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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
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citing the NHL expansion rules as what allowed the Knights to get into the playoffs in the first place and so vegas fans shouldn't criticize the NHL is a strawman argument, and a bad one at that.
it was a cross check...his assertion that it was worthy of a major, on its face, is ridiculous.
it wasn't a high cross check and no heavier than what you see in front of the net during virtually any PP in the NHL... the difference is that Pavelski lost his balance and was exacerbated by Statsny fighting through Pavelski to get to Burns at the point.
it was an accidental play... calling a major on that was an error.
Bringing it other arguments, like the Knights should not have let them score 4 goals (of course) or that they should have won leading 3-1 in the series are spurious.
the debate is the call costing them that game and that is was a bad call. Both of which are pretty clear to most fans outside of San Jose