Morgan Rielly suspended for five games for cross-checking Ridly Greig in the head (Mod note in OP); upd: Rielly appealing his suspension (upheld)

[cowboy82nd]

Classic garbage from this generation. Not once did Leafs “brass” say anything about a cross check to the “face” being “justified”

This is the crap that has to be invented to justify a follow up of virtue signalling statements where people use terms like “entitlement”

Hahaha

I hope you’re a young adult sens fan and not some adult leafs hater. Childish opinions are normal. Where adults talking with this rhetoric is scary

Didn’t their coach say the response was appropriate? Coach = brass and saying the response is appropriate, considering the response was a cross check to the head, means he is okay with a cross check to the head.

 

[josra33]

And its disheartening to think that a large swath of the population believe that the slapshot completely justified the reaction.

That’s only because Toronto is the largest fan base.

 

[KCbus]

Easiest suspension ever. This is only news because it involves Toronto. If a Blue Jacket had done this to a Coyote, people would have said "five games, what's on ESPN tonight?"

 

[cowboy82nd]

NHL tried to rig it but the Leafs are winning without Rielly

The NHL tried to rig what exactly?

 

[hoglund]

Leafs brass embarrassing themselves trying to legitimately make the argument to the league that Rielly was justified to cross check a player in the face because of a perceived slight.

Talk about an entitled franchise. Parroted the crap logic from Toronto sports media and got shut down in hilarious fashion.

What was hilarious, am I missing something?

 

[Ovie's Neighbor]

I guess it was worth a shot for Riley but glad it was upheld. It was pretty indefensible and honestly he was lucky he only got 5 games.

 

[3074326]

Not sure that happened.

I (like many others here and players and coaches) think the slap shot justified A reaction. But not that Rielly reaction .


More virtue signalling. How many “cavemen” thought the cross check was justified?

You’re throwing the large group of people who think Grieg deserved some kind of reaction into the small group of people that think he deserved a cross check to the head.

Sorry but your feelings aren’t facts.

Any time I see someone say "virtue signaling" there is a sensitive boomer complaining about something. Yet another example. Let it out.

You talking about other peoples' feelings is pretty funny, considering how defensive you're being over some pretty meaningless shit.

Why does a slapshot into an empty net warrant a reaction? Because your feelings are hurt. That's literally the only reason. What other reason would their be? lol. Some perceived "disrespect" that you made up? There wasn't a goalie in the net to disrespect. We defending the honor of the netting now?

 

[SEALBound]

Let me guess when Marner got punched in the face in the playoffs and did nothing, you said to yourself "WOW WHAT DISCIPLINE, these Leafs are gonna go so far being so disciplined" lmfao.

This Leafs team has been butter soft for a long time, there has probably been tens of these sorts of situations where they skated away and did nothing, I never heard about the team being disciplined, just the opposite.

Rielly did the right thing and the team surprisingly responded for once.

Different situation but if Matthews followed the guy as he was skating away and cross-checked him in the head and got suspended five games, yeah, I'd be mad at Matthews because that is a decision that would (presumably) actively hurt the team.

 

[nturn06]

NHL tried to rig it but the Leafs are winning without Rielly

Oh, poor Leafs.....

 

[AvroArrow]

Any time I see someone say "virtue signaling" there is a sensitive boomer complaining about something. Yet another example. Let it out.

You talking about other peoples' feelings is pretty funny, considering how defensive you're being over some pretty meaningless shit.

Why does a slapshot into an empty net warrant a reaction? Because your feelings are hurt. That's literally the only reason. What other reason would their be? lol. Some perceived "disrespect" that you made up? There wasn't a goalie in the net to disrespect. We defending the honor of the netting now?

Tell me you've never played sports without saying you never played sports

 

[TooManyHumans]

Rielly did the right thing and the team surprisingly responded for once.

Quoted for the people claiming that no one thought what Rielly did was justified.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

oh well, not really surprised.

I seen this somewhere and thought it was interesting

apparently Toronto is the most penalized team in the NHL when it comes to suspensions

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

I guess it was worth a shot for Riley but glad it was upheld. It was pretty indefensible and honestly he was lucky he only got 5 games.

How much did this deserve with almost nothing left in an elimination game? Spoiler alert, it didn't even get a 2 minute penalty.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Tell me you've never played sports without saying you never played sports

I am having this reaction if they injure my goalie, not if they slapshot an empty net.

Do you know what would be a far more appropriate reaction? Crosschecking Rielly back.

 

[v00d00daddy]

Didn’t their coach say the response was appropriate? Coach = brass and saying the response is appropriate, considering the response was a cross check to the head, means he is okay with a cross check to the head.

I’m talking about the appeal. And I also don’t think Keefe was specific about the cross check being appropriate. It was that Rielly was appropriate to respond in general.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Why do anything? Let the refs sort it out?

Oh it's almost like players enforce certain "unwritten rules" on the ice.

It's almost as if those rules were f***ing stupid, and Rielly deserves those fives games and maybe even more for that dumbass, braindead retaliation

 

[AzHawk]

apparently Toronto is the most penalized team in the NHL when it comes to suspensions

Considering that total is lower than one Sharks player suspension, gonna need more data.

 

[Hunter368]

How much did this deserve with almost nothing left in an elimination game? Spoiler alert, it didn't even get a 2 minute penalty.

Just curious are you suggesting it was a 2 min interference pen (I would agree) or a suspension?

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Considering that total is lower than one Sharks player suspension, gonna need more data.

I just provided alot of data. so your saying the stats there are wrong for SJ? can you provide more info?

looks like to me it was Washington that has the biggest number from that 20 game suspension

 

[v00d00daddy]

Why does a slapshot into an empty net warrant a reaction? Because your feelings are hurt. That's literally the only reason. What other reason would their be? lol. Some perceived "disrespect" that you made up? There wasn't a goalie in the net to disrespect. We defending the honor of the netting now?

Because that’s how the game is. Grieg knew that. That’s why he did it. Boomer me all you want.

The “disrespect” wasn’t made up lol

You see what you wanna see. Was what Grieg did funny to many players? Yup

Why? Because he was being a dick. Your denial of that or inability to understand that actual NHL players see it that way shows that you’re missing a part of the game. I don’t think you’re stupid. I think you love the game. You’re just denying reality for some reason.

Fill your boots. Whatever gets you through the day lol

 

[AvroArrow]

I am having this reaction if they injure my goalie, not if they slapshot an empty net.

Do you know what would be a far more appropriate reaction? Crosschecking Rielly back.

If you, like the OP I was responding to, also don't see the disrespect then I really can't help you, but one things for sure, definitely wouldn't want you as a teammate.

 

[AzHawk]

I just provided alot of data. so your saying the stats there are wrong for SJ? can you provide more info?

looks like to me it was Washington that has the biggest number from that 20 game suspension

Looks like that data starts with the 17/18 season, so longer suspensions like...

Longest suspensions in NHL history | NHL.com

Wideman gets most games since Torres ban in 2015

www.nhl.com

...aren't accounted for. It looks like an image from discord. Any idea what site someone found the data on?

 

[TooManyHumans]

Supposedly tough guys turning into whiny little babies over a slapshot into an open net is pretty damn hilarious.

 

[v00d00daddy]

I am having this reaction if they injure my goalie, not if they slapshot an empty net.

Do you know what would be a far more appropriate reaction? Crosschecking Rielly back.

Would you have any reaction to what Grieg did? When he did it? How he did it?

 

[Kegu]

I just provided alot of data. so your saying the stats there are wrong for SJ? can you provide more info?

looks like to me it was Washington that has the biggest number from that 20 game suspension

Pretty sure the data is not accurate in more than one way. Washington has seen 12 suspensions since 17/18. 2 were Ovechkin all-star and 1 was Kuznetzov, but thats still 9 that would be applicable to the spreadsheet which would put them on the top of the list.