Ekman-Larsson fined for interference

[OVO16]

Parros actually hates the leafs its so funny . No way is that fine worthy, Penalty? Sure

I almost think he wanted to suspend OEL but DOPS went "nah listen thats gonna make it too obvious" LMAO

 

[leafsfan2point0]

I can see it being an interference penalty for sure but… Parros hates the leafs, and will inflict punishment any chance he can. His track record has proved this many times.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Haha what a sell job

Ooof it sure was lol

 

[1specter]

Deserved, dirty hit that Leafs fans would cry about for literally years if it happened to one of their players

your shtick is pathetic at this point

 

[KrisLetAngry]

Toronto fans.

I actually might have to consider the conspiracy of how DOPS handles Toronto.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Deserved, dirty hit that Leafs fans would cry about for literally years if it happened to one of their players

You have a lot of Leaf hate in you. Promise me you'll take up a healthier past-time.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

your shtick is pathetic at this point

You have a lot of Leaf hate in you. Promise me you'll take up a healthier past-time.

Cry about the fine, cry about what other people think about your team on the internet

Sad!

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

50 cents in normal people money. .Jesus these fines

 

[All Mod Cons]

Welcome to Toronto Oliver.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Scrabble in Montreal gets to go cave man on people’s head for a fine and then this gets the exact same punishment. Spin that wheel.

 

[Nocashstyle]

Very clear interference and the “fine” is absolutely nothing. Some Leafs fans…lol

 

[All Mod Cons]

Parros actually hates the leafs its so funny . No way is that fine worthy, Penalty? Sure

I almost think he wanted to suspend OEL but DOPS went "nah listen thats gonna make it too obvious" LMAO

I'm shocked he didn't get a suspension. George absolutely had to have been pushing for it.

You have a lot of Leaf hate in you. Promise me you'll take up a healthier past-time.

He's on the shortlist for the Head of DoPs position once George calls it a day.

 

[My3Sons]

Scrabble in Montreal gets to go cave man on people’s head for a fine and then this gets the exact same punishment. Spin that wheel.

Scrabble is a good nickname

 

[CanesUltimate11]

The puck is right there. He is allowed to defend his ice. I am unaware of any rule that prevents the first person to the puck from making body contact.

Parros GTFO

That rule seems to only apply when both are going in the same direction and towards the end wall / corners.

 

[A1LeafNation]

Looks like they wanted to put a lid on that style of interference. Don't lift up into the hit.

We say this every October. No lids ever get closed.

 

[LemonSauceD]

I mean this was deemed a charging so who knows at this point

 

[CanesUltimate11]

Very clear interference and the “fine” is absolutely nothing. Some Leafs fans…lol

One issue (I'm guessing) at least as far as OEL goes is that now he has no wiggle room before getting suspended if something similar happens, whether intentional or not. And that's on top of the obvious issue that these decisions have no rhyme or reason to who gets punished or not.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

I'm gonna keep rehashing this play until the heat death of the universe because it keeps being relevant how absolutely dice-roll-random reactions to these no-touch reverse hits are

 

[Carl Hungus]

This got no penalty or fine btw

why would it

 

[theMajor]

a FINE? FOR WHAT?!

 

[Bounces R Way]

It was a bit of cheapshot. He pays the bit of a cheapshot price.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Just saying, Toronto steps a toe out of line they hear something. There are clips of players do things to us our guys got suspended for. There is history of unprecedented suspensions involving Toronto players in the last few years.

People say the Leafs are soft and don't know how to play tough so they get dirty. Ok might hold up until you see the Panthers play the exact same way or the Bruins of a few years ago and what they get away with...

 

[Community]

Very clear interference and the “fine” is absolutely nothing. Some Leafs fans…lol

I don't think anybody has an issue with the fine amount.

More annoyed that there are plenty of similar plays where no fine was given and technically fines go on your record and are considered as "history" when determining future suspension lengths.

I'm not one for conspiracies, but the Leafs lead in suspensions during Paros tenure with 10 and I believe there has only been 2 incident against the Leafs (hard to fact check, but i think Tkachuk in 2017 and Wilson last year) that has resulted in a suspension despite being near the bottom of the league in penalty minutes which you would think has at least a little bit of correlation... Just a weird stat and combined with Riellys suspension being leaked it is some cause for concen.

If I had to guess though, I wouldnt necessarily state there's a vendetta as much as I think Parros isn't doing a great job league wide (and maybe has a slight bias towards the Leafs).

As for the fine amount, I do think it's silly that the limit is 5k. For reference, a 1 game suspension for a repeat offender (not sure if this includes player with fine history or not) would cost a league min player ~10k while costing Matthews 200k. It seems the fine is set-up to account for the league min players receiving fines (1/2 the monetary value of missing 1 game) and not the big earners. Even just making it cap at .05% of their salary makes more sense (~4k for league min and ~85k for Matthews).

 

[All Mod Cons]

I said it in the GDT last night, there was no way George was going to let OEL get away with that. He's new in Toronto and needs to know how things work around these parts.

OEL will learn that physicality has a price to pay round here and eventually he'll be labeled as another soft player.

 

[Nocashstyle]

I don't think anybody has an issue with the fine amount.

More annoyed that there are plenty of similar plays where no fine was given and technically fines go on your record and are considered as "history" when determining future suspension lengths.

I'm not one for conspiracies, but the Leafs lead in suspensions during Paros tenure with 10 and I believe there has only been 2 incident against the Leafs (hard to fact check, but i think Tkachuk in 2017 and Wilson last year) that has resulted in a suspension despite being near the bottom of the league in penalty minutes which you would think has at least a little bit of correlation... Just a weird stat and combined with Riellys suspension being leaked it is some cause for concen.

If I had to guess though, I wouldnt necessarily state there's a vendetta as much as I think Parros isn't doing a great job league wide (and maybe has a slight bias towards the Leafs).

As for the fine amount, I do think it's silly that the limit is 5k. For reference, a 1 game suspension for a repeat offender (not sure if this includes player with fine history or not) would cost a league min player ~10k while costing Matthews 200k. It seems the fine is set-up to account for the league min players receiving fines (1/2 the monetary value of missing 1 game) and not the big earners. Even just making it cap at .05% of their salary makes more sense (~4k for league min and ~85k for Matthews).

Hopefully the league is finally just cracking down on these and OEL is the first example. There is a difference between a “true” reverse hit ala Forsberg and straight up interference. It’s not even clear that Guentzel was even going to initiate contact and OEL didn’t have full possession of the puck.

Dahlin had a similar hit on Hischier a few years back. It looks like Hischier was going for a poke check and Dahlin throws himself backwards towards a defenseless Hischier.

It’s a dangerous play