Ben White
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Who’d you take going forward granted Pettersson returns from injury at his previous level?
Doesn't really mean anything, does it? He hasn't been "manhandled" within the rules. The only reason why he isn't still tearing it up is because someone went outside of the rules to go after him.this is getting ridiculous. he's played 5 games. and got manhandled in his last game. not saying what matheson did was right but people have been saying the NHL is a different level and that sequence proved it.
Doesn't really mean anything, does it? He hasn't been "manhandled" within the rules. The only reason why he isn't still tearing it up is because someone went outside of the rules to go after him.
But it wasn't the physicality of the sport, it was physicality outside the rules of the sport. That's the part that's important.OK a lot of players in this league play on the edge of the rules. Pettersson was manhandled. If he was stronger, he wouldn't have allowed another player to slam him into the ice like that. I'm not saying it's right or it belongs in the game but it's there. It's clear that he was overmatched in the physicality aspect of the sport at this level.
Doesn't make that play right, and there's a lot of exciting and skilled underweight players in the league, would you rather them all be out of the league just so we can have bigger and heavy hitting players play instead?OK a lot of players in this league play on the edge of the rules. Pettersson was manhandled. If he was stronger, he wouldn't have allowed another player to slam him into the ice like that. I'm not saying it's right or it belongs in the game but it's there. It's clear that he was overmatched in the physicality aspect of the sport at this level.
But it wasn't the physicality of the sport, it was physicality outside the rules of the sport. That's the part that's important.
If Johnny Gaudreau was 6'5 MacAvoy likely doesn't elbow him in the head. Do you consider him too short to play in the league?
If Gaudreau's head was a foot high, it would have been well above MacAvoy's elbow, thus no elbow to the head. It's the same what-if.I'm not so sure that height has to do with being elbowed in the head. But what happened to Pettersson was a stronger specimen exerting their force on a weaker being.
As I said earlier, players play on the edge of the rules in this league and a lot of them will cross that line because millions of dollars are at stake.
If Gaudreau's head was a foot high, it would have been well above MacAvoy's elbow, thus no elbow to the head. It's the same what-if.
That play wasn't just on the edge of the rules, it was well beyond them. No one had come close to "mandhandling" him in the 4 regular season and multiple pre-season games prior.
That play was not an elbow so they are two completely different circumstances. That play was not well beyond the rules as it didn't even warrant a 2 minute minor. If there was no injury and Pettersson bounced right back, no one would talk about it. If Elias had 10 more pounds of muscle, it probably doesn't happen, no one would talk about it.
edit: in fact the Panthers encourage that sort of play and I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the teams in the league do as well. Straight from the coaches mouth: "Mike was trying to play a skilled player hard; that’s what we ask every night.”
OK a lot of players in this league play on the edge of the rules. Pettersson was manhandled. If he was stronger, he wouldn't have allowed another player to slam him into the ice like that. I'm not saying it's right or it belongs in the game but it's there. It's clear that he was overmatched in the physicality aspect of the sport at this level.
Lol as if Barzal wouldn't have gotten slammed to the ice there either.
I can't believe Pettersson has so many votes, but I suppose this is Hockeys Future.
You take the guy who just out up PPG+ in his rookie season ten times outta ten.