ECQF Game 6: Boston Bruins @ Florida Panthers | 7:30PM ET | TNT, CBC, SN, TVAS, BSFL, NESN

[ORRFForever]

That's his game. You live and die with it.

Looks like they were able to live with it... for now.

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

Huge PK and take the lead into the 3rd.

 

[ORRFForever]

Removing someone's helmet = roughing.

I guess they could let that go but unlike some other rules, it's pretty easy to call, because you can easily see when someone loses their helmet. Not exactly something you can hide or do in secret.

That's fair.

 

[danpantz]

Holy f*** did he go to Arizona? I thought he went to Buffalo and then BOS I forgot lol

Arizona ——> Buffalo ——> Boston

 

[LeonDraisaitl]

What a rollercoaster period

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Removing someone's helmet = roughing.

I guess they could let that go but unlike some other rules, it's pretty easy to call, because you can easily see when someone loses their helmet. Not exactly something you can hide or do in secret.

Playing without your helmet is also a penalty, talk about stupid rules

 

[Fern111]

Man...
If Game 1 went our way...

 

[danpantz]

Playing without your helmet is also a penalty, talk about stupid rules

That’s why taking someone else’s off is a penalty

 

[PromisedLand]

I just want this series to keep going lol

quadruple OT coming up

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Playing without your helmet is also a penalty, talk about stupid rules

Well Bergeron skated right to the bench when he lost his helmet.

And I think they made that rule for the safety of players. They don't want their heads hitting the ice in a collision afterwards.

 

[Sheppy]

Can’t wait to see the NHL in 5 years where they review the review of the review.

 

[Felidae]

Not quoting the entire rule, but


Which then requires someone to decide whether the Player's actions were "deliberate." Which means, someone has to use judgment and infer a player's intent. Which means, every time it happens one group of people argue there was no intent and another group of people argue there was.

The hand pass rule is black-and-white, as outlined above. No one has to decide well was he really trying to direct the puck at his teammate, or was it accidental or pure circumstance or ... - it happens, it's a violation regardless of whether intent was involved or not.

Fair enough. It's consistent with the actual rule.

I still think it's unfortunate though and I maintain that what the bruins player did was a nothing play. Ideally we should be able to judge these things on a case by case basis, which is why I am partial towards the reasoning behind the kicking motion rule.

At the same time, I can't really argue with the black and white approach of the hand pass rule, it definitely makes things much simpler.

 

[Dr Beinfest]

Presumably the reason you can't bat the puck in with your glove is because then the refs would have to decide if the player closed his hand on the puck and threw it in or batted it in.

Why is that what you’d default to as presumption? That’s random. It’s probably because thems is the rules. Imagine how different the game would be if you could, when in tight on the boards or in the paint, use your hand when your stick can’t get in there? Or imagine the puck is in the air over the goalie and a player bats it. Or imagine intentionally passing the puck up in the air and having literal set plays to slap the puck or volley the puck to a teammate.

If you could hand pass in the offensive zone, the game would be totally different.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

That’s why taking someone else’s off is a penalty

Yes, but guys usually play without it and don't get called. It's as dumb of a rule as it gets. Not saying Bennett didn't deserve a roughing, just think it's a bit snowflakey. I remember when fighting with a visor would get a guy 2 minutes.

 

[Andre Palot]

Arizona ——> Buffalo ——> Boston

Us Devils fans will never forget the contributions of Coyotes legend Taylor Hall.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Bennett eating a two handed overhand chop and then being scuffed hard in the back of the head: not a penalty.

That: a penalty.

I really don't care, at this point. Bennett's a great player, I'll take the occasional penalty, especially given how they call this garbage.

 

[Dr Beinfest]

I think the NHL needs to instantiate a new rule where, if nobody in the arena knows why a play is being challenged, it isn’t challengeable.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Bennett eating a two handed overhand chop and then being scuffed hard in the back of the head: not a penalty.

That: a penalty.

I really don't care, at this point. Bennett's a great player, I'll take the occasional penalty, especially given how they call this garbage.

Like Chucky, he gets called for playing with an edge. I'd trade Barkov for one more of them.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Fair enough. It's consistent with the actual rule.

I still think it's unfortunate though and I maintain that what the bruins player did was a nothing play. Ideally we should be able to judge these things on a case by case basis, which is why I am partial towards the reasoning behind the kicking motion rule.

At the same time, I can't really argue with the black and white approach of the hand pass rule, it definitely makes things much simpler.

People want every call to be right, but then they complain when a call is right and it's not what they want, but they want calls reviewed when it's not right so it can be right and what they want, but they don't want plays reviewed because it takes too long and there's no guarantee the review gets it right, but then some calls might be wrong and that pisses them off too, so ...

It's the Hockey Circle of Life. I wonder how Elton John and Bernie Taupin would write that song.

 

[Sheppy]

Bennett eating a two handed overhand chop and then being scuffed hard in the back of the head: not a penalty.

That: a penalty.

I really don't care, at this point. Bennett's a great player, I'll take the occasional penalty, especially given how they call this garbage.

He also didn’t get a penalty for spearing a guy in the dick.

 

[Dr Beinfest]

That’s why taking someone else’s off is a penalty

I mean… among other reasons, considering closing your hand on virtually anything that isn't your stick is a penalty. There’s no valid play that includes ripping someone’s helmet off.

 

[danpantz]

Us Devils fans will never forget the contributions of Coyotes legend Taylor Hall.

The only player in Devils history to win a hart trophy.

Devils legend Taylor Hall

 

[Get North]

Gudas and Mahura have had a solid year for a 3rd pairing. I'll give you Staal and throw in Ekblad.

It's odd to see Ekblad, 1st overall in 2014 is a slug compared to MacAvoy, 15th overall in 2016.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

I think the NHL needs to instantiate a new rule where, if nobody in the arena knows why a play is being challenged, it isn’t challengeable.

Which means ... if any one person in the arena knows why a play is being challenged, it is challengeable.

I cannot believe this site is still free.

 

[britdevil]

The only player in Devils history to win a hart trophy.

Devils legend Taylor Hall

Devils got Siegenthaler, Mercer and Bahl out of that trade.

Wild.