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

[Fatass]

That really is the takeaway from all this.

What Greig did can be debated forever, but its mostly irrelevant after Reilly broke the rules instead of handling it in a reasonable way. And yes, will deservedly be suspended and only hurt his own cause.

The strangest thing is Reilly hasn’t done anything even remotely close to this before. He’s usually a tthinking player. I’m wondering if the Leafs’ poor player (and not expected losing) has him on edge? Maybe there’s a lot more to his attack than we know?

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Addresses what?

The rule.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

And we are done until lunchtime on Tuesday

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

And we are done until lunchtime on Tuesday

Re-opened for those who were away for the weekend.

Please stay on topic - No personal attacks or generalizations about fanbases.

 

[Adrianopolous]

WE WANT A 10 GAME SUSPY

 

[Vasilevskiy]

First.

The 10 game prediction looking good so far.

Edit: not first

 

[General Fanager]

im guessing 6

also do we know when the meeting is yet?

 

[Chainshot]

After 142 pages, can we at least get the player's name spelled correctly in the title?

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Thank you @JD1

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

After 142 pages, can we at least get the player's name spelled correctly in the title?

Ridley Grieg crosschecked by Moregan Reilly?

 

[Byron Bitz]

More troubling that a player on a bottom feeder is disrespecting you so much. Nobody has any respect for these Toronto Maple Leafs. Deservedly so.

Lol the team he is disrespecting has been significantly better than his team for 7 years so not sure what “deservedly so” is based on.

 

[RRhoads]

im guessing 6

also do we know when the meeting is yet?

It is tomorrow, according to NHL.com

 

[HofT]

 

[jbeck5]

Ridly Greig, a 21 year old rookie player out of Lethbridge, Alberta, just completely and utterly eviscerated the entire Toronto Maple Leafs organization from top to bottom with a single play. Think about that for a moment. Management, players fans, ownership, all completely seething still a full 24 hours after the fact. 100+ years of history of a storied franchised sucked down the drain in an instant from a single clapper in between the dots. Wow. We witnessed history in motion last night and I'm just thankful I was there to experience it. Wow.

This.

Greig is a legend. Just trolled all things Leafs.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

He deserves to be suspended,I would give him 3 because he doesn't have a history.

But he's got an in person hearing so he's getting 5+

 

[Peasy]

He deserves to be suspended,I would give him 3 because he doesn't have a history.

But he's got an in person hearing so he's getting 5+

I imagine it will be in the 4-6 range. They were debating if there should be an in-person hearing, so that makes me think theyre thinking in that range. But honestly wouldnt be shocked if he gets 10.

 

[TheFinalWord]

I love that this is the high point of Ottawa's season. I guess it's something to rally around.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Ban him from the league. All the smut that the game of hockey is taking these days, we don't need another black eye. Egregious and dangerous to say the least, criminal if I'm telling the truth. Aweful.

 

[stempniaksen]

Thought it would be 4, leaning towards 6 now that it's an in-person hearing. I bet the fact it was after the whistle is going to end up being a determining factor in the length.

The Perron suspension made for a pretty easy case it should be 6. Pre-mediate cross checks to the head now have a precedent and the only thing different about this one is that it was over hurt feelings instead of a hurt player.

 

[RickyLafleur]

I love that this is the high point of Ottawa's season. I guess it's something to rally around.

How original. I have never seen a comment like this any time a bad team beats a supposed good team.

 

[HFpapi]

I'm a Leafs fan.

The Leaf fans that are genuinely butt hurt that someone took a slap shot into our empty net....it's a tough look.

Reilly looks like a bitch too. Never shows any toughness during the actual games when it might actually help. Or maybe in the playoffs when we are getting shit kicked by Florida/Boston/Tampa.

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

How original. I have never seen a comment like this any time a bad team beats a supposed good team.

Gonna stop you there, nobody thinks the Leafs are a good team.

 

[Sting]

I love that this is the high point of Ottawa's season. I guess it's something to rally around.

I love comments like this. The saltiness is strong.

Consider this: the basement dwelling Senators won the season series 3-1 vs the Leafs. If the Leafs end up missing the playoffs, these 6 points will probably be what did them in.

The Senators have 2 less regulation wins than the Leafs, and have 2 games in-hand. Again, we're comparing the basement dwelling, terrible Sens vs the cup contender Leafs.

I think, rather than this being the high point of Ottawa's season, this is probably the point of the season where Leaf fans begin to realize just how fragile their club is.

 

[jbeck5]

You are slow.


I’m not condoning MO’s action. I believe he should punished severely. What I am saying is head shots are head shots regardless of when they occur.

They all could cause severe injury regardless of intent. And it is precisely this lack of consistency and understanding of what is acceptable or not is what causing players to use the cross check to the head.

Make the offense black and white nobody will think twice about doing it.

The difference is during the play, you have some benefit of doubt that you went for a legal hit, and due to the speed of the game, missed and got some head.

With this incident, it would have been illegal to go body check Greig too...so there's zero excuse of an attempt at a clean hockey play gone wrong.

That's why they're clearly different. With this situation, there's no excuses.

Intent to injure lol you think Rielly was trying to decapitate him or something? People gotta chill throwing that phrase around. Make it hurt sure but I don't think Rielly was trying to send him to the IR

No, he was trying to go whisper sweet nothings into his ear, you're totally right.

He wanted little kisses.

 

[DearDiary]

The hockey culture of being offended, throwing tantrums and resorting to cheap shots needs to end.