Jamie Walker
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was gonna say the same thing. then after a scrum ensued, he backed away. looks like he likes to give cheap shots, but won't man up. he's a joke
Tavares slewfoot on Marchand
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was gonna say the same thing. then after a scrum ensued, he backed away. looks like he likes to give cheap shots, but won't man up. he's a joke
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Trap Jesus
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Has the NHL said he's going to have a hearing? I'm fine if he gets nothing due to no history, but if he doesn't even get a hearing, I call shenanigans. You can't get any more obvious than doing it to a guy that just served 2 games for this.
GeeoffBrown
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If you watch the video Shanahan called a play exactly like what Tavares did a slewfoot or trip, it should have been a penalty.
Helistin
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The Perron trip/slewfoot against Kassian is very comparable to the Tavares trip/slewfoot. Shanny and player safety don't think they are worthy of suspensions or fines and normal penalty would be enough.
Dr Quincy
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You mean when I said you could call it a slew foot or a trip and that it was a 2 minute penalty, I was right? Cool.
Now, you never answered my question about either the embellishing or double knee drop after.
Penalties or not?
Give me a break
Also, love the general mantra of this thread. "Hey you can murder Brad Marchand with an ice pick and drown his puppy in bleach, that's alright though because it's Brad Marchand he has it coming"
It was a blatant penalty that the refs missed, pretty incompetent on their part but whatever. It's par for the course.
Aint no love for the wicked man.
If he wants to dish it out, he needed to not be upset when he gets served.
wasn't Marchand suspended for a similar play? I hate the guy as much as anyone but I want to say that the slewfoot that got him suspended was very similar not 100% sure though.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a problem with it. Wasn't this in response to marchand dishing it out to tavares last game? Seems like they both know what the deal is.
TheGooooch
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The result was Tavares using his foot and he knocked out the feet of an opponent. The rule doesn't dictate that they have to contact both feet. If you kick the back of someone's leg or skate, odds are they are going to end up in their tail bone.
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Looked pretty intentional to me based on the video. I'm also quite surprised so many people are saying it wasn't a slew foot and was a trip, based on their inability to understand the rule.
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Actually my saying it was a trip and not a slew foot is because of my ability to understand the rule.
52.1 Slew-footing is the act of a player using his leg or foot to knock or kick an opponent’s feet from under him, or pushes an opponent’s upper body backward with an arm or elbow, and at the same time with a forward motion of his leg, knocks or kicks the opponent’s feet from under him, causing him to fall violently to the ice.
While keeping both his skates on the ice, Tavares hit one of Marchand's feet, causing him to fall. That's a trip.
The league is trying to prevent slew-footing because it involves both your feet getting swept out from under you, which often results in slamming down on your back and hitting your head on the ice. None of those things happened with Marchand.
TheGooooch
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Am I reading too far into this rule? I see the same end result and like my post said it doesn't change the end result as you learn from a young age that kicking the back of a skate is a simple/dirty way to knock someone down on skates.
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The rule states "feet" in every case.
I think it probably mentions the upper body part because a lot of times on a slew foot the offending player is only lifting one of the players legs, but he's cranking back on his upper body hard enough that the guy goes flying off both feet.
Because both Tavares skates remained on the ice, he didn't use his upper body at all, and only contacted on of Marchand's skates. Marchand's other skate doesn't come up off the ice almost until he's laying flat.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a dirty way to knock a guy down but I'd call it a trip.
Helistin
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On the video Shanny said in the Perron example which was similar to the Tavares play that some form of slewfoots can also be judged as trips and will be penaltized as such. But in any case whichever you call it that kind of play isn't usually suspendable.
So the refs missed a call that was worth 2 minute penalty.
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IntangiBo
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TheGooooch
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I think it can be called either way based on the description of the rule. But when one party is stationary it is fat less likely they are going to call slew foot than if 2 players are going full speed towards the boards I suppose. But he did use his foot to take the "feet" out from under the opponent.
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