Ryan Reaves violent hit on Darnell Nurse. 5 min major + ejected

[Senor Catface]

How did no one challenge him?

Yeah, I'm also surprised Connor Brown didn't try and fight him.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

Reaves does not deserve to be suspended because Nurse has crap for awareness on the play. When Reaves is coming in hard like that you do not do what Nurse did. Reaves did nothing egregious there. Just a bad result.

 

[Sol]

A stupid angle? He's in the position any player would be carrying the puck like that lol. What a ridiculous take.

This is pretty much the exact play that gets you in highlight reels. Head down staring at the puck and then skating up without any awareness of where anyone is. A penalty is fine even though nothing illegal really happened. The only reason people are up in arms is because big hits are more uncommon.

 

[McFlyingV]

Reaves does not deserve to be suspended because Nurse has crap for awareness on the play. When Reaves is coming in hard like that you do not do what Nurse did. Reaves did nothing egregious there. Just a bad result.

I mean if Reaves is going to throw big hits he should be able to hit even 50% body instead of 95% head and 5% body.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Did anyone go after Reaves?

 

[miscs75]

Time for the DOPS wheel of ineptitude. Where will it land, nobody knows.

 

[Peasy]

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This is pretty much the exact play that gets you in highlight reels. Head down staring at the puck and then skating up without any awareness of where anyone is. A penalty is fine even though nothing illegal really happened. The only reason people are up in arms is because big hits are more uncommon.

Not a single shoulder check from Nurse when hes picking up the puck and going around the net.

 

[McFlyingV]

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This is pretty much the exact play that gets you in highlight reels. Head down staring at the puck and then skating up without any awareness of where anyone is. A penalty is fine even though nothing illegal really happened. The only reason people are up in arms is because big hits are more uncommon.

His head is up when the hit happens. Usually guys don't completely miss your body on a hit and hit 95% head. "Nothing illegal happened" has to be a joke right? He didn't make any contact with anything except Nurse's head.

 

[Il Stugotz]

I’d guess he’d get more than Jeannot’s 3 games since he’s been suspended a few times before. 5 games seems about right

 

[GreeningOil]

Reaves does not deserve to be suspended because Nurse has crap for awareness on the play. When Reaves is coming in hard like that you do not do what Nurse did. Reaves did nothing egregious there. Just a bad result.

So you can get cheap shots taken on you if you’re unaware?

Shake your head mate. A guys gotta control himself where he’s making vicious contact

 

[Romang67]

Not sure I'm seeing the "bad result from a good hit" part. Reaves comes in from the side. He could have hit Nurse in the shoulder. He opted to instead hit him in the head. Bad hit by a bad player.

Did anyone go after Reaves?

Why should they reward Reaves by inviting him to do the only thing he's good at?

 

[Zerotonine]

It's always ironic that players are expected to fight after clean hits.

Yet when Reaves makes an arguably dirty hit and knocks your player out, no one looks twice at him.

Probably because the only oiler who would look at reeves was lieing on the ice

 

[Senor Catface]

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This is pretty much the exact play that gets you in highlight reels. Head down staring at the puck and then skating up without any awareness of where anyone is. A penalty is fine even though nothing illegal really happened. The only reason people are up in arms is because big hits are more uncommon.

Even if the other player is looking at the sky with a banjo in his hands, you aren't allowed to make the head a principal point of contact.

You're just making excuses to justify an illegal hit.

 

[Bruce Granville]

So, a classical win-win, eh?
Both teams got instantly better…

 

[Dr Pepper]

This crap needs to be out of the game.

I don't even know why he has a contract, to be honest. He sucks.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

I mean if Reaves is going to throw big hits he should be able to hit even 50% body instead of 95% head and 5% body.

Reaves is huge, is upright, and skating on ice. If Nurse isn't such a moron in that situation Reaves gets 100% body. Reaves can't morph into an angled form.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Matt Cooke throwback blindside head pick hit. Trash.

I don't think you know what a blindside hit is tbh. It isn't this.

 

[Barrie22]

Suspend him for the rest of the season!

In all honesty, it’s probably more of a punishment to not suspend him

Punishment for him and the team would be forcing him to be iced for 25 minutes a game.

 

[dr robbie]

Future head of DOPS or NHL analyst right there...

 

[Neil Racki]

Should be a suspension but I’ve seen plenty of Caps get big hits to head only for league and HF to talk about “going through chest, head is allowed” or “elbow tucked in”

Who knows …hope Nurse is good.

 

[Senor Catface]

Reaves is huge, is upright, and skating on ice. If Nurse isn't such a moron in that situation Reaves gets 100% body. Reaves can't morph into an angled form.

Congrats on still being stuck in 1996. Don't worry, Y2K wont be a big deal.

 

[WTFMAN99]

No idea, maybe 3-4 games but Leafs player so 7-8 games.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

It's always ironic that players are expected to fight after clean hits.

Yet when Reaves makes an arguably dirty hit and knocks your player out, no one looks twice at him.

Nurse is the only guy that wouldn't get completely caved against Reaves. Would you want Marner or Nylander fighting Nurse if the shoe was on the other foot?

 

[McFlyingV]

Reaves is huge, is upright, and skating on ice. If Nurse isn't such a moron in that situation Reaves gets 100% body. Reaves can't morph into an angled form.

There's no way you're going to try to argue that its harder to hit someone's body instead of their head on a guy that is 6'5. This is a wild argument.

 

[hatterson]

Whatever the suspension is it won’t be long enough.