Bruce Boudreau. The ultimate "hate the face."
Bruce Boudreau. The ultimate "hate the face."
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Crosby, Wheeler, Bergeron, Forsberg, Connor, Kopitar, E.Lindholm, Pastrnak, DeBrincat, Fiala
Jones, Klingberg, Hamilton, Theodore, Letang
Saros, Shesterkin
Garland, Vrana, Bjorkstrand, Verhaege, Backstrom, Karlsson, Perunovich, Spurgeon, Pulock, Hellebuyck
Morrisey..... 1 game?? Just a fine? More than 1 game?? Whats your thoughts?
A fine... It should have been a penalty. I would have accepted a 2 min minor to a 5 min major for it... The refs totally blew that and I don't know how, since it was in the middle of the ice. I don't think that's a suspension...
The mobs are out for blood, but the NHL really can't use suspensions to make up for the refs' mistakes on the ice.. That is not the purpose of a suspension.
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9 Team Full Keeper - Pts Only (G,A,W,SO)
Crosby, Wheeler, Bergeron, Forsberg, Connor, Kopitar, E.Lindholm, Pastrnak, DeBrincat, Fiala
Jones, Klingberg, Hamilton, Theodore, Letang
Saros, Shesterkin
Garland, Vrana, Bjorkstrand, Verhaege, Backstrom, Karlsson, Perunovich, Spurgeon, Pulock, Hellebuyck
regardless of the refs blowing the call or not.. it's a play that is completely unnecessary or desired in the NHL -- I think he's getting 1-2 games. It's a cheap shot that just has no place. drop the stick, throw a punch. It was pretty Marchand of him to do.
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Sorry, this is false. He didn't intend to get Staal in the head, or even hurt him. It was a standard hockey play (trying to shove him out of the slot area) that went wrong because he missed the intended target (Staal's shoulder). It's within the rules for Morrissey to get a suspension if the league so chooses, but saying it was Marchand-like is just wrong.
I agree that I don't think it was intentional but it was clearly a careless / dangerous play and I think he will get 1 game. Since I don't think any of Entrom, Myers or Kulikov are ready that would mean mister AHL defenceman of the year Sami Niku would be in for game 5.....
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G: Vasilevskiy, Hellebuyck, Bobrovsky
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you need to look at the cross check again... to say he didn't mean to get him in the head is false. the initial contact is with the top of Staals ear... not even close to his shoulder. Staal is standing upright with full neck exposed as well. there's grazing of the jersey, the helmet moves because that's the initial point of contact with the shaft of Morrissey's stick. If you don't want to call it Marchand like.. that's fine... but man, watch the hit again, he's reaching UP to hit Staal, it's careless, wreckless.
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