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

[Haguerbomb]

3 games holy sh*t

 

[CherryToke]

Total BS

It's always a Canadian team that gets bent over like this in the playoffs.. Duncan Keith would never have gotten away with his nonsense on a Canadian team.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

I’ll be shocked if he gets any more than one game.

You might want to pull over and breathe slowly

 

[HarrisonFord]

Already announced he's out, but good job trying to deflect.

Are they legally bound to that or can they just say whatever they want?

 

[General Fanager]

f***ing joke. 3 games for his first offence. Basically 3 games for being a Leaf.

f***ing ridiculous bullshit

I keep seeing this first offense nonsense. This wasn't a good hit gone bad, he deliberately elbowed a player in the head and that player is now injured and wont play next game.

The fact that its his first time being suspended is irrelevant.

 

[Chet Manley]

I am guessing if Bunting didn't jump into it, and it was completely incidental, he would have only gotten a game. But since he targeted the head by jumping into it, they gave him 3. Basically "We know you were trying to be a twat, and you got caught".

The puck being 2m away made that way worse. Cernak had no idea that a hit (flying elbow) was coming.

 

[Oleksiak]

Get ready to see Cernak magically able to play game 2

Regardless, it was a gutless hit and Bunting really shouldn't be in the league until he cuts out the diving and cheap shots. The NHL is a men's league.

 

[BTP]

He got 3 games for being an absolute turd. If he didn't jump into the head on purpose after seeing Cernak, he would have only got a game for incidental contact.

There are turds on every f***ing team. Miss me with that. Your team has more than ours does actually. It was a harsh suspension for a first timer and no one can tell me a non-leaf would ge tthe same punishment. They make examples of players in the biggest and most important markets. Happens in all sports.

That's a generously short suspension for an elbow to the head that caused an injury.

Keep the same energy.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

I figured it would be 2 games. 3 seems heavy but not unexpected.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Are they legally bound to that or can they just say whatever they want?

If there's one injury you can't f*** around with anymore, it's concussions. Too much liability at stake.

 

[Crunchrulz]

I don't know if I've seen a single Leaf fan defend it. But based on usual suspensions, 1 game is fair. He has no history as far as I know.

You might want to head on over to the Leafs section of this site. There are several fans defending the hit in the recap from the game. Some of them are actually very well written but still totally bogus points of view.

 

[EmptyNetAssassin]

Short memory then... considering this was less than a week ago.

The puck is a lot closer to be played there

 

[Ace]

Good. Should have been more.

 

[RDTBay4]

Weird Cernak himself only got 2 for the same thing a month ago and hit a guy with concussion history and already had an offense for doing the same thing previously. Bunting was also given a game misconduct while Cernak wasn't even penalized in his incident it's another obvious double standard by the league.

Video?

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I thought it would be 1 or 2 because no prior history unless he's been suspended before and I just forgot or didnt know.
3 seems excessive but im not really surprised I thought the league was going to hand out the full series

 

[Divine]

The puck is a lot closer to be played there

How is it closer to being played when the guy who hit the player got rid of the puck just to hit him?

 

[3074326]

I’ve always said if you want to get rid of this stuff to punish the players enough that they feel it.

I’d toss him the rest of the playoffs. Which they might have done on accident anyways.

But yeah. Don’t want to get suspended? Well, don’t do what Bunting did. It was egregious, dangerous and really you only do that if you’re trying to end someone’s career. So f*** Michael Bunting. Too bad we might see him again this postseason.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Anywho. I've got McCabe for the next playoff suspension if we're still doing that?

 

[Chet Manley]

Get ready to see Cernak magically able to play game 2

You want him out? Everyone should hope he returns ASAP.

 

[Community]

That's a generously short suspension for an elbow to the head that caused an injury.

What did you want, lifetime ban for a first time offense?

Playoffs games are typically charged at twice the rate of a regular season games... The last time somebody got 6 games was Marchand for literally suckered punching and swinging his stick at Jarrys head. That's even with a history (which Bunting doesn't have).

 

[Bruce Granville]

The correct amount.
- jump
- chicken wing
- on purpose
- puck nowhere near

But they reduced it to 3 because the Leafs are stronger without him.
No they can get the series to a 3-1 and then it‘s fair game.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Should have gotten an extra 2 minutes for being a dick. Had he hit Kucherov instead the 2min gets offset by Kucherov being a dick.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

f***ing joke. 3 games for his first offence. Basically 3 games for being a Leaf.

f***ing ridiculous bullshit

I agree it is bullshit, Should be banned for life for this

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Are they legally bound to that or can they just say whatever they want?

They wouldn't have said it otherwise. They would have said Game time decision then.

 

[EmptyNetAssassin]

How is it closer to being played when the guy who hit the player got rid of the puck just to hit him?

Sarcasm sorry