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Maple Leafs' Matthews to have hearing for cross-checking Sabres' Dahlin
Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews will have a hearing on Monday for cross-checking Buffalo Sabres defenceman Rasmus Dahlin at the Heritage Classic, the NHL's department of player safety announced.www.sportsnet.ca
If JoMo got a game in the playoffs for a similar infraction Mathews needs to sit for two.
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Mathews is a big dude who plays a soft game, does not want anyone hitting him, his go to move is the cross check if anyone takes him on, this time he got carried away and could of ended every differently for Dahlin.
WolfHouse
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His post-game explanation of the cross-check was brutal... 'it may have slid up his shoulder' blah blah
Guy started all that shit with a dirty hit and then just stood back and watched everyone else fight, what a piece of shit. Give me Dubois over that weasel any day.
Chief Auston Wiggum:
Gets brushed on in OT and complains/ stops trying as the Leafs get scored on
Also Chief Auston Wiggum: Crosschecks a player IN THE NECK and then brushes it off.
What a complete and utter doosh. He's perfect for the Toronto market.
Gets brushed on in OT and complains/ stops trying as the Leafs get scored on
Also Chief Auston Wiggum: Crosschecks a player IN THE NECK and then brushes it off.
What a complete and utter doosh. He's perfect for the Toronto market.
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Duke749
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Yet the most blatant knee all season got a measly fine.
Not that Matthews didn’t earn this, but as we can see, there’s a clear bias and clear incompetence.
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I'm just going to say it, Scheifele gets 4 playoff games (which count for more) for his late hit, but a blatant cross check to the head only gets 2?
I've said it many times, the way this league punishes based on injury is ridiculous. Nothing happened to Dhalin so it's 2. If he went down and needed to be stretchered off it would have been more.
Stop punishing the result and punish the play you idiots.
I've said it many times, the way this league punishes based on injury is ridiculous. Nothing happened to Dhalin so it's 2. If he went down and needed to be stretchered off it would have been more.
Stop punishing the result and punish the play you idiots.
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I think its a pretty clear attempt to injure. I would have given him 5. That is a career ending type of play
WolfHouse
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If any Jets player had done that , guaranteed 5 games at least. Spezza knees Pionk in the head, gets suspended but the league cuts back the suspension. Matthews tries to decapitate a player and only gets 2 games? Probably will appeal and only get 1 game, and people wonder why there is so much hate for the Leafs.
How many cross check suspensions have been dished out in the reg season or PO's the last few years? Kadri, Matthews come to mind. But don't think there's been others (atleast according to Google).
Edit - there was one in the pre season from an Ottawa player against us.
Edit - there was one in the pre season from an Ottawa player against us.
Duke749
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Someone on the main board said this is the first I’m the regular season in 3.5 years. Worst has gotten less or no attention at all. Mangiopani(however you spell it) got 2 mins for cross checking Scheif straight to the face.
WolfHouse
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I think they're referencing this one
UPDATE: Robert Bortuzzo suspended four games for Arvidsson cross-check
The hit happened while the Nashville forward was on the ice.
www.stlouisgametime.com
But ya, they're all over the place and so many cross checks just as bad go uncalled.
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Don't hate the Leafs over this. Hate the league (Bettman). Hate the media (TSN& SN). Hate DoP(e)S (Bettman again, Parros).
McNabb, in the playoffs, cross-checked Scheifele in the mouth, drawing blood, and got nothing — Scheif got a penalty on the play.
The DoPS is incredibly inconsistent. The Matthews crosscheck was way more egregious than the Scheifele hit — but Scheifele got the equivalent of 4x the number of the regular season games based on optics. Dahlin gets up so it’s all good.
Matthews deserved more games, but there’s been even more vicious plays/incidents that only received fines or got nothing at all. It truly seems like they arrive at these punishments at random. It makes no sense.
Morrissey got one game for a similar infraction in the playoffs a number of years back. Two games is fair for Mathews based on that precedent.
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A pint of dark matter, please.
Day off today — update if any tomorrow as per various pundits.
Romang67
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The suspension was well deserved. The inconsistency is the issue.
The DoPS needs to be scrapped and replaced by people that aren't associated with the NHL or the NHLPA. Since that won't happen any time soon, I'd settle for not making a player with significantly more penalty minutes than games played.
The DoPS needs to be scrapped and replaced by people that aren't associated with the NHL or the NHLPA. Since that won't happen any time soon, I'd settle for not making a player with significantly more penalty minutes than games played.
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