Mcdavid 5min Match Penalty: Cross check to the face of Garland (Mod warning post #282)

[ChaoticOrange]

This only happens because the “seasoned” officials called this game like imbeciles both ways, just for the record

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

So he didn’t haul him down then? Glad we agree. f***ing tool

he did....Garland got hit, hauled him down and then held on for dear life in order to keep him out of the play

 

[Divine]

im pretty sure given the time between mcdavids last fine and suspension he isn't considered a repeat offender, not that matters to people like you.

I mean he should have likely been suspended 2 games ago. Got the benefit of the doubt there and he proved the league wrong by making another dirty play 2 games later.

Likely if they suspended him for concussing a player with an elbow he's unable to do this.

 

[Oilslick941611]

I mean he should have likely been suspended 2 games ago. Got the benefit of the doubt there and he proved the league wrong.

but he wasn't.

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

Easy 3 games....

 

[22Brad Park]

Suspension incoming wow that was brutal.

Repeat offender to ..

 

[Zirakzigil]

Okay, enoughs enough. Stop attacking fellow posters. That is Flaming per board rules. You can disagree with the opinion all you want. Second, anymore wishes of injury to Garland, Myers, Bouchard, McDavid, the refs, etc, will be met with a warning and thread ban.

Continue:

 

[Divine]

but he wasn't.

Yeah, and now he will be.

The way it goes.

 

[RobertKron]

To be fair to McDavid, Garland is a pretty big guy, so you can understand why he was afraid to fight him.

 

[1440]

The Sternum is not above the shoulders, which the NHL uses to deem a play high sticking.

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).

 

[LTIR]

Point me to the line in the crosscheck rule that says that suspensions are about whether you had a right to be mad. (I'll give you a hint to help your search... Rule 59 ONLY says that the level of punishment is based on the severity of the contact and further whether there is intent to injure or not). If you want to go full beer league rules you can, but thats not the rules of the NHL, thats just how it works in your own head.

I fully believe McDavid will get a smaller suspension and they will make some excuse for it because its McDavid. Not because a part of the cross-checking rule is that if you had an obvious reason to be mad then its OK. Someone shoved you? Thats a justified crosscheck to the face as opposed to an unjustified one, right? There are no justified crosschecks to the face.

Cross checks to side of the heads don't even get called in playoffs...see Weber on plenty of Oilers.
Garland had a right to swing his stick back at McDavid if refs ignored McDavids crosscheck. Refs not doing their job made McDavid take matters in his own hands.
He will be fine with a suspension.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Yeah, and now he will be.

The way it goes.

sure and he deserves it, unlike the wild one, which he rightly wasn't suspended or fined for and is irrelevant to this play.

 

[nuxnux1]

This only happens because the “seasoned” officials called this game like imbeciles both ways, just for the record

I’m pretty sure it’s McDavid making himself cross check someone in the face and not the refs though

 

[Hank Plank]

right in the chest perfect legal.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

To be fair to McDavid, Garland is a pretty big guy, so you can understand why he was afraid to fight him.

he meant to hit him in the chest but forgot Garland is 4'10"

 

[muddywaters]

You're losing it Connor ... it's just hockey ... hang in there man

 

[Divine]

sure and he deserves it, unlike the wild one, which he rightly wasn't suspended or fined for and is irrelevant to this play.

It's not irrelevant. The league gave him the benefit of the doubt. He immediately does something dirty after. If not for that play, he may get the benefit of the doubt this play.

It's like if you catch a guy doing something illegal, assume he probably didn't know any better and let him go and immediately catching him doing something illegal again. The first incidence plays a factor. He's now lost the benefit of the doubt that may have been awarded to him earlier. It's not irrelevant.

 

[Oilslick941611]

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).

so it was a highstick until someone rightly corrected you, and now its a spear? despite mcdavid clearly lifting his stick over another stick?

Spearing? really?

 

[CROTT]

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).

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...

 

[LTIR]

right in the chest perfect legal.

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It's not even the face.. looks like he got him top of shoulder /side of head

 

[ManofSteel55]

The justification for McDavid to crosscheck Garland because he was being held is laughable.

A lot of Oil fans were crying bloody murder over the Soucy incident last year, but yet this play tonight is a nothing burger apparently. Hypocrisy much?

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.

 

[94 Oil Drops]

Ooooooooo

Yeah that's 3-4 games for sure. Nasty play. Even so, that doesn't happen if the refs dish out a penalty before it happens. They allowed things to get out of control.

 

[Grifter3511]

omg, he ran him over? the horror! so Garland can't take a hit? poor little guy

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.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

I’m pretty sure it’s McDavid making himself cross check someone in the face and not the refs though

It’s in the chest on a full grown adult, not McDavid’s fault Garland stopped growing when he was 12

 

[Hank Plank]

It's not even the face.. looks like he got him top of shoulder /side of head

yep nothing to see here. When this happens to Connor won't be anything to see either all good.