The 21 year old rooking with less than 60 games isn't fighting anyone.
He's hoping he doesn't get hurt and can make the NHL again next year.
And that's the smart, sensible thing for him to prioritize.
Morgan Rielly cross check to the head of Ridley Greig (DOPS UPDATE: In Person Hearing - 6 games or more possible)
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The 21 year old rooking with less than 60 games isn't fighting anyone.
He's hoping he doesn't get hurt and can make the NHL again next year.
And that's the smart, sensible thing for him to prioritize.
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He's clearly talking about Greig in this clip though.
'Sometimes emotions get the best of you. I know Greig and he's a good kid but sometimes emotions get the best of you and the crowd was into the game as well'
You think he's talking about Rielly there?
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You are just making things up.
Besides, I don't care about your embarrassment. It is nothing personal. I just don't think people should get embarrassed so easily. If that is who you are, it is fine.
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Greig fought Lagesson the last time the sens played the leafs.
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Sure, but it's still a provocation, and if the opposing player takes issue with it, then that can happen. You would like it not to be a cross to the shoulder that carries on to his neck, but like the saying goes "F&*k around and find out."
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I'm basing my response on what was presented to me and asked for the person who viewed it to tell me if anything resembling my questions had been addressed and got nothing.
I'd usually assume that if there were something to say there, they'd say it because it helps their cause, and that they didn't because they're using a small quote to misrepresent a position instead of presenting impartially.
Do you really need me to go watch it just to pin somebody down and say "yup, gotcha" or can we have a discussion where my questions are answered?
Is this really where you have to go to get a "win" in a thread about a cross check to the head?
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I dunno, it doesn't really sound like he's throwing him under the bus to me. Sounds like the panel was trying to bait a soundbite and G wanted nothing to do with it. It sounds just as much as him excusing what he did than the other way around.
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Another Leafs fan with a dumb take, shocker. Can't wait to see JT rocked again IF you make the playoffs and you all cry bloody murder.
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He could have said what Greig did was a part of the game and Rielly's response was inappropriate.
Instead, he says Greig's a good kid but sometimes emotions get the best of you and the crowd was in the game also... and I don't know, no comment.
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That does not justify the response that it got. You as well as Rielly are 100% entitled to not like what Grieg did, thats fine, its not really in question. What is not fine, is the response it elicited.
Not a dumb take. If you're going to hot dog in the final seconds, you better be prepared for a player to retaliate
Pretty sure that was an example of something that would be deemed disrespectful, not about what happened tonight.
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Didnt watch the game. Was it chippy? Any taunting from the Leafs? If not then its kind of a dick move and im not surprised someone went after him. I am surprised Reilly went after him like that though. If this ignites that rivalry im all for it. I miss the days of Tucker and green going after Chris Neil. Fun times.
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You haven't hurt my feelings. I won't cross check you in the head for a couple of reasons.
1. It is not proper to cross check a person to the head.
2. There will be no point in doing so.
3. Don't worry. You are not a victim. This complex only exists in poor rhetoric on internet forums.
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You don't know G. Season and a half watching/following the guy and I know he'd describe a loaded ice cream sundae as 'cold' and 'just ok'. He's as flat and 'by the book' as they come. Opts out of all promotional content for the team.
You'd get a better soundbite out of a stubborn mule than Giroux. I love him so much.
Nope and Nope. Which is why it was so out of the blue he did that
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Okay, since I apparently had to watch it...
Very first question is super, super broad and Giroux immediately asks "are we talking about the slapshot or the crosscheck" and then the response is just "all of it", so he speaks to what he can control as a veteran probably should and keeps things internal. He deflects for his young teammate and answers for him in a way that should diffuse things to an extent.
If the response from the panel was "oh, to the crosscheck" do you really, honestly think Giroux was going to answer "he deserved that 100%"? They're trying to get him to say something they can run back and forth and create drama. Giroux knows the league is either going to do something or not, he's just playing PR.
Leafs fans whine all the time about offenses much more egregious than "slapshot into a net". If Reilly is just "showing backbone" and didn't pitch a fit why didn't he show that backbone and do this type of thing then? This argument is that what Greig did was so offensive to the code that even a mild mannered player like Reilly had to do something, but... really? That's what we're going with here?
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Grieg? You know the Rookie whom you said wouldn't fight? Turns out he has. But you're right on Lagesson, not sure why the Leafs signed him.
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I dunno, Giroux ain't doing that man. The man is getting interviewed by Kevin Bieksa on national TV, the gave was over, they won, they aren't playing again this year, and Greig wasn't injured.
He's not gonna stir shit up and hockey media a soundbite to stir shit all around the Leafs next week, and then replay it when DOPS comes out with a decision, and then bring it up again next year.
Didn't sound like bus throwing at all to me.
So you'd be completely fine with someone running up to a defenseless Matthews, and crosschecking him in the head?
Please, this board would shut down if that happened.
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Think Giroux did a good job of dancing around Bieksa's malarkey.
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