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Ill-timed Stone puck dive causes Heiskanen to blow out his knee

Greasy player doing greasy things. That contact with his skate didn’t cause him to football tackle Heiskanen’s leg.

Hockey is a game where players who do terrible things and cross the line, usually end up on the receiving end of someone else doing something terrible to them and suffering accordingly. Hopefully history plays out like that in this situation.
 
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Paper said:
Looks like Stone was diving to sell the tripping from Hintz.
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I thought that he was just trying to stop Heiskanen, rather than diving to draw a penalty on Hintz. And he did just manage to get his stick on the puck but he went right into Heiskanen's knee in the process. Between the little trip and the play on the puck, maybe he gets away with it. I don't know.
 
ucanthanzalthetruth said:
Video will be posted asap. For those watching live, thoughts? I have never seen a play like that go for a major (call was 2 for tripping) but it was really dumb, I wouldnt be surprised if thats a season ender for Heiskanen, his knee looked cooked. Huge blow for Dallas.

Here was the angle when I posted the thread:



and here's the 2nd angle:



Hintz definitely touches the skate but idk if that would cause that type of fall.
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Maybe change the thread title until there’s more info about the injury? When I hear someone “blew out their knee” I understand that to mean a catastrophic knee injury
 
Stone knew exactly where he was lunging. If he got toe picked he goes down to the ice, not leap in a different direction...the direction of a players knee

Disgraceful play.

Has effectively ended Dallas' season.

There has to be punishment for this.
 
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Zirakzigil said:
Shouldnt be throwing Stones in glass houses.
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I don't like Stone, but I agree with those that say it's not intentional. It is definitely very reckless from him though and a dangerous play. He was in no position to be reaching for that puck while falling/diving. If that was intentional it'd be the dumbest most blatant dirty play I've ever seen. From him, it's tough to imagine that especially during a regular season game.

I don't expect any fine/suspension to come out of it though (although there should be at least a fine for a dangerous trip - there won't be), but that carelessness is unacceptable from him. Really hope this injury isn't serious
 
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Kcb12345 said:
I don't like Stone, but I agree with those that say it's not intentional. It is definitely very reckless from him though and a dangerous play. He was in no position to be reaching for that puck while falling/diving. If that was intentional it'd be the dumbest most blatant dirty play I've ever seen. From him, it's tough to imagine that especially during a regular season game.

I don't expect any fine/suspension to come out of it though (although there should be at least a fine for a dangerous trip - there won't be), but that carelessness is unacceptable from him. Really hope this injury isn't serious
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Clearly jumps at his legs, a different direction to the way he would have fallen from a trip. Jumping in a different direction, right at his legs.

How on earth can you not call it intentional
 
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I’ve watched a lot of hockey and I can’t recall ever seeing a player “fall” into someone’s legs in quite this manner. Falling down doesn’t look like this. What he did was closer to a leap than a trip, and it’s very very hard not to see intent in that replay.

I’m not really sure how you adequately punish something like this. This has potential to devastate a team and change outcomes for an entire conference playoff bracket. What’s the most Stone can possibly get here, maybe 2 or 3 games off? It’s one of those things where you just have to swallow the bitter pill that bad people get away with bad things in this sport.
 
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tarheelhockey said:
I’ve watched a lot of hockey and I can’t recall ever seeing a player “fall” into someone’s legs in quite this manner. Falling down doesn’t look like this. What he did was closer to a leap than a trip, and it’s very very hard not to see intent in that replay.

I’m not really sure how you adequately punish something like this. This has potential to devastate a team and change outcomes for an entire conference playoff bracket. What’s the most Stone can possibly get here, maybe 2 or 3 games off? It’s one of those things where you just have to swallow the bitter pill that bad people get away with bad things in this sport.
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Make him ineligible for LTIR.
 
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tarheelhockey said:
I’ve watched a lot of hockey and I can’t recall ever seeing a player “fall” into someone’s legs in quite this manner. Falling down doesn’t look like this. What he did was closer to a leap than a trip, and it’s very very hard not to see intent in that replay.

I’m not really sure how you adequately punish something like this. This has potential to devastate a team and change outcomes for an entire conference playoff bracket. What’s the most Stone can possibly get here, maybe 2 or 3 games off? It’s one of those things where you just have to swallow the bitter pill that bad people get away with bad things in this sport.
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Stone could (and probably should) get suspended. Never seen someone fall on somebody's knee like this either, and this shouldn't become a tactic to discreetly injure players. Could make a precedent out of this. But it's weird, as I can't be 100% sure about the intention either.

If Heiskanen is hurt, in addition to potentially crippling the Stars he would also completely cripple one of the 4 Nations teams, and it's the NHL's new marketing baby. The league won't be happy about this.
 
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Think I agree with those who say Stone was diving.

The super slow mo reverse angle makes it look like a potentially normal trip over an errant stick, but real speed or even semi-slow mo make it look far more nefarious.
 
heksagon said:
Stone could (and probably should) get suspended. Never seen someone fall on somebody's knee like this either, and this shouldn't become a tactic to discreetly injure players. Could make a precedent out of this. But it's weird, as I can't be 100% sure about the intention either.

If Heiskanen is hurt, in addition to potentially crippling the Stars he would also completely cripple one of the 4 Nations teams, and it's the NHL's new marketing baby. The league won't be happy about this.
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Will be interesting to see how the league reacts.

All the points you bring up are very good; Top player on a 4 nations team, potentially season ending injury to an important southern market, BUT...happy or not.. it is the captain of the leagues golden child.

Very curious what they rule here.
 
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