Goalies are down and out every game, fishing for pucks with their outstretched arms, and a pile of bodies and skates all around them, all fighting for position. My point is that shit happens. Guys respect each other in the league, but accidents are sometimes going to happen when you get people jostling around in a contact game with knives on their feet. Shame on Maroon for being a clumsy 4th line plug and not having twinkle toes on his blades like McDavid.Well sure it was careless. With todays limited protection around wrists and around necks Its pretty dangerous to be skating right on top of somebody. If thats somebodies goalie down there and an opponent does that bs he gets fed. What I think is despicable on the play is the Other Lightning player slewfoots Kane, has him down and seems to be holding on. Meanwhile Maroon skates right on top. It alsost looked like he came close to stepping on Kanes wrist. Not purposeful but jebus jump out of the way or something. Why skate right over the pile. Thats a careless action with men down. How many Clint Malarchuks and this incident do we have to see for players to realize that.
If the slew foot was called no injury. This is on the refs not maroon, who’s just trying to take advantage of the refs bias.Nice Strawman.
I said what he did was dangerous and it ended up being dangerous. He shouldn't have been skating that close to him to begin with as is patently obvious by the result.
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Reasonable point. But I don't think Maroon was in there for the puck. I think he was there for police role expecting Kane to get up and feed the guy that just dirty slewfooted him. I think Maroon was expecting something else to occur there, and why he converged on the area. As I stated the refs could have just immediately called the penalty there and blown a whistle. That was a dirty play that preceded it. I like Maroon, and I think he's respectful but its cerntainly not the case that respect of players ia a given. You saw what tkachuk did to Quick just this week.Goalies are down and out every game, fishing for pucks with their outstretched arms, and a pile of bodies and skates all around them, all fighting for position. My point is that shit happens. Guys respect each other in the league, but accidents are sometimes going to happen when you get people jostling around in a contact game with knives on their feet. Shame on Maroon for being a clumsy 4th line plug and not having twinkle toes on his blades like McDavid.
Then again, do you think Maroon has the hockey smarts or is talented enough to know betterNice Strawman.
I said what he did was dangerous and it ended up being dangerous. He shouldn't have been skating that close to him to begin with as is patently obvious by the result.
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I don't think it aligns exactly with the end of the season. Three months from now is Feb 9, and four months is Mar 9, with the season not ending until April 13, which is over five months away. Believe can only sent him down on LTIR conditioning for 6 days or 3 games, so doesn't buy you much time. Trading deadline is Mar 3, so pretty much at the four month mark, so if all goes well, he should be back by then. Realistically the only way we are able to add at the trade deadline is if his recovery is way slower than expected, and that's likely not a good sign.4 months + an AHL conditioning stint aligns exactly with the end of the season.
Our management is a little bit too by the book, but don't think for a second this is lost on them (or on Kane) entirely.
I say we are adding at the deadline. By then we'll know how his recovery is going and how likely it is that we get a sufficient number of useful games out of him before the playoffs. If it is anything less than 70-30 that he's ready, you stretch his recovery for sure, let him have extra rehab and AHL conditioning and bring in $5M worth of salary at the deadline.
I would agree, but it would be an interesting gamble. Chychrun was supposed to be back in November some time, so the timing seems too perfect. By the time Kane comes back we may have another LTIR player by then. Plus, it seems like most teams in these situations find a way to wiggle out.A big fat no to adding any other big ticket item.
The loss of Kane will hurt but I actually want to be able to adjust the roster as we see fit rather than being hamstung and having to play worse players due to cap constraints.
Yeah watch the replay, he saw it after the fact, stopped skating and was the first one calling for them to stop play. Obviously 100% unintentional, but I've always stuck by this, should've traded Lucic instead of Maroon. We'd have 3 more cups!Has
Did Maroon stop in to apologize?
My first reaction after seeing a guy laying on the ice is to make sure I don't skate/stomp on him. Especially right after my own guy just slew-footed him. Not Maroon. He was close enough to have just as easily kicked Kane in the face.
He'd need to be incredibly dumb not to see that his action was dangerous. I'd say an apology is in order.
Based on my personal experiences and working for a Doctor, I'm going to guess a tendon was damaged, nothing like McDavid and how he healed like some xenomorph alien hybrid hockey monster. Guessing partially torn or sliced in this case but still required surgery.So does a three to four month recovery all but guarantee that there was tendon damage?
I would agree, but it would be an interesting gamble. Chychrun was supposed to be back in November some time, so the timing seems too perfect. By the time Kane comes back we may have another LTIR player by then. Plus, it seems like most teams in these situations find a way to wiggle out.
But, for me I kind of like the chance to give some of our own guys more opportunity. It just makes sense to make the trade deadline the time to make moves.
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The loss of Kane will hurt but I actually want to be able to adjust the roster as we see fit rather than being hamstung and having to play worse players due to cap constraints.
It was his hand. He took his gloves off while sitting on the bench and was resting his hand on the boards in front of him during play and got sliced while a player was either going on to the ice or coming off (I forget which). I remember this because I questioned his intelligence after it happened.Think it was Sam’s leg.
Well sure it was careless. With todays limited protection around wrists and around necks Its pretty dangerous to be skating right on top of somebody. If thats somebodies goalie down there and an opponent does that bs he gets fed. What I think is despicable on the play is the Other Lightning player slewfoots Kane, has him down and seems to be holding on. Meanwhile Maroon skates right on top. It alsost looked like he came close to stepping on Kanes wrist. Not purposeful but jebus jump out of the way or something. Why skate right over the pile. Thats a careless action with men down. How many Clint Malarchuks and this incident do we have to see for players to realize that.
Well sure it was careless. With todays limited protection around wrists and around necks Its pretty dangerous to be skating right on top of somebody. If thats somebodies goalie down there and an opponent does that bs he gets fed. What I think is despicable on the play is the Other Lightning player slewfoots Kane, has him down and seems to be holding on. Meanwhile Maroon skates right on top. It alsost looked like he came close to stepping on Kanes wrist. Not purposeful but jebus jump out of the way or something. Why skate right over the pile. Thats a careless action with men down. How many Clint Malarchuks and this incident do we have to see for players to realize that.