[News] League exonerates Morgan Rielly after alleged homophobic slur

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

No, it doesn't. It means to intentionally hold onto the puck to kill time. Which is exactly the sort of thing you'd want to do on a PK.

And by the way, it isn't at all a new term. It's one of the things Phil Esposito was best known for being good at, for example.

Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper

I would say it's a much older term than that, was very common in the 80's and is heard all the time during old-timers games (55+)

So did it fall out of favor or something? I've been watching/playing hockey since the late 80s and today is the first time I have ever heard it.

You learn something new everyday.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Yamer

So did it fall out of favor or something? I've been watching/playing hockey since the late 80s and today is the first time I have ever heard it.

You learn something new everyday.

I'm in pretty much exactly the same boat as you, and it's as natural to me a hockey term as calling a stick a "twig" or an elevated pass a "saucer".

Could be regional, maybe... where I grew up no one ever called the puck a biscuit, so I was pretty confused the first time I heard that one. There are definitely different popular slang terms in different parts of the country.

[Hanna Sniper]

Originally Posted by Yamer

So did it fall out of favor or something? I've been watching/playing hockey since the late 80s and today is the first time I have ever heard it.

You learn something new everyday.

Maybe provincial? I can't imagine that but seems strange for a term that is so common to have such a reaction here now



interesting and curious

[chockfullofgoodness]

Originally Posted by Beninho

Idk, I hear a hard F


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As did I.

[Ashasx]

Twitter was ready to publicly execute Rielly last night.

[Geeoff]

In these new times, the original F word has now been downgraded to AN F word and what was once a playground insult is the new F word.

[Hey Connor, It's Mess]

We don't actually know who said it, right? It doesn't make sense for a Leafs player to say it, they're on the PP. If a Lightning player said it then I assume it's directed at Gourde and came from the bench.

I hear a hard F every single time and it coincides with Rielly turning his head to look at the ref. But if the NHL says it wasn't then I'll defer to their judgment.

[kukkudo]

Heard F but who actually said it.

[Oling_Roachinen]

I like that actual NHL players were on Twitter saying they never heard the term "rag it" used but it's apparently very common.

Occam razor guys, but give plausible deniability and the fact that no one wants to admit it was said, there's very little reason to pursue it.

[SuperMatt18]

Personally I hear "Rag It" and my guess is the Mic's on the announcer between the bench picked it up from a player on the Tampa bench.

[kukkudo]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

I like that actual NHL players were on Twitter saying they never heard the term "rag it" used but it's apparently very common.

Occam razor guys, but give plausible deniability and the fact that no one wants to admit it was said, there's very little reason to pursue it.

Exactly this.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

I like that actual NHL players were on Twitter saying they never heard the term "rag it" used but it's apparently very common.

Occam razor guys, but give plausible deniability and the fact that no one wants to admit it was said, there's very little reason to pursue it.

If it was Tampa saying "rag it" why would they lie to protect the leafs?

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

If it was Tampa saying "rag it" why would they lie to protect the leafs?

I don't know if lying is the right term. No one has said that someone said rag it (did they?), so all they have to do is say they didn't hear him say "######" and that's that. And why wouldn't they? It amounts to tattle-tailing that likely results in a small fine, like it did for Getzlaf, and it opens themselves up to retaliation because, let's face it, the word isn't uncommon among hockey players.

[Ryan Coke]

Sounds like Rag it to me, which I’ve heard many times, and it makes sense for Lightning players wanting to change.

Crazy internet outrage case averted.

Or maybe now it is internet conspiracy outrage.

[Igottago]

Did somebody actually launch a complaint or did the NHL just self investigate this?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

I like that actual NHL players were on Twitter saying they never heard the term "rag it" used but it's apparently very common.

This is hilarious. You're actually suggesting that this isn't a common hockey term? Despite the fact that you can google it and find out that it is? What does anyone have to gain by lying about this?

You sound like an outrage fetishist who is upset that he's missed a chance to be angry about something. Don't worry, there are plenty of honest to goodness homophobes out there for you to direct that righteous indignation at.

[Matt Reeeeead]

Really unfortunate that people immediately post this on social media before proper evidence is obtained, lets it go viral, and puts Rielly in an uncomfortable situation with all of the social justice warriors coming after him. Many people had Rielly suspended for multiple games and being labeled as a homophobe based on some really flimsy evidence.

I'd rather these things be brought up privately, and let the situation play its course before pillaging a guy. Just feels like another way of bullying people by drumming up a non deal into a big deal when we know how the social media presence will attack so quickly.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

This is hilarious. You're actually suggesting that this isn't a common hockey term? Despite the fact that you can google it and find out that it is? What does anyone have to gain by lying about this?

I'm not. Daniel Carcillo who played 500 games in the NHL is saying he never heard it used.

https://twitter.com/CarBombBoom13/st...43557999706114

As for what's to gain? A ton. If the NHL says it was said, that's bad publicity they don't want. It hurts Morgan Reilly's reputation, it opens up the next person to say a naughty word for retaliation and I'm sure the ref has heard much worse.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

What's important here is that I feel superior to those who didn't know what rag it meant and that I'm as condescending as possible while doing so.

So if everyone who didn't know what it meant could please identify yourselves, we can begin.

[Ryan Coke]

Well the only reasonable explanation is that it is a conspiracy by Carcillo to get Reailly in trouble, evidently he doesn’t like him. Occams razor or something.