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Originally Posted by Brick
We are all entitled to an opinion. The official was the aggressive one. I don't like Evander Kane either, but he didn't deserve a suspension.
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The rule of the law is if you push a ref getting out of a scrum that it's a 3 game suspension - that's the rule. There is no arguing or opinion involved when you see that Kane pushed the ref, that is what happened. So by the rule that's a 3 game suspension.
Kane pushed the ref, and there is nothing in the rule book saying he's allowed to push the ref if the ref grabs him first. The ref in this situation was just doing his job to try and stop the situation from escalating even further in a 5-1 pre-season game that already had two line brawls.
And it looks worse on the ref because they both fell over because Kane wouldn't stop resisting.
Initially the linesman goes to get in between Kane and Engelland - he actually is kind of grabbing Engelland and then he (accidentally) eats a slash from Kane who was trying to slash Engelland.
Play goes on and it looks like Kane is going to engage again - so now this time the linesman decides to try to grab Kane to prevent it from happening.
Kane at this point still keeps resisting the ref, their feet get caught up and that causes them to fall down. It wasn't a "tackle" by the ref.
Then Kane and the ref both get up and he decides to push the ref to try to get the ref off him because he was pissed off the ref grabbed him. Pretty much exact scenario for why that rule is in the rule book.