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

[HofT]

its piss-poor leadership IMO, its no wonder his players are soft

Saying the truth is great leadership

 

[nturn06]

how does Keefe even have a f***in job right now??? hes going to complain about the leafs being 'targets' right before a serious decision is coming down? talk about an absolute clown move.... YIKES

Because the fan base is willing to buy that the Leafs are persecuted by the DOPS, the refs, and who knows who else.....

 

[Kuljeskelen]

Absolutely cause he's right.

Let's imagine he's right. His player did (not intentionally, but recklessly) outside of the play hit other player's head. He knows about the Toronto factor. He knows about the "focus" on hits on head.

He still decides to be "surprised" about Rielly getting a hearing. Being a surprised Pikachu makes him a moron, not his allegations of the Toronto factor. He may be right AND surprised - and being right about one thing while being surprised about something he should be able to see coming as a professional hockey personnel makes me feel like he is more of a moron than if he was not surprised.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Please ask any nhler that you can and see what they say about the zegras and greig stuff.

Or player spraying snow on a goalie, or shooting the puck on an offside, or tapping puck in the net after a whistle……on and on.
You’re right there are endless examples.

 

[swiftwin]

I'm loving Keefe now

Wow, Keefe is such a crybaby

 

[Micklebot]

He might get chirped for being an idiot but that's about it.

might get some of the opposite too, a couple ex players have come out saying they loved what Greig did, Barnaby, Methot, York, there's probably some others too. It's sports, it's entertainment. This builds up the rivalry.

Now, Barnaby is a POS, and the other two are ex sens, so there's some selection bias there...

 

[Micklebot]

10% of this thread is just 5 people who cheer for the leafs.

I wouldn't be shocked if another 10% is 5 Sens fans.

 

[HofT]

Let's imagine he's right. His player did (not intentionally, but recklessly) outside of the play hit other player's head. He knows about the Toronto factor. He knows about the "focus" on hits on head.

He still decides to be "surprised" about Rielly getting a hearing. Being a surprised Pikachu makes him a moron, not his allegations of the Toronto factor. He may be right AND surprised - and being right about one thing while being surprised about something he should be able to see coming as a professional hockey personnel makes me feel like he is more of a moron than if he was not surprised.

There's no need to imagine. You're here lol welcome Leafs fan

 

[Saltcreek]

It's perplexing that the code supposedly dictates that things like showboating, excessive celebration, and taunting the opposing team are regarded as serious offenses by the players and other people within the game while actual violence with intent to injure occurring within gameplay and even after the whistle is alright. I enjoy hockey but this is something that makes me turn off the game and lose affection. Both points are important: taunting and similar behavior is only WORDS and GESTURES said and done within a GAME and are done to ROUSE both your team and the opponent. They make for a more intensive and passionate game which should mean better entertainment for the fans. What good does injuring other players do? If I want to watch unhinged beat downs I turn to combat sport.

The code against showboating and anything that's viewed as a little bit excessive is by my estimation a Canadian thing, playing "the right way", "having class". Well it's actually the opposite: the Canadian way is the shitty way. Classlessness isn't pretending you have a hot stick when you celebrate a goal or taking a slapshot at an EMPTY net, it's hitting an unsuspecting person with intent to injure over nothing. The sport needs a wake up call. Does hockey even need Canada anymore? Not much good stuff coming from there lately (obv reference to junior hockey shenanigans). Hockey culture is incredibly low brow, 5-year-olds getting their emotions hurt over a mean word and stuff. Lol what a joke.

It isnt a Canadian thing, there are people from different countries who do share this view about the code however the code isnt a real thing. It is much like the gentlemen agreement that teams use to have during international play in that if they built up a big lead they were to let off. That whole thing died many many years ago and now you have the top teams racking up double digit scores.

Ive been watching and playing hockey for about 35 years and this is the first time I have seen so many people lose their minds over a goal. People complain that the game is going soft and it is the "no hitting league" but this outrage to the slap shot is probably the dumbest thing I have ever seen in hockey.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

kinda stupid that were held at a higher standard just because we have more eyes watching. should be the same across the league. I swear most fines that players get on other teams, are suspensions for the Leafs.

What you’re feeling is called ‘victim complex’

 

[HofT]

Wow, Keefe is such a crybaby

And so many people are crying from this quote from Keefe lol

 

[Ianturnedbull]

10% of this thread is just 5 people who cheer for the leafs.

The Elite.

 

[SpezDispenser]

There's no need to imagine. You're here lol welcome Leafs fan

Read what he wrote again instead of silly comments, because he's 100% right. Keefe comes off as a moron of the highest accord - who also doesn't know the rules very well, which is also....not awesome.

 

[Golden_Jet]

I meant, whether the team or the owner or whoever could just decide to give him what he'll lose, ON TOP of what he's already losing.

No

 

[Ianturnedbull]

No no no. Wait wait wait. You got it allllll wrong. It was a slap pass. There you go.

 

[Cypher]

Whether you agree with it or not, slapping the puck into an empty net isn't against any NHL written rules. Rielly gets 10 games here minimum.

 

[MXD]

Team can't, that would be cap circumvention. Don't think there would be any issues with other players doing it though, they do things like put money on the board for games against their old team for example, so this probably wouldn't be any different.

Of course, wasn't referring to what the other players or even the coach was doing (coach is a bit of a greyer area)

 

[Cosmix]

Team can't, that would be cap circumvention. Don't think there would be any issues with other players doing it though, they do things like put money on the board for games against their old team for example, so this probably wouldn't be any different.

I might be an issue for the NHL if a player paid another player for fighting or injuring a player on another team.

 

[Slapshot_11]

How is this not decided yet but zadorov's gets a ruling same day??

 

[Edgelord]

Okay?

He went out of his way to do something he knew was illegal as a response for his feelings getting hurt, which resulted in him crosschecking a guy in the face.

That's just a ridiculous response no matter how you slice it.

context and intent are looked at, no matter how you slice it

 

[jiggy35]

I wouldn't be shocked if another 10% is 5 Sens fans.

That’s 100% of sens fans

 

[Kuljeskelen]

About the code - on an almost unrelated note, why did the players in the all-star skill competition not cross-check Kucherov because he allegedly disrespected the game?

 

[Slats432]

You're perfect right.
But a team could decide to do it on principle, in a "I agree with what you did here" way.

It could happen, but I would think only a guy near the bottom of the payscale could benefit from the crowdfunding. Maybe Leafs fans in all their ire will crowdfund to help Rielly out.

 

[1909]

Whether you agree with it or not, slapping the puck into an empty net isn't against any NHL written rules. Rielly gets 10 games here minimum.

Greig has overdone it a bit but I think first and foremost, he wanted to shut the huge crowd of Leafs fans in the stands in Ottawa. It is very annoying for the Sens to feel on the road when they face the Leafs or the Habs in their own arena.

As for Rielly, that was a stupid bonehead play.

 

[swiftwin]

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