Penn State's Sturtz suspended for one game

What a joke, B1G hockey has been a complete disaster. I wish we still had the CCHA.

To anybody who says the hit looks like Sturtz tried to avoid collision (as JUB did on Twitter): No. If you played hockey (yes I'm pulling this one out, but not for the usual reason of "yer not tough enough to understand"), you can see that if Sturtz wanted to avoid the hit, he would have skated to the right, toward the boards, and missed Motte (or just, you know, stopped... a D1 college hockey player can stop on a dime).

Motte was clearly coming into the corner, turning toward Sturtz's left. Sturtz has the opportunity to either stop or simply veer right, avoiding collision. Instead, he jumps in the air and extends an elbow straight up through Motte's head. If he didn't intend it to be as brutal, he still intended the hit.

Should have been the rest of the year.

Yep, watched it live. Definitely a dirty play that deserves more than 1 game.

Fuck Penn State.

And Big Ten officials STILL don't know what targeting is. Sport apparently doesn't matter.

This is the exact type of hit that not only college, but the NHL is trying to get taken out the game. Left his feet, elbow out, head is inital point of contact. One game suspensions arent enough. Its an extremely dangerous hit as you can see by the result.

This hit literally checks every box in the dirty checklist (lines him up, strides into him, leaves feet, leads with elbow, contacts head).  One-game suspension is a joke.

but Sturtz goes to Penn State and hasn't had a dirty hit in over 24 hours, so the NCAA reduced it to one game.

Both this and the Cutler Martin suspension were too weak by a factor of 4.

FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS!  

Jim Hackett needs to go to WAR over this bullshit!  If launching and pile driving an elbow in a guy's face = a 1 game penalty what is chopping their fuckin head off with a stick?  2?

One game is way too lenient.

Oh, it's Penn State?  They should reduce it to one period and apologize for besmirching Success with Honor.

I think it's fair. Intent or not, it's an illegal hit and absolutely deserves a suspension, for which the standard is usually one game.

I don't think I've ever seen a guy get more than one game unless they were repeat offenders (looking at you Downing) or did something Conboy/Tropp level. You an argue whether that is enough or not, but it is definitely consistent with what I've seen the past couple years when I've noticed suspensions.

I thought the Martin/Dancs suspensions were appropriate too. Dancs got the one he should have gotten in the first place and Martin got one that comes standard with a DQ and one extra for striking through an official. (Despite the outrage over the punch itself, I am thinking it likely the extra game was given for continuing after the official tried to separate them. That OSU guy had retribution coming for what he had done just prior to that whether it was then and there or later this year and I think the punch itself was probably recognized as coming with the DQ he got anyway)

Note, of course, that I am not counting the extra game they got that was applies for the U18 game. Really doubt those extra games happen if our next game hadn't been an exhibition and I think that was really more of an opportunity to make the punishment look more severe to try and prevent it from happening again between them later.

in its severity and intensity.   next time we would play a guy like that he'd have to keep his head on a swivel or risk losing it.  vicious retaliation.

This was one of the worst hits I've seen, much worse than any of the countless hits Downing has been suspended for.  It should have been two games minimum, and maybe more.  However, Penn St. is playing Minnesota this weekend and any Minnesota losses are very helpful to Michigan in the standings.  I can live with the one game suspension because of that.

The incident was a joke from start to finish. First, the on ice officials gave Sturtz 2 minutes for roughing and 5 minutes for interference.  The more accurate penalty would have been 2 minutes for interence and 5 minutes for elbowing contact to the head.  Sturtz's hit had all the indicia for intent to injure - direct contact to the head, left his feet, and strode into the hit.  Should also have received a game DQ.  Suspension should have been 3 games.   It's really hard to understand logically  what the B1G did here, except to conclude it has different standards for players on different teams.