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2019-2020 NHL Thread

Nik Bethune said:
Wow. Bruins-Flyers in a shootout and Marchand needs to score to keep it going and he completely skates by the puck while only barely grazing it with his stick. Refs rule it counted as an attempt and Bruins lose.

https://twitter.com/NickDeSouza_/status/1216916616262320128
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LOL  Karma!
 
Nik Bethune said:
After watching part of that game with the NESN announcers I've decided that as commissioner for a day I'd make it an iron clad rule that all local broadcasts must have a colour analyst who speaks in the most cartoonishly exaggerated local accent possible. "Wicked hahd slap shoht"...
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If that's the case, I demand an expansion franchise (or relocate a struggling one) in New Orleans!
 
Nik Bethune said:
Wow. Bruins-Flyers in a shootout and Marchand needs to score to keep it going and he completely skates by the puck while only barely grazing it with his stick. Refs rule it counted as an attempt and Bruins lose.

https://twitter.com/NickDeSouza_/status/1216916616262320128
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Without a word of hyperbole, this is the greatest thing that has ever happened.
 
Obligatory Gritty:

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Nik Bethune said:
I still haven't seen anyone in this thread suggest an objective standard by which you could call Tkachuk's hit, or any hit like it in the future, a violation of the NHL's rules.

Saying that in your opinion it appears to be a violation of a subjective standard is fine, and the NHL rulebook clearly allows for that interpretation on the part of their refs, but it not only misses the point it ignores that neither the on ice refs nor the NHL post-hoc thought it was a punishable hit.
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I'm coming late on this, but I just viewed the hits. In my opinion in one hit, Tkaczuk makes contact with Kassian's head. Further, Tkaczuk took more than a few strides with torpedo-like force to deliver both hits.

I've seen lesser hits to the head get called in the past and players suspended. Im surprised this hit wasn't. Was Kassian even given concussion protocol? Imo, the NHL goofed.

Regarding Tkaczuk defending his decision not to fight back when attacked by Kassian: He said he didn't want to honor Kassian by fighting him. He said that "maybe" he'd fight back had it been an attack from a player of caliber closer to his own. Basically, Kassian wasn't worth tkaczuk's time or energy. If so, why spend so much energy, and risk self-injury, to take that lesser player out? Twice?

I question Tkaczuk's integrity.

 
Pick said:
I'm coming late on this, but I just viewed the hits. In my opinion in one hit, Tkaczuk makes contact with Kassian's head. Further, Tkaczuk took more than a few strides with torpedo-like force to deliver both hits.
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Again, which of those two things would you specifically and definitively make illegal? Because taking out "more than a few strides" before contact would effectively take open ice hitting out of a game where players are constantly skating and completely removing any contact to the head would not only incentivize players to skate with their heads down but it would almost certainly have the effect of imposing a height limit on players.
 
Nik Bethune said:
Wow. Bruins-Flyers in a shootout and Marchand needs to score to keep it going and he completely skates by the puck while only barely grazing it with his stick. Refs rule it counted as an attempt and Bruins lose.

https://twitter.com/NickDeSouza_/status/1216916616262320128
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https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1217111346707345408
https://twitter.com/HeresYourReplay/status/1111084135676817409
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Nik Bethune said:
Wow. Bruins-Flyers in a shootout and Marchand needs to score to keep it going and he completely skates by the puck while only barely grazing it with his stick. Refs rule it counted as an attempt and Bruins lose.

https://twitter.com/NickDeSouza_/status/1216916616262320128
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Without a word of hyperbole, this is the greatest thing that has ever happened.
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He?s taken it well too

https://twitter.com/bmarch63/status/1217154461291905027
 
Arn said:
Heroic Shrimp said:
Nik Bethune said:
Wow. Bruins-Flyers in a shootout and Marchand needs to score to keep it going and he completely skates by the puck while only barely grazing it with his stick. Refs rule it counted as an attempt and Bruins lose.

https://twitter.com/NickDeSouza_/status/1216916616262320128
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Without a word of hyperbole, this is the greatest thing that has ever happened.
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He?s taken it well too

https://twitter.com/bmarch63/status/1217154461291905027
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Oh well, nobody can take away his Starley Cup.
 
Nik Bethune said:
Pick said:
I'm coming late on this, but I just viewed the hits. In my opinion in one hit, Tkaczuk makes contact with Kassian's head. Further, Tkaczuk took more than a few strides with torpedo-like force to deliver both hits.
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Again, which of those two things would you specifically and definitively make illegal? Because taking out "more than a few strides" before contact would effectively take open ice hitting out of a game where players are constantly skating and completely removing any contact to the head would not only incentivize players to skate with their heads down but it would almost certainly have the effect of imposing a height limit on players.
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No changes needed. Charging, boarding and hits to the head are already illegal per nhl rules. But that wasn't the point of my post - I'll let the nhl decided if the hits were legal or not. I was more interested in Tkaczuk's reason for not fighting Kassian. IMO, he was dishonest and arrogant.
 
Rask left yesterday's game with a head injury and suspected concussion.

https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/01/14/boston-bruins-tuukka-rask-injury-columbus-blue-jackets/
 
https://twitter.com/NHLJetsNation/status/1217261509102845952
https://twitter.com/patersonjeff/status/1217871670418923520

Didn't hear of this incident until Perrault's comments blew up today. Virtanen basically sees Perrault coming and it's like in his head he's going "elbow down, elbow down, elbow down, ELBOW UP". Completely uncalled for and avoidable.
 
Woah! How the hell isn't that worth some form of discipline? Are they thinking it's an uncalled 2:00 minor for elbowing and just ignoring the fact that it was to the head?
 
I think it should have been called a minor elbowing penalty.

I'm not sure that we should be expecting supplemental discipline on a missed elbowing minor.
 
A side note, I guess, but man the Jets will wear all manner of ugly uniforms to avoid wearing their cool purple and red ones, huh?
 
Frank E said:
I think it should have been called a minor elbowing penalty.

I'm not sure that we should be expecting supplemental discipline on a missed elbowing minor.
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I could see a fine, considering it's nowhere near the puck, it was avoidable, etc. It's not suspension worthy, but something to say "this is not okay" might have been appropriate.
 
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