NHL 2023-2024 Out of Town: Regular Season III

[SPLBRUIN]

Punk move by Greig…laughed my ass off

Leafs board seems proud of 44 for being baited into suspension

It was great just seeing the Leafs reaction and how upset they were. It was a punk move but it was entertaining.

 

[EverettMike]

What a f***ing baby. I wouldn't even f*** around eight games.

 

[Grimey]

It was great just seeing the Leafs reaction and how upset they were. It was a punk move but it was entertaining.

I meant punk move as a compliment, he was just hammering the final nail in the coffin.

Reilly’s cross-check to the face was bush league…maybe don’t be 130 feet behind the play so he doesn’t have all day to slap the puck into an empty net

 

[TP70BruinsCup]

I still don’t know why he shot the puck so hard into an empty net. Did something happen earlier in the play/game?

Let’s see the NHL give Reilly what they gave Gallagher or McEvoy. I’ll bet he gets 1 game possibly 2……but in this league you never know. He might get nothing which honestly wouldn’t surprise me as they’ll say he got a major and was kicked out.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

I’m in favor of what Rielly did and if this happened to the Bruins and no one responded people would be freaking out.

My issue is Rielly throwing punches like a harbor seal. Have some pride man.

 

[EverettMike]

I’m in favor of what Rielly did and if this happened to the Bruins and no one responded people would be freaking out.

My issue is Rielly throwing punches like a harbor seal. Have some pride man.

1) Respond to what? Having fun at the end of a nice win against a rival? I'd hope our fanbase and team wouldn't be so soft about something like this. Buncha crybaby Brian McCanns.

2) Even if you do think a response of some kind is warranted and justified, you cross-check him in the throat when he's not engaged or expecting any sort of physical engagement because the play has long been over? That's cowardly chicken shit. It's a dirty cheapshot over nothing.

Again, all the guy did was slap the puck into an empty net. He didn't elbow the goalie in the face.

Saaaaawft.

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

1) Respond to what? Having fun at the end of a nice win against a rival? I'd hope our fanbase and team wouldn't be so soft about something like this. Buncha crybaby Brian McCanns.

2) Even if you do think a response of some kind is warranted and justified, you cross-check him in the throat when he's not engaged or expecting any sort of physical engagement because the play has long been over? That's cowardly chicken shit. It's a dirty cheapshot over nothing.

Again, all the guy did was slap the puck into an empty net. He didn't elbow the goalie in the face.

Saaaaawft.

It was a mental blow so in that aspect yep.

 

[22Brad Park]

That is 2 hated rivals in same province & Greig saying here take this how do you like us now.Reilly never liked it and did what he did .Be interesting now to see how that weasel Parros deals with it.

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

Lol Detroit right on the heels of Toronto.

 

[EvilDead]

So Bettman's talking up expansion of the NHL again even while the Coyotes are still struggling to find a permanent home and the Florida Panthers are still not stable enough yet as a team to look past the potential of a wild swing in their attendance fortunes going the negative direction given how meddlesome their ownership group is.

That all taken into consideration, the cities Bettman mentioned as being serious contenders are as follows:

Salt Lake City (still needs a building)
Kansas City
Atlanta (third time's the charm, right? RIGHT???)
Houston
Cincinnati
Omaha (wait, really?)

Outside mentions I still remember being rumored but not brought up by the commissioner are San Diego and I think Milwaukee.

Notice how none of those cities are in Canada. Quebec City, Saskatoon, Toronto (ie Markham and Scarborough), Halifax, and Hamilton have all tried to throw their names into consideration with Quebec City being the most ready to go with the Videoton Arena and Saskatoon and Halifax not too far behind as the capitals of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia respectively have put forward plans to build new buildings that can be expandable up to 18,000 should they secure an NHL team. However, given that ol Montgomery Jacobs is the right hand man of the commissioner on the Board of Governors, he's been steering the ship towards American cities and has been at the forefront of shafting any bids put forward by Canadian cities to get into the NHL.

This begs a rather important question. We know that the NHL, for better or for worse, wants to go to 36 teams. But to paraphrase a quote Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park, the owners are so busy with whether or not they could that they never stopped to ask if they should. Is taking on more teams, wherever they end up being, healthy for the NHL long term. If so, where should these teams exist? Because from my perspective, while some of the sun belt expansion teams are now coming good and the past two teams have done well in Seattle and Vegas, the issue the NHL ran into last time it was doing rapid expansion was a big dilution of the talent pool available. Unless this is a set up to create something akin to the Premier League in soccer where there are two 20 team divisions with promotion and relegation, does the NHL risk hurting itself in the long run?

TL;DR version: Will the owner's greed for expansion fees bite them in the ass?

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

So as of right now Toronto is a wild-card team according to espn.

 

[KrejciMVP]

I’m in favor of what Rielly did and if this happened to the Bruins and no one responded people would be freaking out.

My issue is Rielly throwing punches like a harbor seal. Have some pride man.

Reilly is pathetic..let the guy have his empty net goal

 

[BostonBob]

The best part of this Reilly incident was watching all the talking heads on HNIC come to his defense. Only Kelly Hrudey said that Reilly deserved more than a 2 game suspension. But Ron McLean really slurped on the blue & white tonight when he said that the NHL had to take into consideration that Reilly is not that type of player and that he is universally respected on the ice. McLean then showed a clip of T.J. Brodie bringing the puck up the ice and yelling out " Morgan.....hey Morgan " as proof of him being so respected.

 

[duffy]

I’m in favor of what Rielly did and if this happened to the Bruins and no one responded people would be freaking out.

My issue is Rielly throwing punches like a harbor seal. Have some pride man.

nobody on here would be freaking out if a player took a slap shot at an empty net! When any player sticks a player in the head area, they are cowards and deserve what McSorley got while playing for the Bs. A Leaf will probably get a fine at most from the idiot that runs player safety though!

 

[KrejciWinger]

Tell you what, I think the leafs would have had more success if they had named Reilly captain those summers ago.

JT eating up 11 million on their cap every year is a joke.

 

[Aussie Bruin]

I’m in favor of what Rielly did and if this happened to the Bruins and no one responded people would be freaking out.

My issue is Rielly throwing punches like a harbor seal. Have some pride man.

You're in favor of cross-checks to the head? The passion I get, but the execution was horrendous.

 

[caz16]

I can see Rielly being p****d but using the stick as a weapon to the head is way over the top. Knowing Parros, he will get a slap on the wrist.

 

[pgm16]

It was an empty net goal...ffs. Maybe he should have walked it in...lol.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

In attendence at Whalers Night here in Carolina, pretty positive I saw Pete Peeters and Dougie Keans on the jumbo...

Brings me back!

My son was their with his wife and 3 kids. All in Whalers jerseys.

Did you see them?

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

McKinnon, Pasta and McDavid are 2nd, 3rd and 4th in scoring race.

All 3 of their teams were shutout last night.

Morgan Reilly should get 5+ games. Not much different than Hunter on Turgeon.

 

[KrejciMVP]

It was an empty net goal...ffs. Maybe he should have walked it in...lol.

veteran move by Rielly in a playoff race to put his team at a disadvantage bc he can't handle an empty net goal from an Ottawa player

 

[Gee Wally]

It was a punk ass beer league move. Jumping a guy for that.
he should be suspended.

 

[mar2kbos]

While it did require a response whether a hard bump, or hard face wash or dragging him into a fight, a cheap cross check to the head is a weak move. The fact Keefe said it’s appropriate tells me all that we need to know about how weak their leadership is.

If it was the Bruins whoever threw that cross checked I’d be pissed at, still would like a response but that’s hurting the team and Leafs are already thin with talent on defense.

 

[Terrier]

Unless you're busy preparing chicken wings or transfixed by the seven hours of pregame analysis with Phil Simms and company, the USA ladies play Canada on NHLN at 2 p.m.

 

[CDJ]

The least soft thing Rielly has ever done and it was cross checking an unexpecting player in the face long after he scored a goal. Which is coward shit.

Says a lot about Rielly and it says a lot about Leaf fans that they think they can do anything with such a soft guy as their #1