[SCF] Florida Panthers (EC-WC2) vs Vegas Golden Knights (WC-1)

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Tkachuk gets 10 minutes there? What the #### for?

These referees are ####ing terrible in this series so far. Nothing makes sense.

This is how you ruin the sport.

Handing out penalties for a hit being too big, especially in the cup finals, is blasphemous.

Magnitude doesn't always require a response by the stripes. Just use your eyeballs and know the rulebook.

Let's not go by the Oilers book of officiating.

[butterfly]

Tkachuk hit looked perfectly clean to me. What did Barbashev do to get a misconduct? We don't know who said what.

This series is very entertaining so far.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

The hit was fine, unfortunate for Eichel to toe pick right before the hit and be falling forward into it.

I think Tkachuk got 10 because he went back into the scrum after he was pulled out and grabbed Pietrangelo from behind.

Honestly this is the Flames Playoff Tkachuk a bit...but snakebit offensively so starts to try to do too much physically and takes himself out of the game a bit because of it

We'll see how it plays out from here.

That sort of hit can have an impact on games/series. I don't think Tkachuk did anything as impactful as THAT hit while he struggled here in the playoffs.

I don't envision some sort of Cory Sarich-hit rebound here tonight, but it was Tkachuk trying to push back.

All that said...so far this series looks painful for the Panthers. Don't seem to be able to keep up/execute.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

This is how you ruin the sport.

Handing out penalties for a hit being too big, especially in the cup finals, is blasphemous.

Magnitude doesn't always require a response. Just use your eyeballs and know the rulebook.

Again, Gudas was hit with a similar hit and could have easily been called a hit to the head...you know, there's a rule for that regardless of intent. No penalty called at all, play on.

Okay, no problem. So Tkachuk does the same thing, get swarmed by 3 guys and defends himself and his teammates.

Referees: "10 minute misconduct for....things."

It's a ridiculous double standard in this series based on reputation. It sucks.

[midniteowl]

Tkachuk got 10 minutes misconduct for being Tkachuk. His reputation doesn't change just because he got traded to another team.

[ComixZone]

...seeing the replays of Eichel going off, I just feel bad for him. It's a clean hit, it's just that it's Eichel and with his history you can see that guy just looks concerned about his neck.

[Goriders]

Hopefully Eichel didn’t rescrew up his neck.

[butterfly]

I can't wait to hear what's on Maurice's mind after the game!

[ComixZone]

The panel completely ignoring how the refs called that play is par for the course.

Garbage coverage in Canada continues.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Yeah I think him shaking his head it's more his neck. Maybe whiplash as well?

Just a strange play with him looking like he dove into the hit.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

The hit was fine, unfortunate for Eichel to toe pick right before the hit and be falling forward into it.

I think Tkachuk got 10 because he went back into the scrum after he was pulled out and grabbed Pietrangelo from behind.

Honestly this is the Flames Playoff Tkachuk a bit...but snakebit offensively so starts to try to do too much physically and takes himself out of the game a bit because of it

Bang on. He needs to just play and score. Forget the extra garbage, you're not winning anything going overboard with that stuff.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

...seeing the replays of Eichel going off, I just feel bad for him. It's a clean hit, it's just that it's Eichel and with his history you can see that guy just looks concerned about his neck.

It was always going to be a risk for him considering his surgery. It could have easily happened on a toe pick and going head first into the boards without anybody touching him.

It's purely accidental, and there was no intent from Tkachuk other than to lay a solid clean hit, but it will probably get spun some other way to paint him as a villain.

I actually hope Eichel returns just to squash that bull#### narrative.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Again, Gudas was hit with a similar hit and could have easily been called a hit to the head...you know, there's a rule for that regardless of intent. No penalty called at all, play on.

Okay, no problem. So Tkachuk does the same thing, get swarmed by 3 guys and defends himself and his teammates.

Referees: "10 minute misconduct for....things."

It's a ridiculous double standard in this series based on reputation. It sucks.

Barbashev also got 10. Instead of assuming they gave him 10 for the no reason perhaps something happened in the scrum with Barbashev.

[ComixZone]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1665900427018391552

[GioforPM]

I don’t know that Tkachuk got penalized at all for the hit, which looked clean (and there was no arm up at that hit). There were two 2+10m calls out of that and I suspect they were for the same thing - something in the fracas.

I dunno what Bieksa is talking about - there was no way for Eichel to stand up into that hit.

[timbit]

Originally Posted by midniteowl

Tkachuk got 10 minutes misconduct for being Tkachuk. His reputation doesn't change just because he got traded to another team.

Thanks.

Is it really that difficult for others to figure it out?

[timbit]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I don’t know that Tkachuk got penalized at all for the hit, which looked clean (and there was no arm up at that hit). There were two 2+10m calls out of that and I suspect they were for the same thing - something in the fracas.

I dunno what Bieksa is talking about - there was no way for Eichel to stand up into that hit.

Eichel was all set for the hit…and toe picked himself.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Ron McLean "tremendous moment in the 2nd we will continue to monitor Eichels condition"

Wow

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Which is weird because he was looking at him the whole time. Not sure how he didn't see him.

Think he bobbled the puck and lost focus for long enough for Tkachuk to sneak in and crush him.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

The panel completely ignoring how the refs called that play is par for the course.

Garbage coverage in Canada continues.

There has been nothing wrong with the coverage in this series.