Ryan Reaves hit on Darnell Nurse. 5 min major + ejected (upd. Suspended 5 games)

[MCR74]

Oh my. No Reaves for 5 games. What shall the Leafs do?

 

[hatterson]

The game between Oilers - Leafs Feb 1st is must watch hockey now.

Unless the Oilers plan to send someone after Leafs star players, I don’t see why it’ll be much.

Oilers will call up some plug from the AHL, he’ll fight Reeves, and everyone will move on.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Sometimes the NHL moves extremely slowly and then sometimes, like this, they hand out a 5 game suspension roughly 20 hours after the hit happened.

It’s not like they were pushed by the Leafs having another game or something. They don’t play until Wednesday.

The quickest I've ever seen them move was when they announced a phone hearing for Auston Matthews, while the game was literally still going on. Bizarre behaviour.

 

[Leafs87]

For the record this is the max for a phone hearing. Not defending the hit. Just saying, when it was determined it would be a phone hearing, it could not be more

 

[sampollock]

should have got 10

 

[Joe n]

…that’s the point. That’s why you can cheer for a fight and not for this type of hit. Consent.

And no. He was hit in the head because someone with a limited skill set set out to blow him up and did it wrong. That’s 100% on the meathead who did it wrong. 6” to the left and this discussion doesn’t occur.

I find the people who defend the guy making the legal hit by saying that the other guy us at fault for not looking up unworthy of being taken seriously. Having a target that isn’t trying to avoid the hit makes screwing the hit up even that much more egregious. Aim better.

Pretty sure no one is defending him but maybe looking at the puck when your coming around the net is a sign of limited skill set as well. Players need to be aware of what's gong on around them.

 

[LTIR]

should have got 10

Meh, doesn't really matter.
2 games, 5 games , 10 games who cares when it comes to a player like Reeves in November

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

How's Nurse doing?

 

[kevsh]

5 seems right considering Darnell's head was the first point of contact from the hit by a guy significantly shorter than him.

The fact Nurse was clearly out (at least momentarily), loss a lot of blood, had to be helped off and will miss time probably was a factor as well.

 

[dirtydanglez]

they got this one right.

 

[All Mod Cons]

they got this one right.

They always manage to get the Leafs ones right. They receive a good amount of games and learn their lesson.

If George could apply the exact same standard to 31 other teams, then we'd br heading in the right direction as a league.

But when you get guys from other teams beaming each other in the head (Jeannot), punching guys in the back of the head (Jackeye), chopping guys hands off (Pietrangelo) and a whole slew of other infractions, and they recieve anywhere from nothing to a couple of games, it just doesn't make any sense.

 

[Auston Marlander]

No issue with 5 for this. But I hate that other recent, more targetes headshots with clear intent got less. Head shots like this, trying for a big hit and not getting the timing right, will always happen as long as body contact is allowed. While it would be nice to see them gone, what we really need are the targeted, jumping, chicken wing trying to take a head off hits. But when those get 3 games, or 1 game or 6 games etc nothing will happen. Get rid of the wheel. Get someone in the DOPS with a spine and throw the book at players who try to get the head,.

 

[Strangelove]

Ohh yeah. 50 games!!!! Put him in jail.

 

[bzur]

The game between Oilers - Leafs Feb 1st is must watch hockey now.

Maybe if the Oilers had prime Steve MacIntyre on the roster.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

Technically, Reaves suspension history number is zero. They clear out your history after 18 months. Dumb rule if you ask me, but it is the reality. 3-4 games now seems likely as well, given it isn't in person.

You misunderstood that rule. It only applies to the money he will have to forfeit (5/182 or 5/82). His past suspension history can be considered in its entirety.

PS: Just saw that @Romang67 beat me to it...

 

[Ducks DVM]

Pretty sure no one is defending him but maybe looking at the puck when your coming around the net is a sign of limited skill set as well. Players need to be aware of what's gong on around them.

You need to read more of the thread then.

Agreed, but his lack of doing so, by rule, does not absolve Reaves of the choices made on the hit. It’s not the 90’s.

 

[Auston Marlander]

5 games makes sense. They saw it the same as Jeannot.

Didn't Jeannot get 3 games like last week?

 

[SI90]

Brutal hit. Definitely ok with 5 games.

 

[Auston Marlander]

Should of tacked on the plug has to play 25 minutes a night after suspension, something that actually penalizes the leafs,
Not a penalty that helps the leafs, like this one.

Suspensions are the punish the player, not the team.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Pretty sure no one is defending him but maybe looking at the puck when your coming around the net is a sign of limited skill set as well. Players need to be aware of what's gong on around them.

Yeah. But also crush them with a clean hit

Not a shoulder to the face.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Didn't Jeannot get 3 games like last week?

Yep. Add the tax.

 

[wavaxa2]

Yep. Add the tax.

Is it really a Leaf tax, though? Reaves had three priors, while Jeannot had none.

 

[budzz]

Looked like a clean hit to me. Despite alot of the Leaf-hater comments in here, Reaves has never been a dirty player... hard nosed yes scrapper yes, but not dirty. Many nights our fourth line carries play in the other teams end so they can play. Leafs are forechecking hard, Nurse then gets the puck for at least a few seconds before the hit and rounds his net and never looks up. His head is down watching the puck. Zero awareness of anyone fore checking around him. Reaves didn't leave his feet, he set his shoulder for a hit. Nurse is 2 inches taller than Reaves. If he had a clue and looked up he'd see a hit coming and prepare for it. Reaves just finished his check like he's supposed to. If Nurse is too stupid to have any situational awareness and just hunches over without looking up, he should know better.

 

[Nervousbreakdown]

lol the leafs went 5-0 when rielly was suspended last year, gotta think they somehow win 8 during this suspension

 

[M88K]

Typical Reaves hit, with his history should be longer as thats all he's in the lineup to do (headhunt)

Looked like a clean hit to me. Despite alot of the Leaf-hater comments in here, Reaves has never been a dirty player... hard nosed yes scrapper yes, but not dirty. Many nights our fourth line carries play in the other teams end so they can play. Leafs are forechecking hard, Nurse then gets the puck for at least a few seconds before the hit and rounds his net and never looks up. His head is down watching the puck. Zero awareness of anyone fore checking around him. Reaves didn't leave his feet, he set his shoulder for a hit. Nurse is 2 inches taller than Reaves. If he had a clue and looked up he'd see a hit coming and prepare for it. Reaves just finished his check like he's supposed to. If Nurse is too stupid to have any situational awareness and just hunches over without looking up, he should know better.

Hahahha what???? That's literally his entire career. He's always been a dirty player