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Originally Posted by Rising_Oil_Prices
Not that anyone here cares what I say, but I think the suspension was fine and well deserved. I’m just glad that 10 second mauling he took prior with no call got some good media playtime, and maybe some of this ridiculous reffing can be more addressed. Shame it had to get to this point, but mcDavid has no excuses for that play.
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I mean that play took two hands to clap so to speak and was initiated by McDavid hitting Garland open ice near the blue line and ending up first on top of Garland and delivering blows to the back of his head. At this point yes Garland is holding up McDavid, it is a hockey battle in the dying seconds of the third that was started by McDavid and he’s battling. At this point IMHO the ref could have blown the play dead and called Garland for holding and McDavid for roughing and called it a day but they let Connor blow his top and lose his cool completely. The media though blamed Garland for playing hockey because it’s against their beloved McDiva, they gloss over the fact that the whole initial play starts with CM bodying Garland and roughing him after the collision tied them up on the ice. It’s hilarious oil fans objectively ignore the blatant bias from that panel, Elliott goes out of his way to say that McDavid deserves more PPs/should be reffed differently. It’s become laughable.