Post-Game Talk: Jets drop Game 1

[Aphid]

The NHL will look at the super slo-mo. If the initial point of contact was chest or shoulder, then Chef will be in the clear. It looked like the player got hurt more from the way they landed on the ice than the hit.

No, they'll suspend him regardless because this awoke the whiny Montreal/NHL fans.

Evans is slowly trying to get an empty net goal and Schiefele is supposed to let up and let him get it without trying to separate him from the puck. That makes total sense.

 

[snowkiddin]

Stupid hit by Fefe. Gonna need Stas back in to fill the hole at centre. Anyone know why he was out today? Sorry if it was mentioned in the GDT... I didn't follow it after lunch.

Good thing we traded for PLD! Wait a minute ...

 

[objectiveposter]

bottom line that was a clean hit....not schifs fault evans wasnt anticipating a hit.... if you suspend scheif for that might as well ban hitting. when you wrap around the net you have to anticipate a hit... evans only focused on the empty netter not paying attention to scheif. too bad

 

[bustamente]

Wow I bet the Mods haven't work this hard since the years when all the other teams thought we were a dirty team and it's all piled into one night

 

[Snot Rocket]

Shitty situation, hope kid is OK.

I'm not sure he had a chance to not make the hit/collide. He was coming back with speed, that puck left Evans stick as the hit came in... milliseconds difference.
My take is it was a brace for impact but I am sure there's going to be many replays in slow mo...maybe I am wrong... but the onus also has to be on Evans for putting himself in a vulnerable position head down reaching for an empty net goal.

Regardless... I'm not absolving Bambi of poor decision making.

 

[SniperHF]

This isn't the place to argue with Jets fans, coming here to bicker about the game or trash the team is trolling. Go to the mainboard.

 

[AmericanDream]

wasn't even half a second.... well before rofl.... he went full speed and committed to stopping a guy scoring a goal, I don't think you can name any nhl players that can stop on a dime at that point...

Agreed. It was a split second decision especially at the speed he was going..simply can't stop like that.

If he stops imagine all the hate 55 would get for no effort??

 

[Calendal]

"Charging is the action where a player takes more than two strides or travels an excessive distance to accelerate through a body check for the purpose of punishing the opponent."

I think the purpose of travelling the distance was not to check or punish but to prevent a goal. Although he ended up making a (high) hit, that was not the reason for skating.

You can also argue that he could have let up after the puck went in but I’m not sure there was time.

 

[bob77]

The NHL will look at the super slo-mo. If the initial point of contact was chest or shoulder, then Chef will be in the clear. It looked like the player got hurt more from the way they landed on the ice than the hit.

Or just the pure impact of the contact to the body. I didn’t see any head contact. I didn’t think it was late. It was a long skate to hit someone, but was it a direct line the whole way? The kid went around the net. Did Schiefle skate the whole way to the side the kid came out of? I don’t know. Schiefle probably changes his angle also to meet him on other side?

 

[Joe Hallenback]

My guess Evans comes out in a neck brace tomorrow cries in front of the camera and the comes running out to the ice in game 2 wwe style

hard hard hit to a guy 5 foot nothing going to the net hard and paid the price

wheel of justice will be spun tomorrow

 

[B33R LEAGUE]

Saw the hit. It doesnt look good.

But...

Then I thought to myself, if that was me, and i had an opportunity to hit a guy before he scores on an empty net.


If I dont finish my check on a potential goal and decide to let up before he scores.

That would look bad. In which case, I have to finish the hit.

This would be my split second decision making process too.

Cant blame Scheif for it.

 

[SUX2BU]

The angry virgin Habs fans are out with pitchforks I see...
Pity them...don't engage the Quasimodo team of HF Boards...

i guess they don’t like us anymore

 

[Mbraunm]

Well, I think Montreal is playing smart playoff hockey perfectly aligned with their identity. We were outsmarted and outcoached for sure.

 

[Ginger Papa]

Nothing good to say about the game, all I'll say is that if that was our player we would be hella mad, clean hit or not

My thoughts exactly, my friend.

As yourself and others have said, hopefully Evans is ok. That’s the main thing.

I have no idea how the NHL will handle this due to their past inconsistency.

My only hope is that we do not see anything like this again in this Series for either Team.

 

[tntkid]

It was a clean hit on the logo.

It should be a fine at best

 

[Tommigun]

bottom line that was a clean hit....not schifs fault evans wasnt anticipating a hit.... if you suspend scheif for that might as well ban hitting. when you wrap around the net you have to anticipate a hit... evans only focused on the empty netter not paying attention to scheif. too bad

The hit itself looked clean, but Scheifele DID charge into it making it an impossibly violent collision. It is suspend worthy and he should be suspended for it. Not all suspensions are for direct head contact.

 

[Ducky10]

Actually I think Scheifele went a long way towards saving the series for the Jets. They needed to get their head into this is going to be a battle.

God bless you and your never ending sunshine KB.

 

[robertocarlos]

Doesn't Chef know the ICU is full.

 

[Mud Turtle]

I think he got him high in the chest but the momentum brought Scheifele’s elbow up high at the end. But it’s the speed at which he was going that’s going to make it a suspension.
Scheifele had a bee in his bonnet all game. He was wild eyed at the end.

 

[tbcwpg]

Wow I bet the Mods haven't work this hard since the years when all the other teams thought we were a dirty team and it's all piled into one night

It can get pretty bad when the Jets lose a regular season game by 3 or 4

 

[King Makar19]

Looked like a clean hit to the chest for . There was a bit of charging but Evans has to learn to keep the heads up.

Good luck in game 2 guys,

 

[schmockeyknife]

The NHL will look at the super slo-mo. If the initial point of contact was chest or shoulder, then Chef will be in the clear. It looked like the player got hurt more from the way they landed on the ice than the hit.

But, the NHL might look at the fact he got 5 minutes.

evans was standing still when 55 hit him. could you not see his head reverb? he was probly out b4 he hit the ice

 

[DannyGallivan]

Scheifele has to try to make a play there, but you also can't hit a guy going that fast. It's really an unfortunate play that almost never happens, with the empty net wrap around and someone racing back to stop it.

I'm predicting one game. Zero would be a bit ridiculous, and more than one would be catering to the oncoming media narrative that he hit him "after the goal" ignoring the fact he was trying to prevent it and it was practically simultaneous.

He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Like I said in an earlier post, he could have given up on the play. With the game on the line in the playoffs, do we want our players to give up on plays like that?

He was skating full speed trying to prevent the goal. He was a fraction of a second away from beating Evans to the front of the net, so I dispute those who say that there was no way to prevent the goal. He was trying to take the man to prevent the goal. If Evans was upright, it would have been a solid but not vicious hit. Evans had his head down concentrating soley on scoring the goal and not protecting himself. I think Scheifele has a legitimate argument against a suspension, but he'll get a suspension for one game.

 

[jungles]

Game was a complete disaster in almost every conceivable way.

 

[Ggg99]

I said two keys were don’t get out goalied and big guns can’t slump.

Helly wasn’t the problem.

Big guns didn’t do it in game 1. Obviously need more from CSW especially with that ice time.

Ehlers hard to figure. His line was bad. Injury still an issue? Copp and PLD were a bad fit tonight.

They’ll be better. Scheif or no Scheif their overall compete needs to rise and they’ll be fine.