Player Discussion Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Part 11

[Deebs]

 

[The Nightman]

Nice to know it’s open season on habs players apparently

 

[Deebs]

 

[MarkJ]

we'll need a bus squad since we'll use all our taxi squad with players out with concussions.

 

[admiralcadillac]

I’m sure leaping into the contact was equally unavoidable.

Kotkaniemi should have really not worn that skimpy dress.

 

[Deebs]

 

[David Suzuki]

I hope players learn how to make their hits look unavoidable then. Open season.

 

[Le Barron de HF]

I don't always agree with Walsh but he's right. The way the NHL has handled the Armia and KK hits are a joke, sends the complete wrong message.

 

[donghabs98]

The league's rules and clearly the Department of Player Safety is flawed. The Board of Governors should do more to push for some change, its a bad look for the league and sport to be as relaxed as it is on checks to the head.

Its very unfortunate that the league will only ever get serious on checks to the head after someone gets injured like Marc Savard. Being reactive and not proactive is backwards thinking when it comes to player safety.

 

[Whitesnake]

Insane. Hit was unavoidable...yeah 'cause JK was on the ice?

 

[417]

I always enjoy hearing how the NHL player safety departments finds new creative ways to explain to the Montreal Canadiens how it was the fault of their own player they got a head shot.

 

[SakuKoivu11]

Honestly the point here is Dube jumped both his feet were in the air. The fact that KK didn’t see him also with Dube jumping making the hit look and feel bad.

 

[David Suzuki]

Rest in peace Rick Rypien but also head hits are back and good again

 

[McGees]

Totally unavoidable....watch how he accelerates a second before the hit then jumps into it on a guy a few inches taller than him with his forearm to the face....The league and reffing in it are soooooo bad.

 

[TannedBum]

lol the clowns at RDS trying to justify Dube's hit and saying it was KK's fault for turning.

Yup. Just like it was Armia's fault that he didn't stop playing hockey and "look for angry d-man".

 

[donghabs98]

I don't always agree with Walsh but he's right. The way the NHL has handled the Armia and KK hits are a joke, sends the complete wrong message.

There's too many old school hockey thinkers working at the Department of Player Safety and the league. How Gary Galley viewed the check I think reflects the out of touch mindset that is prevalent at the league office.

 

[MD thaivuN]

Ambiguity in rules such as avoidability are always bad. It adds unnecessary subjective interpretation to how you should apply those rules. You can now start arguing any dirty hit is unavoidable lol

 

[Suzuki x 14]

Cant wait till it happens to a Crosby, McDavid, Ovechkin, McKinnon, Matthews, its gonna get ugly
This league is so bad

 

[Ozmodiar]

Head of dept of player safety played game in most unsafe way.
What should you expect??

 

[Mrb1p]

I sincerely hope the Habs start dishing it too. Enough of this crap. Take out the buttends, elbows, lowbridge hits, everything.

 

[dinodebino]

NFL is not perfect, loin de là. But its application of the head shot rule is 10000 times better and more efficient.

 

[River Meadow]

Seriously....

F the NHL.

This is BS.

So they don't _really_ care about player safety, as they keep letting these BS hits go on, unpunished.

 

[River Meadow]

Cant wait till it happens to a Crosby, McDavid, Ovechkin, McKinnon, Matthews, its gonna get ugly
This league is so bad

Looks like this is what it's gonna take for them to wake up

 

[Mrb1p]

Looks like this is what it's gonna take for them to wake up

It happened yo Sid and they did nothing

 

[Canadienna]

DoPS has essentially sent the message to Montreal that these hits are perfectly fine.





Ok, so lets roll with it. Let's start laying out hits to the head then. They say it's alright ¯\_(ツ)_/¯