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Originally Posted by bomber317
http://video.tsn.ca/?dl=nhl-latest/l...-latest/latest
The first slash happens at the 28 second mark, and the 2nd slash happens at the 31 second mark. The spear happens at the 2:31 mark of the video.
The first 2 slashes are within your 3 second window of themselves.
However the spear is a full 2 minutes after.
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You are right, I totally missed the "spear". I had to go back in and find it again as I stopped watching after the goalie fight (2:17 on the youtube vid). No one should be calling that a spear though, maybe an unsportsman minor for poking a bear. Definitely a dick move on Kessel's part but hardly a suspension worth act that many are trying to make it out to be.
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Originally Posted by strombad
This is exactly my point, you're defending Kessel by condemning Scott because he 'broke the code' and went after a guy who doesn't fight. Kessel used his stick as a weapon. That's against the code, and against the actual RULES (which what Scott did is not).
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MattyC beat me to this already but fighting is against the rules in the exact same way that using your stick as a weapon is. Both are actions that result in a penalty. Fighting is usually a major and a misconduct though so I still think what Scott did (or tried to do) is worse than what Kessel did.
Scott had obvious intent to injure Kessel. His intent was to get his hands on Kessel so he couldn't run away and then beat him senseless with his fists, using his size advantage to make it a totally one-sided beating. In every way possible this is worse than Kessel hitting his attacker with his stick or coming back and taunting him 2 minutes later. Especially since if Scott had just chilled out and waiting for another goon to play with nothing else in that video would have happened.
If a small guy has to use his stick to tell a big guy to "F-off, stop trying to punch me", then I'm okay with that. Its probably just a matter of time before Kassian tries to beat up Sven and in that situation I hope Sven uses his stick to keep Kassian at bay until McGratton can show up and deal with him.
That is one thing I have to say for Clarkson. Scott is a much bigger guy than Clarkson is but he was still willing to jump the boards and take on the giant. It may have been a poorly thought out action that gets him suspended but I still respect his intent.