(MTL) Arber Xhekaj has been fined $3,385.42

[ACC1224]

Shameful decision

 

[TIGERCOOL]

If Xhekaj had clubbed Pare in the head with his stick from behind, I suspect you would see a different punishment.

Complaining about "double standards" when they are two very different situations in the eyes of the NHL doesn't really build credibility.

No... because Rielly didn't club anyone in the head with his stick, so that would in fact be a different situation. But maybe we can just agree that hitting an unsuspecting player in the head from behind, with or without a stick, is a suspendable play. As I recall it was said action that ended a player's career and changed his life forever.

But keep up the galaxy brain justifications. Really teaching all of us common folk how to "build credibility" on this hockey forum.

 

[AvatarAang]

It’s a shame that Pare was assaulted and his family received terrible messages from Montreal fans.

We need to step back and remember that hockey is just a game. I wish Laine a speedy recovery and hope that Montreal fans can focus on supporting their players instead.

 

[NyQuil]

No... because Rielly didn't club anyone in the head with his stick.

That's where the mouth is located.

 

[Bouboumaster]

throw pare out for what? he did nothing wrong. wow way to play victim over this.

Yeah well, he did something wrong, and it was wrong enough for Xhekaj to beat his ass

 

[overlords]

It’s a shame that Pare was assaulted and his family received terrible messages from Montreal fans.

We need to step back and remember that hockey is just a game. I wish Laine a speedy recovery and hope that Montreal fans can focus on supporting their players instead.

stunning and brave

 

[Sasha Orlov]

It’s a shame that Pare was assaulted

You literally don’t know what this even means

 

[OVO16]

Lmao Pare really knocked out a full time NHL'er and is now gonna go back to the Marlies or heck, even waived maybe.

Now his family getting death thread from habs fans. Lmao what a way to really make a mark

 

[Auston Marlander]

You literally don’t know what this even means

If someone came up to you, grabbed the back of your shirt and started punching you in the back of the head...what would you call that?

 

[The Great Weal]

I love reading the "it's Laine's fault for trying that and he's got really poor skating" comments. He literally caught Pare flat footed so not sure how it seems like a dumb/low IQ play. Pare acknowledged this when he said he had to do something to stop him which is contrary to what people here say that Laine skated into him.

 

[Auston Marlander]

I’m not being obtuse at all, and it’s not battery either. It’s pretty easy to just not comment on things you don’t know anything about.

Battery is a unlawful physical contact. If this happened on the street it is 100% Battery. Since it was on the ice it would be hard to bring the law in, but the parallel is there.

As for not knowing anything about it, 3 years of studying law before deciding it wasn't best for my mental health says otherwise. Stay in your lane.

 

[Petrus]

You guys are still going on about this? Bro got a 3k fine that's hilarious, love it. The crying in here is insane

I had a team meeting this morning. This became the first item on our agenda! I am not even joking.

 

[HuGo Sham]

Leafs are likely happy though because he will be playing in the season opener. He sucks and Reaves is gonna chase him around all game. Have fun.

Yeah. I'm sure Arber is terrified

 

[zoA]

I love reading the "it's Laine's fault for trying that and he's got really poor skating" comments. He literally caught Pare flat footed so not sure how it seems like a dumb/low IQ play. Pare acknowledged this when he said he had to do something to stop him which is contrary to what people here say that Laine skated into him.

Can you post a link to this? I've seen a couple Habs posters recite this story but Pare never said anything like that in his post-game interview. Pare said it wasn't intentional and that he hopes Laine is alright.

Link to post-game interview

 

[Beendair Donedat]

I didn’t say that rebuilding is bad. I said that Montreal is bad at rebuilding.

Some of Montreal’s recent lottery picks:

Kotkaniemi instead of Tkachuk
Slaf instead of Cooley
Reinbacher instead of Michkov

Montreal has been at the bottom of the league for the last 3 seasons and their lottery picks are average at best, they made the wrong decision every time.

At least you will have another opportunity to draft the wrong player with your lottery pick next year lmao

Kotkaniemi was a bad choice.

Slaf and Cooley? Not sure how you figure that one. Slaf had more points than Cooley did in their respective first full years in the league, and adds some much needed size and physicality to the Montreal lineup. Cooley is a great young player but we have enough small guys up front, Slaf adds a lot to our top line.

Reinbacher and Michkov? Neither one has played a regular season NHL game yet, and defensemen historically take longer to develop than forwards. No idea why you’d try to take a lap on that one.

If you want to pick and choose draft choices, your team hasn’t been much better.

How are Juolevi, Virtanen and Podkolzin working out for you? None of them exactly lit the league on fire.

 

[The Great Weal]

Can you post a link to this? I've seen a couple Habs posters recite this story but Pare never said anything like that in his post-game interview. Pare said it wasn't intentional and that he hopes Laine is alright.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1840484701418725515

Now this isn't outright saying "yeah I wanted to injure him" but when he said "I had to do something" it means he did something as opposed to the belief that Laine skated into him which is clearly wrong.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Yeah well, he did something wrong, and it was wrong enough for Xhekaj to beat his ass

no I think he deserved to fight just like even though it was an accident as well, Perry fought after. I just dont like the way it was handled. dont wanna see someone down the road get hurt over that cause this turned out to be just a fine.

this really just sucks for Laine but I mean lets be real. he had a 2nd attached to him for a reason. he was bound to get hurt at some point again.

 

[frederixx]

It’s a shame that Pare was assaulted and his family received terrible messages from Montreal fans.

We need to step back and remember that hockey is just a game. I wish Laine a speedy recovery and hope that Montreal fans can focus on supporting their players instead.

I agree it has to stop, but it has nothing to do with Montreal more than any other city around the league. Same thing happens again and again after every dirty hit.

Panthers’ Matheson had death threats after hit on Canucks’ Pettersson​

 

[Arthur Morgan]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1840484701418725515

Now this isn't outright saying "yeah I wanted to injure him" but when he said "I had to do something" it means he did something as opposed to the belief that Laine skated into him which is clearly wrong.

he didnt say that at all, I like how they cut out where he said he didnt try to hurt him.
he shifted his weight, so what was he suppose to do then? just let Laine in? Laine should have been more careful as his room as being taken away from him. he didnt have to keep that wide stance the entire time.
it was nothing more than a mistake, Montreal is playing victim wayy too much

 

[Sasha Orlov]

he didnt say that at all, I like how they cut out where he said he didnt try to hurt him.
he shifted his weight, so what was he suppose to do then? just let Laine in? Laine should have been more careful as his room as being taken away from him. he didnt have to keep that wide stance the entire time.
it was nothing more than a mistake, Montreal is playing victim wayy too much

I don’t get the outrage on both sides, it wasn’t a dirty play and also what Xhekaj did was par for the course

Yet some posters will tell you Pare went out there to take out Laine and some legal scholars will tell you Xhekaj committed a crime

 

[The Great Weal]

he didnt say that at all, I like how they cut out where he said he didnt try to hurt him.
he shifted his weight, so what was he suppose to do then? just let Laine in? Laine should have been more careful as his room as being taken away from him. he didnt have to keep that wide stance the entire time.
it was nothing more than a mistake, Montreal is playing victim wayy too much

So if you bothered to read the only sentence I wrote in my post, I never said Pare claimed he wanted to injure him. However, he did say he "had to do something" which is straight from the horse's mouth that it wasn't Laine skating into him which many of you Leaf fans claim happened.

 

[Sniper99]

Man they came down on him hard with that extra .42 cents

 

[zoA]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1840484701418725515

Now this isn't outright saying "yeah I wanted to injure him" but when he said "I had to do something" it means he did something as opposed to the belief that Laine skated into him which is clearly wrong.

Thanks for providing that. Wish we had video of the interaction so we could try and understand the full context -- without the (...) and such -- so we don't have to interpret through text. Hard to tell if he's saying he was just trying to initiate contact (weight transfer to front leg, bending knee for stability while raising his hands to initiate contact) or if his "without doing something" is referring to doing anything possible to initiate contact.

Either way, just a bad situation and outcome, but I appreciate you providing the link.

 

[The Great Weal]

Thanks for providing that. Wish we had video of the interaction so we could try and understand the full context -- without the (...) and such -- so we don't have to interpret through text. Hard to tell if he's saying he was just trying to initiate contact (weight transfer to front leg, bending knee for stability while raising his hands to initiate contact) or if his "without doing something" is referring to doing anything possible to initiate contact.

Either way, just a bad situation and outcome, but I appreciate you providing the link.

I do think either way it disproves the statement that Laine ran into him and caused it to happen. No context (at least in my books) validates this statement when he says "I can't let him come into our zone without doing something". Now the discussion about whether that is the proper way of preventing someone entering the zone like that is a different discussion, but we can stop pretending that Laine ran into a stationary dman and caused that injury.