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Originally Posted by Hells Bells
Maybe so, and you'd likely be saying he deserved it.
"Leaf like".. what team Reilly plays for shouldn't matter. It's no more Leaf like than Flame like, that's objectivity.
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How would you possibly know if he would be saying that Matthews deserved it in that situation? The NHL is a joke when it comes to player safety, always has been and may always be. This hit is from the dinosaur ages of when the broad street bullies would come into Maple Leaf Gardens and local prosecutors would try to enforce sanity on the ice. Reilly should have the hook thrown at him, I have never ever seen a play like that in the 35+ years I have been watching hockey. Despite your insistence that cross checks to the face happen all the time I doubt you can find much video evidence of it happening at all 3 seconds after the whistle with the player being cross checked being blindsided by the cross check.