Tsyplakov hit on Poehling - Suspended 3 games

[saintunspecified]

Blindside is irrelevant. Blindside hasn't been in rule book since the 2010-11 season.

I get the suspension from the point of view of 'we are going to call + suspend head contact'.

Even if blindside was a thing (or simply the lack of ability to see a hit coming), it wasn't blindside. Poehling simply didn't scan for vulnerabilities. That's what a a dude who has been bigger than the vast majority of his peers most of his life & is not used to being vulnerable does.

Tsypkalov's hit was bad because he missed his mark. But it wasn't intentionally bad. He stayed level. It wasn't late. The puck carrier was vulnerable, for sure, which is his own lookout. So it was bad, but it wasn't an attempt to injure.

If the NHL called headshots like that, I'd be fine with it. They often don't.

 

[miscs75]

yup, only happens to the flyers.....

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Clearly that’s AI since it only happens to Philly. It’s not like they have Garnet Hathaway on Philly or anything. A guy known for his clean and upstanding play.

 

[Rehabguy]

"there is a different play he could have made" "first of all the pucks gone"

It is amazing how much more time slow motion gives you to make those decisions, eh?
I mean, the slightest change in Poehling's speed could have caused principle point of contact to change in very short order. Not saying he shouldn't be penalized.....people get penalized for unintentional things all the time.

But sometimes shit happens and you don't mean it to and there is no time to correct.

Exactly. In the time I've seen Tsyplakov with the Isles I've seen some solid body checks but I've never see him make a deliberate attempt to injure. This is a regular hockey play and more or less a desperation attempt to prevent a player from scoring. He's just built like a monster and players bounce off him. Our own players during training camp said running into him was like running into Chara.

 

[eojsmada]

3 games...about right. I figured 2+ for his first time. Him leaning into the hit at the end plus coming from across the ice to make the hit was going to get dinged.

 

[FlyguyOX]

NHL got it right.

No idea how they got it so wildly wrong in the game even after review

 

[Soul Assumption]

Dirtiest elbow from Mcdavid no suspension but this clean hit somehow got 3 games? lmao

 

[miscs75]

Dirtiest elbow from Mcdavid no suspension but this clean hit somehow got 3 games? lmao

That was Marcus Johansson’s fault for head butting his elbow…

 

[Hockeypete49]

The league got it right.

 

[GrkFlyersFan]

Couldn't believe even after review this wasn't a penalty, but I also think 3 games is a lot. It is a headshot, but not that malicious and I've long been against how injured the player is, being a factor. If it was called a major with no suspension, I think that'd be fine.

 

[Rehabguy]

Ridiculous suspension.