Out of Town Thread - New Year's Edition!

[Hins77]

Dylan Cozens was picked 8th overall


Dirty and predatory as usual for Trouba.

I think that hit was fine. Trouba hit Kadri chest. If this hit wasnt fair, Kadri would still remain lying down on the ice. Kadri saw the hit coming.. Back in the days, Emelin was doing the same here, and most of the time, those hit were clean. They are big guys + quickness = Someone needs to fall on the ice.

 

[Mrb1p]

I think that hit was fine. Trouba hit Kadri chest. If this hit wasnt fair, Kadri would still remain lying down on the ice. Kadri saw the hit coming.. Back in the days, Emelin was doing the same here, and most of the time, those hit were clean. They are big guys + quickness = Someone needs to fall on the ice.

Again, where the hit lands has very little to do with the hitter and the person being hit. If you think you can make millisecond adjustments to not clip someone in the face or whatever, youre lying to yourself. No human is that fast.

Head down hits should be treated like blind side hits in the NFL.

 

[MXD]

Hahhahhah Virtanen ostie de bozo.

 

[ngc_5128]

Am I being a homer, or was that Trouba hit on Kadri one of the greatest hits the game has seen?

It certainly ranks up there with the ones Don Cherry used to show on Rock em sock em videos...

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The greatest hit of all time is a tie between Kovalev on Tucker, and Robinson on Dornhoefer...but I might be a little biased, lol

 

[Schooner Guy]

Head down hits should be treated like blind side hits in the NFL.

Good lord! Maybe we should introduce foul shots for light contact?

Kadri cut to the middle in the offensive zone with his head down knowing Trouba's on the ice. That's on Kadri. Not to mention there was no contact to the head.

 

[OldCraig71]

I think that hit was fine. Trouba hit Kadri chest. If this hit wasnt fair, Kadri would still remain lying down on the ice. Kadri saw the hit coming.. Back in the days, Emelin was doing the same here, and most of the time, those hit were clean. They are big guys + quickness = Someone needs to fall on the ice.

Kadri was attempting to cut to the middle and Trouba focused on Kadri's chest and not the puck and he leveled him. I watched it in real time and it was a thing of beauty. Cutting to the middle was something that players rarely did in the past for fear of getting destroyed by guys like Potvin, Stevens or Pronger and there were many more that didn't allow it to happen as well. Kadri himself has said that he took the hit like a man and got back up and continued to play the game.

What I despise is the fact that once a hit occurs there are players that want to fight the guy that delivered it. Why not take his number and get him when you get the chance? Hitting and intensity are going away from the game and the NHL is losing fans because of it, the product is becoming predictable and boring on most nights and it's hurting the game. I watched the Wings and Oilers last night and it had the intensity of the all-star game, the fans were silent, so much so that I could hear the players yelling things on the ice, it was completely dead.

 

[Mrb1p]

Good lord! Maybe we should introduce foul shots for light contact?

Kadri cut to the middle in the offensive zone with his head down knowing Trouba's on the ice. That's on Kadri. Not to mention there was no contact to the head.

Do you ever make a non-passive-aggressive post ?

Anyhow, I don't think the point of contact should be the defining factor of a dirty hit or not. Its almost impossible to "target" a moving players head unless you really make it obvious (Troubas chicken wing on Crosby comes to mind.) What you can do is a predatory hit, like this one, in which you hit a player with his head down KNOWINGLY putting him in danger because of some kind of weird code of manliness that "You should always keep your head up" that has been plaguing this macho sport for too long.

The player needs to protect other players.

Kadri was attempting to cut to the middle and Trouba focused on Kadri's chest and not the puck and he leveled him. I watched it in real time and it was a thing of beauty. Cutting to the middle was something that players rarely did in the past for fear of getting destroyed by guys like Potvin, Stevens or Pronger and there were many more that didn't allow it to happen as well. Kadri himself has said that he took the hit like a man and got back up and continued to play the game.

What I despise is the fact that once a hit occurs there are players that want to fight the guy that delivered it. Why not take his number and get him when you get the chance? Hitting and intensity are going away from the game and the NHL is losing fans because of it, the product is becoming predictable and boring on most nights and it's hurting the game. I watched the Wings and Oilers last night and it had the intensity of the all-star game, the fans were silent, so much so that I could hear the players yelling things on the ice, it was completely dead.

The problem is too many inter-division games and not enough intra-division games. There is no rivalry in the NHL. Playing 1 game in 5 months against the Bruins is totally insane and totally counterproductive to the selling of the sport.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Dont cut to the middle like that without looking if you don't want to get your head blown off, pretty simple honnestly.

Hockey is better when the crease/slot is hard to get too can't just ballerina your way in there all the time (unless you are mcdavid of course).

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Runner77]

That 8 could have been turned into a 4 with a little more duct tape but otherwise good effort.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

That 8 could have been turned into a 4 with a little more duct tape but otherwise good effort.

So good!

 

[26Mats]

Dylan Cozens was picked 8th overall


Dirty and predatory as usual for Trouba.

Why dirty?

 

[Schooner Guy]

Do you ever make a non-passive-aggressive post ?

Anyhow, I don't think the point of contact should be the defining factor of a dirty hit or not. Its almost impossible to "target" a moving players head unless you really make it obvious (Troubas chicken wing on Crosby comes to mind.) What you can do is a predatory hit, like this one, in which you hit a player with his head down KNOWINGLY putting him in danger because of some kind of weird code of manliness that "You should always keep your head up" that has been plaguing this macho sport for too long.

The player needs to protect other players.



The problem is too many inter-division games and not enough intra-division games. There is no rivalry in the NHL. Playing 1 game in 5 months against the Bruins is totally insane and totally counterproductive to the selling of the sport.

Kadri himself said it was a good hit and he dusted himself off and got back out there.

Is that passive aggressive?

 

[OldCraig71]

Vancouver is emerging as a possible destination for the next one, a local boy as well.

 

[Mrb1p]

Kadri himself said it was a good hit and he dusted himself off and got back out there.

Is that passive aggressive?

Ah yes, using another pog dirty player as barometer

 

[MarkovsKnee]

The greatest hit of all time is a tie between Kovalev on Tucker, and Robinson on Dornhoefer...but I might be a little biased, lol

That Kovalev hit on Tucker was an absolute beauty. That whole f***ing weekend was amazing. They came to Montreal for a 2 game series and we kicked their asses both games. It killed their playoff chances. It was f***ing epic.

 

[Rapala]

Kadri was attempting to cut to the middle and Trouba focused on Kadri's chest and not the puck and he leveled him. I watched it in real time and it was a thing of beauty. Cutting to the middle was something that players rarely did in the past for fear of getting destroyed by guys like Potvin, Stevens or Pronger and there were many more that didn't allow it to happen as well. Kadri himself has said that he took the hit like a man and got back up and continued to play the game.

What I despise is the fact that once a hit occurs there are players that want to fight the guy that delivered it. Why not take his number and get him when you get the chance? Hitting and intensity are going away from the game and the NHL is losing fans because of it, the product is becoming predictable and boring on most nights and it's hurting the game. I watched the Wings and Oilers last night and it had the intensity of the all-star game, the fans were silent, so much so that I could hear the players yelling things on the ice, it was completely dead.

Yeah I'd love to see the league crack down on this. The fact that a clean solid hit always triggers a useless scrum and gratuitous head shots has always been repellent to me. One of the reasons the instigator rule was put in was for this very scenario but they never call it. I wish they'd double up on it and call 4 minutes. For me it's far more punishable than an errant stick drawing a dot of blood.

 

[Rapala]

Matthew has to be so grateful that he doesn't look anything like Brady.

 

[Miller Time]

I feel for the Oilers fans...

Holland looks & sounds more and more lost by the day. Like MB, he seems focused on the wrong things and is squandering prime years of a massive talent (in this case, 2 of them) while trying to be the smartest guy in the room.

 

[Rapala]

Matthew has to be so grateful that he doesn't look anything like Brady.

What in the blue blazes is it with the WoW emoji recently?

 

[26Mats]

I feel for the Oilers fans...

Holland looks & sounds more and more lost by the day. Like MB, he seems focused on the wrong things and is squandering prime years of a massive talent (in this case, 2 of them) while trying to be the smartest guy in the room.

That's my impression also.

Man was MB's vision ever way off for modern hockey.

Something tells me Hughes has the right idea. But we'll see how it actually plays out. He'll be patient and wait until what he wants is available at the right price.

 

[Paddyjack]

Yeah I'd love to see the league crack down on this. The fact that a clean solid hit always triggers a useless scrum and gratuitous head shots has always been repellent to me. One of the reasons the instigator rule was put in was for this very scenario but they never call it. I wish they'd double up on it and call 4 minutes. For me it's far more punishable than an errant stick drawing a dot of blood.

You have to realize however that the margin between a clean hit and a head shot is very thin, and players on the heat of the moments, will do the classic "shoot first, ask questions later". Most of the times we need slow motion replays ourselves to see if this was clean or not, so, how can players be certain at the speed of the game really.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Matthew has to be so grateful that he doesn't look anything like Brady.

He did get pretty much all of the better looking genes in his family Brady on the other hand has to live life looking like freaking Sloth from the Goonies.

 

[Mrb1p]

He did get pretty much all of the better looking genes in his family Brady on the other hand has to live life looking like freaking Sloth from the Goonies.

Peter Jackson famously based an Uruk-hai general on Brady. Gothmog.

 

[ArtPeur]

Peter Jackson famously based an Uruk-hai general on Brady. Gothmog.

Nah it's Harvey Weinstein. Here's Brady: