the teams he plays!
Slapshot ping.
Aren;t you a piece of work.
DU called... they're missing an idiot.
Wow, I never knew that Buddy Ryan was coaching hockey...
Do you recall what you wrote?
DON'T answer! :)
I know he couldn't fight worth a darn. NY Islander Goalie Billy Smith beat Ungar's pretty boy arse at center ice one year. It was embarassing, no one stepped in to help the poor pretty boy. Imagine getting your ass kicked by a freakin goalie.
Only thing worse would be Gretzky rubbing knots on your dome or a figure skater pole axing you with a karate kick. Wait, that happened to Lindros 8^)
Goalies are all wierd, this guy was even stranger.
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