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Patrick Laine injured in pre-season game after knee on knee
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I dont' even think the play was dirty. Pilon player literally being a pilon on the ice.
Spearmint Rhino
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Pare should grow a f***ing Pair and answer the bell instead of cowarding away
Laines leg seemed to be as extended out to the side as Pare's. Honestly both players are to blame for a senseless play
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…intentional? Tell me you’ve never played hockey without telling me you’ve never played hockey.
Brutal take, kiddo.
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Doesn't look dirty but it's stupid. It's the same stupid thing players do when they stick out the chicken wing elbow because they miss a check and end up giving a headshot instead.
As a Leafs fan I don't even know wtf Pare is.
Hopefully it's a bruise and not a ligament. Best wishes to Laine.
leafs fans don't need to share their embarrassment
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Just to set the record straight for people who apparently don't know any better, Steve Moore didn't refuse to answer the bell for his hit on Naslund and had already dropped the gloves with Matt Cooke in the first period of that infamous game. But Bertuzzi refused to honor the code and let that be the end of it, and in the third period, tried to get the much smaller Moore to drop the gloves a second time.
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Lots of emotional, brain-dead responses.
Whether it's a preseason game or not, or a scrub or star, it still sucks for someone to get injured. It especially sucks for somebody trying to make a fresh start on a new team, and after past injury struggles.
That being said, it did not seem like an intentional clipping of the knee. Pare is responsible for his own body, sure, and his stance was wide, but I think it was just an unfortunate outcome. Laine really just cruised into a spot where there was inadequate space and with no sense of self preservation.
People ragging "leafs this, scrubs that" need to stop and go to bed before they crack beer number 8.
Whether it's a preseason game or not, or a scrub or star, it still sucks for someone to get injured. It especially sucks for somebody trying to make a fresh start on a new team, and after past injury struggles.
That being said, it did not seem like an intentional clipping of the knee. Pare is responsible for his own body, sure, and his stance was wide, but I think it was just an unfortunate outcome. Laine really just cruised into a spot where there was inadequate space and with no sense of self preservation.
People ragging "leafs this, scrubs that" need to stop and go to bed before they crack beer number 8.
Moore had also been running around pulling those chicken shit hits for months
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That was my first impression. Pare is barely moving, could have been a stationary pilon on the ice. Both of Pare’s legs were already extended wide, didn’t look like Pare intentionally extended a knee out to clip Laine?
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Same. But, replay shows Laine's knee bend in a way a knee should not bend. I hope he's ok though.
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I've gone back and forth on whether I think this was dirty or not, and I still haven't really settled on a conclusion. On one hand, Pare isn't moving, but on the other, he clearly changes the angle of his knee/leg just before impact. At the very best, it's a reckless and idiotic play by a guy who is objectively a scrub. Things like this always make me sad, because nobody goes to these games to see a guy like Pare. They go for the skill players like Laine. It's obviously not a perfect comparison, but it sort of reminds me of when Steckel took out Crosby in that sense. I hope Laine makes a quick recovery and is back soon.
Any Leafs fan mad at Xhekaj should ask themselves how they felt about Corry Perry having to answer the bell after Tavares bounced his face off Perry's knee. If you thought Perry should have to fight when he was completely innocent, then you better admit that Pare owes the same debt after sticking his knee out on Laine. Xhekaj took it easy on him, because he realized what a cowardly piece of trash he was dealing with.
This was incidental. I am not sure if Pare would have faught later on in the game or not, he is actually an occasional fighter. It was that Xhefsh started wailing on a defenceless opponent on the ground. That’s more exactly “code” either. Honestly I am all for fighting, but swinging at an unwilling and defenceless fighter doesn’t show you’re tough or anything, that’s just stupid. Leafs faught many times later this game, and I’m not sure that was even favourable for MTL for this game to turn into this.
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Of all players, the one guy who can't catch a break in his career. I genuinely feel bad for Laine, he deserves so much better than this.
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Xhekaj punched Pare in the back of the head multiple times when he was down, not sure that's quite the same as the Foligno/Perry fight
Hope that's a case of looks worse than it is and he's not out long. I like the guy, I honestly have him pegged to score 40 if he stays healthy(hope this doesn't ruin that chance).
But I gotta come to the defense of Pare here. He did nothing but stand his position. Laine's stance was wider than his, what do you want him to do, slide out of the way while he's defending the blue line? It's clearly wasn't intentional.
But I gotta come to the defense of Pare here. He did nothing but stand his position. Laine's stance was wider than his, what do you want him to do, slide out of the way while he's defending the blue line? It's clearly wasn't intentional.
Unfortunate hit, I don't think he meant to take Laine's knee out. Looks pretty f***ing bad, hopefully it's not as bad as it looked.
As for Arber, typical coward move. Probably gets suspended multiple games for that, attacking someone from behind and repeatedly punching them in the back of the head is a bitch move.
