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

[Canadian Finn]

He's saying if the NHL allowed players to drink beer and eat hotdogs on the bench there wouldn't be all this violence.

sure, but if a player used that hotdog as a weapon, then they'd better get ready to enjoy their time behind bars.

 

[Nostradumbass]

This is the relevant comparable here. Like Perron, Morgan skated with speed with intent to injure and with intent for revenge. This isn’t just some stick work in a scrum where players are jousting, it’s a charge with full force cross check to the blindside of someone’s head.

At least Perron was sticking up for a teammate that got knocked out, not a black puck mark on white twine on a net that their team doesn't even own.

 

[toddkaz]

100% assault with the intent to injure.

Then every NHL game I see slashes, hacks, cross checks thats 20-30 assaults a game.

Even after the whistle there is hacks, slashes crosschecks.

Call the cops!

 

[hatterson]

Here's a more recent comparable:

Yea. This is why anything departing from 6 by more than a game would be unreasonable.

Exacerbating factors for Rielly:
- It was after a goal as opposed to after a teammate being knocked out so maybe the NHL considers it more egregious to retaliate for a perceived slight as opposed to for believing someone injured your teammate.
- He skates further across the ice than Perron did.

Mitigating factors for Rielly:
- He didn't hit quite as hard/didn't leap up/toward the crosscheck
- It seemed like he caught more shoulder than Perron did
- Rielly has no disciplinary history as opposed to Perron havinh an incredibly minor one.

So those might adjust it a game either way depending on how the NHL weights them. But looking at the Perron comparable (which is incredibly similar and incredibly recent), anything less than 5 or more than 7 just doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

and the NHL is fighting fighting fight. More fights in the NHL then any of those sports combined.

Not everyone is a Karen.

Fighting is a penalty in hockey.

This wasn't a fight. It was assault with intent to injure.

You have really poor writing skills.

You're wrong.

 

[TheNumber4]

People are comparing this to Boxing and UFC now? Yeh if the fighter took the Ring Bell and smashed it over the opponents face after he was already celebrating victory with his corner men.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Oh Jesus Christ, quit with the drama. Greig wasn't even injured on the play.

I'm not one to argue for or against legal charges here but why does injury have to precede the action in terms of punishment?

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

He never hit his face he hit his shoulder

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

You are comparing a game of a bunch of old heads to an NHL game?

just demonstrating that people can in fact not cross check people in the head when faced with incredible adversity like someone scoring an empty net goal emphatically, or, in our case, much worse. Somehow, we everyday humans pull it off, but here are people excusing a blatant cheap shot.

 

[Coaches Coroner]

This is one hell of a daft post.

Boxers, UFC and martial arts are sports where the essence of their practice is fighting within fixed rules.

Morgan Rielly taking a stick to an unsuspecting guy's face in a premeditated manner because he scored a goal is decidedly not part of the essence of hockey.

How much time does a person need between thought and action for it to count as premeditation?

 

[stats1]

Enjoy the suspension and the L you crybaby sack of shit.

Try to enjoy life dude… sports ain’t that deep.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Or is it this incident allover again?

Only difference here is Vesey didnt attend the Timmy Stutzle school of diving like his fellow Senators.

in all seriousness, I'll say it's 6 games. More aggressive than that ^^ but isn't in the Dale Hunter territory.

Yeah but he's cross checking a Leafs player. 1 game.

 

[toddkaz]

Fighting is a penalty in hockey.

This wasn't a fight. It was assault with intent to injured.

You have really poor writing skills.

You're wrong.

Crosscheck is also a penalty in hockey.

Check the rules bud.

 

[MCR74]

The leaf hate is wild.

This thread will be 300+ pages by the time Parros gets done with the hearing.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

The leaf hate is wild.

I don't hate the Leafs and liked Morgan Rielly until last night. I also utterly hate the Ottawa Senators.

Morgan Rielly should face a lengthy suspension and a significant fine if at all possible.

 

[Canadian Finn]

I really wish we could train the refs to become police so they can hand out charges right on the spot.

then we could set up a small jail in every arena, just to speed up that process.

 

[Ol' Jase]

He never hit his face he hit his shoulder

This is the wildest take so far.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

It is breaking the code; depends how much the code means to you

Made up sillyness

 

[Gabe Kupari]

We always get the book thrown at us. I get it you hate our team but why the double standard.

What double standard. A player on my team just got 3 games for hitting a guy who had his head down and that happened during an actual play not after. Do you play victim all the time here. Your player did something stupid. Accept it. He deserves more games than a guy who hit a dude with his head down. Pretty simple

 

[Golden_Jet]

We always get the book thrown at us. I get it you hate our team but why the double standard.

Because leafs play soft, and whenever angry, they cross check to the face. Maybe one day day they’ll learn to get in a scrum, and challenge someone instead.

 

[toddkaz]

If they knock someone out during weigh ins or arm raising. Yes. It’s not part of the fight at that point. This isn’t complicated.

Nah man, it happens often in the NHL maybe 10 times a season every season. Just stop its embarrassing.

 

[ALine]

Wow this thread is like a wildfire.
Or more like a tire fire considering it’s content.

Buddy was hot dogging and empty net goal. Rielly took exception. Went for the cross check but it landed high. He’ll sit some games for that.
But ya somebody should get the cops on the horn.

 

[Puck Tiss]

So would boxers be arrested, so would martial arts be arrested, so would football players who fight get arrested, so would UFC fighters get arrested.

Not a good take.

Both you and who you were responding to were talking hyperbole. Hockey is a contact sport, you dont expect a guy to crosscheck you in the head. Boxing is a contact sport, you dont expect guy to bite your ear. There are rules for a reason.

 

[Sens9292]

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.

They took it all. Where did Reilly drop the gloves and confront Greig? All I seen was a cheap shot cross check directly to the face after a goal was scored. That’s not being tough, that’s exposing that you cannot handle yourself and make poor decisions, a decision that will likely cost the Leafs in a wildcard hunt

 

[toddkaz]

you are a bad fan.

bad, bad fan.

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I game Karen. Just 1 game. You are the bad fan. Learn to take a loss.