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

[JimmyApples]

Maybe Leafs’ top players should express competitive spirit during the game? Reilly could square up and fight Grieg next time they play. Attacking a guy with a blind side cross check to the head long after the whistle and while the guy is skating to his bench to do the fist bump goal celebration isn’t showing anything but selfishness.

The Leafs have been getting ragged on for being a weak both mentally and physically. Soft team. This was clearly getting to Rielly, who did this to “make a statement”. But he doesn’t realize a cross check to the head after a goal isn’t making any positive statement, nobody is impressed or respecting you, you just look like a little kid who lost their cool. It completely backfired.

Meanwhile Greig comes out of this looking like a pest who successfully got his way, which is exactly the player he’s trying to be in this league. Epic troll job.

 

[Knave]

The Leafs have been getting ragged on for being a weak both mentally and physically. Soft team. This was clearly getting to Rielly, who did this to “make a statement”. But he doesn’t realize a cross check to the head after a goal isn’t making any positive statement, nobody is impressed or respecting you, you just look like a little kid who lost their cool. It completely backfired.

Meanwhile Greig comes out of this looking like a pest who successfully got his way, which is exactly the player he’s trying to be in this league. Epic troll job.

Respect in the handshake lines, respect after they get scored on their empty net. With all their unwritten rules success, this is probably the year for them!

 

[Number8]

The biggest difference with the Perron play is that Zub did nothing to provoke the attack.

Well done.

I'll be disappointed if you don't get a couple of whoppers on the line. Some bait is just too tempting to forego. Again, well played.

 

[DavidpauseReinbacher]

Longer it takes to announce it means it's most likely 1-2 games. Fair

 

[KevinRedkey]

The Perron one should be a solid comparable but there's some minor differences.

1. Zub literally did nothing wrong.
2. Perron's reaction was due to a teammate being knocked unconscious.

Reilly's antics weren't due to what appeared to be a potential major injury. It was because of a goal. That's certainly 'worse' for that reason. That said, Greig instigated it to a degree, unlike Zub.

Will be interesting to see how many games he gets, but I'm sure the Leads fans supporting Reilly will claim some conspiracy whether it's 1 or 101 games...

 

[2XPRO31]

Longer it takes to announce it means it's most likely 1-2 games. Fair

It's taking long because Reilly has to get his ass to New York lol

 

[Rafafouille]

Man child that resorts to violence because he can't control his emotions. You try to score 7 goals against the senators the next time you play them and laugh at his face if you felt disrespected with the slapshot, you don't go and assault him. That's just pathetic.

 

[CornKicker]

the only way we can tell how baddass grieg is if he does it again. he will live in leafs fans heads for decades

 

[bigdog16]

Hahaha no.

Not every team is as sensitive as the little Leafs with with their little feelings.

Nice try though.


It's funny how you're trying to make it sound like they're tough while showing they're super sensitive about their feelings.

Which one is it? Are they tough or are they the biggest softest babies in the world?

If Rielly does nothing everyone would be preaching about how soft the Leafs are. Every single team buries Grieg in that situation. I’ve never been more certain about something in my life

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

The Perron one should be a solid comparable but there's some minor differences.

1. Zub literally did nothing wrong.
2. Perron's reaction was due to a teammate being knocked unconscious.

Reilly's antics weren't due to what appeared to be a potential major injury. It was because of a goal. That's certainly 'worse' for that reason. That said, Greig instigated it to a degree, unlike Zub.

Will be interesting to see how many games he gets, but I'm sure the Leads fans supporting Reilly will claim some conspiracy whether it's 1 or 101 games...

Perron turned around and saw Larkin down by Zub and assumed it was him.




Friedman seems to think it should be a potential 6 games (or more) on the latest 32 thoughts. Marek hasn't really weight in one way, or another

 

[Byron Bitz]

Dreger just said on First Up that the Sens veterans were unhappy with Greig’s antics and gave him a talking to about how we don’t do that in the NHL.

 

[Il Stugotz]

As far as precedents go:

1) The most recent precedent for hitting someone well after a whistle and injuring them is 1 playoff game, which equates to about 2 regular season games. (Makar on McCann)
2) The most recent precedent for crosschecking someone in the head on a non-hockey play is 6 games (Perron).

So I would expect the suspension to be 7 or 8 games. If it's more than that, I think the Leafs win an appeal on stare decisis and Parros loses face.

 

[Aashir Mallik]

the only way we can tell how baddass grieg is if he does it again. he will live in leafs fans heads for decades

If Grieg does it again then respect to him lol

 

[LTIR]

If Rielly does nothing everyone would be preaching about how soft the Leafs are. Every single team buries Grieg in that situation. I’ve never been more certain about something in my life

There are lot of ways to 'bury' someone. Going McSorely on Brashear way probably not the wisest..hence suspension.

If Morgan is too fragile to body check then a slash to shin pads would've been plenty to send a message.

 

[DavidpauseReinbacher]

It's taking long because Reilly has to get his ass to New York lol

Damn I forgot about the infamous 3 day journey from Ontario to New York. He's doing the Terry Fox run there and back?

 

[Bouboumaster]

Imagine being that much butthurt because of that goal lol

There was nothing wrong with the goal; there's something wrong with Reilly's mental state and his stupid ass should be sent home for 5 o 6 games

 

[Fucck You]

Was almost as bad as Bertuzzi. 6 to 8 games easy. Maybe more. Brain dead move.

 

[umma gumma]

If Rielly does nothing everyone would be preaching about how soft the Leafs are. Every single team buries Grieg in that situation. I’ve never been more certain about something in my life

Well sure, but they probably don't cross-check him in the head. Just punch him.

 

[Il Stugotz]

Longer it takes to announce it means it's most likely 1-2 games. Fair

The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, so it'll probably get announced Tuesday evening. Strongly doubt it's less than 6 games.

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

Imagine being that butthurt because of that goal lol

There was nothing wrong with the goal; there's something wrong with Reilly's mental state and his stupid ass should be sent home for 5 o 6 games

The unwritten hockey rules are so dumb.

 

[Masked]

It's taking long because Reilly has to get his ass to New York lol

Seemed like he was halfway there by the time Greig got off the ice.

 

[Fucck You]

Reilly deserves 4-5 games but Greig isn’t blameless either, you could tell his team wasn’t a fan of it and giroux seemed quite embarrassed by it in the post game interview

Greig shot the puck in the net. Ooooooh how bad.

 

[2XPRO31]

Damn I forgot about the infamous 3 day journey from Ontario to New York. He's doing the Terry Fox run there and back?

He won't be playing for a few weeks anyway, no need to rush.

 

[MCR74]

It should certainly be a suspension

The Pearl clutching is a bit much.

Didn’t Zegras deliver a cross check to the face pretty recently? What came of that again?

Simmonds took a stick breaking cross check to the face and there was no discipline. Can’t remember any outrage over that

Did the assailant go full Dale Hunter like Rielly did? Did Simmonds suffer career-ending damage like Grieg?

Some Vancouver fan in this thread was calling for 25 games, to "teach him a lesson". You can't make this shit up.

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

Listening to 32 Thoughts this morning, you would almost think that Sportsnet and the Toronto Maple Leafs are owned by the same company