2018-2019 Around the league thread #3
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blahem
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Looking forward to a MacKinnon/Rantanen/O'Reilly line in the all-star game where they don't ever pass to him.
UncleRisto
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Do they then fumble the puck and get scored on on a breakaway?
This gave me an image of them playing hockey with a football (the slightly fallic version) lol.
UncleRisto
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UncleRisto
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I guess Toronto has that kids' afternoon again. These poor kids are so young they don't know that the Leafs are awful.
f***ing ridiculous. Not even a penalty called. Are you kidding me!? This next generation of refs is simply horrid.
Avs_19
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What would they call here? 2 min interference, at best. Wouldn't change anything to the situation. 2 players entangled with an unfortunate result.
Still think Pettersson is too frail for the NHL and will be injury prone for as long as he has this frame.
Okay, at least they would've called it. I don't think he's too frail, Jack Eichel has had two incidents where he's fallen awkwardly like that (and wasn't even tangled up at the time), and I wouldn't call him small or frail.
That was just a stupid rookie doing something stupid, some bad luck involved, and the league as a whole letting waaaay too much clutch-and-grab back in the game. If they called obstruction like they're supposed to Kotkaniemi doesn't dare try that.
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I dont think Kotkaniemi did that because he thought he could get away with it.
McMetal
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For the life of me I can't understand why they let these kind of extracurriculars go on away from the play, like it doesn't matter as long as the puck is nowhere near the combatants. Let that ticky-tack shit go on, and you eventually get injuries to stars like this. f***ing disgraceful.
McMetal
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So it's Pettersson's fault for being skinny now? Not Kotka for hooking him and dragging him down away from the play, which is supposedly a penalty under the so-called rules of the NHL?
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We've been through this before. Either you get mad at everyone that will injure him or you agree that he needs to bulk up so he doesn't get injured as much when this stuff happens. There's such thing as being fragile.
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Chara could’ve gotten hurt if he got pulled down like that. That has nothing to do with him being frail.
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AvsCOL
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Pretty sure I read that Pettersson was walking around in the dressing room with no crutches. Another ridiculous overreaction by HFB lol
Avs_19
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Pettersson isn't expected to play next game but he's still travelling with the team so that appears to be a good sign. If it was something serious then that likely wouldn't be the case.
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McMetal
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You wouldn't be mad if MacKinnon were injured on an identical play? You'd blame him for being too frail to withstand illegal play? I'll believe that when I see it.
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I'd be upset but shit happens. Mack is a horse, chances of him getting injured on most physical plays are probably divided by 3 compared to Pettersson.
Do you think a 9 year old kid can sustain the same physical abuse than a grown man? If not what's so hard to understand here? Pettersson is seriously underweight which makes him prone to injuries. Why do I have to explain this?
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