Lanemeyer................I WAS WRONG.
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After Zuccarello gets elbowed in the head and now Benn's attempted decapitation of Boldy (with no response from his pathetic teammates), I am open to bringing Matt Cooke back to the NHL for one game.
Bye, bye Robertson.
The commentators I saw (except for one) all said the hit on Boldy was an accident. Of course it wasn't, BUT I always thought you were responsible for your stick at all times. I guess I was wrong AGAIN. 
Gee, this is getting sad.
I just watched the video replay multiple times. You can see Benn approaching Boldy from behind (COWARD) with his stick raised in the air like a guy getting ready to split wood. Then he brings his stick down and smashes Matt in the back of the head with his stick. Benn had PLENTY OF TIME to avoid that! NO PENALTY!
If I remember from his past, Benn also refuses to fight after one of his frequent cheap shots, so if you drop the gloves and he doesn't, YOU get penalized. I wouldn't have bothered to drop my gloves, Benn.........................well I'm not sure the moderator here would like what I was going to say, but if I were a Wild player on the ice when this happened....... you can just use your imagination and then multiply it by a factor of 10. Yes, its safe to say my NHL career would definitely be over.
Dallas' plan is genius. First hurt a great power play set up guy, then go after our best goal scorer. Zuccarello has three assists (two on the power play) in game one and gets an elbow right to the face LONG after the puck is gone. I just found that video too. the $cumbag Stars player Myers is staring right at Zucc's head for a long time before he INTENTIONALLY injures the little guy. Myers is a full foot taller than Zuccarello, gutless cementhead PUNK. Also saw a tremendous cross check by Myers that didn't get called. I know guys get cross checked in front of the net all the time, but the Wild player was launched into orbit.
Foligno gets his face smashed into the ice by Duchene while he's laying on the ice after blocking a shot. you can clearly see Duchene's right hand and stick come down on the back of Foligno's head. I'm sure that was an accident too!
Speaking of accidents, late in the game Hartman gets called for interference on an entrance into the Dallas zone. His back was completely turned to the Star's player, yet he gets called for the penalty. Did he know what he was doing? OF COURSE, but seeing as how he wasn't even looking, why wasn't THAT an accident?
To be fair, Blackwell's hit on Trenin was clean.
Kaprizov hasn't done much. I wonder if Dallas is just waiting for him to score, so they can hurt him too.
Where's Matt Cooke when you need him?
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The Dallas announcer (Daryl Reaugh), who is far less a "homer" than most announcers, called the Wild's Foligno "dirtier than a urinal cake". It was funny because it was true, and because Reaugh NEVER says stuff like that until a human urinal cake like Foligno spends half a game doing nothing but trying to injure the players on the other team. My point being, it's funny to hear a Wild fan complaining about any other team playing dirty. The Wild started it, and it took the Stars a good game and a half to finally respond to the constant cheap shots Foligno and others have been dishing out. Wyatt Johnston has borne more than his share of the Wild's urinal cake play, but he's a grown man and just keeps scoring. Maybe the Wild should focus more on that instead of whining.
To be fair, most of the Wild are also grown men and are just going about their business. If Foligno gets a career-ending injury you'll hear me cheer from 1,000 miles away, and if it happens early in game 4 maybe we can just get back to playing hockey. With the glaring exception of Foligno, it's been a great series.
BULL!
Who cares what the Dallas announcer says. I'm sure he's not a homer because you say so.
Foligno comes right at you. He's not a gutless coward like Benn, who sneaks up on you from behind your back and smashes you over the head with his stick. FOLIGNO DOESN'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT! Foligno also doesn't target the other teams best players, he hits everyone equally.
It's clear as day on the video. Boldy is down on one knee after blocking a shot and Benn is 5 feet BEHIND him with his stick raised above his head like a guy getting ready to split wood. He had plenty of time to avoid Boldy. Instead he lowers his stick and smashes him on the back of the helmet. Even if it was accidental (yeah, right) that's a MAJOR high sticking penalty. Those of us that actually know about hockey understand that you are ALWAYS responsible for your stick. But that's OK with you because we have a tough guy on our team that you don't have the guts to go after, because he'll KICK YOUR A$$!
Speaking of your piece of $%#* gutless coward Benn, I remember last year after one of his cheap shots, Foligno went to fight him, and the rat ran like the gutless coward he is. You have a problem with Foligno, challenge him to a fight, but your team won't, because a fight is face to face.
Meyer waits until the littlest forward on our team isn't looking, and elbows him right in the face. Watching the replay Meyer wasn't even looking at the puck, he was watching Zuccarello's head the entire time, just waiting for his chance to hurt him. I guess if a guy has 3 assists in a game against you it means you can intentionally give him a concussion. I see.
DEUSHane falls on the BACK of Foligno's head and "accidentally" cross checks, smashing his face to the ice. AS usual our players back was turned.
I looked at all three of these incidents repeatedly as well as the Blackwell hit on Trenin. The hit on Trenin was legal the rest should have resulted in suspensions.
Funny I haven't seen Foligno, or any other Wild player take a run at Robertson. I REALLY like Robertson, but if smashing him over the head with a stick, concussing him with an elbow or smashing his face to the ice until he's bloody (ALL having already been done to Wild players) is what it takes, so be it.
I did see Foligno leave his skates on a hit behind the Dallas net that should have been a charging penalty, but at least the Dallas player knew he was coming. We might have ONE GUY who's cheap, your entire team does it, but they wait until you're not looking.
I'm to the point where I'd rather see Benn, Meyer and Duchene crippled for life than win the series with all of our top players hurt.
Oh yeah, let's not forget your guy spearing Kaprizov in the groin, CLASSY!
I grew up playing hockey and have been watching for 60 years. I know who the dirty filthy gutless cowards are here, and it's NOT the Wild.
The part you're missing, or at least not acknowledging, is that the human urinal cake started it, and continued it for a game and a half before the Stars (not the whole team, but the one's you'd expect) said "enough". If the Wild brought a knife to a gunfight that's their problem, but it was the Wild that decided there was going to be a fight. Whining when you start losing a fight you started is a very bad look, and "sympathy" is not even on the table as a reaction.
And you better hope nobody takes a run at Robertson. That is, assuming you'd like Kaprizov's career to continue next year. The Wild may be a dirty team, but I don't think they're that stupid.
And I thought you were smarter than to say Duchene "smashed his face to the ice until he's bloody"; that's just silly. He fell. Show 1,000 hockey fans film of that incident and not one of them outside of rabid Wild fans would think even a minor penalty should have been called. The NHL didn't think so, the refs didn't think so, the national announcers didn't think so, no neutral party thought so. I'd scratch that nothing-burger from your list of grievances; it weakens your argument.
Funny how two of your gutless cowards both "accidentally" fell and hit guys in the head FROM BEHIND.
I hope Hynes tells the team to forget about the game and just go after ALL your top players since your team of gutless pigs are too afraid to challenge Foligno.
I hope it's a bloodbath. If Kaprizov gets hurt in the fracas, so be it.
Your state didn't, and still doesn't, deserve a hockey team. Much less OUR hockey team.
I'm done arguing about it.
I have hated teams - Colorado mostly - for decades, but I have never taken it so far - as you just did - and publicly announced that I hated one team more than I loved my own team. Damn, that's a lot of hate for a couple of minor boo-boos. If anyone on Dallas does actually try to injure someone on the Wild they'll need the Zamboni in the middle of the period to scrape up all the tears. I'll warn the Stars organization to watch out, because the Wild are going to be swinging their purses with abandon.
Benn is garbage and that hit was 100% intentional. He's the guy who literally put Dylan Larkin in traction with a crosscheck on a faceoff. And has a long history of other stuff. Screw him.
I'm not even sure which Foligno we're talking about here since both have been running around doing 4th line stuff all series. The Marcus hit on Harley, maybe. Nothing terribly dirty from Nick, just two very stupid penalties which cost Minny two goals. Not the norm for him, at least not since the early Ottawa days.
Benn, however, has always been a floating stool....but I wouldn't say he hides when it comes to answering for it. He generally does, aside from one time that I can recall in a game vs Nashville where he took at run at Mike Fisher and then Brian McGrattan (who was 70's/80's tough) chased him around the ice and Benn completely ducked him. So yeah, Benn is one of those very selective types when it comes to his "physicality". He's not talking runs at guys who would clock him. He's been around for a long time and I don't think there's any history of taking on the John Scotts or Colton Orrs of these past two eras. I recall he held his own in a pretty good tilt with Iginla, but that's about it. He also used some homophobic incest "humor" in a radio hit with the Sedins back in the day....don't recall if he was suspended for that, I think he and Seguin both were, but it was a thing within the league. He got hammered for that since it was during pride week or something along those lines.
He's not the biggest piece of crap in the league, that's still Nick Cousins for on and off ice stuff (a rapist and the king of boarding), but Benn is on that tier after Cousins and Tom Wilson and Marchand. Regardless, he pretty much sucks on ice these days anyway so this is what seems to happen when you have a aging player on a big contract and he can't keep up anymore. you become the new Bieksa/Backes. You don't need Cooke, though. Foligno, the Younger, would likely clock him. I've seen him hurt some competent fighters in his day in a fair fight....or just as good, just do this again
you mean the guy with a 19 year career and zero suspensions? (rhetorical, no one needs a response from you regarding a Dallas topic given your history)
Interesting that the commentators (except for one guy who pointed out that it was Benn who did it) all said Benn's hit was accidental, but none mentioned that it doesn't matter if it was accidental (it certainly was NOT), it still should have been a high sticking or cross checking penalty. I'm sure the network would not be happy with them saying it was intentional, that would be a bad look for a sport critics already say is too violent.
On the Duchene hit, I have a screen shot on my phone (don't know how to post it here) that clearly shows him cross checking Foligno in the back of his head (from behind AGAIN!) as he lies helpless on the ice. More with his hand than the stick.
I have another with Benn approaching Boldy from behind (of course) four to five feet away with his stick raised up high in the air, looking right at Boldy. AMAZING how the Dallas players always seem to fall on our guy's heads FROM BEHIND and just CAN'T avoid the BACK OF HIS HEAD!!!!!.
I missed it, but apparently Benn "slew footed" Boldy earlier in the game (or series) and AGAIN was not called for it. ANOTHER very dangerous infraction.
Same with Meyer (an oversized Neanderthal) looking directly at Zuccarello's head before smashing him in the face with his elbow. What a MAN he is, intentionally and ILLEGALLY injuring one of the oldest and smallest guys on the ice. Some have said Mats needs to keep hiss head up, well he was going for a loose puck, so he really shouldn't have been checked. Oh yeah, another hit from behind, or at least when the Wild player not looking. All he gets is 2 minutes for elbowing. WTF?
Is Marcus Foligno a "dirty" player? He's very aggressive and yes, i have seen him leave his feet while delivering a big hit. He's also had some cheap shots thrown in, usually in the heat of battle and NEVER (that I remember) from behind with his stick. He doesn't seem to go after tiny old men or the other teams best players, and he WILL FIGHT if challenged (unlike gutless coward Benn). He may be cheap, but he's not a COWARD who attacks players with his stick FROM BEHIND.
REAL hockey fans know that no matter the reason, (Dino Ciccarelli) you are NOT allowed to use your stick as a weapon and only a gutless coward does it FROM BEHIND.
I'm ABSOLUTLY CERTAIN the league has told the Wild that after all this, they better not retaliate. In today's world it's never OK to retaliate, unless it's an "accident".
How about "accidentally" losing control of the puck to Benn and having a second player "accidentally" there to CLEANLY hit him (really, REALLY HARD) when he touches the puck, EVERY SINGLE TIME HE'S ON THE ICE?
I guess if the Wild wanted to play a hard hitting or even cheap style of play, they should have tried to take out Robertson right from the start, because once you start playing rough in the NHL, the other team automatically targets your best players. SEE? I'm learning!
Probably too late this year with the NHL watching, but the next time we face the Stars I guess we should "accidentally" smash Robertson over the head from behind. You don't even get a penalty! after all, we couldn't help it!
Almost forgot to mention the spear to Kaprizov's groin, another classy move.
Have I mentioned that Benn is a gutless coward?
NOT INTERESTED IN ANY GARBAGE RESPONSES FROM YOU KNOW WHO
GO WILD!
I'm not going to waste much energy defending Benn; as he gets older and his skills decline, he's become much more "aggressive". But in this specific case, the hit looked like an accident to me, the refs, and the league. If the Wild are having trouble seeing through their tears to get past it, that's on them, not on Benn. But Benn never starts it; if you leave his teammates alone, he leaves you alone.
I also won't lose any sleep if the Wild want to retaliate against Myers - he's terrible and I think the Stars would be better off without him. But, of course, if the Wild retaliate against anyone, the cycle will just continue because Benn will make sure it does.
How appropriate that Foligno scores the tying goal and possibly saves the Wild's season!
You do have to admire Benn though, draws a penalty by hitting himself in the head with his own stick!
So Lanemeyer, I'm still learning, do I have this right? if you hit the other teams guy in the head with your stick "by accident" it's NOT a penalty, but if you hit yourself in the head with YOUR OWN stick, it's a penalty on the OTHER TEAM?
You can't make this stuff up!
Wallstedt was tremendous! Ottenger was almost as good.
There was a 2nd shooter by the Sbarro.
yeah I get it, playoff hockey is often galactically frustrating when you're invested in one team. It does seem like the games are often ref'd for the neutrals. For better or worse, the league, and I suspect the majority fans, are ok with the refs staying out of affecting the outcome of games. That said, the Wild have been getting away with some stuff too. Yesterday's game saw Hartman accidentally on purpose plow into Oettinger and then two or three shifts later board one the Stars' defensemen when he was hunched over on the back wall. Those are both penalties and when the Wild are struggling on the kill at 12/20 (60%)...that's not insignificant considering how good Dallas is on the PP - and they have guys like Wyatt Johnson and Rantanen who seem to only be able to score on the PP.
By now I'm assuming you've seen the Hockeyland doc and if so then you've seen equally nasty hits in Minny high school games considering that one poor Hermantown kid was stretchered out (or Jack Jablonski getting boarded and subsequently paralyzed on 15 yeas ago). If you've seen any of the Carolina/Ottawa series, then you've seen worse - including sucker punches and that cheap hit by fading buck-toothed simp Taylor Hall on star d-man Jake Sanderson which took him out of the series with a Matt Dumba/Tom Wilson type hit. I guess after a while you become used to it because in a way I tend to be more bothered by all the interference, I used to have a gif from a vid my cousin shot when he worked media relations for the Wings...but it was an ice level wide shot where Zetterberg literally committed 5 counts of interference in one 175 foot check on Stamkos from around 2015.
At any rate, aside from Boldy, Hughes, Faber and Wallstedt, the Wild haven't even played that well (3 of 19 on the PP, awful on the kill, shallow at center) and yet they're playing at evens. Even if they can't eke out the series, the pistol-whipping that Hughes and Faber have put on Dallas (especially the 64% share in Game 1) has been quite a show. I remember when the Wild were going through all that cap hell two years ago and then the Boldy extension came in at $7m a year and some Wild fans were going nuts about overpaying on another Spurgeon type deal and now, he's a $11-12m a year winger.
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Hartman definitely plays with an edge, borderline dirty at times. He got called for that penalty.
How about Benn (again with Benn what a $cumbag)? Faber lifts his stick (in front of the net where Myers obliterates guys with his stick and gets away with it EVERY SINGLE TIME), Benn's OWN stick doesn't get within 12 inches of his face, Faber gets called.
Hartman also got called twice in game 3 for NOTHING. First on a play in front of the net (see Myers comment above) where his stick TOUCHED a Stars player (the Stars player didn't flop to the ice writhing in pain, so you know he didn't even feel it), the other when Hartman paused at the blue line to stay on side, and gets run into from behind (AGAIN with the "from behind" kind of a Stars thing I guess) Hartman gets an interference penalty. How do you get an interference penalty practically standing still?????? Doesn't he have the right to his space on the ice? To be honest, something Dallas fans are incapable of, I DO THINK Hartman knew/felt the guy coming and kind of sort of TURNED his body to impede the Stars player. My God that's not worth calling, but Hartman gets called.
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Have not seen the Hockeyland doc, but I do remember when my step-son was super excited about being allowed to check the next year in youth hockey. He was one of the smaller guys. His mother was in panic mode. He was fine. Kids being excited about hitting and being stupid is one thing, professional players hitting with the stick from behind and not even being penalized is inexcusable!
Meyers elbow to Zuccarello's face deserves a suspension. Watch the video. Myers is staring at Zucc's head the entire time Mats has the puck and waits until he doesn't have it, Mats turns to chase the loose puck them BAM elbow right to the face! I even heard one idiotic comment saying it was Zucc's fault because he's so much shorter than Myers that's where his head is in relation to Myers' elbow!!!!! Yup, Dallas fan. Nice to see the goon was on the ice being a worthless POS while Boldy scored the overtime winner!
Interference has become like offensive line holding in the NFL. I see some form of it almost every time someone gains control of a puck and heads up ice. It's annoying, but not really dangerous.
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Wallstedt is the story of the series for me! Other than the goal he let in off of the bounce off the end boards, he's looked incredible! Oettinger has looked great as usual, but he seems a bit weak high blocker side. I would try to shoot there as opposed to high glove side, where he's looked unbeatable.
I see you didn't mention my guy Kaprizov, he's been quietly (INVISIBLE for most fans who think he should be scoring half our goals) extremely effective so far, with 6 points (most on the team) in 4 games and on the ice for 7 more goals than against, tied for best with.........you guessed it Faber and Hughes, DESPITE losing Zucc. Those two have a special chemistry I have rarely seen in all my years watching hockey! Kirill is also everywhere on the ice fighting for pucks and do you notice he even sometimes wins puck battles against TWO players at time. The guy is INCREDIBLE! Best 200 foot player in the NHL!
YES, Boldy has really come into his own this year! Really smart of the Wild to sign him when they did! Wild fans (MANY idiots there) also cried like babies when we traded Fiala, who we didn't have the cap space to sign, and look who we got......FABER.
What can be said about Hughes? If he was bigger and stronger he would be in Bobby Orr territory. ANOTHER time Wild fans went nuts complaining about how much we gave up to get him.
At 5 on 5, Dallas is nowhere the team we are! The intentional injury on Zucc was a cheap, but brilliant, way to limit the Wild's PP.
Dallas has one big advantage, that's (obviously) in their ability to put 5 very very good players out there at the same time when they have the man advantage. FUNNY (not really) how we could too, until we had to replace Mats with Bobby Brink. Huge drop in puck handling ability there.
Wild should play Faber and Hughes on the power play and stop with the 4 forward, 1 defenseman set up. Faber has as many goals as any of our forwards. Tied with Boldy and Ek with 3.
If the Wild can somehow, someway get a big center who can win faceoffs and score, I think they can become as good as the best teams in the NHL! they're not quite there. Would love to see them get Alex Tuch back, not great on the dot, but fits the other requirements.
GO WILD!
edited to add; Kaprizov has also not been called for any penalties and has drawn at least 2 that I remember.
Not sure how I missed all this banter - cannot say I read all the words above.
What bothers me most about the NHL - which I find incredibly more entertaining than NBA - is their absolutely stupid playoff format. It seems like Gary Bettman is the only one that likes it. It's terrible & I cannot believe the owners don't align and force the commish to change it ASAP.
Erik
Agreed. Especially for us Wild fans who haven't seen our team advance in the playoffs for YEARS.
We have a great team this year, and if we manage to survive the 1st round, we face the best team in hockey in round 2.
Almost seems like the NHL wants to punish the teams that did well in the regular season.
It's been 13 (?) years since the best regular season team has won the cup!
"Many fans are still upset about the North Stars leaving. Norm Green may be hated but the taxpayers of MN did that to themselves by not addressing crappy venues in Bloomington (Met Center) and St. Paul (Civic Center)."
_The above is absolutely and totally the most completely false statement that could be!
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It had absolutely NOTHING to do with Norm Green and the taxpayers of Minnesota!
Lou Nanne, for those of you who don't know, was a former North Stars player and also former General Manager, has explained it many times on his weekly appearance on KFAN, the local sports radio station;
Norm Green poured MILLIONS of dollars of his own money into the Met Center when the Metropolitan Sports Commission refused to approve his requests for funds. He owned the land around the arena and wanted to develop it with a big shopping center. He also asked for their approval to develop the property, and for funds for additional improvements to the existing hockey venue.
The Metropolitan Sports Commission (A$$HOLES) REFUSED all his requests, and were trying to force him to move the team to the recently built Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. The Timberwolves were the primary tenant of the Target center and Norm would lose money big time in the move.
The Stars had recently drafted future Hall of Famer Mike Modano, and were LOVED by the fans and taxpayers (well, most of them) and would have certainly approved further improvements on the building and development of the surrounding property that would create many jobs. Heck, the City of Bloomington would have paid for it by themselves if they could have.
Do you think they wanted to lose the North Stars after already losing the Vikings AND Twins?
I guarantee you, every single solitary person on these boards would have done EXACTY the same thing he did in Norm Green's situation.
Moved the team somewhere that wanted him. FOUR YEARS LATER "our" team wins the Stanley Cup!
Whenever you hear a Minnesota hockey fan chanting "Norm Green Sucks" you're listening to an idiot.
I am so sick of hearing this garbage.
So we agree that Norm Green's decision was understandable.
I have not heard Nanne give the detailed explanation which was more about the MSC not the state of MN. Either way, he couldn't get an arena done and moved the team.
The Twins threatened to move to Charlotte and/or contract. Now the Pohlads claim they're $400 to $500M in debt on Target Field - not sure how true that is versus them borrowing against the value of the team to make up for other family business decisions.
The state of MN awoken and did a deal for the Wilfs whereby the state took a much bigger burden through state-related gambling games (ex: scratch-offs) and now that stadium has been paid off decades early.
Last, the Lakers moved in large part because they had a terrible venue.
Now the Wolves want a new arena & the Wild want big-time upgrades. I hope they both get what they want and they get creative like the Vikings did - which seemed to have worked very well for all involved.
I bet you would agree that the names of Lakers, Twins, Vikings and North Stars were perfect. Now half of them are gone. I also think the Lynx, Loons, and Frost are all solid names. How about those Loons - LOL
An argument could be made when your throw in the Gophers facilities that the MSP area has enough venues combined with 11K+ lakes to hold the Olympics.
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Well, he wasn't asking for a new facility, just some renovations. The MSC wouldn't let him develop the land around the arena and I think that's what made him decide.
You can hear the anger in Nanne's voice when he talks about it.
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Didn't we also have the Muskies?
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Benn AGAIN with hitting in the head FROM BEHIND!
Does he have some kind of special dispensation here?
What an easy guy to hate.
I guess I don't understand why the NHL doesn't go back and look at something like that and heavily fine or suspend him. Criminal behavior.
All said, super-fun win to watch. They just need to put them away tomorrow night!
edited to add: Yes, Muskies was a basketball franchise and yes, the soccer stadium looks really nice but never been. I think Minnesota could make a very strong argument for the Olympics - they're just missing a big outdoor track & field venue.
Erik
Benn fined the maximum amount for his hit on Hartman.
Not much monetarily, but if he does this again, I'm thinking suspension.
Hopes this puts and end to his garbage.
Kirill's been good to very good. Not as good as Boldy, however. He's only generated 8 shots and 2 goals - 1 of which was an empty netter which is why his ixG (expected individual goals) is only 0.82 for the entire series - meaning for what he's manufactured on his own - is less than one goal...and even that is heavily weighed upward because of the empty netter. Boldy has simply been better at generating high danger scoring chances despite playing with Johansson who shouldn't be on anyone's 2nd line, let alone a playoff team, and Eriksson Ek, who in a perfect world would be competing with Anton Lundell for best third line center in the league. Best 200 foot player in the league is quite a reach given that we all saw what happened to Florida when Barkov missed an entire year. Matthews and Celebrini would probably like a word with you too.
Since this playoff format began, teams up 3-2 have won the series at a 79.5% clip.
he and everyone else involved in the playoffs, particularly this year, yes. Taylor Hall didn't get suspended for taking out Ottawa's best d-man with a head shot. Just how it is these days now that the concussion lawsuit is settled, I guess. They're just now getting around to Ridly Greig's sucker punch on Walker so that any suspension will wait until next regular season.
Crosschecking dudes in the back of the head/neck is pretty much Benn's pro wrestling finishing move now. He did it to Mark Stone in 2023 in the Vegas series (which he got suspended two games for). He did it to Scheifele last year too (somehow didn't get suspended despite being a repeat offender and targeting a star player). I guess as a defense if the Dept of Player Safety came calling all he'd have to say is - whoa hold on, Chara did the same thing for 20+ years and you didn't do anything - and he'd be right.
Great win by Wild!
Tonight it was Rantanen with a cross check to Kaprizov's neck.
Did Robertson even get checked in the series?
I hope Brodin can return. Might have broken a bone in his foot blocking a shot the other night. We need him and his great skating ability against MacKinnon. If we can somehow beat Colorado, we could make it all the way to the finals!
Go Wild!
You notice who Kaprizov is playing with? at 68, I might be a better option than those guys! LOL
Kaprizov doesn't make a perfect pass to Spurgeon at the point, and Boldy doesn't get a game winning goal.
Here's Benn crosschecking Nichushkin in the face last year:
https://x.com/HockeyDaily365/status/1918826547638673464?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1918826547638673464|twgr^78e53a5011b1e0a3e446b7e25b1f99ec9e17c203|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://embed.attrnum.com/api/iframe?url=https3A2F2Fx.com2FHockeyDaily3652Fstatus2F1918826547638673464key=04df9a13f774ca241e92fd230cc38287v=1app=1
And the one on Dylan Larkin that put Larkin into a halo - misspoke and said traction earlier:
https://x.com/WingedWheelPod/status/1661173316420345856?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1661173316420345856|twgr^bbc4bdfbd114a6654a3db6af87f982e299d5b3b3|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://www.redditmedia.com/mediaembed/13qp3e3/?responsive=trueis_nightmode=false
There's a million other examples from this POS.
I read Rantanen just got fined $5,000.00 for his crosscheck to Kaprizov's head/neck.
I hope it's true.