And the Buchnevich play is self defense at this point.
The league showed they wouldn't protect him after the Wilson incident.
Mantha is chasing him around the ice, slashing him, and is clearly coming back against the flow of play to give Buchnevich a cross check of his own.
Buchnevich see's him coming and goes "Screw this I'm going to get you first"
If you aren't going to call penalties, or suspend players taking advantage of skilled players, then the skilled players are going to need to get their sticks up to defend themselves. The league and refs let this get out of hand with their inaction.
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