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

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Dumb and unnecessary. Just as the Leafs were starting to get going. He’s been more of a liability than an asset this year. Honestly wouldn’t mind if he got suspended.
 
TaLoN said:
No, because he got 5 and a game for a legit elbow to the head, that alone is thread worthy.
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You should know that anything Leafs related has to be Leafs fans blindly defending their players.
There is just no other reason why anyone would mention the team other than bragging about how their players are the best of all time, or shrugging off near criminal acts as a league conspiracy.

Beezeral said:
Glad we can put to bed the narrative that Bunting is officiated unfairly. An obvious dive and a dirt AF hit all in one period. Guy's reputation is well earned.
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Can you?
After a whole period. I mean, a whole 20 minute stretch of 1 game certainly is a large sample size and should be sufficient to ignore 170 games' worth of sample size.

TheDizee said:
You will never win with a selfish player like him on your roster.

He is getting atleast 2 or 3.
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I'm sure people used to say the same about Kadri.
And Phil Kessel.
And Tyler Bozak.

Hmmm, now I'm not sure what tied all those players together.

zeykshade said:
I'm just more amazed that Wes McCauley bought the absolute dive that Bunting sold him when it was 3-0 after an icing and 2seconds after the whistle he skated into Cernak and fell over.

Honestly don't know how anyone can defend Bunting's style of play at this point.


Such an unlikeable player ffs. If he's not diving, he's playing on the edge. If he's not on the edge, he's clearly over it and then gives you the "What did I do?!"
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I'm not sure I'd call it a dive.
He was skating in the vicinity of a player long after the whistle and an elbow came up.
I'd be real pissed off over a really stupid and pointless decision to throw the elbow at all.

Ask the Bolts about Perry. The Panthers about Tkachuck. The Bruins about Marchand. The Stars about Benn.
Hmm, seems like annoying players whose role is to get under the skin of opponents exist all over the league.



As for the hit.

I said it live, in the game day thread, it was a bad hit and deserves a match penalty.
I also think it deserves a suspension (1 game), but it will also come with either a series scratch or at least a major demotion as Toronto can't afford to have this marked man on the ice any more.
 
pcruz said:
You should know that anything Leafs related has to be Leafs fans blindly defending their players.
There is just no other reason why anyone would mention the team other than bragging about how their players are the best of all time, or shrugging off near criminal acts as a league conspiracy.



Can you?
After a whole period. I mean, a whole 20 minute stretch of 1 game certainly is a large sample size and should be sufficient to ignore 170 games' worth of sample size.



I'm sure people used to say the same about Kadri.
And Phil Kessel.
And Tyler Bozak.

Hmmm, now I'm not sure what tied all those players together.



I'm not sure I'd call it a dive.
He was skating in the vicinity of a player long after the whistle and an elbow came up.
I'd be real pissed off over a really stupid and pointless decision to throw the elbow at all.

Ask the Bolts about Perry. The Panthers about Tkachuck. The Bruins about Marchand. The Stars about Benn.
Hmm, seems like annoying players whose role is to get under the skin of opponents exist all over the league.



As for the hit.

I said it live, in the game day thread, it was a bad hit and deserves a match penalty.
I also think it deserves a suspension (1 game), but it will also come with either a series scratch or at least a major demotion as Toronto can't afford to have this marked man on the ice any more.
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Bunting absolutely initiated that contact with Cernak. Cernak took the bait. W for Bunting. That's his role. He absolutely sold it.

I think that's what he was probably going for when he smoked Cernak. Wanted to draw a retaliatory call. Got caught up and jumped into a head shot.

I don't think he wanted to hurt Cernak. I'll never know the truth. But he did.
 
DisgruntledHawkFan said:
Bunting absolutely initiated that contact with Cernak. Cernak took the bait. W for Bunting. That's his role. He absolutely sold it.

I think that's what he was probably going for when he smoked Cernak. Wanted to draw a retaliatory call. Got caught up and jumped into a head shot.

I don't think he wanted to hurt Cernak. I'll never know the truth. But he did.
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I mean, I guess you could accuse Bunting of initiating contact on that, but he really doesn't do anything at all.

As for the hit, he threw the elbow up.

There's just no excuse for that shit.

It doesn't matter who the players represent, that is just not acceptable.
 
pcruz said:


I mean, I guess you could accuse Bunting of initiating contact on that, but he really doesn't do anything at all.

As for the hit, he threw the elbow up.

There's just no excuse for that shit.

It doesn't matter who the players represent, that is just not acceptable.
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If Cernak threw his elbow up McCabe went Macho Man off the top rope. Please.
 
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DisgruntledHawkFan said:
If Cernak threw his elbow up McCabe went Macho Man off the top rope. Please.
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Sure, but McCabe's hit was shoulder to chest.

Not really the same thing.
It was also not interference.
It was also not a few seconds after a whistle had gone and the play was already dead.




As you can see, the initial contact is with the shoulder and the elbow comes up as the follow through.
That's the normal series of events on an open ice hit like that.
 
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RickChartraw said:
this the guy some folks are complaining is treated unfair by officials.
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Have a look at this play.

1 vs 3 altercation.

Linesman skates into the fray and pulls out the 1 player instead of separating the other 3 from him:



Why focus on Bunting there and not on Hagel who just knocked him around?
It's not much, and not really enough to get upset over, but it is curious why this one player is singled out in scrums.
Same thing in the game where the linesman grabbed Bunting from a 1 vs 2 scrum and literally shoved him off the ice.

I've literally never seen that before, and we see scrums every single game.
 
Nothing much to defend here. No puck, just a little fly-by elbow to the head. Take a seat and think about it for a game Bunting.

Dubas is obviously going to call the league and their mother I've no doubt.
 
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pcruz said:
Sure, but McCabe's hit was shoulder to chest.

Not really the same thing.
It was also not interference.
It was also not a few seconds after a whistle had gone and the play was already dead.




As you can see, the initial contact is with the shoulder and the elbow comes up as the follow through.
That's the normal series of events on an open ice hit like that.
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100% agree that initial contact is with the shoulder. And where is McCabe's shoulder? On Eyssimont's face!
 
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