Komarov elbow to McDonagh: suspended 3 games - MOD warning in OP

[axecrew]

3-5 games...horrible hit....intentional or not.

 

[Blais to Win]

Some players just are prone to concussions; McDonagh is the new Letang.

Funny how repeated intentional blows to his jaw from fists and elbows seem to bring on the symptoms.

Three games might end up looking like nothing next to what McDonagh might miss.

Seinfeld punishment: Komarov has to dress for the Rangers until McDonagh returns.

 

[Felix Unger]

Just because McD was hurt doesn't mean that the theatrics weren't real. The fact that the league didn't even issue a 1 game suspension despite a star player getting suspended tells you all about what they thought about McD and his little show to get Simmonds tossed.

If so, that shows the league doesn't have two spare neurons to rub together.

Man, I can't believe I'm on the Rangers side on this. But the other side is just too thick.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

3 Games. Just about right for a 1st time offender.

Yeah, I'm fine with it for a first timer.

 

[Pyromaniac]

In any case this is a deserved suspension. Should have been more as it was a rather blatant elbow.

I would have given him 5

 

[Derrty]

Funny how repeated intentional blows to his jaw from fists and elbows seem to bring on the symptoms.

Three games might end up looking like nothing next to what McDonagh might miss.

Seinfeld punishment: Komarov has to dress for the Rangers until McDonagh returns.

He should have to work as McDonaghs butler, for the remainder of the season.

 

[Steve]

He should have to be McDonaghs butler, for the remainder of the season.

Seems high for a first offender but the hit was bad so... I'm ok with it. It helps with the tank

 

[The Thin White Duke]

He should have to work as McDonaghs butler, for the remainder of the season.

Family comedy where McD and Komarov find out they're not so different after all in the end, coming to a theater near you.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

No need to be salty. Just because McD was hurt doesn't mean that the theatrics weren't real. The fact that the league didn't even issue a 1 game suspension despite a star player getting injured tells you all about what they thought about McD and his little show to get Simmonds tossed.

You're completely off your rocker.

What part of the fact that McDonagh had a medically diagnosed concussion and missed over 12 days worth of games are you missing? You're calling it a little show as if he faked being hurt just to get Simmonds a penalty. It's actually insulting of you to say that, the guy had his brain scrambled around and you're calling it a "little show" as if he was faking it.


Wow, completely ignorant AND classless.

 

[StoneHands]

I don't have a problem with 3 games. I wish all of these penalties were a bit harsher, to be honest. But what I don't get, for the life of me, is why this gets 3 games and Simmonds' sucker punch got zero.

(BTW, NYI fan here who loathes the Rangers, but likes McDonagh.)

Because it would have been extremely hypocritical to suspend Simmonds and give nothing to McDonagh for his crosscheck to the back of the head of Simmonds 3 seconds earlier.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

3 games

 

[Felix Unger]

Because it would have been extremely hypocritical to suspend Simmonds and give nothing to McDonagh for his crosscheck to the back of the head of Simmonds 3 seconds earlier.

McDonagh should have been assessed a high sticking minor on the play. I don't see how that has any bearing whatsoever on Simmonds (stupidly) not being suspended. Simmonds also should have gotten a slashing call to offset the high-sticking. Hell, maybe that even happened, who cares?

 

[StoneHands]

McDonagh should have been assessed a high sticking minor on the play. I don't see how that has any bearing whatsoever on Simmonds (stupidly) not being suspended. Simmonds also should have gotten a slashing call to offset the high-sticking. Hell, maybe that even happened, who cares?

Well, first, it's relevant because it's just as dangerous and arguably more dangerous to use your stick to crosscheck someone in the back of the head/neck than it is to jab someone in the face. You can ignore that all you want but it doesn't make it less true. Simmonds shouldn't have lost his cool but let's not act like McDonagh is innocent just because he was the one hurt on the play.

If that crosscheck to the back of the head was nothing more than a minor for high sticking, then the Simmonds jab should have been a minor for roughing. So 2 minors and hell, we'll give Simmonds the extra 2 for slashing if it makes you feel better.

 

[Tripod]

McDonagh should have been assessed a high sticking minor on the play. I don't see how that has any bearing whatsoever on Simmonds (stupidly) not being suspended. Simmonds also should have gotten a slashing call to offset the high-sticking. Hell, maybe that even happened, who cares?

Because McD's crosscheck to the head was worse than a punch to the mouth....regardless of the outcome.

But the Simmonds talk has been done to death, focus on Leo and his elbow.

Hope McD gets better soon.

 

[SenzZen]

Seems about right.

 

[CapsWolverinesUSA]

3 games is appropriate IMO. Think the league got this one right. Not a dirty player normally, but it was a nasty, dirty hit.

 

[Felix Unger]

If that crosscheck to the back of the head was nothing more than a minor for high sticking, then the Simmonds jab should have been a minor for roughing. So 2 minors and hell, we'll give Simmonds the extra 2 for slashing if it makes you feel better.

I've sadly made peace with the fact that some people see the world in incomprehensible ways that one can't reasonably talk them out of. That one-handed cross-check/high stick is something one sees in the NHL every night. The left-hook sucker punch is as special as your point of view.

 

[Machinehead]

More than I expected tbh. Yay league.

 

[Felix Unger]

Because McD's crosscheck to the head was worse than a punch to the mouth....regardless of the outcome.

I think that's silly, but if that's what you really believe, shouldn't you be in favor of both players receiving suspensions? Or do two wrongs make an okay - no harm, no foul? Oh, er.. I mean, even if there is a lot of harm, no foul. Because two wrongs, you see?

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Well, first, it's relevant because it's just as dangerous and arguably more dangerous to use your stick to crosscheck someone in the back of the head/neck than it is to jab someone in the face. You can ignore that all you want but it doesn't make it less true. Simmonds shouldn't have lost his cool but let's not act like McDonagh is innocent just because he was the one hurt on the play.

If that crosscheck to the back of the head was nothing more than a minor for high sticking, then the Simmonds jab should have been a minor for roughing. So 2 minors and hell, we'll give Simmonds the extra 2 for slashing if it makes you feel better.

Don't forget the late hit McDonagh was defending himself from.

Komarov out won't help the Leafs get a better pick. We saw in the ASG where he was more out of place than John Scott!

 

[TheDangler*]

First time offense I think, so probably two games

It is his first time. No previous suspension, fine, has not even been given 10 and a game. I figured he would land a 3-4 gamer

 

[Kranix]

Is the NHLPA looking at video from any time Komarov was hit in the game prior to the elbow? He might have been concussed and not in this reality.

 

[LeafsNation75]

Here is what Komarov said about the hit.

http://www.tsn.ca/komarov-sorry-for-hit-on-rangers-mcdonagh-1.440417

"I'm not trying to hurt people, I'm just hitting," said Komarov. "Sometimes it goes like it goes."

"I hope he's okay," Komarov said Friday afternoon, moments before he spoke with the league. "I feel sorry for my teammates because I let them down — I got five minutes there — and I feel real sorry about Ryan, too."

 

[Leafidelity]

Tanks, NHL

 

[Razz]

There was nothing clean about that hit but nothing intentional either. I saw it as Komarov trying to play the puck and sticking his elbow out to keep his position. Still careless and deserves as suspension but I don't; see it as a dirty play where he was attempting to injure or anything like that.