Anaheim defender James Wisniewski was injured in Game 3 versus Detroit after taking a Pavel Datsyuk shot to the chest. He left the game and was quickly taken to a nearby hospital and diagnosed with a lung contusion. The controversy the Ducks are whining about is after Wisniewski doubled over on the ice and began to cough up blood.
Head coach Randy Carlyle whined that his player was bleeding because of a Thomas Holmstrom elbow. Now the coach made his whiny post game accusation before knowing the outcome of Wisneiwski's hospital visit. If you look up the symptoms of a lung contusion you'll find;
"Typical signs and symptoms include direct effects of the physical trauma, such as chest pain and coughing up blood..."Wisniewski is quoted as saying “I was kind of out of it he whole time I was skating around. I looked back and I see it was a blatant elbow when I was hunched over coughing up blood, not even battling. So it shows a little bit of a gutless play by one of their players.”
I'll add links to 2 clips of the same play. One is the TSN feed, the other is the Versus feed. The TSN feed reports the shot injured Wisniewski, and Versus makes it sound like Holmstrom hunted him down with sharpened elbows. As for the victim's quote above... Watch these and let me know if you see him "hunched over" and "not even battling"
I'm not denying there was an elbow thrown, but you can see 2 critical things. 1) Wisniewski was injured by the shot. and 2) Holmstrom wasn't even looking at Wisniewski when the elbow was thrown. Even the titles of the videos show complete bias. Thomas Holmstrom takes FAR worse in front of the opposition net every single game.
The difference?? Babcock is a classy coach. Carlyle is like a teacher at summertime. No Class.
BUT, I have to say... the pièce de résistance of all this, was Mike "I play 7 mins per game" Brown jumping in to comment about Holmstrom's elbows. If we look back to game 1, I think he'd be the last person to talk about vicious elbows.
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