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

[Akrapovince]

Arbitrary hockey rules are so stupid. Soon it will be we shouldn’t raise the puck, shouldn’t back hand into it. What’s next? If it’s under ten seconds you have to throw the puck into the corner and keep it in your feet?

End of the day, I wouldn’t like any of our Sens players to act like that except Brady or Greig. It’s part of the way they play.

Also, you don’t want someone doing rock star shit and throwing a clap bomb into your empty net? Don’t wait until they do it in the less ten seconds to show some push back and put yourself into an empty net situation in the first place.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

HF is good for showing me this other side of humanity I don't normally interact with that think a slap shot into an empty net somehow deserves being assaulted like that. It's like a bizarro world

Its times like these that I miss Don Cherry. His takes after this would have been glorious. RIP Don.

 

[TheDoldrums]

HF is good for showing me this other side of humanity I don't normally interact with that think a slap shot into an empty net somehow deserves being assaulted like that. It's like a bizarro world

 

[Donner]

The first time I have seen the leafs show grit in a decade or 2

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Nothing wrong with what Grieg did.

 

[All Mod Cons]

How many game suspension?
I set up the over /under to be 3 games

7 or 8

 

[Thechozen1]

It’s called sportsmanship. Slap shot into an empty net is just unnecessary. It’s not that difficult.

Then there’s a time and place for retribution. This was not the time!!!! Dumb Ass Reilly will realize that after he sits a few. I’d give him 4 games.

 

[Dabeast]

5 games and if I'm Greig or any Sen and I get a free empty net vs Toronto later this year I'm going between my legs like Tomas Hertl

 

[Gil Gunderson]

I think you need to forgive Greig. He didn’t like having Leafs fans fill up his building and bragging about it. Emotions got the best of him.

 

[ReddestRum]

Meh. I think Leafs fans have completely discounted the NHL and Dops to take what happens to their players seriously? Seems that the Marchand incident on Liljegren was kind of the last straw.

Most Leafs fans now want their players to exact revenge themselves and take the lengthy suspensions coming their way.

That's the thing. Revenge for what?

This is a physical game. Emotions always run high. Hell, fighting is an integral part of hockey. However, I find it immensely hilarious that a teams' last straw is being finished by an empty net slap shot. Like.. THAT'S THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMELS BACK. And the revenge is cross-checking a guy in the head after he scores a goal.

f***ing soft.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

f*** yeah!

 

[Korpse]

He's a turtle not a fighter

He doesn’t need to be a fighter. Not like Reilly is a fighter. I’m sure next time he sees #34 he will find his spot. Greig loves being the villain.

 

[T REX]

I’d say 3 games as he has no history. But the blind side nature of the play and the fact it wasn’t part of a hockey play makes it dangerous so a message needs to be sent.

It was absolutely gutless.

He's getting 5-10 games.

Can't have that no matter how bad the sens player made you weep.

 

[LOFIN]

And every other sport handles it like Rielly did.

If a player jogs too slowly after hitting a home run the benches clear sometimes.

The NFL will give you a 15 yard personal foul if you stand over a player after hitting him, or celebrate in an opponent's face.

Stop acting like this is just a hockey thing.

They don't hit the offender with a f***ing bat in bench clearing brawls in baseball do they?

 

[jbeck5]

that's a really f***in stupid slapshot to take but there's literally no excuse for intentionally using your stick as a weapon on someone's head when play has halted

that's kind of an unbreakable standard in my book, you need to come down heavily on this

Imagine being angry at the type of shot a player takes.

Or thinking that a type of shot is stupid.

Like wtf? Lmao

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Its times like these that I miss Don Cherry. His takes after this would have been glorious. RIP Don.

Why? You can just read Toronto media to get the exact same opinion piece.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

They don't hit the offender with a f***ing bat in bench clearing brawls in baseball do they?

If all players carried a bat at all times on the field, they might.

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

3 games easy.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

 

[The Professional]

If Rielly has an issue with Greig's slapper, go over and give him a face wash, start a scrum or something. Don't skate over and cross check him in the head. f***ing gutless move.

 

[jbeck5]

Things that are true:

1.) It was a major bush league move taking a slap shot from 5 feet away into an empty net
2.) Rielly was right to give him the business about it.
3.) Rielly's actions went way overboard "giving him the business" and he'll rightly sit for a while for it.

Bush league? Lmao what?

Why? Did the slap shot hurt the nets feelings?

It's an Ottawa Senators net from their building.

Why do you care?

 

[Leaf Fans]

They are upset because the Sens won the

BATTLE OF ONTARIO

A G A I N

I don't think anyone is upset about that. It is a fact.

 

[Divine]

It pisses off Senators fans though

 

[AchtzehnBaby]