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

[Nothingbutglass]

Factually, no. Repeat offender status is a criterion used to increase suspension length. Bunting is not a repeat offender.

Is this hit suspension worthy? Yes. But it’s another case showing DOPS have no clue what they’re doing. It’s completely out of line with prior punishments they themselves have doled out.

The Hartman hit was equally malicious. They deemed it a one regular season game punishment. For Bunting’s to be 3 regular season games is absurd.

If they want to set a standard of tougher punishment, I am for that. But we all know that won’t be the case. The next headshot that rolls around will be given a fine or one game suspension. DOPS never has been consistent. And with the buffoons in charge, it is a guarantee they won’t be.

Is repeat offender the only criteria they use? Are they bound to use precedent even if the infractions arent exactly equal?

 

[Oleksiak]

Horton passed the puck less than a second before the hit?

The reason that was given was interference though. The hit was under a second late.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Cernak did not have, and never had the puck.

Hence the extra harsh suspension. I thought it would be a vague "for the series" type suspension.

 

[General Fanager]

Yeah Knies for Bunting might be an upgrade.

I dont know. Bunting is a good player but the truth is that he is the new Gallagher.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Has he tried not doing dumb s**t?

Funny thing is, this is probably gonna benefit the Leafs to a degree.

Agree, bunting too volatile for a team that historically lacks heart/motivation. This is def a case of addition by subtraction.

He killed the leafs momentum last night, I think if bunting didn’t go full moron, leafs win that game

 

[Il Stugotz]

That was a headshot.

Suspension video for Hartman called it a body check, which it obviously was.

 

[Divine]

Lightning killer Matthew Knies enters the lineup

 

[hatterson]

Is repeat offender the only criteria they use? Are they bound to use precedent even if the infractions arent exactly equal?

Repeat offender only applies to salary lost. In terms of length of suspensions everything is in play.

 

[Divine]

Suspension video for Hartman called it a body check, which it obviously was.

Ehlers has a concussion and hasn't played since. Definitely made head contact.

 

[D Wakaluk]

Was 100% sure this was gonna be only one game.

A blessing in disguise for the leafs really. Bunting has been a nothing player for a long time now. A poor man's Hyman. Annoying little shit who gets targeted by the refs and rightfully so

 

[Hedmonster Bolt]

Bunting should thank DoPs for postponing his payback till next year. Gutless turd.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Figured it would be 2 max, don’t think he has much of a suspension history?
Hopefully this goes 5 at least and someone drops the mitts with him

 

[Chainshot]

Good on the league, no place for that type of stupidity.


Hopefully they stay consistent tho

Consistently inconsistent seems like the league's motto.

 

[hatterson]

I'm curious how many people view this as the single worst hit a player has made in the last nearly 2 years of NHL hockey because the last hit to receive the equivalent of 3 playoff games or more was Scheifele on Evans nearly 2 years ago.

 

[Leaf Fans]

Didn't know that.

Yup he can be a free agent the same day as Bunting.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Yeah!

Who the hell wants to associate themselves with people who think their own players can do things wrong and should be punished accordingly?

Is today Opposite Day or something?

 

[MikeyMike01]

Cernak did not have, and never had the puck.

Hence the extra harsh suspension. I thought it would be a vague "for the series" type suspension.

At the current rate it will be for the series

 

[Nostradumbass]

Cernak did not have, and never had the puck.

Hence the extra harsh suspension. I thought it would be a vague "for the series" type suspension.

It is for the series.

 

[zeykshade]

Agree, bunting too volatile for a team that historically lacks heart/motivation. This is def a case of addition by subtraction.

He killed the leafs momentum last night, I think if bunting didn’t go full moron, leafs win that game

He "earned" them the Powerplay that got them the momentum by skating into Cernak 2seconds after the whistle on an icing call and then flopping like the diving sh*t-sipper he is.

I agree though, I think they're better without him.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Thought they'd give Tampa a break and only give him 1.

 

[HanSolo]

1 call? Try following the league.

I am fine with the punishment, just make it consistent, that is all.

Yeah I'm aware inconsistency goes back more than just one call. I'm not an idiot. The whole first line is obtuse nonsense.

What I'm saying is they can't retroactively go back and change prior suspension decisions. You're wringing your wrists over spilled milk. All you're doing by waxing poetic about consistency is implying that the punishment here should have arbitrarily followed past decisions, here, the Hartman suspension length of 1 game, to maintain consistency whether Hartman deserved more or whether Bunting deserved less.

Yeah the DOPS is inconsistent, and? What is gained from whining about it? The DOPS' inconsistency has known known for well over the last decade at least. Whining about it on HF isn't going to make the department take a read and reevaluate their standards and practices. All we can do is watch and say they got it wrong or right.

 

[Leaf Fans]

Wes McCauley must have put in a call to DPOS

Possibly, but I doubt that.

 

[Stealth1616]

So suspended for the rest of the series then

 

[Chips]

I have in the past, and will still continue in the future to shit on the DoPS..


But I’m really happy with this. I was sure he’d only get one game, maaaaybe too.


Maybe too optimistic to assume this will set a standard for the rest of the playoffs… but this would be the way to do it.


Most head hits aren’t intentional targeting. Knowingly reckless sure, but most are that or pure accident.

Incidents like this are way less common. Bunting has no respect for the game and deserved a long suspension.


Blatantly intentional non-plays like that, where anyone reasonable couldn’t understand what hockey play the hitter thought he was making… this looked like that, and those deserve auto harsh suspensions.

 

[Hedmonster Bolt]

How many will Cernak miss?

At least Thursday and probably more. He was concussed by a cheapshot pos. Gonna enjoy seeing him chased all over the ice next time Bolts see him.