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Mike Ribeiro Slashes Chris Osgood In The Chest
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Mike Ribeiro Does Everything He Can To End Dallas' Season Early
5/11/08


If Mike Ribeiro was looking to completely bury the Stars' chances of coming back in this series, I'd say he did it last night when he stupidly decided to slash Chris Osgood across the chest after the final horn sounded.

Ribeiro and the Stars are claiming that Osgood butt-ended Ribeiro near the eye during one the last mad scrambles in front of the net, but so what? That doesn't entitle you to take a baseball swing to a guy's chest after the final horn sounds. Although if you could do that, it would officially make hockey the awesomest sport ever.

There's little consensus on how long Ribeiro will be suspended for, but the likely scenario is one game. Losing Ribeiro would be a major blow to the Stars, of course. He leads them with 15 points in the playoffs and has 12 assists.

So I guess the only question now is who's going to face Detroit in the Finals?

UPDATE: Here's a good angle of Osgood's cheap shot on Ribeiro courtesy of Deadspin. It was definitely a cheap shot. Although that doesn't excuse what Ribeiro did. By the way, I meant to mention this before, but nice acting job Osy.


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I just had to say that while Ribeiro was completely in the wrong in taking that swing at Osgood no matter what the reason that Osgood did the typical goalie thing that as soon as he felt anything touch him he hit the ice as hard as he could. All I'm trying to say is that if I were the ref and this happened in regulation it would simply be offsetting minors with Ribeiro going for slashing and Osgood for diving. The amount of padding a goalie has there he can stick his chest in front of a hundred mile an hour shot but that little slash makes him go down like he had a shotgun to the chest, Ribeiro wasn't even able to get a full windup in as he had a red wing with his hands around him.

Overall they're both to blame and I wouldn't be suprised if Ribeiro ends up with either no suspension or a single game.  The whole seeing who has the bigger crank shaft after the play and after the games has never mad any sense to me just play the game as hard as you can while its going and avoid the pissing matches after the play.
 
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I just had to say that while Ribeiro was completely in the wrong in taking that swing at Osgood no matter what the reason that Osgood did the typical goalie thing that as soon as he felt anything touch him he hit the ice as hard as he could. All I'm trying to say is that if I were the ref and this happened in regulation it would simply be offsetting minors with Ribeiro going for slashing and Osgood for diving. The amount of padding a goalie has there he can stick his chest in front of a hundred mile an hour shot but that little slash makes him go down like he had a shotgun to the chest, Ribeiro wasn't even able to get a full windup in as he had a red wing with his hands around him.

Overall they're both to blame and I wouldn't be suprised if Ribeiro ends up with either no suspension or a single game.  The whole seeing who has the bigger crank shaft after the play and after the games has never mad any sense to me just play the game as hard as you can