Simon Says, "Suspend Me For Life"

Really, I mean, how in the world do you not learn from a 25 game suspension? Oh, right, you're Chris Simon.

I understand that hockey is a game where emotions run wild, and we all do stupid things. I've done dumb stuff, but what possesses people to go crazy like Chris Simon? He's going to end up killing someone if the League doesn't do something about him. Havlat's kick garnered him a 5 game suspension, but Havlat was down on the ice. Simon just wanted to hurt Ruutu. Hopefully Colin Campbell will not take the "no injury" approach and go lightly. Simon has been suspended 7 times, for a total of 40 games. His last was for 25 games, and he's clearly not learned his lesson only 26 games back from that one. He's played in 770 games, and served 40 suspension games. So, for a total of 810 games available to play, he's been suspended for 5% of that. Five freakin' percent of his career has been suspensions.

At least the Isles put Simon on 'leave' so he can gather his little remaining sanity and get help. I have a feeling he didn't suggest this himself.

Breakdown of his suspensions:

• 25 games for a high stick on Ryan Hollweg
• 2 games for kneeing Sergie Zubov
• 2 games for cross checking Ruslan Fedotenko
• 2 games for elbowing Anders Eriksson
• 1 playoff game for cross checking Peter Popivic
• 3 games for verbal commentes directed at Mike Grier
• 5 games for slashing Dennis Vial

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