Malkin High Sticking Match Penalty (Suspended for One Game)

[PensandCaps]

Actually. It looks like an accident.

From another angle it looks like malkin thought Raffl was still wrapping him up and Malkin went to shrug him off.

No suspension.

 

[ZiGOODejad]

Good on Malkin. Raffl deserved it. Can't just let someone take a swing at your head.

That’s just reckless dude. If someone swings, swing back with your hand not a hockey stick. That’s a brain dead move.

 

[ColbyChaos]

and you continue being a clown hating on everything penguins without any objectivity, don't think i don't notice that. i don't really need to have any response for trolls like you. Atleast guys like Angryhank are intelligent even when they're trolling, you're just an embarrasment.

Having a meltdown over me pointing out what Malkin did was dirty move lol

You are a complete embarrassment to hockey fans everywhere if you honestly think players dont throw punches to other players through the course of a game. Get the goggles off what Raffl did is nothing different than what you see in a run in the mill post whistle scrum.

 

[Cleetus]

Raffl is such an embellisher
On the following pp after the high school. Guy went into boards on purpose after being touched by a pen trying to draw a penatly again

Bush league ****

so he was an embellisher before highschool???

 

[chethejet]

Malkin isn't sitting any games. No injury and he IMHO embellished the contact which was hard to detect. Punk move but Malkin has to be smarter in that situation.

 

[BrendanGallagher11]

so he was an embellisher before highschool???

Lol ya man
Damn narcs

 

[Tom ServoMST3K]

The argument that "the stick didn't connect" so there shouldn't be any supplemental discipline, I think, is weak. Malkin is a 32-year old man who's been playing hockey his entire life and wildly swung his stick at the head of another player. There's no instinct for that, it's not a normal hockey play, and you can't give a pass to that kind of behavior. When I saw it I thought it should be at least five games.

Sure, Raffl is a turd. I don't like watching soccer antics on the ice. But you absolutely can't have a player brandishing his stick as a weapon. Star player or not, he's gotta sit some games.

Are people really making that argument?

Most people who say that are saying it in the context they think the NHL DoPS will screw this up, not that it doesn't deserve a suspension.

EDIT: I mean, you'll always have one or two idiots making stupid takes, but no need to destroy that.

 

[flyers0909]

Raffl is such an embellisher
On the following pp after the high school. Guy went into boards on purpose after being touched by a pen trying to draw a penatly again

Bush league ****

Lmao when he got cross checked from behind?

 

[BrendanGallagher11]

Lmao when he got cross checked from behind?

Good no call
Get that soft diving shit out of the game

 

[Ozz]

Certainly can't do that. I don't pay attention to suspensions enough to say whether or not that should warrant it based on comparable plays.

In related news, punching people shouldn't be as "legal" as it's become these days either. Things like this and worse are what eventually happens because of it.

 

[LT]

You don’t think he actually intended to swing his stick or not? You must be one loyal Pens fan.

Yeah Raffl is a punk for throwing the punch, but don’t kid yourself. Malkin 100% intended to swing that stick. Instead of trying to use his stick as a weapon, maybe he should have went and punched Raffl back or squared up. Both of those would be far more respectable than swinging his stick at head height.

I’m glad you were reading Malkin’s mind while this happened.

 

[HuskerTornado]

Malkin was reckless with his stick after Raffl intended to injure with that bush league rabbit punch. Rabbit punches can cause all kinds of career ending damage and life changes.

Neither should occur, but one started the sequence, and was not penalized. Interesting.

 

[flyers0909]

Actually. It looks like an accident.

From another angle it looks like malkin thought Raffl was still wrapping him up and Malkin went to shrug him off.

No suspension.

Yeah, definite shrug from this angle.

 

[compan]

Lmao when he got cross checked from behind?

Well most people here are elite skaters where something like that wouldn’t bother them. So you have to understand why they’d think he took a dive.

 

[Fatty McLardy]

Lmao when he got cross checked from behind?

yep that should've been a penalty for sure, but the refs missed it, just like they missed calling one on him for the punch. That was a horrendous officiated game.

 

[Caps8112]

only seen the videos on here. Raffl could have gotten 2 min minor but they let that kind of stuff go all the time. Malkin clearly was swinging at him, maybe not to hit his head but was definitely swinging at him. Be interesting to see if anything comes of it.

 

[Ridley Simon]

NBCSN guys say that it should just be a fine. Both said it looked like he tried to slash him and lost control of stick.

Take that for what it’s worth.

Of course NBC said that. It’s the Pens!

 

[compan]

I’m glad you were reading Malkin’s mind while this happened.

Well it’s easy to see the intention when I’m not viewing through rose colored glasses.

Watch another angle and you’ll notice he had his other hand on his stick up until the moment he decided to swing his stick like that. I’m not sure what else you need to see on top of the incident itself to realize he did it on purpose.

 

[BrendanGallagher11]

yep that should've been a penalty for sure, but the refs missed it, just like they missed calling one on him for the punch. That was a horrendous officiated game.

Dude come on raffl clearly sees the player coming and falls from that little cross check give me a break

 

[KCC]

Actually. It looks like an accident.

From another angle it looks like malkin thought Raffl was still wrapping him up and Malkin went to shrug him off.

No suspension.

It doesn't matter. You have to be smarter and in control of your hockey stick and Malkin wasn't.

 

[Hockey4Lyfe]

Of course NBC said that. It’s the Pens!

I don’t agree with that. There are guys on NBC that absolutely despise the Pens.

 

[flyers0909]

Dude come on raffl clearly sees the player coming and falls from that little cross check give me a break

Good point, down 2 goals with the game winding down he forgoes the puck to dive face first into the boards hoping for a penalty. Definitely the smart play instead of keeping the puck in the zone.

 

[HuskerTornado]

Of course NBC said that. It’s the Pens!

lmao, yes, NBC, big Pens homers. Roenick, Jones, Milbury, etc., all obscene Pens fans.

 

[Fatty McLardy]

Dude come on raffl clearly sees the player coming and falls from that little cross check give me a break

i don't know if anyone willingly wants to go face first into boards at that speed...

 

[Cody Webster]

I know he got punched and that on its own is dirty and suspendeble, that is no excuse for you to swing your stick like that.


This thread is full of penguin fans just making excuses for malkin because of the punch

Under no circumstances should you EVER Swing your stick like that.

No excuses.

In what f***ing league is that punch suspendable? They aren't 12 year old kids and he didn't knock him out. Holy f***ing balls