GDT: GAME 81 - Sunday, April 13th, 2025 - Winnipeg Jets vs. Edmonton Oilers - 6:00pm CDT - TSN3 - CJOB/Power 97

I'm sorry I just don't see it with Heinola, under sized and kinda slow. Lost at times and doesn't react quick enough. Sure you could say the same thing about Stanley except for the size part and it seems for the Jets size that's what counts

I'm sorry but he hasn't played a game in 2 months and the entire team has been slapped around all night. From Scheifele to Samberg to Demelo to Connor they all sucked.
 
I'm sorry I just don't see it with Heinola, under sized and kinda slow. Lost at times and doesn't react quick enough. Sure you could say the same thing about Stanley except for the size part and it seems for the Jets size that's what counts
Weird how a guy who hasn't played since mid-February isn't super sharp.
 
The discretion is made based on how much risk to life injury it is. If it's up around the face or head, they blow it dead. If it's on a power play, and the person takes a shot down lower, then it isn't LIKELY to be blown dead.
"Likely" That’s the word I have an issue with.

From a safety perspective any player players losing a helmet or glove has to replace it immediately or return to the bench. Why? Safety.

But a player writhing in pain, unaware of his surroundings, unable to protect themselves, susceptible to skate blades & the puck, all while the threat of high danger scoring chances coming from every angle on a power play deserves to lie there & hope for the best?

Samberg & other players like in these situations are a snapshot away from a shot to the face or an errant skate blade slicing them open.

Ref's letting a player lie on the ice & hoping for the best is at some point going to result in a major incident & I'd go as far as to assert on-ice officials & the league would be liable for allowing this to occur.

Further Samberg's a tough cookie who has remarkably got up & played thru these situations before, this season alone doing so on one leg. Him going down for the count clearly meant he was in major pain.
 
"Likely" That’s the word I have an issue with.

From a safety perspective any player players losing a helmet or glove has to replace it immediately or return to the bench. Why? Safety.

But a player writhing in pain, unaware of his surroundings, unable to protect themselves, susceptible to skate blades & the puck, all while the threat of high danger scoring chances coming from every angle on a power play deserves to lie there & hope for the best?

Samberg & other players like in these situations are a snapshot away from a shot to the face or an errant skate blade slicing them open.

Ref's letting a player lie on the ice & hoping for the best is at some point going to result in a major incident & I'd go as far as to assert on-ice officials & the league would be liable for allowing this to occur.

Further Samberg's a tough cookie who has remarkably got up & played thru these situations before, this season alone doing so on one leg. Him going down for the count clearly meant he was in major pain.

But if they make it a policy to always blow the whistle we will have bodies laying all over the ice, especially during PPs. You'll never again see a team hemmed in their own end, getting tired, hoping for a whistle.
 
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"Likely" That’s the word I have an issue with.

From a safety perspective any player players losing a helmet or glove has to replace it immediately or return to the bench. Why? Safety.

But a player writhing in pain, unaware of his surroundings, unable to protect themselves, susceptible to skate blades & the puck, all while the threat of high danger scoring chances coming from every angle on a power play deserves to lie there & hope for the best?

Samberg & other players like in these situations are a snapshot away from a shot to the face or an errant skate blade slicing them open.

Ref's letting a player lie on the ice & hoping for the best is at some point going to result in a major incident & I'd go as far as to assert on-ice officials & the league would be liable for allowing this to occur.

Further Samberg's a tough cookie who has remarkably got up & played thru these situations before, this season alone doing so on one leg. Him going down for the count clearly meant he was in major pain.
Totally agree. I was watching a Devils game on the weekend and the ref got hit in the back of the leg fell to the ice and the whistle blew right away. The Devils announcer was joking calling him a baby … “come on you can take a puck to the back of the leg”. 😂
Remember a couple of years ago against Dallas Helle was laying on the ice with no mask after been hit and the play continued until Dallas scored.
I would bet if that was McDavid on the ice the whistle would have been blown.
 
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