JT Miller Hit on Kevin Rooney

[wunderpanda]

is rooney okay? he did tua things with his hands.

 

[duckpuck]

Seems like Miller has no intention to play the puck there.

Just looking for a hit really. Watch his head. On Rooney the whole time.

This is wrong. Miller touched the puck toward the boards and his path continued toward the puck. Rooney and he were on a collision course and Rooney, unfortunately, was not ready for the hit.

It was a loose puck and each one was going after it, Rooney was off-balanced which caused most of the problems. However, JT falling on top of him made it worse. Kevin was in awful shape, so I wish him the best.

I agree. An argument can be made that Rooney crossed between Miller and the puck. If Rooney gets the better of the collision, no body says a word because it was a normal hockey hit.

Miller plays the puck and is about to be engaged one way or another by Rooney. Whether that’s via hit or stick check is impossible to know in the moment. You can easily make the argument that Miller is simply trying to outmuscle the guy he expects to get hit by. It’s not as if he goes out of his way. He’s played the puck and he is being engaged by an opposing player.

I don’t really see this as falling within the spirit of the rule of “interference”. Rooney should ultimately be prepared for contact in that situation and he surprisingly was not.

And yes, the chanting is “unclassy” but that’s an unrelated matter.

- a Bruins fan who would be happy to never see the Canucks win another game

If anything, it was interference by Rooney since Miller was chasing the puck toward the boards. To be clear, I don't think it was interference by either player (Miller was eligible to be hit). But to me this is just a weird hockey collision where Rooney skated into Miller's path and Miller was braced to lay the stronger hit.

Always unfortunate to see a guy seriously injured. Ugly result. But not all bad results are penalties or caused by dirty plays.

 

[Sky04]

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.

lmao cause you watched the video slowed down on twitter genius. In real time that was about half second, dude got clobbered for not being able to handle the puck and not paying attention.

What are you talking about? Counting it out lol?

There's a clock synced on screen. The video starts at 12:26, when Rooney touches the puck it's still 12:26, and when Miller hits Rooney it's 12:25.

Dude watched a slow down video on twitter and thought it was real time, I'm dead @Anglesmith

 

[hirawl]

It's a puck battle with an unfortunate result. Nothing wrong with the hit itself.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Classless fans

 

[Shocker]

This is a clean hit, going to the category of reverse hits.

Very unfortunate result though, just happened to watch this pretty good video about the rise of reverse hits few days ago:

 

[Statto]

Clean. Miller has to square up and make proper contact IMO. Trying to avoid contact is how things like accidental knee on knee contact occurs (I’m not saying it would in this case), so actually making clean contact like that is the best way to protect one’s self. Obviously it’s a very unfortunate outcome but there was no intent there as far as I can see.

 

[kk]

Clean hit. No intention to injure. This going after a guy after a clean hit or a hard clean hit b.s. has to stop. There was no justification for the Flames to go after Miller following that incident. It's been a trend for a while now the last few seasons. If it's something dirty or controversial - sure that's anothe story. But this is just stupid.

 

[Lunatik]

Clean hit. No intention to injure. This going after a guy after a clean hit or a hard clean hit b.s. has to stop. There was no justification for the Flames to go after Miller following that incident. It's been a trend for a while now the last few seasons. If it's something dirty or controversial - sure that's anothe story. But this is just stupid.

it's been happening for decades.

 

[kk]

it's been happening for decades.

Yeah, you're right, it has. Seems like it's an automatic thing now though from the last few seasons in particular.