Elisha Cuthbert’s Boyfriend Is Dangerous
We’ve been too wrapped up with the start of the college football season to pay much mind to ice hockey, but the NHL’s preseason officially hit the radar screen over the weekend courtesy of Calgary Flames’ defenseman Dion Phaneuf.
Who’s he?
Well, in addition to being the boyfriend of Calgary native Elisha Cuthbert, Phaneuf is one of hockey’s rising young stars and one of its hardest hitters. Last Thursday, he showed just how thick he “lays the lumber” with this punishing hit on New York Islanders’ forward Kyle Okposo …
Ouch!
After the hit, Okposo didn’t move for six minutes and eventually had to be carried off the ice on a stretcher. Diagnosed with a mild concussion, he’s fortunate it wasn’t worse.
Ironically, the very next day the NHL announced its “Concussion Awareness Campaign,” which aims to to “raise awareness of the importance of identifying concussions and implementing appropriate management when they do occur.”
Phaneuf’s hit has infuriated the Islanders, but the bruising defenseman has said that it was clean.
Update: Sorry, no word on whether or not Bridget Keeney was at the game …
Comments
By confused on September 21st, 2009 at 7:58 am
ah… hockey season…
By Toyota Kawaski on September 21st, 2009 at 8:28 am
yea real nice thing to do in preseason cant wait for the high stick he gets to the head later this year.
By Mike Reino on September 21st, 2009 at 12:59 pm
That Elisha Cuthbert sure has made the laps aroung the NHL, hasn’t she? Word around Long Island is that the NHL is going to add extra protection exclusively to the Islanders helmets, given their penchant for concussions (Lindros’ brother, Wade Redden, Okposo).. Seems they all recover once they leave crappy Nassau Coliseum. Maybe Phaneuf will send Elisha over to nurse him back to health. I know that’d make me feel better…
By Also_Confused on September 21st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
In addition to being Elisha Cuthbert’s boyfriend… if you’re that biased towards the slop of hollywood why even wrtie an article about hockey? Let alone a Canadian player from a Canadian team? I just…. never mind…
@Toyota, are you suggesting that preseason should only be played at 50% of full capacity? I thought preseason games were used by the coaching staff to evaluate not only potential rookies but also veteran players to determine their pecking order for the beginning of the coming season? I also thought that Calgary had an all new coaching staff and that they pretty much overhauled their team this past summer and that the GM said that everyone from rookies to veterans would be competing to not only make this team but for ice time as well? Are you one of those cute little American ‘hockey’ fans that thinks they know what they’re talking about? Awww, thats so nice… then I guess you don’t know what a good hard, hockey hit looks like. Have a peek at the video embedded in this article and you’ll see what a really good use of the body looks like. Also, you’ll see what hockey players are taught from the time they are very small (9 or 10 years old)…. Never…. ever….. ever….. ever….. ever….. ever….. ever….. ever (you getting the point yet?) skate with your head down. Especially, skating with your head down in the neutral zone (that’s the ice surface in between the blue lines). Okposo was reminded of that. I certainly hope he’ll be fine and it seems he received a mild concussion which is very unfortunate, but to wish that someone Marty McSorley’s Dion Phaneuf is just… well, that just shows a 3 year old mentality. Oh, Calgary won that game too. At the time of the hit it was 3-1 for the Islanders. Not only was the hit a huge one, it was a pretty effective motivation tool for the Flames and a very effective distraction for the Islanders.
By fitsnews on September 21st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
“Also Confused,”
You rock!
-FITS
By Mike Reino on September 21st, 2009 at 3:11 pm
It isn’t easy being an Islanders fan. As a kid chanting ‘1940!’ to all the Ranger fans, I never thought I’d be old enough to have ‘1983!’ yelled back at me – and to have it hurt that much.. Bobby Nystrom seems like 30 years ago. Oh yeah, it was.
By Toyota Kawaski on September 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Also-Confused who gives a shit about hockey besides you and 3 other yankee rednecks from the 51 state.In a real league like the NFL (not to be confused with your states CFL) uses preseason games for rookies and the good players sit after one series or in your toothless wonder language one period but with the popularity of the NHL at an all time high alleged stars must skate all 3 quarters i mean periods plus the 4 halftimes ah! Enjoy hockey night with Sick playing hid the puck as yall rock out to some Quiet Riot in your matching hockey jerseys i mean sweaters.
By confused on September 21st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
wait a second… so the fan of a sport where the men wear tight pants (for no reason), piling on is encouraged, and the play starts with a guy putting his hands into the crotch of a man on all fours is accusing hockey of being gay?
did i follow that correctly?
i’m not canadian, and not even “yankee”, but you’re fighting a losing argument there. cutting through the fancy language, all you’re saying is “we didn’t invent it, so i hate it.” odd for a xenophobe to call someone a redneck. i get it, you don’t like complicated things. perhaps it’s best for you to stick to liking a sport where no one has to think, all the plays are called by someone standing on the sidelines, and action only happens for about 15 minutes a game.
By Toyota Kawaski on September 22nd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Confused i wouldn’t clam Canada either.Enjoy watching your tuff sport on oxygen right after the Murder She Wrote marathon.Tell Barry Melrose and the rest of your state that mullets are not in style unless your a ruff rider from Saskatchewan.Which I’m sure the ruff rider part applies to you