Rumor: Matthews Suspension 2 Games

[123offtheglass]

In a vacuum yes he should be suspended. With the precedent this league sets? Absurd that he is the only guy to get games for this. Other similar plays have always got a fine.

This sums it up perfectly.

 

[Stephen]

It’s time for Brendan Shanahan to go to bat for his organization. He held George Parros role for a number of years and should call shenanigans. What’s the worst that could happen, Leafs get unfavourable calls?

 

[Lauro]

It's completely incomprehensible to me how a franchise as powerful as the Leafs can put up with something like this. Completely incomprehensible.

 

[Dreakmur]

It's not per the DoPS. Here, here's my first evidence. I will wait for your evidence to show that he should be suspended.

You keep posting stuff that you think should be suspensions as evidence that this one shouldn’t be. That’s a not a convincing argument.

 

[TMLeafer]

The rangers were absolutely right about this incompetent goon.

 

[Dreakmur]

Dude, read the evidence in this thread. This type of cross-check happens all the time, yet it has only drawn a suspension 3 times in the last 4 years. Two out of the 3 were to Kadri and Matthews.

Does that make sense to you?

It makes sense of people really think this cross check shouldn’t be a suspension. I think it was a dangerous and dirty play, and the exact kind of thing that should be a suspension.

 

[SprDaVE]

You keep posting stuff that you think should be suspensions as evidence that this one shouldn’t be. That’s a not a convincing argument.

yeah... that's what precedence means.

The argument is very much valid and convincing with the evidence presented.

What you think doesn't matter, what happens is what matters.

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Even off the ice, we just take it and say thank you sir may I have another.

Shanahan/Keefe/Dubas should call out this utter bullshit.

 

[SoVi3t]

I hope every one of us crosschecks somebody to the head next game. Suspend us all.

f*** I hate Parros

 

[Kurtz]

It makes sense of people really think this cross check shouldn’t be a suspension. I think it was a dangerous and dirty play, and the exact kind of thing that should be a suspension.

But what you think doesn't matter. What matters are facts. The fact, as presented in this thread, is that this type of incident happens constantly and virtually never leads to a suspension, except when, surprise surprise, it happens to the Leafs.

Do you really not see the double standard here?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

It's completely incomprehensible to me how a franchise as powerful as the Leafs can put up with something like this. Completely incomprehensible.

Leafs must not be all that powerful. Let’s be honest the NHL is an American league run by Americans for Americans. Sure the Leafs make a ton of money for them and everyone else with revenue sharing, but that doesn’t equate to any real power it seems. Leafs are the leagues Cash Cow and that’s about it.

 

[Knies iT]

It's completely incomprehensible to me how a franchise as powerful as the Leafs can put up with something like this. Completely incomprehensible.

Yet the Rangers have the gall to go at him publicly and they're essentially the Leafs of the US.

Dubas and Keefe will not do that. In the event that they do make a "response", it's some cryptic, passive aggressive one liner.

The word precedent has lost ALL meaning under his admin. DoPS always takes heat but this is the worst run group we've seen and almost every fanbase can agree on that.

 

[123offtheglass]

Bettman is notoriously slow with appeals so it might not matter, but Matthews and the Leafs should collect every piece of video evidence getting posted on Twitter of equal and worse infractions that resulted in no suspension and stuff it in his mailbox for the appeal. If we’re lucky maybe that weasel will get to it fast enough that Matthews only misses one game.

Even if he were to miss the 2 games for sure from a slow appeal process, I'd still appeal it.

Could improve his suspension/fine record, save him 2 games worth of salary & make DOPS look bad in the process.

2 games with zero history simply doesn't align with the precedent set by DOPS.

 

[Dreakmur]

yeah... that's what precedence means.

The argument is very much valid and convincing.

As long as people are consistent, I don’t really care what your view on this is. If you don’t think Matthews should be suspended, that’s fine, but then neither should any of the other examples posted.

 

[Beanzy]

 

[glue]

I’m not angry because I’m not really surprised. The league clearly has some biases against the leafs, officiating or otherwise. What I’m looking for is a response from the leafs management rather than continuing to take the Gandhi peace approach and not speak out. At least show some courage and speak out against nonsense similar to how the rangers did to show their players they care. They probably won’t and as a result continue to take it up their a$$ and prolong the ‘leafs are soft’ reputation

 

[HamiltonNHL]

The penalty is because it was retaliation and not a part of the play.

You can take someone's head off if it's part of the play and be fine.

 

[Sypher04]

It makes sense of people really think this cross check shouldn’t be a suspension. I think it was a dangerous and dirty play, and the exact kind of thing that should be a suspension.

Again, should be not equals is. Their standard they’ve set through previous rulings is that this isn’t suspension worthy. I think most of us agree here, crosschecks to the head should be suspensions, including this one, they just rarely have been and that precedent does matter UNLESS they use this as a new point to start comparing all plays to different criteria, which hopefully they do

 

[Dreakmur]

But what you think doesn't matter. What matters are facts. The fact, as presented in this thread, is that this type of incident happens constantly and virtually never leads to a suspension, except when, surprise surprise, it happens to the Leafs.

Do you really not see the double standard here?

I see the league doing a bad job dishing out suspensions, but I can think that and also be reasonable when one of my favourite players does something stupid and dangerous. They don’t have to mutually exclusive.

 

[TMLeafer]

Tbh the biggest piss off to me is the media. The hearing was basically scheduled by Craig Simpson before the final buzzer. We barely got 1 replay when Simmonds was checked in the face, and not a squeak afterwards.

 

[SprDaVE]

As long as people are consistent, I don’t really care what your view on this is. If you don’t think Matthews should be suspended, that’s fine, but then neither should any of the other examples posted.

Only thing not consistent is how this shouldn't be a suspension

 

[nsleaf]

It was a viscous cross check, no doubt. No room in the game for that regardless of whatever precedent some believe is the " norm".

 

[HamiltonNHL]

We know what happened.

Sweeney made a call to Bettman.

Boston is down a few points in the standings.

yadda yadda

I expected a game.

Bettman added one.

 

[hockeyes]

This is revenge for publicly drawing attention to how terrible their officiating was the game before. Surprised they didn't go 3 or 4 games to really drive home their message.

 

[SoVi3t]

You keep posting stuff that you think should be suspensions as evidence that this one shouldn’t be. That’s a not a convincing argument.

That's because they're precedents