Morgan Rielly suspended for five games for cross-checking Ridly Greig in the head (Mod note in OP); upd: Rielly appealing his suspension (upheld)

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

1/4th a Hunter for the exact same play. Got it.

 

[Metroid]

Reily missed 17 games this season?

Apologies... I saw 24 TOI and 43 points and assumed he was your best D. My bad.

Thanks for your concern!

 

[Relapsing]

It's times like this I like to remember that this is a sport, that we watch for entertainment.

To paraphrase Elsa - let (your anger) gooooooooooooooooo if you're having a hard time with the suspension.

 

[ZDH]

Ya.. Perron intended to cross check a guy out of retaliation and so did Reilly. Not sure I understand the difference here

Perron and Reillys cross checks are entirely different. Perrin saw his captain who has a history of neck injuries lifeless on the ice and Reilly saw someone put a puck into his net too hard.

Just bc both these incidents happened this year doesn't make them comparable. They aren't.

 

[Enga Olly]

But what about the twine? Where's Greig's suspension?

His punishment is playing in Ottawa

 

[JimmyApples]

Thanks, Parros! See ya in a couple weeks, Mo

 

[All Mod Cons]

He was chased down from the blindside from behind and only saw Reilly at the last moment. There was no pre-warning. And Reilly was skating with speed adding force the cross check. The Chiasson cross check is not the same.

There was a pre warning when he shot the puck.

Why do you think we don't see snapshots into empty nets?

How many of Ovechkins ENG are with a slapshot? He is deadly accurate.

Do you believe Greig thought he was just going to skate off?

 

[93gilmour93]

So Reilly loses $457,000? Is that right? Sure showed Greig!

The players will split the tab in the off-season with him and go for a round of golf

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Just watched the DOPS video explainer. I swear they stole their content from all my posts on the subject. It adequately explains away all the false equivalency cross checks used to defend Reilly.

That didn’t at all explain away why others received zero games from a safety perspective. It literally leads you to believe you are free to cross check to the head if “jousting”. The conclusion from this is that the league does not care about player safety, they care about optics.

 

[Divine]

Don’t attack the source. Attack the argument. Nothing I’ve said on this incident can’t be backed up with reasoning, examples, and now the official explanation by the NHL. Most hockey analysts would agree with my take. I don’t think any analysts would agree that Morgan got too harsh a punishment here. I’ve seen zero reasoning to support that, that makes any rational sense.

What are your examples for arrests for crosschecks?

Tons of analysts have said 5 games is excessive. What are you talking about. Are you just making stuff up? Bieksa said 2-3.

 

[Stealth1616]

Perron and Reillys cross checks are entirely different. Perrin saw his captain who has a history of neck injuries lifeless on the ice and Reilly saw someone put a puck into his net too hard.

Just bc both these incidents happened this year doesn't make them comparable. They aren't.

So you are saying Perron was justified in going after and Reilly was not ?

 

[Czechboy]

The players will split the tab in the off-season with him and go for a round of golf

Splitting a 450,000 tab. Is this golf game on the moon?

 

[General Fanager]

Perron and Reillys cross checks are entirely different. Perrin saw his captain who has a history of neck injuries lifeless on the ice and Reilly saw someone put a puck into his net too hard.

Just bc both these incidents happened this year doesn't make them comparable. They aren't.

you are describing why those players saw red and did what they did. Those reasons are irrelevant.

They crossed a line and got what they deserved.

 

[TheNumber4]

There was a pre warning when he shot the puck.

Why do you think we don't see snapshots into empty nets?

How many of Ovechkins ENG are with a slapshot? He is deadly accurate.

Do you believe Greig thought he was just going to skate off?

That wasn’t a pre warning for a cross check to the face. That was a pre warning for some sort of response though. A normal team that wasn’t soft and in need of “proving” something, would have tracked him down and asked him to answer the bell. The correct response.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

The players will split the tab in the off-season with him and go for a round of golf

Let's hope no one celebrates a hole in one too hard around Reilly.

 

[jcs0218]

Rielly's suspension should have been for more games. I would have given him 10 games.

To anyone thinking "Greig showed poor sportsmanship", I am here to tell you that it actually doesn't matter what Greig did.

Greig did something that hurt no one, except maybe some players feelings and fans feelings.

What Greig did is really no different than a player who enthusiastically celebrates a goal.

Does every player who celebrates a goal deserve a cross-check to the head?

Think about this objectively, leaving feelings out of it, and you can see that Rielly deserved a very long suspension.

 

[LivingRentFree]

Don’t attack the source. Attack the argument. Nothing I’ve said on this incident can’t be backed up with reasoning, examples, and now the official explanation by the NHL. Most hockey analysts would agree with my take. I don’t think any analysts would agree that Morgan got too harsh a punishment here. I’ve seen zero reasoning to support that, that makes any rational sense.

There hasn’t been a single player that hasn’t agreed with what Rielly did. Numerous examples have been shown to you. The data shows how Parros deals with suspensions when the leafs are involved.

You chose to ignore it

 

[Divine]

Splitting a 450,000 tab. Is this golf game on the moon?

What 450K?

 

[All Mod Cons]

1/4th a Hunter for the exact same play. Got it.

Sens fans don't want you bringing anything up from the past.

 

[AvroArrow]

Splitting a 450,000 tab. Is this golf game on the moon?

No just in Canada

 

[CycloneSweep]

Proper suspension. Let’s move on.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Seems about right for a guy with no history.

If the Leafs core is worth a damn they'll win every one of these 5 games.

 

[cliffclaven]

These clowns on tsn seriously think that only deserved TWO GAMES? WTF?!

 

[Relapsing]

The players will split the tab in the off-season with him and go for a round of golf

They've got an early morning tee time on Friday April 19th

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Solid job by Dops. They’ve been much more consistent recently. I think this is in the ballpark of what most expected.