Morgan Rielly cross check to the head of Ridley Greig (DOPS UPDATE: In Person Hearing - 6 games or more possible)

[AvroArrow]

I watched the game. Your posts are fantasy. Noted goon DeBrusk caused that much havoc only in your brain.

Rielly didn't cross check anyone either, I watched the game!

 

[Coaches Coroner]

That is a gross mischaracterization of every summer since 2021.

You gotta admit, the vigilance and dedication to revising the history of their expectations, what they thought, and when is admirable. The condescension to fans of other teams that are as dumb as them is the cherry on top.

 

[Hank Plank]

Leafs may be the most mentally fragile team in NHL history.

For some strange reason this feels like karma in the making.

 

[A1LeafNation]

I guess you could say Reilly FAFO.

Hes now going to miss 5+ games as his teams best D man.

It's the regular season...meh

 

[Golden_Jet]

From my understanding, an in-person hearing is mandated if the player called to the hearing COULD end up with 6 games or more. But 6 isn't the minimum.

Ahh ok thanks, if we’re getting into semantics, then the NHL uses “might” not “could” in their wording.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Usually code things are related to violence or where someone can get hurt.

Such as:

-dont take a run at our star player
-dont take a run at a rookie
-dont hit the goalie
-a fighter shouldn't fight a non fighter

They are all things where someone could get hurt and a defensive/protective response is warranted.

What we have here is an ego thing where no one has a chance of being harmed.

This is a case where the code would be to take his number and hit him extra hard every chance you get next time you play him, withing the bounds of the rules.

The code doesnt say anything about cross checking a player in the head after he harmed no one.

It's a feelings getting hurt thing. You take their number down and remember it for next time.

It's a bullshit excuse for a blatant cheap shot. No more, no less.

 

[RedWingzz]

It's the regular season...meh

you guys are in a playoff battle though...?

 

[stealth1]

80 pages and not one person has given a real actual logical reason.

It's actually quite funny.

You'll get a question or chirp in return. Not an actual logical answer.

From their perspective you don't take a slapshot into an empty net. You tap it in and don't show up the other team.

Personally i think Leaf fans are spewing this is finally somebody showed some emotion for once

 

[Coaches Coroner]

It will be a full force suspension. No one is going to look over a premeditated cross check to the head. The NHL is not going to have any leniency for this one. Regardless if it their heralded Maple Leafs.

I figure 6-10 games.

There is not even a chance the Leafs management brings up "but he slapped the puck into an empty net" in the hearing. That would be farcical.

This was a bad hit. Not what the modern NHL is going to tread lightly over.

In fact, Keefe will be given a talking to as well.

The modern NHL treads lightly over all kinds of bad hits.

 

[Sniper99]

New to hockey? I'd take ten Darcy Tuckers.

Need about 15 Darcy Tuckers on this team

 

[Micklebot]

I'm saying Leafs do not get benefit of the doubt. We even recently saw Gallagher purposely chicken wing Pelech head and only receive 5 games.

I'm not sure what benefit of the doubt your looking for on the bunting hit, it was a direct shoulder to the head of an unsuspecting player that was intelligible to be hit, and not a case where you could argue it was a hockey play gone wrong, right there there is pretty strong precedence for a multi game suspension, add in that there was an injury on the play and you get what you get. Maybe you could argue it should have been two games instead of three? Or Gallagher should have gotten 6? I see those as pretty comparable tbh. Neither guy had been suspended prior but both play with an edge.

 

[Petrus]

6 or 7 games, that's fine. I really doubt it will be more than that. Come on now.

It will be well deserved. Now if only DOPS can apply that to every cross check in the head.

 

[Leonardo87]

If it was that way, it would mean the suspension length is already pre-determined and the whole process is, thus useless.

It may well be, but let's not presume it'S the case.

Yeah it was just some confusion, it doesn’t mean he will automatically get over 5 , it just means the in-person hearing will give them that option if needed.

 

[A1LeafNation]

you guys are in a playoff battle though...?

We are?

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Everyone is in here crapping on Toronto fans, and I get it, but why is it always lost on everyone in these sorts of threads that EVERY SINGLE fanbase here acts in EXACTLY the same way 100% of the time when a player on their team finds themselves in a similar situation as Rielly has?

They don't have the talking heads on their side ruining the broadcasts. What we saw on Sportsnet and TSN last night was shameful.

Imagine having this opinion... Just listen to like the first 30 seconds. Cross check immediately excused, followed by the BIG NO NO by Greig. Hahaha ya okay then, give me a break.

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[Csonked Out]

Really? getting a blindside cheapshot in the head for scoring a goal? I don't care how he scores nobody deserves a deadplay vicious hit. Rielly deserves to sit for a while and ponder.

Yes, if you take a slap shot on an empty net from 5 feet away this is what happens

 

[mouser]

do you remember what it was?

Don't recall the player name, was a recognizable vet and happened many years ago. Received a 4 game suspension after a in-person hearing IIRC.

 

[Fatass]

It's the regular season...meh

Leafs are in a wildcard fight. Losing Reilly for six games right now could be bad news. Plus every team already tries to drag the Leaf top guys into the ally and it’s not where those guys want to be. MM and AM and WM are going to be dragged into the fight. IMO that’s not good.

 

[CanadienShark]

In person hearing is the correct move, for once.

 

[Csonked Out]

Terrible take. Nobody deserves a deliberate cross check to the head unless they did something similar.

This false equivalency shit is ridiculous. "The code" lol. As Matthews, Marner and Nylander dance around after each goal. Clearly, they deserve a chop to the teeth from the opposing player right?

He knew what his dumb ass was doing when he took the slap shot, expect retaliation.

 

[Andrei79]

I can see why Rielly was pissed.

No penalty called against the Sens, then Stutzle flops around as usual drawing one and it kills Toronto's momentum in the end. Then, Ratboy Greig makes a fool of himself, as a rookie. Rielly was just welcoming him to the league. It's going to be 5 or more, but should be 1-2. Good on the Leafs not to take that shit, usually they just lie down and take the beating.

 

[Irishguy42]

Like people just say “it’s the code”. But like seriously. What is the actual problem with the slapshot? No one can explain that other than “it’s the code”

They can't. Even actual active/retired professional players can't give good reasons for it.

It's just a form of making them feel better/more special than us every day people.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

The Sens expectation was to be a bottom 10 team for 7 years in a row?

Under Melnyk? Ya. They were barely even trying even through the Karlsson years. Lets see how a legit operation goes.

 

[HTFN]

you guys are in a playoff battle though...?

"A what what?"

-The Maple Leafs, probably.

 

[Mitch nylander]

TBH either way, this is a huge loss for the leafs. I'd say Rielly is our second most important guy after Matthews.