Conboy leaves MSU, Tropp's future still 
not certain

The loss of Conboy is minimal at best. He had 80 PIM and 5 points this year. It makes the end of this season a bit more difficult without any extra bodies around, but the team will be better off without him next year.

Tropp should stick this out (no pun intended) and stay on with the team. He has never had an incident like this in the past, I just hope he can push through mentallly to remain an improving hockey player.

Where’s the consistency from Comley?

Earlier this season in 2008, some MSU hockey players left a party (drinking involved?) then returned (premeditation) with an additional player or two. The resulting scuffle gave an MSU hockey player a broken jaw and some MSU football player face charges. Were there any hockey team suspensions in this instance?

What happened at the U-M game was “in the heat of battle” which is always played up (i.e., battle) by the media and coaches every time any MSU team plays U-M.

Comley actually took responsibility for his actions! Finally.

This is a typical hockey overreaction. Plays like this happen all the time. If Kampfer gets right back up, it’s a two or five minute penatlty. Maybe a game and a suspension since it was late in the third period. Instead he lays on the ice and goes to the hospital (probably more as a precaution because of his previous injury from a football player) and these two guys get suspended for the rest of the year. I also doubt Comley would suspend them for this long if MSU wasn’t in last place.

So Andrew Conboy gets kicked out of school just like big brother, Tim Conboy, got kicked out of St. Cloud State in 2004. The Conboy family must be so proud!

@ Overreaction: So what, we wait for Tropp to two-handed slash an unconscious player and cause some good old fashioned devastating injuries before taking action? Plays like this absolutely do not happen all the time. If it did, there would not be so much talk about it. Putting Tropp on the ice against Michigan next season would be a recipe for bad blood and even further violence and potential for injury. No one wants to see that.

The only reason people are talking about this so much is simply because it was between players in the biggest rivarly in college hockey. This would be old news if it were anyone else. Everyone knows what happened was a cheap shot on MSU’s part. But please don’t pretend like UOM isn’t stretching this.

I would agree wtih geez. It’s as if no one has seen a hoceky game before. Uh, this is not something new. Uncalled for, yes, but not new. They are not bad kids, it was frustration that took over. Again, wrong, yes, but Comley made the right choice supported by the CCHA. MSU Hockey is a strong program with alot of fan support. This is definately a year I am sure all are looking forward to putting behind and ready for Oct 2009. With that said, I would say get over it. It’s a done deal. Kampfer is playing this weekend, so he could not be hurt as bad as he portrayed himself.

This is a re-occuring theme with Conboy. He needs to be mentally evaluated by a professional. This type of activity goes back to high school. Good riddance. And,no, this is not “part of the game”.
I hope you clowns who think the suspension was too much have kids play against idiots like this someday. You’ll change your tune quick!

First time someone’s been jobbed in Michigan in 18 months.

Corey Tropp appears to be heading back to Junior’s for the remainder of the season. I think that is a good move on his part, stay in school and still play hockey so you don’t lose your edge. Should help to get back on the team come fall…

http://www.sfstampede.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=652&Itemid=2

Tropp went back to his junior A team in Sioux Falls. He still gets to keep his scholarship @ MSU, and who knows, maybe he’ll be back if Comley lets him? I hope so. I think his punishment was too harsh, but I understand hockey has to abide by their zero tolerance policy.

Look, I’m the Hockey God, I know whats up. This play was legit, and Skapanzy-plays like this DO happen all the time. In last nights NHL games alone I saw 4 knee to knee hits that not only weren’t called, but went completely unacknowledged. Maybe if all the UM guys weren’t changing their tampons they would have had Kampfer’s back. How do 2 MSU players jump 1 UM guy, and the next UM player you see shows up 35 seconds later when the refs are on site. PU-LEEESE. UM, Grow a pair. Tropp, as a Sabres fan I think you should dump the scrub league and take your pro contract. There’s a nice warm seat in Portland Maine waiting for you brah.

First of all, a couple days after the hit, Kampfer was saying he was okay, and it wasn’t that bad, and he hoped to be playing again soon.

In terms of overreaction – this doesn’t happen all the time. The last time something like this happened in hockey, it was Todd Bertuzzi. Punching Kampfer from behind was the same thing that happened with Steve Moore. Luckily for Kampfer, Conboy and Tropp, the damage wasn’t as bad because there was no huge pileup that ensued.

DJ you need to get your facts straight before posting BS… Earlier this season it was actually football players that came to a hockey party, left and then returned with more players that caused the fight. THAT is why no suspensions were given then.

Fighting is part of the game. Cheap shot? Yes. But anyone that plays knows that things like this happen and accept these consequences. I wouldn’t even give suspensions.