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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Kane is a goof, no question, and deserves every suspension he gets. That was a pretty mild push though. The ref looked like an even bigger goof imo. WTF is he doing steer wrestling a player to the ice for no good reason. Kind of a dangerous and needless move. Suspend the ref too. Or linesman...whatever he is.
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I wouldn't call that steer wrestling, it just looked like they fell from being off balance, after grabbing Kane's jersey when Kane tried to cut around him to get to Engelland (which clearly is way over the top on Kane's part). And Kane gave Deryk a pretty good slash AFTER they got separated, so the official had every reason to assume Kane would have wanted to continue the altercations when he was skating back towards Engelland and trash talking.
Because it was the ref that initiated contact, and not Kane, I agree with the 10.4 ruling over the 10.3 interpretation as Kane was just angrily freeing himself from the official and not deliberately initiating contact with intent to injure.
Also, Kane is a nutjob and I'm very sorry the ref didn't just step aside and let Deryk beat the living daylights out of him.