Couturier head shots Dach. Couturier drops the gloves with Xhekaj. Seeler comes in as a 3rd fighter. Xhekaj gets the penalty...?
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Ratsreign
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Can’t let someone get away with charging in like that. I can’t believe it wasn’t called
And if the refs wanted to send Xman a message, give him a double for whatever so his team is still shorthanded
3rd man is a ref’s decision. It is not automatic, sorry. It’s explicit in the rule book. If a fight actually happened then I think it would have been 3rd man in, but no punches were thrown. The refs are fine. They made their call the way they saw fit and as the nhl allows. Move along.
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One of the worst ref call this year, if not the worst
Yeah you could certainly call Seeler, but I don't know but seems like officials are being to encouraged to take 1 instead of offsetting penalties to discourage the scrums.
From a traditional sense I would take Seely to offset, but if my supervisor/evaluator wants me to be taking one, its a different story, including the possibility of just Seeler.
Watching another game so didn't look to close and was just trying to answer why Xhekaj might go by himself. Also I have no idea whet else has gone on this game which matters as well.
How it started -
Seeler should've gotten third man in. Dufus officiating.
Seeler should've gotten third man in. Dufus officiating.
Ratsreign
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That’s the “head shot” on Dach?
No problem at all with Wifi going after Couturier. That's one of the reasons why you have a guy like WiFi around. Absolutely clueless display by the refs, who of course will never have to be held accountable in public.
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You're like the most biased person on hfboards
The call was bullshit. Move along. All that matters is the Couturier dropped his gloves first. Either he gets the extra penalty or call nothing or offsetting penalties.
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I wish
Spend 3 mins reading any Montreal thread and you’ll know that’s not true
It doesn't matter what else happened. The one who drops the gloves first IS the instigator
even if he was suckered into dropping them first. And if Couturier didn't want to fight DON'T drop the gloves.
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That's not true. The rule lays out a number of criteria the official can use to determine if an instigator is called. Dropping the gloves is one of the criteria, but so is distance traveled, first punch thrown, verbal challenge threats.
The call on the ice was unsportsmanlike conduct. And roughing or unsportsmanlike lie could have been given both ways for dropping the gloves if that is what official wanted to do.
He chose not to, he was right there and I guarantee you he is talking the players as this is all going down.
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That’s not how that works. Dropping the gloves first can be justification for calling an instigator but it isn’t what determines the infraction.
Officials knew that exactly what was happening here, sure they could have called more on everyone involved. Given it didn’t escalate they decided to let the players off.
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why are people saying the fight hasn't started. coots throws a right and seelers attack from the xhekajs blindside after xhekaj had already dropped the gloves and squared up with coots. should have been called.
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can someone post the complete play? Like the previous 30 seconds?
That is why I want to watch the 30 second previous to the gloves being dropped
because the never actually engaged in a fight I can see not getting third man in.
but should have been at least offsetting.
I did like couturier there. Drops his glove. Looks at the ref. Ref doesn’t step in. Shakes his head and squares up.
He was going to try it. Good for him.
but should have been at least offsetting.
I did like couturier there. Drops his glove. Looks at the ref. Ref doesn’t step in. Shakes his head and squares up.
He was going to try it. Good for him.
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That's kind of where I'm at.
There should've been more offsetting penalties but it's pretty obvious what Xhekaj's intentions were.
As for the headshot, I haven't seen a great angle but from the one posted it looked like Couturier was trying to play a puck going by his skates and not even throwing a hit?
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Refs are tired of Costco Boys antics. Couts is a respected player around the league, there's no reason to fight a scrub like Xhekaj. Third man in didn't even try to swing a punch - just broke up what would have been a completely useless fight for his Captain. Good on him and good on the refs for recognizing that.
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