Speculation: Chris Johnston "An atom bomb could drop"

[Racer88]

It won't even be a ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb

Great song

 

[ITM]

All the Toronto media I listened to thought it was a nothing burger because that’s what it was.

Bérubé was wrong. It clearly wasn’t an elbow

There are a lot of soft people so I picked 75%. Football wouldnt have been invented if a tap like that knocked people out.

But that type of generality doesn’t hold up when at the drop of a hat I can pull a name like James Mirtle or Carlo Coliacovo without searching.

Craig Berube is a name and I don’t think he was a wrong.

The point is, at best it was a debatable hit, but to say it was a majority of opinion anywhere is a strong personal preference at best.

I don’t understand your point about football and invention in the least.

Professional fighters get knocked out all the time with punches that travel no more than half a foot to a foot in distance. That’s not a point of personal preference it’s a repeatable model and used in standard training methods.

 

[Nineteen67]

But that type of generality doesn’t hold up when at the drop of a hat I can pull a name like James Mirtle or Carlo Coliacovo without searching.

Craig Berube is a name and I don’t think he was a wrong.

The point is, at best it was a debatable hit, but to say it was a majority of opinion anywhere is a strong personal preference at best.

I don’t understand your point about football and invention in the least.

Professional fighters get knocked out all the time with punches that travel no more than half a foot to a foot in distance. That’s not a point of personal preference it’s a repeatable model and used in standard training methods.

Berube was wrong. He said it was elbow, but replay after replay shows it wasn’t.

Nothing to debate because whoever hit the goalie is not a professional fighter and professional fighters do not hit with with their wrists.

Stolarz had to hurt prior to that little bump. If not, he should consider retiring.

As for football, if that injured anyone, we wouldn’t have football. People would be dead in practice.

 

[DuklaNation]

Rielly needs to go. I'd try to acquire Bowen Byram. Do NOT overpay Knies.

 

[rumman]

If Marner leaves the entire spotlight will be on Matthews. He will have a lot to prove.

Only thing 34 will be proving is he’s not a leader, he’s got no heart, and he’s willing to throw his teammates under the bus………..
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[rumman]

Knies, maybe, but Cowan has proven nothing at the NHL level.

Most of the guys we can realistically trade will fetch mid-round picks at best.

Got to trade the players that will return something, like the core players………

 

[rumman]

Matthews has to be completely reprogrammed to be able to compete in the NHL playoffs. From everything he’s shown since he started skating it’s highly unlikely he has it in him.

Dubas and Shanny promised him the league would change, but it hasn’t, and won’t in the near future. He may look to retire after this contract expires.

Move on from Mathews, he’ll want out now his buddy is playing elsewhere………

 

[rumman]

Exactly keep the picks there was a strong possibility that over the last 9 years we stumbled onto another 2 or 3 knies type guys to augment the overpaid ones.

I’m not opposed to the teM taking a big step back this upcoming season, could be the motivation to get any or all of 34, 88, 44 to waive their NMC’s to play elsewhere………

 

[rumman]

It won't even be a ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb

 

[Trapper]

Only thing 34 will be proving is he’s not a leader, he’s got no heart, and he’s willing to throw his teammates under the bus………..
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I agree. This guy should not have been made Captain. You can’t even commit to an 8 year deal (and that was before you threw everyone under the bus). Exactly why do you deserve the C?
This whole build started with greed and misleading.
From short term deal, maximize the amount you take from the team Marleau teaching the boys, Tavares (don’t trade me I want to stay in NY) jumping ship, lack of intensity, relax it’s fine Joe Thornton, rookie we can and we will bend me over GM Dubas, it was doomed to fail.
At least if Marner goes, Matthews can’t stick to the shadows.

 

[PromisedLand]

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i dont know if i should be shit scared or turned on

LMAO

 

[al secord]

i dont know if i should be shit scared or turned on

LMAO

If you knew what her age was in that pic, I'd hope you pick the right one.

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

i dont know if i should be shit scared or turned on

LMAO

There's no reason you can't be both.

 

[PromisedLand]

There's no reason you can't be both.

LMAO hahahahahahahaha

Life as a Leafs fan...

EXTREME!

 

[ITM]

Berube was wrong. He said it was elbow, but replay after replay shows it wasn’t.

Nothing to debate because whoever hit the goalie is not a professional fighter and professional fighters do not hit with with their wrists.

Stolarz had to hurt prior to that little bump. If not, he should consider retiring.

As for football, if that injured anyone, we wouldn’t have football. People would be dead in practice.

If football injured anyone? That’s not a serious statement. CTE protocols are all but a function of football. Because the sport is played and continues has nothing to do with standards of unacceptable safety or mechanism for immediate or future injury.

The example of professional fighting is to dispel your preference that impact has to appear dramatic in order to have serious consequences.

And specifically, the video of Bennett’s hit shows a clear follow through. Follow through don’t require wind-ups or set-ups.

Additionally, all footage shows Stolarz’s reaction in time with the collision, in which Stolarz’s neck rotates and demonstrates lateral flexion - his neck bends to the right.

If you hit a person in the side of their neck with your forearm and follow through with your elbow you can cause significant damage. If Bennett somehow injured an artery, Stolarz’s ear, vomiting would be consistent with a number of things, all possible and all more serious than a concussion.

He wasn’t vomiting because a puck hit him in the mask.

The hit and the effect were untraditional, but the consensus inference from those that dismiss the hit, do so from ignorance.