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Again, I’ll wait to see if he’s really hurt. Remember the Bruin that got carted of the ice leading to a suspension for the Vancouver player, only to play in the very next game?

I just did a needle drop on two random games and found instances of a guy making a hit directly after skating the length of the ice on a back check. I didn’t really even have to try. You don’t like the hit. I do. You think he should be suspended. I don’t. I’m fine with that. What will be interesting is if it becomes a distraction for Montreal, in which case it will have been a good hockey play.

https://www.nhl.com/tv Pick any game. 😂

This is Bs. Guys get hit after skating the entire length Ice all the time. Skating the length of the ice is how a player backchecks. They do it every shift. He was backchecking. He was late to stop the goal. Then he hit him. It was the severity of the hit that is the is the issue here (and only because he got hurt), not the distance traveled, IMO.

He stopped skating at the top of the circle. Charging was a bs call. If you are not allowed to hit that hard, which it looks like you are not, the call should have been roughing. They didn’t even get that right.

Absolutely. No one disagrees with this. Good on him for thinking about the series. The question is, would there be a suspension if the guy didn’t get hurt? If the answer is no, then there should be no suspension. Punishment based on the result is one of the most ridiculous things the NHL does.

I’m drunk.

Booooooo!!!!!

I hope his goes til 4am.

Sure it does. It was a Boston player, so it was a penalty. Change the jerseys and it’s just another zone entry interference that doesn’t get called.

That hit wasn’t even close to being dirty. It was a completely routine play where a guy got hurt. bad example.

So, you say favoritism isn’t real, the give an example of it. k

Find a flaw, then find one clip that shows it. Ugh.

The NHL is so biased it makes me want to puke. if that was a Bruin or Lightning player that made that hit, they would be touting what a great hockey play it was and that’s just the playoffs,... and blah blah blah,... it’s just unfortunate that he he got hurt. ***** off you disingenuous bunch of sycophants.

My exact thought. Curtis has an agenda.

But because the NHL is stupid, the result matters, and he was injured (maybe. We’ve seen gamesmanship before). So he will probably get a game.

He didn’t skate the length of the ice to hit him. That’s just BS. He skated the length of the ice to stop him from scoring. He didn’t get there in time. He then hit him. There is a difference. If he didn’t get injured we wouldn’t even be talking about this and there wouldn’t even have been a penalty. God bless the NHL.

I really didn’t think that hit was that big of a deal. Just because a guy gets hurt, doesn’t mean that the play was bad. I ***** hate that like everything else in the NHL, the outcome matters more than the intent. If he just got up after that hit and wasn’t injured, would there be this outcry? i guess he should have just let him score and say, “hey buddy, great game.”

Which part? The goal? The hit? If it was a Sabre that made that hit in a playoff game we’d all have tight pants. I ***** love playoff hockey!

Yeah. That’s stupid, because how else is he supposed to chase him down and potentially stop him from that reach around goal? He didn’t get there in time so he hit him. It wasn’t charging. They just wanted him off the ice.

Was it a shoulder to the head. Cuz I thought it was a great hit. Especially down by 2 in game one.

Darren Pang is a great color guy.

Kinda felt like this thread was just getting started.

Oh, brother. I remember when classically great head hits at center ice were legal, too,... until they weren’t.

I'm actually more upset about game 2 of that series. Every single story that Kerry Fraser tells about his life as a ref just screams that he was an egotistical dickwad, completely biased ref that affected the outcomes of games simply because he felt like it. I honestly can't believe some of the stuff he admits to having done. And I still want to know what Bettmen said to him at ice level in that intermission.