JT Miller Hit on Kevin Rooney

[EdJovanovski]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844203473677734378

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[ORRFForever]

Ouch!

 

[Breakers]

How is it a dirty hit?

 

[Chainshot]

Unfortunate result but that looks like a textbook shoulder check.

 

[Sorry]

Brutal head slam into the boards. Other than that I don't really see the problem with the hit.

 

[EdJovanovski]

How is it a dirty hit?

Rooney never has the puck

 

[ElLeetch]

good hit

 

[BoHorvat 53]

Clean hit, shame on the morons chanting Miller's name while the guy was laying on the ice without much motion

 

[YMCMBYOLO]

3-4 game suspension, in my opinion. Canucks fans in the arena are complete scum.

 

[Esq]

Clean hit

 

[Coffees]

Unfortunate

 

[Esq]

Rooney never has the puck

He actually has it twice

 

[Coffees]

He actually has is twice

nucks fans lol

 

[Anglesmith]

How is it a dirty hit?

Hitting a player who does not have the puck with a nasty result.

This is a super weird play, though, but I'm interested in the arguments for why Rooney is eligible to be hit here like 2 seconds after losing possession.

 

[njdevils1982]

clean hit

 

[Jee]

Hitting a player who does not have the puck with a nasty result.

This is a super weird play, though, but I'm interested in the arguments for why Rooney is eligible to be hit here like 2 seconds after losing possession.

Video is slowed down though. Looks like a clean hit to me with unfortunate results.

 

[Canucks LB]

Super clean hit

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

Unfortunate result from routine contact.

Also what a bozo

 

[tny760]

one guy playing for contact, the other not

same situation as a reverse hit imo, just head-on instead of the usual angle. puck carrier has the right to square up for contact too

 

[Devonator]

Perfectly clean hit....nothing to see here.

 

[Matty Sundin]

Sometimes shit just happens

 

[njdevils1982]

Hitting a player who does not have the puck with a nasty result.

This is a super weird play, though, but I'm interested in the arguments for why Rooney is eligible to be hit here like 2 seconds after losing possession.

for the sake of discussion,

he looked to want to be still engaged in the play and attempting to retrieve the puck

also, i have no vested agenda in sides it this matter

 

[Zerotonine]

Clean hit, shame on the morons chanting Miller's name while the guy was laying on the ice without much motion

There was nothing clean about it, puck was lose Miller completely ignorea the puck and hammers defenseless player

 

[SnowblindNYR]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844203473677734378

Is he still a bozo?

 

[Anglesmith]

Video is slowed down though. Looks like a clean hit to me with unfortunate results.

At live speed you can count it out.

Rooney touches it at the start of the video, the hit is as it becomes 2 seconds:



The argument for Miller is he throws it near Rooney and then acts as if Rooney has the puck, but Rooney doesn't really move to possess the puck before being blasted.

Ultimately the interference penalty is to protect players from being hit when they (reasonably) aren't expecting to be hit, and this is exactly that. I guess the question is whether this should be a valid strategy as a puck carrier when a defender is skating towards you.