Did Marchand get punched or wrecked clean? (MOD NOTICE post #175)

[Grinner]

Rat on rat violence

 

[2014nyr]

just wish we got to hear jack edwards demand the fbi get involved

 

[HTFN]

I (in a probably unethical way) don't mind it at all because of the parties involved but that's 100% a punch.

Intentional punch? Don't know, really, probably not but these are pro athletes who can sometimes do spectacular things in split seconds and if he wanted to he probably could have.

Nobody's proving that, period. Still sure as hell looks like he punched him right in the head judging by the equal and opposite reactions from Marchand's head and Bennett's hand flying backwards for like no other reason.

 

[TheNumber4]

I can’t see directly the punch. But it’s Bennet. A former member of the dirtiest team ever assembled, the Treliving era Flames. So yeh he punched him.

 

[D Wakaluk]

That's a dangerous lean to the fist by Marchand.

Could be a sneaky dirty little punch, but it is Marchand, so anyway

 

[HTFN]

That's a dangerous lean to the fist by Marchand.

Could be a sneaky dirty little punch, but it is Marchand, so anyway

 

[DickSmehlik]

Hard to tell with Marchand.

It could have been a stiff breeze and he would have reacted the same way.

 

[RC51]

it was just a strong hockey play

 

[OysterForever]

No one gonna mention about how late Marchand's hit is? Puck is not even visible anymore and Bennett has about 1-2 business days worth of time to counter.

Rat deserves whatever happened there.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

No one gonna mention about how late Marchand's hit is? Puck is not even visible anymore and Bennett has about 1-2 business days worth of time to counter.

Rat deserves whatever happened there.

yeah but then we see it happened to Marchand and just no one cares.

 

[De Montreal]

Puck was right there, shouldn’t there be another angle?

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

The palm to the air gesture after by Bennett is all the evidence needed. We all assumed strictly shoulder but likely both. Initially shoulder and later Marchand felt the concussion. NHL certainly heavily monitored this one.

 

[bme44]

Clean hit. But if he doesn’t play Game 4, huge loss for Boston. I still think Florida wins this in 5 games.

This is anything but a clean hit,. This play needs to be looked at by the NHL.

 

[Drytoast]

Brad's been doing this kind of slight of hand dirty hockey his entire life. He deserves some of it back. But that's not the question. The question is did he get get punched and my answer is absolutely he got punched.

Oh well!!!

 

[BLNY]

I watched several times last night and didn't see a punch. I had a hard time seeing any injury and assumed it must have come from fall into boards.

This morning, I do see a bit of a swing. Marchand does seem to motion to cradle his head while on ice on his side.

If he misses time, they're effed.

 

[Oak]

It's playoff hockey man. Marchand got the worse end of it but nothing that I would consider a tragedy.

 

[Moose Head]

Nothing conclusive in that angle. Maybe he got punched, grazed or maybe he flipped his head back embellishing. Without a better angle, all you see for sure is Marchand going for a bit of a late hit and getting the worst of it.

 

[FinlandPanther]

Here we go: we got our new Matthew Knies play. And this one is way softer too.

 

[tucker3434]

Seemed kinda like Bennett left his right up (probably intentionally) for Marchand to skate into. I don’t think there’s enough there for any kind of discipline.

 

[Pucklington]

Tbh... Doesn't he kinda deserve it?

 

[Lshap]

Marchand goes to check Bennett, who's just dished the puck. Bennett braces for the check and in that split second his right hand jerks forward and possibly hits Marchand in the side of the head (impossible to confirm from the vid).

Is it an intentional punch or a reflex? Given that Bennett's attention was on the puck, I doubt he had the time to do anything but brace for the hit. In real-time – not slo-mo video – this was a split second reaction with two bodies colliding and Marchand getting the worst of it. IMO it's unrealistic for Bennett to have time and positioning to deliberately throw a punch within that split second.

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

I think Marchand just got hurt.

It looks like nothing compared to what he himself dishes out. He looks beat up for some reason. Shoulder, back? He looks like he's got injury problems this playoffs and that little incident may have topped it off.

I'd say I hope he's ok but I don't care about him. Yet I do hope he's ok.

 

[PeE eL DuBoiS]

Two stuffed bags of garbage colliding. The outcome has at least one of them tear, stretch or burst. It's basic physics.

 

[Gilmour1996]

Any hit to Marchand is a clean hit if you define "clean hit" as the kind of hit Marchand has delivered to others without even getting a penalty. Concussion Gods targeted his shoulder after they saw all the padding on his big nose.

 

[Over the volcano]

Marchand goes to check Bennett, who's just dished the puck. Bennett braces for the check and in that split second his right hand jerks forward and possibly hits Marchand in the side of the head (impossible to confirm from the vid).

Is it an intentional punch or a reflex? Given that Bennett's attention was on the puck, I doubt he had the time to do anything but brace for the hit. In real-time – not slo-mo video – this was a split second reaction with two bodies colliding and Marchand getting the worst of it. IMO it's unrealistic for Bennett to have time and positioning to deliberately throw a punch within that split second.

Besides it's not like he was out there targeting the best players on Boston we all know he's not that kind of player.

Joking aside, of course it was, but it doesn't really matter, that's just the game and certainly his game. Marchand finished that period and the next and was a wrecking ball himself at times. Could have just been a maintenance issue for him. Hopefully it doesn't linger and we get a good game 4