Ross Colton gets 2 + 5 (7 minute PP) and a game for boarding and cross check

[njdevil26]

If the Devils do ANYTHING about it, guess who gets penalized?

Guess what team gets punished?

This is why I wish the Retaliation Penalty should not exist.

I mean...if the game Polices itself, punishing the Police'rs is just biting one's nose to spite one's face here.

It defeats the concept.

I've always agreed with that. It gives players license to take liberties knowing that any retaliation will put his own team on the powerplay.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Yea? It was a loose puck battle. Players engage physically going for those all the time, is this your first day watching hockey?

When you see numbers the whole way, the onus falls on the guy making the hit. There are a lot of hits from behind with numbers showing, but when you launch a guy before the boards instead of just meeting together and pinch him up against the boards is where that slippery slope changes. It's no different than giving a guy a crosscheck shove 5 to 10 feet from the boards and the guy loses balance and crashes into the boards. He launched him there not even being actually that close to the puck. He started at the goal-line which is 11' from the boards staring at numbers with actual full contact at roughly 9'.

That's tech. interference because, neither player was close to the puck. Like at all. That's like 7' away.

 

[glenwo2]

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That's actually scary.

Imagine meeting this guy in a dark alley. LOL

 

[Il Stugotz]

as expected

 

[A1LeafNation]

as expected

What about for Hughes hit?

 

[Azrael89]

What about for Hughes hit?

He received a two minute minor.

 

[JLo217]

What about for Hughes hit?

You mean Hughes falling like a plush doll?

 

[HugeInTheShire]

What about for Hughes hit?

Time served.

 

[glenwo2]

as expected

5k for a player that makes 4 MILLION per.

Ross wipes his ass with 5k.

Once again George Parros sympathizes with the Scum bags.

But that's not surprising considering Parros's career.

Things were much more fair when Shanny was in his position.

Putting a Career GOON in charge of Player Safety is amazing in its stupidity.

 

[OilersFanatics505]

Yeah… you can’t do that

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

5k for a player that makes 4 MILLION per.

Ross wipes his ass with 5k.

Once again George Parros sympathizes with the Scum bags.

But that's not surprising considering Parros's career.

Things were much more fair when Shanny was in his position.

Putting a Career GOON in charge of Player Safety is amazing in its stupidity.

You do realize he literally cannot be fined anymore than $5k right, or did you not read the tweet before going off on your little rant...

 

[GG96]

Tell Hughes to keep skating and not shy away. That was 90% of the reason it was bad as it was

 

[not a troll]

Except the type of hits he delivered then (like other players of that era) would be penalties now.

This is not the 90s, my friend.

Yeah, if it was the 90's Hughes would have been killed going into the corners that soft. It was a two minute penalty and well...

 

[Neil Racki]

To me that looks like a hit in the back. Colton is trailing and Hughes change of direction is minor. We've seen worse but that hit should come out of the game in my view. It's dangerous.

Thats bc it was a hit to the back, 5 feet from the boards and the puck wasnt there yet.

Dirty, dumb and suspension worthy imo

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Yeah, if it was the 90's Hughes would have been killed going into the corners that soft. It was a two minute penalty and well...

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ah yes! hockey was more fun when guys paid to be boxers were injuring our favorite game's stars

lol

 

[My3Sons]

Thats bc it was a hit to the back, 5 feet from the boards and the puck wasnt there yet.

Dirty, dumb and suspension worthy imo

Hits like that are often considered minor infractions and if Hughes was a bit further away and fell without board contact maybe it's not even penalized. I'd take it out of the game but the league and the players seem conditioned to accept it - similar to those cross checks that go unpenalized in board scrums. It's just unnecessary. Hopefully the game can modernize at some point.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Am I crazy or is that a clean hit. Dman have become so soft. Dude is gliding to the puck.
Engage the play and protect the puck and yourself

the players havent gotten soft - the league finally started caring about player safety

a) nobody likes injuries, so less is good
b) most who advocate for more violent collisions have never taken one at such a level, so theyre just nonsensical cheerleaders

the game is better with more skill and less.. scumbaggery!

 

[chaz4hockey]

I see this brought up all the time, and even as a NYR fan I can't help but roll my eyes at this. Like, you can't call another player dirty, speak about a bad hit, or just even just voice your opinion on play because you had a dirty player on your team, in an era the league accepted it without penalty punishment?

Ah, the Trouba effect....

 

[SEALBound]

Not sure 5 and a game is enough. That hit needs to be out of the game, period.

I wish the league's DOPS would put stuff like this on the list for the next time when determining "history" as part of determining suspension length.

 

[My3Sons]

Not sure 5 and a game is enough. That hit needs to be out of the game, period.

I wish the league's DOPS would put stuff like this on the list for the next time when determining "history" as part of determining suspension length.

Maybe in 20 years when the current crop of leaders are retired or dead.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

as expected

 

[BlueOil]

hughes is gonna break something if he doesn't figure out how to handle the forecheck better. would have to imagine he'll get to watch video of that and the coach will have several tips for him. i think it's a pretty light boarding call honsetly, mostly just hughes getting surprised by colton hitting him harder than he expected. that's gonna keep happening so buckle up buddy.

the crosscheck to the face is really the only thing worth talking about in here, dirtbag move all around to lumber someone in the face like that.

 

[zizbuka]

Oh, I'm sorry. He gave him a warning shot. What are you even saying? He could have hurt him more but didn't really want to? He still did what he did.

Ignore him, just another "I know everything about hockey and you don't" meathead.

 

[xbestboybandever]

A lot of this is on the officiating crew, they lost control of the game. Hamilton should’ve been given a 10 minute for deliberately boarding Wood after his hit on Sieganthaler.

 

[John Mandalorian]

Colton was close to being a Hanson Brother. He only needed to antagonize the Devils’ bench after Meier.