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

[Leaf Fans]

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

yeah, games 5,6,7 if it goes that long, are not the time to take revenge.

 

[HanSolo]

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

Idk about that. The game was slipping away from them before that hit. The major certainly didn't help.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Possibly, but I doubt that.

No man it’s true, I was the phone

 

[hatterson]

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.

I'd say naive is a better descriptor than optimistic. Once every year or two they come out with a suspension like this where most people say "yea it's high given other suspensions, but it's probably right from a player safety standpoint. Hopefully they stay consistent." and then inevitably they go back to the usual.

It happened a couple years ago with the Matthews cross checking suspension (not saying the Leafs are getting screwed, I just remember that one easily because it was my team), and it's happened other times too.

The only thing consistent with the DOPS is their totally lack of consistency or care for player safety. They suspend for optics, not for safety.

 

[MXD]

He probably should've gotten 4.

 

[Gurglesons]

Pretty absurd suspension given what the same office has allowed go in previous playoffs..

If it's the new normal. I'm all for it.

 

[Crede777]

The thing is, is the moment he stops playing close to the line is the moment he stops being effective. Players like that need to play close to the line.

Then he isn't talented enough to be in the league. If you have to play in an unsafe manner to make it, you don't really belong.

 

[BobClarkesfrontteeth]

He deserves every second of those three games and when the suspension ends and the Leafs are up 3-1 he doesn't see another playoff game in a Leaf uniform. He doesn't bring anything to the table if he can't be smart while being a rat.

 

[tny760]

3 playoff games is INSANE when we're comparing to their previous record of suspensions. for years it's been 1 playoff game=2 regular season games and this seemed like your typical 2-gamer

i'm not gonna complain, this is about as cheap of a cheapshot as it gets but i'm just shocked by the severity

 

[Hedmonster Bolt]

Lightning killer Matthew Knies enters the lineup

OK, he did lose in Tampa a week or 2 ago though.

 

[notbias]

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.

Your post makes absolutely no sense. What are we deciding is right and wrong?

According to the standards of the DOPS, this suspension is wrong.

According to my standards, this suspension is right and many others are wrong.

That is why consistency is an important topic.

Not sure I'd say I am whining about it, I think Bunting being out may be a good thing. I guess I am whining about wanting the DOPS to take player safety more seriously potentially, this is not a step toward that.

 

[Leaf Fans]

No man it’s true, I was the phone

Ok.

 

[notbias]

OK, he did lose in Tampa a week or 2 ago though.

Edit this while you can (go check the score)

 

[Daz28]

Pretty absurd suspension given what the same office has allowed go in previous playoffs..

If it's the new normal. I'm all for it.

It's the new normal random suspension. It was pretty much classic Dustin Brown to me. If my backs kinda turned there's no way they can prove I meant to do that.

 

[Chips]

3 playoff games is INSANE when we're comparing to their previous record of suspensions. for years it's been 1 playoff game=2 regular season games and this seemed like your typical 2-gamer

i'm not gonna complain, this is about as cheap of a cheapshot as it gets but i'm just shocked by the severity

I think they usually go lower if the player could conceivably argue he thought there was a hockey play there and accidentally caught the head. The hit alone really eliminates that, but also the immediate guilty “what for” and the 10/10 dive earlier makes him seem extremely disingenuous

That and his rep…. He doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt

 

[Hedmonster Bolt]

Edit this while you can (go check the score)

Did Minnesota win?

 

[notbias]

Did Minnesota win?

He played in the game where they beat Tampa... you know, in the NHL

 

[HanSolo]

Your post makes absolutely no sense. What are we deciding is right and wrong?

According to the standards of the DOPS, this suspension is wrong.

According to my standards, this suspension is right and many others are wrong.

That is why consistency is an important topic.

Not sure I'd say I am whining about it, I think Bunting being out may be a good thing. I guess I am whining about wanting the DOPS to take player safety more seriously potentially, this is not a step toward that.

Explain how. Again. They can't retroactively change a single prior decision. If this suspension is the beginning of consistency and cracking down, how would this be a step in the wrong direction?

This is what I'm getting at. You're applying past precedent like it's binding to say that the only way this call would be "correct" is if it lined up with prior decisions that were incorrect in not being lengthy enough. If the league has to lock in every suspension call to one game to maintain consistency with a previous decision, then we get consistency in the form of a consistently incorrect standard and no player safety goals are resolved.

 

[Hedmonster Bolt]

He played in the game where they beat Tampa... you know, in the NHL

No shit. A game that meant nothing, was talking about a game that meant something. I'm sure the Bolts are terrified of him.

 

[Shocker]

Heeeey, i expexted 2 and would have given 4 myself, so 3 is pretty decent.

 

[notbias]

Explain how. Again. They can't retroactively change a single prior decision. If this suspension is the beginning of consistency and cracking down, how would this be a step in the wrong direction?

This is what I'm getting at. You're applying past precedent like it's binding to say that the only way this call would be "correct" is if it lined up with prior decisions that were incorrect in not being lengthy enough. If the league has to lock in every suspension call to one game to maintain consistency with a previous decision, then we get consistency in the form of a consistently incorrect standard and no player safety goals are resolved.

The suspension won't be the beginning of it, you know, I know it, everyone knows it.

We can pretend it might be, so sure, I am super excited for them moving in this direction!

 

[kingsfan28]

So has the standard been set or is this only going to apply to Bunting?

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

It’s Toronto. Par for the course.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

So has the standard been set or is this only going to apply to Bunting?

I hope this is the standard now, because it makes players second guess aiming for the head.

 

[DaBolts]

I warned you clowns that Molson's as a bribe to the DPOS is at least 3 steps below Bud Light.