Yeah I can't understand this line of thinking. Sometimes clean hit result in injuries. I have hit a number of guys and sent them to the hospital a number of times in rugby games and never once had to fight or to be frank faced any retaliation outside of the confines of the Laws (rules). As long as the hit is clean then it is game on. There is no need to exact revenge or create some kind of frontier justice.
If you don't want your teammates to be hit in a physical sport perhaps physical sport isn't for you.
I guess maybe we are disagreeing on the type of hits?
Good clean hard checks? No problem.
But huge checks that are meant to hurt people, but are still 'in the rules' - yeah, I would expect a response.
Let me guess, you have spent a lifetime working for the government.
I said 9, not 900
The point of this is that sometimes we make mistakes and can be inconsistent from time-to-time. Having more than one person - anywhere from 3 to whatever - just might provide a little bit more consistency.
The East, and particularly the Rangers, are really not built to police themselves against someone like Wilson. It's good that they tried. Imagine that faceoff being lined up against Lucic, Ritchie and Robinson.
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No idea how the guy had emails leak that he tried to influence refs to not call penalties against his son, and he somehow kept his job.
That'd be because the league is run like a banana republic.
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I agree he should be suspended for a play like that. Anyone should. I just don't agree that the current DOPS has the moral authority to be handing out punishment to anyone at this point.
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I agree he should be suspended for a play like that. Anyone should. I just don't agree that the current DOPS has the moral authority to be handing out punishment to anyone at this point.
Exactly. In normal circumstances, everyone would agree this is a suspension, and I'm sure everyone agrees now, but the difference is that the DOPS is directly responsible for what happened in this game due to their own incompetence and any hearing or suspension at this point relating to this game is a complete farce.
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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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