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Making big hits and open ice checks cool again! This is what I’d do if I were head of player safety with my own standard. Contributor for Heavy Hockey Network.
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Tough Call would suspend Sam Bennett (Florida Panthers) seven games for high sticking on Brad Marchand (Boston Bruins).
Here’s my breakdown.
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@NHLPlayerSafety
Tell me Tkatchuk didn’t charge and launch prior to contact on this head shot.
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Ovechkin didn’t win a Cup for like 13 years and 5 coaches. MacKinnon hasn’t made the third round in like 9 years. Matthews is on what, year 6, and can’t get out of the first round. Gaudreau in Calgary. Giroux in Philly. Do they want out? Why is it always “poor McDavid”?
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I think the NHL should continue to test asymptomatic players.
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How is this much different than the Oshie play?
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Amazing display by Backes throughout this whole ordeal. First person to call for help. Shaken the whole time. Leaves the ice only after he (and the rest of both teams) see Sabourin as safely off as possible. Unfortunate play.
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Does MCavoy help Marner down by kicking his right foot?
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Crosby stepping up for Pettersson. He only becomes enraged after the greasy left by Dillon to Pettersson around the referee.
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What are the Oilers doing differently than the Kings to take double the penalties? This isn’t whining. It’s reality.
NHL officiating is officially the story of Oilers-Kings series - Heavy Hockey Network.
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If the game is being called truly fairly, the number of penalties doesn’t matter at all. If there’s a penalty, call it. If it means 10 power plays to 2, call it. If it means a 5 on 3, call it. If the score is 12-1 or 1-1, call it.
Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice with a sneaky reminder to referees Kelly Sutherland and Trevor Hanson of the penalty counts during Game 1 against the Maple Leafs.
#FLAvsTOR
#LeafsForever
#TimeToHunt
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@gifdsports
Of all the sad things to take away from this, saddest part of all is she walked away thinking she nailed it.
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@IanKennedyCK
I might be misunderstanding something but if I’m not then I’m shocked you would tweet this without the context of it being a pre-season scrimmage. People are chomping at the bit to ridicule this league so we can’t give them low hanging fruit like an empty arena without context.
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I want
@EdmontonJack
to do the playoff broadcast. That doesn’t mean I think anyone else isn’t qualified or even entertaining. I just love Jack’s energy, his voice, and his passion. It’s not a knock on anyone. It’s a big stick tap to Jack!
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Chara didn’t mean to hurt Svechnikov...He didn’t mean to take Pacioretty out either. He just didn’t know where he was on the ice. He didn’t mean to cross check Gallagher in the face. He’s just so tall. He didn’t mean hit Kane in the head. He didn’t mean to suckerpunch Tavares...
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Who are these guys? Jesus Christ hockey is warped sometimes. Well done Jennifer.
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Things like this greaseball stick to the head by Marchand is what should be a fine. Things like the Chara crosscheck to Gallagher should be a suspension. The scale is way off.
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How is this a minor for “illegal check to the head”? It’s a full on elbow. Nothing hockey about it.
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@CryptoFiend45
@worldhockeyrpt
“Woke” is one of the dumbest catchphrases people have come up since Trump was President and that trend became super popular. Which is one of the saddest sentences I’ve ever written.
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Imagine if MacDermid, Lindgren, or Larsson had glided backward in a controlled motion and gradually angled their opponent off like this instead of whatever the hell it was they did? Burakovsky is practically on his knees. Riikola gets just as low to match him.
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Sheary took 13 strides from just inside his own blue line. Gudbranson took just 8 strides and was actually almost waiting for Sheary at the end.
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This is for all who said I was crazy for thinking they need call charging on some of these high hits and the argument was the “player glides before contact”. Leaving the feet is charging and can be no matter what.
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Chris f***in Wagner...AGAIN. He’s the king of the “dangerous trip”/slewfoot. SIXTH one this year, and that’s just the ones I’ve seen.
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Montour gives Lucic a right jab. Then puts him in a headlock. Lucic 4 minutes. Montour 2 minutes. 🤷♂️
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Turn his back or not, it’s still a crosscheck. If you do this to someone’s front it’s still a penalty. Turning had no bearing on McNabb’s bad choice.
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If you know the relationship between these two items you played in a great era of hockey.
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How elite and consistent does Kucherov have to be before we forgive his perceived attitude problems and put him up where he belongs in the conversations?
NHL Point Leaders:
130 Kucherov
127 MacKinnon
126 McDavid
(Kucherov and MacKinnon have 7 games left. McDavid has 8)
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I’d be suspending Benn for this. Can’t kick at an opponent, especially away from the play like this. He’s had too many chances to let this go.
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Doc casually mentioning 16,000 days. Turn it up! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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This was called two minutes for roughing...
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Sorry for the lack of quality of this video but I’ve slowed the Tkachuk hit on Bear down the same as I did with the one on Kassian. Look at this guy again slow up, rotate 180 degrees, and launch in the air. This is exactly what he did against Kassian. Greasy.
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This is a very strong man leaning into another very strong man and knocking him over with zero upward explosion. Just a nice squat and shoulder lean. Height and posture stay consistent. You don’t need to explode to throw a big check.
#freelesson
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@dicnowder
Why are people not taking this tweet for what it is? Why is everyone always looking to knock things down? There’s probably 4-5 goalies who are true upper echelon and there’s always someone graduating bottom of the class. This is more highlighting how good the greats must be.
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Don Cherry has reportedly been fired by
@Sportsnet
. As a “good Canadian boy” who grew up watching him every single Saturday I have mixed feelings. As an adult who’s had to watch him spiral over the last few years, I blame
@Sportsnet
for not easing him out with dignity sooner.
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Testing isn’t to identify sick players and remove them so they can get better. It’s to isolate players who can pass it on to others to control the spread around the league, right? If that’s the case, if you’re going to stop testing asymptomatic, you might as well not test at all.
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It’s interesting Tom Wilson scores the first goal of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs seeing as he shouldn’t even be playing.
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Not only should this be a major penalty. It should be a suspension.
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The phrase “letting the players decide it” is a non-sequitor. By “putting the whistles away” and not calling things that would ordinarily be called, the officials are still very much affecting the outcome of the game.
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This is straight garbage and it happens ALL the time. It has to start being an automatic suspension. Don’t give me any bullshit about height either.
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@tj_casperson
@HallElliott
@USCHO
There’s no debate. Any reasonable person would assume the chair belonged to someone, and that throwing it down a staircase would hurt that person.
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I’m surprised Ovechkin didn’t drive the Cup there and present it personally.
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"That's a spear! Backstrom is a cry baby coward! Deserves everything that happens to him! Hope his career ends badly!" Said no one.
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He kicks the puck to himself with his heel. He’s outside the zone when he kicks it. Clear control. Clearly a good goal.
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Re: Tom Wilson. I’d look closely at Rule 46.2 - Aggressor, Rules 75.2 and 75.5 (unsportsmanlike conduct plus game),
Which would naturally accumulate to Rule 21 - Match penalty.
The DOPS has to go heavy or playoffs will be a mess.
Wilson shouldn’t play again this season.
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This is garbage and an easy suspension. Completely avoidable.
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Me: Remember that time Ovechkin jumped off the ice while throwing a hit?
Everybody: Which time?
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If you’re at the Pens game and wondering about these guys...Nova Scotian friends wearing a jersey from every team Crosby ever played on.
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@Sportsnet
Remember that time everyone said “he’s 6’7”. You can’t give him a match penalty for being tall!”
Does that still apply if he jumps?
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Wagner with a slew foot. My system would have already fined him for a leg sweep, then suspended him for a leg sweep two days later. This would have been the last straw for a repeat offender. In the real NHL, this isn’t even called as a minor penalty.
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@frank_seravalli
As for rules, I’d say it violates Rule 41: Boarding, a check causing dangerous contact with the boards, Rule 48 (I feel the head takes the brunt of the force), and there’s a case for Rule 51: roughing (gloves to face), and Rule 42: charging (distance travelled).
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If you want proof
@NHL
sells violence and Networks enable it, look no further than this evening’s opening montage. A game with the greatest goal scorer ever against the best team ever. They show 3 elbows, two boardings, and fade out on a guy facedown in his own chalk outline.
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Well, it’s official. The first time in history everyone has agreed a hit was clean.
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Why are officials so hesitant to call two penalties on the same player? If he trips someone and then while your arm is up he trips someone else trying to touch the puck, call them both!
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Conclusion of Pens/Isles:
Lee should be suspended for crosscheck to Matheson’s head just prior to Rust ENG.
Martin was running around like a junior high bully. 2 and 10 doesn’t cover it. Should be fined for instigating.
Mayfield should have got more than Malkin.
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These hits are literally identical. Angle. Location. Force. Technique. No difference. Hit 1 is apparently fine. Hit 2 is apparently boarding.
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Ekman-Larsson does not turn his fucking back. He’s a fucking left shot turning to his fucking forehand to play the fucking puck off the boards. Benn should fucking know that. He’s fucking hitting no matter what position EL is in. It’s a fucking major and a fucking suspension.
Another few looks at the Benn boarding major to Ekman-Larson.
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Ahhhh, now here’s the Tom Wilson we’ve come to know. Two hands on the stick, awkward last second switch to the right shoulder, launching himself off his feet into the head area of Dougie Hamilton.
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If I’m Kyle Dubas I’m going down to that room before Game 7 and saying “what more do you want me to do? This is up to you.”
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Dear tape manufacturers: if I’m paying $150-$300 a stick for my kids I shouldn’t also have to spend $1500 to re-tape after every game.
Dear stick manufacturers: if I’m paying $150-$300 a stick, flecks of blade shouldn’t pull off with the tape every single time.
Figure it out.
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I’m pretty ok with this check, just so you all know I’m fine with heavy contact in general.
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The only thing I find un-Canadian about this is the comments.
Winnipeg makes history by performing Canada’s national anthem in Punjabi for the first time in the NHL.
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Patrick Kane wasn’t a huge fan of this cross check by Sebastian Aho.
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How did Zadorov get a fighting major here???? I don’t give a bleep what you think about the hit. Lucic should be suspended.
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@CryptoFiend45
@worldhockeyrpt
I find two things interesting about this.
1)the orginal meaning of the term “woke” means something different in the last few years, much like the term “Patriot”.
2)You felt the need to bring race into it even though I said nothing about it at all. Telling on yourself?
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Kucherov is the runaway Conn Smythe winner to me no matter what happens from here on out, and I’m here for the outrage.
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This is a Facebook post from my friend and old Pee Wee coach, who also happens to be Sidney Crosby’s old Pee Wee Coach and very good friend as well. He took his team to Pittsburgh last week and the post says it all.
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Equally as “late”. 1,000 times more forceful with a bit of a launch. No call.
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Scheifele on Evans. Dear God I hope he’s ok.
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If you have a problem with Murray winning the hard hat on the Dad’s trip you may as well throw your heart in a garbage compactor because it’s broken beyond repair.
Who did Crosby award the firefighter helmet to after tonight's victory? 🤔
More from tonight's win:
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@IanKennedyCK
As a coach and Minor Hockey President I can definitely say there there were a number of benefits during the period of COVID that prevented parents from spectating.
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Regardless of how much complaining there is, an NHL official is in charge of the hardest sport to call by far.
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When you bring rule in specifically for one single type of hit and 9 years later that type of hit is still prevalent, maybe it’s time to revisit the rule.
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We should be celebrating the speed and skill of hockey after a game like that involving performances like MacKinnon’s. Instead we’re talking about thuggery and the unwritten rules of the code again. What a waste of a spotlight.
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Leafs fans: You’re so biased!
Also Leafs fans:
“That was nothing!” “Bloody murder!”
“Call the flop!” “Had the slash
coming!”
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People over 40 on here, show yourselves! How many of us are there?
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This Brantley foul ball hits a member in of the Astros support staff. I’m pretty sure you can hear someone yell “need a doctor” at the end of this video.
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Under my system Garnet Hathaway would be serving the second game of a six game suspension for his head shot to Tyler Motte and wouldn’t have been in the lineup to do this to Marchand:
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Listen to Pierre and his “old school hockey” bullshit. Celebrating a crosscheck to the head like that’s how the game is supposed to be played.
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If you think the slapshot to an empty net deserved a response, fine. Whatever.
If you think the appropriate response is immediate escalation to a direct, intentional, crosscheck to the head, I hope you get the help you need.
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@lauren_hoggs
I hope I never truly know what it’s like to go through what you did, but if I do I also hope I handle it with such strength.
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Nominees were Matthews, McDavid, Vasilevsky, and Kane. The fact this is a fan voted award doesn’t make it make any more sense. That almost makes it worse.
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This is what’s frustrating.
McAvoy chops Bennett down. No call.
Drai on Doughty. Call.
Pageau on Teravainen. No call.
This. Call.
I know those are different series, but the standard isn’t even the same in each individual game.
Eeli Tolvanen's vicious slash on Nathan MacKinnon gets him two minutes in the sin bin
#SeaKraken
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#GoAvsGo
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Now THIS should be a major and suspension every time. Can we agree on that?
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Trouba has a habit of reaching out with his shoulder in the lead up to contact. When you tend to reach out, inevitably your legs straighten and you also go up. That means head contact. Each individual hit is different, some clean, some not, but the approach is dangerous.
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After yesterday I’m afraid to ask. Lol. Are these the same?
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When you’re mad at the NHL for even having pride nights because you have no problem with that lifestyle but you don’t want it flaunted in your face, but your Christmas card looks like this:
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Meanwhile on a Saturday morning at a rink in a small town in Canada…
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If anything something like this should start being a penalty on the defender.
Point is called for goaltender interference after Pelech shoves him into his goaltender.
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@frank_seravalli
I appreciate what you’re saying. But this still shot doesn’t show the unnatural upper body rotation and thrust for unnecessary force. It doesn’t show the upward follow through and the aftermath as he only glances across the body and then squeezes the head. And no attempt at puck.
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This is textbook launching by Simmonds. Upward thrust. Outward explosion for maximum force. Dumo’s head is way up there. Simmonds could easily have buried him in the chest/core. His multiple poor choices created a high hit.
3 games.
Simmonds makes clear principle point of contact hit to the head of Dumolin. Brawl ensues.
#StadiumSeries
#PensVsFlyers
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You can argue about whether or not head contact was avoidable, but I’m still looking for that part I keep hearing about where his shoulder goes through the chest.
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