Is there a penalty for skipping the handshake line

[joestevens29]

Whatever happened in the AHL? Did those guys get anything for fighting in the handshake?

 

[Peltz]

Would I shake the hand of someone who played fairly and outplayed me? Absolutely.

Would I shake the hand of someone who attacked my family and made Sean Avery-esk comments? No, I would not.

It would show you're the bigger person though. It's not like Sean Avery is well respected.

Someone who can take a punch or an insult and still shake the transgressor's hand (especially during a loss) is a legitimately mature adult worthy of respect.

 

[Rpenny]

Nope. But ANY player who does it will be named, shamed and publicly humiliated

 

[Gorskyontario]

The handshake line is where the leafs get their respect, they would never skip it.

 

[ORRFForever]

It would show you're the bigger person though. It's not like Sean Avery is well respected.

Someone who can take a punch or an insult and still shake the transgressor's hand (especially during a loss) is a legitimately mature adult worthy of respect.

Of course but there is always a line. If you insult me, fine, if you go after my family, that is a bridge too far.

 

[ManofSteel55]

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He didn't skip the line. He just wouldn't shake Avery's hand. With Avery's reputation, I'm surprised others haven't as well.

 

[PettersonHughes]

Always wondered how awkward this hand shake line was lol

Yeah, with the likes of Horton/ Rome/ Hamhuis/ Lucic and Bergeron/ Burrows. Marchand/ Sedin, I wouldn't put it beyond them saying "well played, all throughout my efforts to saw you in half at the waist/ take your head off/ bite your finger/ punch you in the face repeatedly. Much respect, Sedin sisters".

 

[HespelerGreenFlash]

Lucic told Weise he would kill him next year.


I believe Brodeur looked past Sean Avery.

No surprise. Lucic is trash

 

[Perfect_Drug]

No surprise. Lucic is trash

 

[sr edler]

In football you shake hands before the game not after, I like that better.

 

[Sniper99]

I prefer the handshake lines over the forced, pre-planned, egotistical celebrations that happen in football and basketball. Sportsmanship, humbleness, work ethic > ego and self-aggrandizement every time.

Egotistical? Wtf you get that from?

In football you shake hands before the game not after, I like that better.

They do it after too. Wtf football u watching? Your team must suck that bad that the games are over at half time and never get to see the two teams walking to Center field for handshakes and prayers and jersey exhanges

 

[torniojaws]

Not in NHL, but in the hockey world championship, you can guess which country. The entire team skipped the national anthem after the game:

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/05/team-russia-walks-off-ice-before-canadian-anthem-at-hockey-worlds

They received an 85k fine for it:

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/...-fined-for-skipping-canadian-national-anthem/

 

[Mattb124]

"heavy social and team pressure"

u mean sportsmanship and ettiquete

Yes, but just spun in a way that hipsters can get angsty about it.

 

[Symon Asher]

Billy Smith never shook hands

 

[PenguinSuitedUp]

Egotistical? Wtf you get that from?


They do it after too. Wtf football u watching? Your team must suck that bad that the games are over at half time and never get to see the two teams walking to Center field for handshakes and prayers and jersey exhanges

Grandstanding over every tackle or catch and having prepared team celebrations over every score is egotistical.

 

[shakes the clown]

This is hockey, not basketball. No one is skipping the handshake line and no one feels like they are being coerced to shake hands against their will. 99.9% of the players have the upmost respect for what is one of the greatest traditions in sports.

 

[Sniper99]

Grandstanding over every tackle or catch and having prepared team celebrations over every score is egotistical.

 

[GMR]

Did someone do it? I don't know of any rule, but I certainly wouldn't want to be the player to do it. The backlash would be unbearable. You'd never hear the end of it.

Didn’t Billy Smith usually skip it?

 

[Bear of Bad News]

By the way, we have balloons and cake ready for the 25th person in-thread to mention Billy Smith.

 

[The Panther]

Nope. But ANY player who does it will be named, shamed and publicly humiliated

Or win the Conn Smythe...

 

[Moose Head]

Its basically an unwritten rule.

No player has skipped doing it because they would be universally hated by the rest of the league.

Billy Smith never participated in hand shake lines. Where’s my balloons and cake?

 

[CanadienShark]

By the way, we have balloons and cake ready for the 25th person in-thread to mention Billy Smith.

Nobody has time to read threads anymore, we all just rush to post the same thing.

 

[DearDiary]

This is simply false. The team shook hands. Crosby was with the media and circled back to celebrate with teammates, while most of his team and the Red Wings shook hands and eventually the Wings players stopped waiting and headed to the locker room.

Pens were still going through the handshake line when the Red Wings players just left. Barely any time passed, Crosby was just a few seconds behind the Pens staff.

 

[snag]

God....I remember one line when I was a kid...there was kid on the other team that never shook a single hand until he got to this one guy on our team that not even we liked.....he shook this kids hand.

Why? Cause it was full of spit.

Yeah, that was a fun way to close out.

 

[BostonBob]

Nobody has time to read threads anymore, we all just rush to post the same thing.

What a ridiculous comment to make. By the way - I heard Billy Smith never participated in the handshake line. Anybody mention that yet ????