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

[Michel Beauchamp]

It's gotta be the giant f***ing Q!

Besides the lunatics, the only Q I know first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation...

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

So then, slap a hockey puck into an empty net to give one in return, don't assault a guy by driving a stick through his head in retaliation to something you didnt like about his behaviour.

If he had been hurt, knocked out, or worse, would we still be defending it. If so, things like what Bertuzzi did years ago would be ok because a guy like Moore "deserved" it for doing something to Naslund, etc..

It is either wrong or it isn't. In this case, like so many others, it is!!

It is what?

 

[Divine]

Is it ok to do it after the empty net goal is scored and its in the SCF?

This wasn't even a slapshot, but the slapshot wasn't the issue.

I don't think anyone has a problem with Grieg doing it if he does it at centre ice with the defencemen on him

He waited until he could put it in the net to do it. Presumably so he doesn't miss the net. They're completely different.

Slapshots into empty nets have happened before. Especially from your own end of the ice when clearing a puck.

 

[kingsholygrail]

The hit made it to PTI. Only time they talk about hockey. lol

 

[All Mod Cons]

I cant say for certain, but I am going to assume all of those plays you listed were during play? Rielly attacked a player well after the whistle with clear intent to harm. I will say the circumstances are different.

Makar's certainly wasn't. The difference between Trouba swinging his stick wildly at Frederic's face, in play, cannot be 6 or 7 games "better" than cross checking a guy well after the whistle.

Brendan Gallagher beamed a guy in a premeditated fashion only a week ago with intent to harm. Came all the way across the ice and just drilled him in the head. He got 5 games.

If Rielly gets more than 6, there is something seriously wrong.

What does this have to do with what I said?

I said they're dragging it out as long as possible. Hours before the next Leafs game.

Remember when they did that with Kadri after the DeBrusk incident? Right until the game. Suspended him for not even a fixed amount of games (never seen that before) and then Debrusk is fine. Haha

 

[TheDoldrums]

Even official Sens twitter feed put up a trolling video of the goal. Embarassed my foot.

Even the college intern who runs the twitter account liked it? Wow I'm sold. Theres no way the old school GM or coach or older players could see it in any other way.

 

[Divine]

Hopefully this gets the Leafs to show up against Ottawa.

The Jets haven't won a game against the Leafs since Spezza was suspended in 2021. 5 straight losses.

Sucks there's no more games this year.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

Makar's certainly wasn't. The difference between Trouba swinging his stick wildly at Frederic's face, in play, cannot be 6 or 7 games "better" than cross checking a guy well after the whistle.

Brendan Gallagher beamed a guy in a premeditated fashion only a week ago with intent to harm. Came all the way across the ice and just drilled him in the head. He got 5 games.

If Rielly gets more than 6, there is something seriously wrong.


Remember when they did that with Kadri after the DeBrusk incident? Right until the game. Suspended him for not even a fixed amount of games (never seen that before) and then Debrusk is fine. Haha

How about that time they announced Matthews was getting a call before the game even ended? Ever seen that one before?

 

[Ted Hoffman]

You showboat in baseball you get a 98 MPH fastball thrown at your head

Maybe in the 60s or 70s with a Bob Gibson. Today, you're getting plunked in ribs or on the hip.

I'm honestly still not getting why shooting a puck hard into an empty net is showboating, tbqh.

Because it violates the code.

How does it violate the code? In a tough, manly sport like ice hockey, where men are men and boys go to Europe or don't play at all, it ... [checks the thread] ... hurts someone's feelings.

 

[Ezekial]

Is it ok to do it after the empty net goal is scored and its in the SCF?

Probably more dejected that they just lost a Stanley Cup than they were about that. That was the Cup clinching EN.

 

[Puck Tiss]

Makar's certainly wasn't. The difference between Trouba swinging his stick wildly at Frederic's face, in play, cannot be 6 or 7 games "better" than cross checking a guy well after the whistle.

Brendan Gallagher beamed a guy in a premeditated fashion only a week ago with intent to harm. Came all the way across the ice and just drilled him in the head. He got 5 games.

If Rielly gets more than 6, there is something seriously wrong.


Remember when they did that with Kadri after the DeBrusk incident? Right until the game. Suspended him for not even a fixed amount of games (never seen that before) and then Debrusk is fine. Haha

Ok I agree. 6 games. Jesus, I didnt think you were going to come at me that hard.

 

[All Mod Cons]

How about that time they announced Matthews was getting a call before the game even ended? Ever seen that one before?

Outdoor game?

Yeah during the 3rd period announced Matthews has a hearing. You can't write this shit.

 

[Roo]

No, but you generally see the guy throw off their gloves and know they want to fight, and Rielly had a tone on time to throw the gloves off if he wanted to send a message, but he didn't do that, this isn't a guy that came flying in to defend a hurt player either this was a guy who's feelings were hurt by the way a guy scored. He was upset because he lost the game. The comparison to someone laying out one of your players is a terrible one,

Whether you want to engage or not they don't need to give you the option, but you still have the opportunity to defend yourself. Greig didn't get one. If someone was being particularly disrespectful, who really was it here?

Coming in high with a stick doesn't offer up that opportunity which is why it's generally frowned upon in modern society.

You’re right about that. But this isn’t how hockey players think in the heat of the moment.

You generally see the guy coming when he is in front of you. Sometimes he isn’t. And in Rielly’s case, Grieg was skating away from him towards the bench.

Unique case where it’s in retaliation to showboating, but players go after other players like this all the time when things get really heated and I don’t see suspensions for it. I also suspect that most posters against Rielly here would be supportive if it was their player and their team.

 

[Divine]

At this point I'm almost willing to bet that Parros is going to be overzealous with his suspension, just like Spezza.

It will be overturned, just like Spezza's was.

However, the league will take so long to overturn it that the original suspension would have already been served, serving no purpose.

Parros will likely face no punishments for making a team lose a player longer than necessary so he will continue to do it without judgement.

 

[Rude Dog]

Playoff suspensions are always significantly less than regular season suspensions.

This may seem unfair, since the punishment should be the same.

But it has never worked that way.

For sure, but shouldn't injuring another teams player for the play-offs be considered just as important as losing the guy that did it?

Probably shared already, but here's another example of a "goal" resulting in some extracurricular activities.

this is the nhl in a nutshell. Only in the NHL is jumping a guy and feeding him with bare knuckles completely acceptable Break whatever you want on his face. But high stick a guy and you get 5 games. Makes sense.

 

[DearDiary]

I'm honestly still not getting why shooting a puck hard into an empty net is showboating, tbqh.

It's normal to not understand the minds of psychopaths who cling to violence over the smallest slight. It's why I never drive aggressively in traffic. Someone flips me off or brake checks me? I ignore it. You never know when a person like Rielly would get offended, stop their car, walk over and smash your window in.

 

[NyQuil]

Hopefully this gets the Leafs to show up against Ottawa. Sucks there's no more games this year.

Didn’t you just say that you wanted the Leafs to lose to Ottawa because it would help them get a worse player in the draft?

If that’s the case, of course you would want Toronto to play Ottawa a bunch more times this season so the Sens could rack up those points.

 

[abo9]

Nah. I haven't been this outraged since Hulk Hogan joined the NWO. Two year suspension for Morgan

Morgan Rielly should be banned from any hockey ever.

And Greig suspended for one year for unsportsmanlike conduct. Give him the Pinto treatment!

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

And then an 8 game for Rielly because he's wearing the wrong sweater.

Another poor victim...

 

[OVO16]

Like keefe said, anything a leafs player does will be over-analyzed and over-penalized. Its the market and the attention.

People need to realize its not just the massive leafs fanbase, its also the massive passionate anti-leafs hating fanbase that adds extra gravy

I fully suspect Rielly to get like 7 games. Its Nazem Kadri all over again

 

[Hunter368]

Follow the rules, stay on subject, if you’ve continued to post in this thread this long clearly you want to state your opinion and the out come drops Tuesday. Don’t get yourself thread banned

 

[93gilmour93]

Morgan Rielly should be banned from any hockey ever.

And Greig suspended for one year for unsportsmanlike conduct. Give him the Pinto treatment!

Banned so bad he can't even log in to play hockey on Playstation or Xbox.

 

[DKH]

lot of children watching this and the DoS needs to throw the book at him which is a bummer because Reilly seems like a really good guy

Minimum 10 but gotta make it so costly it’s going to be a long time before happens again

 

[HabzSauce]

Absof***inglutely.

Just apply it to all 32 NHL teams.

That's all I care about. I don't wanna see 1 game suspensions for Makar. 1 game suspension for Pietrangelo chopping Draisaitl's arm off. A fine for Trouba for swinging a stick at Frederic's head. 1 game for Mangiapane for cross checking McCann in the head on the floor. 5 games for Gallagher absolutely beaming a guy in the head.

And then an 8 game for Rielly because he's wearing the wrong sweater.

That is what I don't want to see.

I agree. Gallagher and Perron hits were way more dangerous than what Reilly did and they got 5-6 games.

Id give Rielly 2 games. 3 games at the most

 

[NyQuil]

Smart Guy,

There has been a couple of examples where players didn't receive a 6 game suspension. Most recent was Spezza.

Now change the thread title...











...NOW!!!

Spezza actually did receive a six game suspension from the DoPS.