StephenPeat
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- Jul 19, 2015
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It’s almost like that poster and that commentator need to be lead; Tell me you’re blatantly biased against Tom Wilson and A Literal Interpretation of the NHL Rule Book WITHOUT telling me you’re blatantly biased against Tom Wilson and A Literal Interpretation of the NHL Rule Book.Okay? Be honest with yourself, do you really think that if I valued my time different I couldn't scrub through a few of those early 2010's years and get enough of a reel together to make someone say "what a piece of shit, he clearly doesn't care what happens to other players out there".
And you'll (accurately) say that it's a lot of hits over a lot of years and not representative of the player's full game and what he's out there to do shift by shift, that he's out there playing hockey not ending lives, and I'll shrug my shoulders because that was the whole point. The Twitter fans have never seen something so crazy from a player before even though neither player would be more than "pretty tough" in the 90's or 2000's and you've backed yourselves into a corner where these guys can't be anything other than monsters.
Like... they just throw the Schenn hit in there like it's cut and dry awful but... it's not. Schenn tries to leave the corner with the puck, head down, then turns towards the boards. It's not in the numbers, it's not high, it's big but it's not out of line. You just can't argue with the fascist playbook (make shit up, scream it loudly, berate whoever disagrees).
Sundquist hit: Bad Hit.
Blais hit: Bad Hit.
All the others are borderline at best.
Aston-Reese was punished based solely on the outcome.
Marchessault; late, sure. Sold? Absolutely. A penalty? Fine. A suspension? Hardly.
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