Actually, it would be funny if Carcillo spent years in the NHL thinking homophobic F bombs were being thrown around all the time but it was actually just players looking to buy some time for a change.
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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.
You'll hear the announcer often say that player is ragging the puck while killing time on a PK. But maybe that's what they called it in the past, if some of our younger posters are unfamiliar with it..
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.
Honestly... I wouldn't trust Carcillo at all.
That guy has a clear agenda against the league and takes a shot at the league every chance he gets. He would be all over trying to make the league look bad in this scenario.
And I also wouldn't be surprised if that term was used on the ice. Hell I'm sure it would be a dirtbag like Carcillo that would have frequently used it during his playing days.
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.
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.
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curious Cecil Terwilliger, how does this come off as being superior or condescending?
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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.
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Also maybe it's just me but I feel like the voice that says "F#$#ing" and the voice that says "Rag It" (or potentially the other term) are different voices.
It was more of a general comment/joke on how these things go. You know, the “what kind of hockey fan are you if you don’t know what this means” kinda stuff.
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Okay, I'm apparently being condescending, whereas the guy who's telling us all we're making up a hockey term that many of us have heard for our whole lives is acting in a rational and reasonable manner.
What does anyone - other than Reilly - gain by lying about this? Why would he even yell "####ing ######" in that context (whereas it makes perfect sense, in context, for someone to yell at Gourde to rag the puck)? If you want occam's razor, the simplest explanation isn't that someone randomly decided to yell a homophobic slur for no readily apparent reason while play is going on.
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