Acciari hit by Dillon - 5min major (suspended 3 games)

[NikoEhlers]

Its fine to suspend for the hit, the problem comes when Dops gives him 3 games, compared to Gallaghers targeted hit giving him 5 games. It makes absolutely no sense, the severity cant even be compared. Parros needs to go

 

[Ocoee]

Just make all head shots illegal. Accidental or not. I’m not sure why this is controversial. Acciari was clearly struggling after the hit. That’s not entertainment.

 

[egelband]

Incidental play, but don't mind the call.

Think this is it. I get the call and all but it didn’t look intentional or anything. Gotta be careful but it seemed like two guy a bit out of control colliding. Anyhow if the league is really going to crackdown on anything to the head, it’s a good thing.

 

[WickedWrister]

Suspension, 1-2 games is my guess

One more than I was expecting. While the sentencing is inconsistent, I felt it clearly met the criteria for suspension (head being the principal point of contact). Honestly reading some of these comments blaming Acciari is wild.

 

[Mattb124]

an a neutral fan, he skated right into him, not even a penalty..suspension lmao

That is where I come out as well. Having watched Dillon a lot as a Shark, he isn't the "accidentally on purpose" type of player.

 

[sipowicz]

One game for the hit, one game for being a small market, then tack on another game for the Canadian tax.

Trouba would have been invited out for lunch with Parros. Parros would have proceeded with picking up the tab and then fine Trouba for less money than that of the lunch tab.… “oh, and don’t forget to bring our buddy Nick… I’ll get his lunch as well. “

NHL officiating and Parros the clown's decision making on par with the WWE!

 

[sipowicz]

One game for the hit, one game for being a small market, then tack on another game for the Canadian tax.

Trouba would have been invited out for lunch with Parros. Parros would have proceeded with picking up the tab and then fine Trouba for less money than that of the lunch tab.… “oh, and don’t forget to bring our buddy Nick… I’ll get his lunch as well. “

But, but, but Trouba did really mistakenly think that Trent Frederics head was a pinata, Parros agreed and only gave him a $5K fine and said please be more careful when you swing your stick!

 

[DearDiary]

Of course any Jets fans are going to be labeled as biased, but this 3 game suspension on Dillon is garbage. Hope Accari is okay of course, but he skated right into Dillon. Dillon made no overt motion to the head.

How did he skate into Dillon? Acciari is coming North-South, Dillon is coming East-West and then curves towards him. I swear people on here only see what they feel like seeing. Dillon chased him down, had enough time to see the head down and then launched upwards to maximize the damage to the head.

Please explain to me how Acciari is skating into Dillon? Explain like I'm 5 years old

 

[HTFN]

I was guessing two games. He hit the guy in the head. Dillon needs to bend his knees and get lower there.

It’s not a dirty play but it’s a bad hit. Shoulder to head. 2 games would have been more appropriate.

at that spot on the ice... I'm not sure he can. If he does what you suggest but doesn't make contact he's whaling himself right into the boards so unnecessarily hard....

He angled for a hit until he was about to take damage himself by just barreling into the boards for no reason, and when he raised it wasn't to make contact it was to protect his own momentum into the wall. Acciari followed a puck without much care for himself through the neutral zone (same as Aston-Reese did a while ago) and got tagged.

3 games is pretty harsh for this compared to other very obvious suspensions that resulted in not a lot.

 

[HTFN]

How did he skate into Dillon? Acciari is coming North-South, Dillon is coming East-West and then curves towards him. I swear people on here only see what they feel like seeing. Dillon chased him down, had enough time to see the head down and then launched upwards to maximize the damage to the head.

Please explain to me how Acciari is skating into Dillon? Explain like I'm 5 years old

Your first two screenshots do it for me.

He's chasing a puck in the proper skating form, then suddenly in still frame 2 he's decided to go backhand and very obviously lowered his head. Look at his position relative to the red of the boards, all while Dillon is already firmly on course to make a play.

Then Acciari tries to jump inside, making the point of contact even worse, when all we're seeing is a defenseman set in his skates trying to hit a guy through neutral.

 

[DearDiary]

Your first two screenshots do it for me.

He's chasing a puck in the proper skating form, then suddenly in still frame 2 he's decided to go backhand and very obviously lowered his head. Look at his position relative to the red of the boards, all while Dillon is already firmly on course to make a play.

Then Acciari tries to jump inside, making the point of contact even worse, when all we're seeing is a defenseman set in his skates trying to hit a guy through neutral.

Nowhere did you point out how Acciari skated into Dillon, when it's Dillon skating towards Acciari. Dillon then strikes upwards, knowing he struck the head that was leaning forward

 

[HTFN]

Nowhere did you point out how Acciari skated into Dillon, when it's Dillon skating towards Acciari.

They're both skating to position. His goal is still to play and engage with the puck, which he's doing at speed, and then flying into the boards.

What is Acciari doing besides just flying towards play with no regard for much of anything? Like Aston-Reese before him, what we're really seeing is a middling player with a death wish and no sense of self-preservation trying to overplay a puck in the neutral zone until he's bashed up, good thing for Acciari that he didn't break his jaw.

 

[DearDiary]

They're both skating to position. His goal is still to play and engage with the puck, which he's doing at speed, and then flying into the boards.

What is Acciari doing besides just flying towards play with no regard for much of anything?

Yes and Acciari didn't skate into Dillon, which was the whole point of that discussion.

 

[HTFN]

Yes and Acciari didn't skate into Dillon, which was the whole point of that discussion.

because he bailed at the last second? he put himself there, see the edit.

 

[Winged Wheel Willy]

get some damn glasses, dillion stood his ground and had his arms to his side. accari skated right into him. lmao 2min max

Putrid and feeble attempt on your part! How can one of two moving objects be accused to just blindly running into the other one?! Dillon could’ve done the Rob Blake special and stood him up squarely alongside the boards (that is standing your ground). Or he could’ve timed his hit better and taken a different angle that would’ve gotten Acciari in the shoulder. Dillon did neither, but chose the worst option. Predatory, no. But bad nonetheless.

 

[HTFN]

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Putrid and feeble attempt on your part! How can one of two moving objects be accused to just blindly running into the other one?! Dillon could’ve done the Rob Blake special and stood him up squarely alongside the boards (that is standing your ground). Or he could’ve timed his hit better and taken a different angle that would’ve gotten Acciari in the shoulder. Dillon did neither, but choose the worst option. Predatory, no. But bad nonetheless.

he didn't know what touch the opposition might make and took the "I'm just taking my space" response until he hit the boards, but then someone else hit him first.

What did you want Dillon to do different here? He's just bracing for contact, not even engaging.

 

[Winged Wheel Willy]

he didn't know what touch the opposition might make and took the "I'm just taking my space" response until he hit the boards, but then someone else hit him first.

What did you want Dillon to do different here? He's just bracing for contact, not even engaging.

Just explained what he could’ve done different. These diagonal hits across the body are the most dangerous. Avoid them if possible. And it was possible.

 

[Czechboy]

It does amaze me that even after he gets suspended that people still think Dillon was not in the wrong. Fine.. it's HF and we will never agree.

However, I think we all agree that DOPS is a joke. I don't think I've seen one poster applauding Paros for his even handling of these situations.

Back to disagreeing.. I think 3 or more should be the standard on these types of hits and the fact that guys get less doesn't mean those hits were ok. It means Paros sucks at his job. There is clearly no 'baseline' and it's all random guesses.

 

[Kryten]

Mangiapane’s cross check to the back of McCanns neck on the ice was 10x worse of an action and got 1 game. Parros is terrible. I hope Parros gets criminal charges in future CTE lawsuits

 

[Johnny Rifle]

Dillon was clearly going for a big hit but missed his target by about 18 inches. Acciari is responsible for his own injury in some regard because he put himself in a vulnerable position, so I think the suspension is a bit long. I just don’t see an intent to injure, and unlike the aforementioned cross-check, is a result of bad physical judgement than mental judgement.

Sometimes the Wheel of Justice (TM) just isn’t your friend.

 

[Zbynek]

If this sets a precedent great. Just be consistent for the next time. But Parros won't.

 

[TheUnusedCrayon]

Dillon was clearly going for a big hit but missed his target by about 18 inches. Acciari is responsible for his own injury in some regard because he put himself in a vulnerable position, so I think the suspension is a bit long. I just don’t see an intent to injure, and unlike the aforementioned cross-check, is a result of bad physical judgement than mental judgement.

Sometimes the Wheel of Justice (TM) just isn’t your friend.

I agree but I also disagree with the length. I think in effort he meant to minimize the size of the hit by checking towards the boards and almost avoid contact (obviously just my own speculation) and in doing so resulted in a reckless hit that targeted head first.

Gotta be in control of your body. It shouldn't have been a difficult hit to go through the body as he was skating in the same line for a long ass time.

I felt 2-3 was justified. 3 for how easy the hit should have been to go through the body from the angle he was coming at.

 

[NikoEhlers]

Think this is it. I get the call and all but it didn’t look intentional or anything. Gotta be careful but it seemed like two guy a bit out of control colliding. Anyhow if the league is really going to crackdown on anything to the head, it’s a good thing.

They are not going to, they gave Gallagher 2 games more for a targeted blind side hit. Parros is an absolute joke

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Just make all head shots illegal. Accidental or not. I’m not sure why this is controversial.

This logic is how we ended up with the current "delay of game" rule, and is a significant step toward eliminating all hitting in the game - because every hit, accidental or not, carries the chance that it will involve a hit to the head, and so the only way to prevent every hit to the head is to prevent every action that might result in one.

The problem is not head shots. The problem is intentional head shots, and they need to be punished much more severely than they currently are.

 

[NotCommitted]

Back to disagreeing.. I think 3 or more should be the standard on these types of hits and the fact that guys get less doesn't mean those hits were ok. It means Paros sucks at his job. There is clearly no 'baseline' and it's all random guesses.

If they really wanted to avoid head injuries they'd have some sort of baseline standards, like maybe 1 game automatic for hit where there is head contact resulting in injury, no matter how clean and beautiful the hit was. Then 3-5 for hits like this and 10+ games for the downright dirty stuff.

Now you can get 3 games for this and a similar suspension for blindside hit clearly targeting the head or elbowing a guy in the face.

It's not hits like this where I'm baffled with the DoPS, it's the ones that are downright dirty with zero excuses. For those it seems ridiculous you might get off with 1-5 games whereas the player targeted will probably miss more like 10 games (if it was his 1st or 2nd concussion) or possibly have his career ended especially if he has suffered many concussions in the past already.