Zegras is ridiculous. Watch all of the gifs
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It's also funny that "physical tough hockey" is synonymous in this case with blindside crosschecking someone that doesn't know you are there. You know, like a coward.Such a dumb, regressive argument.
"You want to better at hockey than other people? You want to help your team win games? You deserve to be assaulted."
I'm all for physical and tough hockey. But keep it within the lines. You don't want him to score like that? Bury him every time he touches the puck behind the net so he's scared to go back there. Don't run him after the whistle when he's got his back to you.
Hartman will be paying the fine himself and sending all of the donations to Minnesota Children's Hospital.Apparently Wild fans found Ryan Hartman's venmo and donated a shitload of money to cover the fine for giving Evander Kane the finger. It included a $200 donation from Kane's ex-wife
Agreed 100%. Goalie stuck his head where he shouldn't have. It's a fast game and Wilson was flying, no bad intent there whatsoever.The goalie’s pads are in the crease, his head, stick, and arms are very far outside of the crease and post. If the goalie was still in the crease and Wilson ran him over like that, Wilson would have run right into the post, not behind the net. The goalie made a stupid play on the puck and put himself in a bad position for either Wilson or his dman to barrel him over.
At about the face-off dot, Wilson makes a hard shift to take the inside path to the puck and the defender pushes him toward the net where he makes contact with the goalie just as he sticks his upper body outside the crease. Everything happened so fast. What do you expect Wilson to do there? Not take the inside track? Politely ask the defenseman not to ride him toward the net?You keep saying the goalie put himself in a bad situation and made a stupid play, but what would you have him do? The puck had already come out to the goal line when he touched it, so he had to be on the post to make sure nothing snuck by him there. Even if there's no bad intent, which is doubtful because of the player in question, it's still a completely reckless play by Wilson at bare minimum.
lol, no.I would expect Wilson to continue his path on the defensemen and win the puck off of him like every other player in the league would do instead of going right for the goalie.
This. I hate Wilson with a passion, but the goalie is definitely reaching out of the crease and putting his upper body, stick etc all in the way to then get him whipped around from the impact.The goalie’s pads are in the crease, his head, stick, and arms are very far outside of the crease and post. If the goalie was still in the crease and Wilson ran him over like that, Wilson would have run right into the post, not behind the net. The goalie made a stupid play on the puck and put himself in a bad position for either Wilson or his dman to barrel him over.
Not to pile on, but I strongly disagree. He didn't "go right for the goalie". (And forwards shift to take the inside track on defenseman near the net like that all of the time throughout the league.)I would expect Wilson to continue his path on the defensemen and win the puck off of him like every other player in the league would do instead of going right for the goalie.
Hug the post and have his stick positioned so the puck doesn't get above the goal line while letting his defenseman handle the puck and not try to bat the puck when you have two guys barreling down at it. He has no obligation to play the puck there and, given the puck was still behind the goal line, there was not an immediate scoring chance prevented by playing the puck. He probably thought he had more time than he did and got caught in no man's land between two guys making a legitimate play on the puck. Shit happens. It's a physical game.You keep saying the goalie put himself in a bad situation and made a stupid play, but what would you have him do? The puck had already come out to the goal line when he touched it, so he had to be on the post to make sure nothing snuck by him there. Even if there's no bad intent, which is doubtful because of the player in question, it's still a completely reckless play by Wilson at bare minimum.
Not a damned thing wrong with that, IMHO.Tom Wilson, doing things again.
I can't stand the guy, but I don't think he did anything wrong here. Thoughts?
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I don't think Wilson did anything wrong but its clear that the second part of your premise is correct. Wilson doesnt care or respect anyone else on the ice and he has proven that literally dozens of times. That doesn't mean he intended to kill the goaltender here.I disagree with the majority opinion. To me he clearly freight trains a goalie who is still standing in the crease. To me the most charitable read on the play is that it's not so much that he did anything wrong, he just doesn't care about or respect anyone else on the ice, so it didn't matter to him that he was going to fight for position where the only possible outcome would have involved him barreling over the goalie still in the crease.
I have been following this race closely and am loving the fall of Vegas. Buffalo owns their first round pick (top 10 protected) from the Eichel trade and now it is looking like it will be 15 or 16 instead of in the 20s. 538 has updated playoff odds and currently shows the following for the last three playoff spots out west:I think Vancouver is, somehow, back in and more likely to catch LAK than VGK. Vancouver is 4 points behind LAK, have a game in hand plus a head to head game left. They do have a tough remaining schedule:
Ottawa
@ Minnesota
@ Calgary
Seattle
LA
@ Edmonton
Toughish schedule. They should beat Ottawa tonight. Minnesota is jockeying with STL for home ice in their inevitable playoff series. Seattle stinks, obviously LAK has something to play for, then that last game could be against a resting Edmonton team. Edmonton could actually be in a position to choose their opponent since the winnter of the LAK/VAN/VGK battle will play Edmonton in the first round.
After last nights results, Hockey-Ref has Vancouver at 20.5% to make the playoffs. Vegas has fallen to 19.2%. Dom's model usually updates mid-morning so we'll see what his model thinks of both teams chances. Vegas was 52% to make the playoffs yesterday but I imagine last nights loss dealt a massive blow to their chances.
As it relates to VGK, I wonder what the fall out will be if/when they miss the playoffs. Foley doesn't strike me as the type of owner to sit idle and accept the injury excuse. I think it's fair to wonder if some of the injuries (Stone in particular) were slow played for cap purposes and now it's biting them in the ass. They will likely never have this much talent at their disposal again, they are already over next years cap with only 17 players signed so they will need to strip it down to some degree.
Updated after NSH an LAK wins and a VAN OT loss last night:I have been following this race closely and am loving the fall of Vegas. Buffalo owns their first round pick (top 10 protected) from the Eichel trade and now it is looking like it will be 15 or 16 instead of in the 20s. 538 has updated playoff odds and currently shows the following for the last three playoff spots out west:
DAL - 93% 98 proj. pts
NSH - 93% 97 proj. pts
LAK - 74% 96 proj. pts
VGK - 21% 93 proj. pts
VAN - 19% 93 proj. pts
Vancouver is out. OTL to Ottawa and lost in regulation to Minnesota last night.Updated after NSH an LAK wins and a VAN OT loss last night:
DAL - 92% 98 proj. pts
NSH - 97% 98 proj. pts
LAK - 87% 97 proj. pts
VGK - 16% 93 proj. pts
VAN - 8% 92 proj. pts
DAL @ EDM & WAS @ VGK tonight. Go CAPs!
I think the Bruins only need 2 pts as the Pens can only max out at 105, and the B's own the tie breaker.I think if the Canes beat the Devils in regulation their worst case scenario is a tie at 114 points. RW would be even at 46 (assuming Rags win all three in regulation) but ROW would go to Canes so they would finish first.
Edit: Bruins need three points. 106 clinches over Caps who are at 100 with three games left.
Ah you (and amfox) are correct. I was too focused on the Caps and missed the Pens max number.I think the Bruins only need 2 pts as the Pens can only max out at 105, and the B's own the tie breaker.
Hopefully the B's are thinking payback for a tough season against Carolina. They lost by a combined score of 16-1 (3-0, 7-1, 6-0) over their 3 games!