Jordan Binnington Meltdown vs Sharks
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He needed to go full razor on holtby if you want to make a statement,going to throw fake jabs is more embarrassing
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Unfortunately it doesn't take much to trigger people nowadays. Mind games have always been a part of sports. The purpose of antics like this is get get into peoples' heads.
Looks like it worked!
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You're just proving my point. A guy shoved two guys and made another one flinch. So what?
I wonder how today's society would react to some of the things Ron Hextall, Billy Smith and Patrick Roy used to do.
Probably not very well...
Having said that, at least those guys left their mark. If Hextall or Smith took a two minute penalty they earned it.
They weren’t fake jabbing guys and being defiant with their hands at their sides. They were throwing/swinging first and asking questions second.
I thought the whole thing reaked of classic smug Binnington. Maybe just maybe this time it will help him remember how to stop a puck and close the ole five hole.
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Lol it has nothing to do with ”society”, that’s just another spin. Most people love brawls. fights, legit stuff. A dude throwing a tantrum for no reason and pretend-fighting? It’s just not gonna fly. Comparing to Hextall? Get out of here. What’s next, a player smashing his stick against the boards and it’s ”a power move to get into opponents heads”?
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Right.
How's that working out for Matt Murray, again?
No one's jealous of Jordan Binnington, trust me. Not after childish tantrums like that.
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You're stretching for credit on him. Jake Allen is one of 5 Blues goalies to ever win 100 games and he ended #2 behind Mike Liut, and I wouldn't go jumping through hoops to defend him as some fantastic goalie. He's an average goalie - one who thrives as a back-up but struggles with the #1 yoke on his shoulders - who routinely made boneheaded plays at inopportune times to crush his team's soul and who ultimately got replaced by someone who simply came in and made the saves he needed to and didn't force his teammates to constantly be looking over their shoulders wondering if they needed to play perfect hockey to save themselves from his random f***-ups. I don't care if he makes it to 300 wins in his career; barring some unexpected change in his play, facts are facts.
And the fact is, Steve Mason's 200+ career wins all came rooted out of his rookie season and the never-dying belief that he did it once, he can do it again which got re-reinforced by his '13-14 season. If it really makes you feel better, fine - I'll give him credit for what, 2 full hits? 2 1/2 absolute max? He's not a guy who you can cherry-pick his rookie year and '13-14 and then say yeah, he was still a 2.40 - 2.50 GAA kind of goalie for his career, had 30+ wins a few times, gave his team the kind of goaltending that carried them out of the first round a few times. He was a 2.80+ GAA guy who was sub-.500 for his career, who was a career 2-9, 3.27, .897 in the postseason which is greatly inflated by that '13-14 postseason, who would have been flounced from the league years prior if not for that rookie season.
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In today's NHL they'd be getting parked games for that kind of stuff. It's a different era. Stuff that was common in the 70s and 80s, accepted as part of the game, is not acceptable today because we've [well, most people have] realized some of that stuff isn't part of the game.
What Binnington did Saturday night was dumb. He probably should get a pair of games for it because there's no place in the game for it and we shouldn't be encouraging goalies to go off the deep end like that when getting pulled. Obviously, it worked to motivate his teammates because they went on to win. This incident is way down my list of concerns on questionable acts by players this season. But, I'm sure this will be discussed endlessly until the next outrage somewhere around the league occurs.
Having the memory of a goldfish does that. I’ll just focus on goalies:
Rask
Lundqvist
Smith
Crawford
Lehner
Emery
Quick
Price
hell, I’m starting to think if he actually punched someone it would be viewed as normal on this site.
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Nah, not memory of a goldfish, just not having homer glasses.
Emery actually fought multiple times. And you've listed goalies who threw tantrums, did they pretend to high stick a guy in the face as they went off the ice?
And most of the players who pretended to be toughguys were rightly mocked for it. But somehow people are upset Binnington is being called out for his little tantrum?
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Maybe you're missing the point that the Sharts chirping him is what sent him over the edge. Unfortunately for the Sharts, he was already out of the game when they got in his head.
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nobody chirped him, that's something you're adding in. binnington just decided to mess with the sharks and it was hilarious. you can make it seem embarrassing or you could laugh about it like even dubnyk did cause it was clearly in jest.
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I am guessing by the way he curled back to their bench. You don't know any better than I do what was or wasn't said by the Sharts' bench.
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Yeah I just saw the video and still remember what happened because I don't have dementia. Totally rent free.
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Tbh i’d be much happier with a goalie that helps the team while on ice, not one that helps the team by coming off the ice
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Wish he would have actually punched Karlsson. Still funny watching that wimp flinch though
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He’s also helped the team while on the ice, though.
He won 16 games in the playoffs, including a Stanley Cup.
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