I mean you make it sound like he just hits Hronek in the middle of his chest (still spearing), it was really at the base of the neck (just above the sternum).
Cross checks to side of the heads don't even get called in playoffs...see Weber on plenty of Oilers.
sure and he deserves it, unlike the wild one, which he rightly wasn't suspended or fined for and is irrelevant to this play.
I’m pretty sure it’s McDavid making himself cross check someone in the face and not the refs though
so it was a highstick until someone rightly corrected you, and now its a spear? despite mcdavid clearly lifting his stick over another stick?
McDavid's stick was stationary, and made contact as Hornek closed in on McDavid. For spearing or slashing a player needs to jab or swing a stick. McDavid did neither, but keep grasping at straws...
It's not even the face.. looks like he got him top of shoulder /side of head
It isn't justification exactly. I think there are only a few who are actually suggesting McDavid should be given any leeway because he was being held. It does possibly explain why it irked McDavid to the point of anger though. That doesn't absolve him from punishment though.
Garland should be lauded for his end game heroics. He nullified the greatest player in the game for the last 10 seconds or so and got away with it. Even if the refs had called a penalty on him he still takes McD out of the play for maybe 5 seconds and Oilers get a whopping 5 second pp.
It’s in the chest on a full grown adult, not McDavid’s fault Garland stopped growing when he was 12
yep nothing to see here. When this happens to Connor won't be anything to see either all good.
Is McDavid's fault a 12 year old had just absolutely manhandled him, though.
you don't know that. The play was reviewed and no fine or suspension was given. Thats the end of that play. Its not eligible to be reviewed again or be used for future fines or suspenisons. its a settled case.
