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Bunting got 5 and a game for elbow to the head of Cernak (suspended 3 games)

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Prettyisland said:
You are always accountable for what happens after reckless behavior regardless of intent. That being said I think missing a period plus of playoff hockey should be the end of punishment
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I agree with the first part but doesn’t this guy have a reputation for being a clown?
It’s 3 games for me
 
GoJetsGo55 said:
Doing that in a 3-2 game where your struggling team is finally building some momentum is truly, truly dumb.
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Technically it was 4-2 at the time, but your point still stands. Leafs were buzzing, there was a ton of time left, and then Bunting just ****s it all up like a complete moron, handing Tampa a five minute powerplay that they easily capitalized on......and then again after Keefe's questionable double-down challenge. :help: :laugh:

I still blame Keefe for moving Bunting up in the lineup, like what did he think was gonna happen? Never seen a coach so unprepared for a Game 1 as Keefe was last night,.
 
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GQS said:
When you have the time to react then sure maybe you can prepare like that, but when you're about to get hit with almost no warning how do you have even fractions of a second to prepare for it? The answer is YOU DON'T and you simply react and brace as best you can.

Eyssimont earlier had no time to brace for McCabe's hit and he took it full on, but in that case McCabe had the INTENT to make a hit on him. This wasn't the case with Bunting and Cernak where it looked to me like an accidental collision.


When you're about to throw a hit you go downwards slightly and then up because that's the natural motion of your body and it generates force. And the part about 'feet leaving the ice' comes AFTER you make contact with your het and not before. The feet leaving the ice is the follow through because before the hit you WANT your feet on the ice so that you can use your legs to push off and into the person you're trying to hit.

Its the same off and on the ice. Try jumping into someone with your feet already off the ground and its a weak hit. Use your legs to drive your shoulder into someone and its a much more powerful hit.
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As I said you have never hit people on the ice or been hit. If you are not prepared for a hit as you say Bunting was not, then you do not change your positioning and move towards the hit or leap off your feet.
When delivering a hit on ice if you leap/leave your feet you lose power not increase it. Staying planted and driving through with your lower body as you use the laws of inertia gives you a far better hit. Like I said it takes a lot of practice to give and receive hit on ice and Bunting has had that practice. He was throwing a hit.
 
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Dr Pepper said:
Technically it was 4-2 at the time, but your point still stands. Leafs were buzzing, there was a ton of time left, and then Bunting just ****s it all up like a complete moron, handing Tampa a five minute powerplay that they easily capitalized on......and then again after Keefe's questionable double-down challenge. :help: :laugh:

I still blame Keefe for moving Bunting up in the lineup, like what did he think was gonna happen? Never seen a coach so unprepared for a Game 1 as Keefe was last night,.
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Agreed. With Bunting's antics in the first period where he was flopping at almost every contact and chirping at almost every whistle, it's beyond me that Keefe didn't sit him at the end of the bench for half a period. A coach has to try and control those poor decisions from a player. This guy looks even more unhinged than Kadri did when he made stupid plays season after season in Toronto.
 
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TheDawnOfANewTage said:
Their point is that unexpectedly getting hit leads to injury and falling awkwardly. Were you high when you wrote this silly response?
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Unfortunately not, because the discussion is so inane.

The notion that a situation like that is 'unexpected' for a professional hockey player like Bunting that he shouldn't know how to deal with potentially receiving contact when he's got body position in order to maintain it without taking an obvious penalty is so ridiculous because we see hockey players not do what Bunting did routinely.
 
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GQS said:


Look at the rear camera view. Cernak was skating towards Bunting from behind/side while leaning down. Can anyone tell me where exactly Bunting was intentionally trying to hit Cernak in the head rather than it being accidental?
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Cernak never had the puck, therefore Bunting should never have hit him in the first place, much less the head
 
NyQuil said:
Well, he actually hit the puck carrier unlike Bunting.

The puck carrier sees him coming, holds up and tries to dodge.

It's a completely different hit altogether.
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Ah so elbows to the face are ok if the player has the puck.

Good to know. I am not always up to date with the NHL rules.
 
NyQuil said:
No, really:



I was editing it when you responded.
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Ah the old re-edit the post afterwards. Nice work.

A shot to the head with or without the puck is illegal and does the same amount of damage.

You justify it nicely though.
 
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