Rempe Penalty Incident Part 2 of the Week: Does the NHL Officiate Matt Rempe Fairly?

[Pavel Buchnevich]

This resulted in a PPG. Game went to OT, so it wasn't a meaningless goal.



Keep in mind this was on Tuesday. Winnipeg scored the game winning PPG goal on this PP.



Does the NHL officiate this player fairly?

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[57special]

In the final years of his career when he had cleaned up his act, Matt Cooke got a penalty for even looking funny at another player. Once you get a bad reputation, refs will just assume you are at fault. Let's not pretend that Rempe hasn't gone out of his way to get noticed in the league by physical play that is intended to injure. Zero sympathy for him.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

He's not in prison yet?

 

[Planetov]

Horrifying act of violence.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

They are taking the big man out of hockey, sad

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Are we not supposed to see his blades angled to stop and then change to parallel to the force from the defenseman so that he could "accidentally" crash into the goalie?

It's not a big deal, but he didn't try to avoid the goalie, so it's 2 minutes.

 

[NVious]

Typical NHL, bullying our beloved Rempe. HOW MUCH MORE BETRAYAL CAN MATT TAKE???

 

[rynryn]

it's the downside of cultivating that kind of reputation.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

Whether or not it's complete bullshit, IDK, but I honestly see him look at Shore two distinct times, and then just happen to raise his arm right into his head. I really don't know what to say. Neither should probably be a penalty but they're just really fishy IMO

 

[eviohh26]

Didn't this guy just elbow Blankenburg the other week?

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[Filthy Dangles]

Like his goalie interference call the other night for a thread you made, it's hillariously and objectively awful and driven by repuation

But you won't get any symptathy from anyone.

/Thread.

 

[notsocommonsense]

Reputation calls have been a thing since forever. And Rempe has earned his shitty reputation.

Those are both bad calls in my book, but you reap what you sow

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Is there a shorter clip of the hit with less context?

 

[Mr Nogatco]

something about the thread title cracks me up

 

[JianYang]

Thread title reads to me in Donald trump's voice.

 

[Fatass]

This resulted in a PPG. Game went to OT, so it wasn't a meaningless goal.



Keep in mind this was on Tuesday. Winnipeg scored the game winning PPG goal on this PP.



Does the NHL officiate this player fairly?

Rempe is a very awkward player. He is a train wreck waiting to happen on almost every shift.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Are we supposed to pretend like we didn’t see Rempe look DIRECTLY at Shore and then raise his elbow right up to Shore’s head before the contact he “didn’t know was going to happen”?

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Is there a shorter clip of the hit with less context?

Even in the 5 second long clip you can see Rempe look twice directly at the player he “didn’t know was there”

 

[TGWL]

Are we supposed to pretend like we didn’t see Rempe look DIRECTLY at Shore and then raise his elbow right up to Shore’s head before the contact he “didn’t know was going to happen”?

He didn't raise his elbow right up. He grab his stick with both hands instead of holding it with one. Whether he looked at Shore is irrelevant, that's also his space, and you have a player turning into him there. That's not a penalty. But you can pretend anything you want. The ref apologized to him later in the game after seeing the replay.