Yeah, pretty much this. Englund bobbled the puck a little bit, slowing down his trajectory, and Kelly failed to adjust.2 games seems reasonable to me. The head contact was not as forceful as other illegal check to the head suspensions we’ve seen, but Kelly did clearly mess up his approach angle and hit nearly all head.
accident or not doesn't matter if it's a direct hesdshotIt's clear Kelly had no intent to hit his head, as immediately he was apologetic but Englund was already fired up from the night and ragdolled Kelly there,
Not sure that warrants a dops call, but sure, whatever.
Very dirty definitely worth the 2 games
Very dirty definitely worth the 2 games
Yeh no downplaying, just pointing out this Megamind over here.But he has a massive amount of legal body to hit and Kelly didn't leap into any of it.
They were both fortunate that Englund's skull appears to be made out of concrete.
I know just because he didn’t get seriously hurt they made a lighter call. Not cool.It would've been nice if the on ice officials had taken the headshot more seriously and given him a 5. Englund retaliated with a ragdoll to the ice and they evened up. I'd love to see all headshots be a 4 min penalty.