Chimp said:
You claim you have better knowledge on boarding than the ref who participated in the game because of some picture that isn't printed in the online version of the IIHF rulebook.
The Swedish translation educating Swedish refs about boarding is "violent tackle against the boards." This is the equivalent of "charging", which is a violent tackle taking place anywhere on the ice.
I'm not gonna even touch the part about me not finding anything wrong with anything a finn does.
I do not claim to have have better knowledge of the boarding rule than the ref who participated in the match. I claim (and have proved) having better knowledge of the boarding rule than YOU. The fact that you make a claim like that, proves that you obviously have very much difficulties understanding what is written. I do not know whether this is a result of your poor English skills, or whether you're just dumb as a rock.
I claim I have equal knowledge of the boarding rule as the ref who was at the match. But you know, I can watch the video clip over and over in slow motion, and make my judgement based on that. The ref who was calling the game does not have this luxury. Being a ref, I understand other refs too, and I understand why Ruutu was called for boarding. The ref did NOT see the situation as well as we did, and thus had to make his call based on what he saw there and then. He had a talk with the line refs too, and I can bet you, he was talking to them about what did they see. The call was boarding, and I don't have a problem with that. Ruutu checked Jagr in a way that at a first glance seems very violent and illegal, and Jagr was injured. Hell, when I saw the check live for the first time, it seemed like checking to the head to me. In the replays I saw that this was not the case. If I was there on the ice, I would have given Ruutu the same amount of penalty minutes (if not more), probably for checking to the head.
It is not my fault if the swedish translation of the IIHF rulebook is flawed.
However, after reviewing the video several times, my point still stands: It was not boarding. It was a clean check where the receiving player was not ready to take the hit, and as a result of that (and poor protective gear) was injured. I do not question the refs skills, he did what he needed to do based on what he saw (or didn't). It was not a mistake from the ref, or poor refereeing.
Done and done. This is my last post to this thread, and I have made myself very clear on this matter. If you cannot comprehend what I just wrote, that is beyond me.
Chimp said:
According to refs asked, the distance DOES NOT MATTER. If you read the book of rules, NOWHERE does it say anything about that the distance to the boards matter for the penalty to be taken, as long as you are smashed against the boards. You can still get a call for boarding even if the players stands next to the boards, as a boarding is the equivalent of Charging. Charging is a violent tackle taking place anywhere on the ice, a Boarding a violent tackle specifically against the boards. Take your pick, Ruutu was against the rules.
I gotta answer this one too:
No, the boarding rule does not define a distance that a player must be thrown from for it to be boarding. Read between the lines. A player cannot be thrown against the boards if he is in contact with them already.
Yes, charging is an excessively violent check. If something, the check we're talking about could have been called charging. The amount of strides is not fixed, one player might be able to pick up more speed with less strides than the other. It's the force of the blow, and the swiftness of acceleration that matters, not the amount strides. If a player gets injured in an excessively violent check in the boards, it's charging, not boarding.
The Ruutu check was neither. It was a clean check that had unintentional and unfortunate results.
Funny how you take every other refs opinions into account, except mine. Refs have different opinions and interpretations of events in hockey rinks too. Just because I disagree with your referee friends (whom I'm not sure even exist) I'm automatically an inferior referee.
That's it for me (for real this time). Thank you and have a nice day.