Players who are dirty but get often not called for it

[Critical13]

McAvoy

 

[SenzZen]

Jordan Staal has always been pretty liberal with the lumber.

 

[hockeyes]

Chara for sure, guy can do almost anything and rarely gets called. Weber is up there as well. For some reason refs love their "tough" defenders.

 

[LeafsNation75]

I think that was the only time I can remember Toronto and Montreal fans agreeing on something. The fact Chara was only fined $5,000 and not suspended was a joke.

 

[jcs0218]

Any player that touches Auston Matthews in a manner that upsets him.

 

[rumrokh]

Marchessault and Calvert.

 

[RobR]

Jamie Benn needs consideration

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

Half the Bruins Roster. McAvoy/Debrusk/Pasternak/Carlo. Chara too but he aint a bruin anymore

Malkin and Shea Weber as well

Lol cope.

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

I can see why Chara has been said.

But some people saying Debrusk? What in the blue hell lmao

You answered your own question. Blue Hell arrived, like per usual to talk about Boston because that's all they do.

 

[Prendan Brust]

Shea Weber.

His cross check on Grabner here is a prime example



Also this fiasco (he was called for it, but got a measly $2,500 fine)

Oh man, I had almost forgotten that head bang. Back then I had a sweet spot for the wings and absolutely despised Weber after that. It’s one of the things that came to my mind when he was traded to the habs. I guess fandom rewires your brain!

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Half the Bruins Roster. McAvoy/Debrusk/Pasternak/Carlo. Chara too but he aint a bruin anymore

Malkin and Shea Weber as well

Simply amazing! Before this season with a but of added toughness in Miller, Ritchie, Frederic, Lauzon... this was the softest team in the league the last few seasons.

Carlo? I spit up my coffee. He fights one Leafs player and suddenly he is dirty.... thank-you. I daresay the hatred is a manner of deflecting blame on the Leafs for how the playoffs have gone? Pastrnak? Debrusk?

 

[Jugitsu]

Zach Parise

What? When? How?

 

[therealkoho]

Fair enough but there will always be differing opinions on that one. Only Chara knows.

and Chara knows it was dirty

Marchand probably watches him thinking "if only I could get away with that stuff"

Grabovski probably still gets headaches

 

[Master P]

What? When? How?

He's not some blatant dirty player like a marchand or wilson. He's more of a sneaky dirty player. Its just something I've noticed over the years of watching hockey. He gets away with a lot of stick work and little things.

 

[Dekes For Days]

This is Chara, without question.

 

[tvilling]

A couple seasons ago in the playoffs 6'9" Chara left his feet on a hit against a Toronto player. At his height I was baffled as to why he felt the need to leap into it anyway but was more confused how the refs don't call someone his size jumping into a hit.

He's been using the Derian Hatcher method for years now. Commit a penalty every shift and eventually the refs will stop calling them because it would seem outrageous to keep penalizing a player that often.

Jesus, you are right.....great tactic, only the lowest of lowest scum would do something like that though. So he and Marchand said, great idea boss!

 

[tvilling]

Messier was a guy I was glad to see gone. Very dirty.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Chara should have a couple dozen suspensions to his record for all of the cross-checks to the goddamned face he's gotten away with. Barely a shift has gone by where he hasn't done something against the rules, but he's just too tall to be contained I guess.

 

[Jugitsu]

He's not some blatant dirty player like a marchand or wilson. He's more of a sneaky dirty player. Its just something I've noticed over the years of watching hockey. He gets away with a lot of stick work and little things.

Now that you say it like that, I might agree. Never really noticed even though I've been watching him regularly ever since he joined the Wild.

 

[MrNasty]

All big defensemen cross check but Weber knows and liberally targets the soft spot just above the pants or on the rib cage. He does get away with it a lot and with his strength it really hurts players.
I don't like however guys like Matthews or his agent running to the media complaining about it.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

That's what I disliked most about him. Always from behind, elbows, smaller guys and not standing up. In his early days he would but not so much later.

 

[Neil Racki]

As a Caps fan, Garnet Hathaway doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt from me ... just to many times he is looking for accidentally on purpose unnecessary contact and to agitate. But he gets called, he’s not that good at disguising it so I’m not sure he fits what the OP is calling for.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

All big defensemen cross check but Weber knows and liberally targets the soft spot just above the pants or on the rib cage. He does get away with it a lot and with his strength it really hurts players.
I don't like however guys like Matthews or his agent running to the media complaining about it.

Maybe the media shouldn't have asked him a question about it?

 

[Midnight Judges]

Crosby snuck up behind a player and deliberately slashed the guy's testicles with the official staring right at him. No call.

And then after the game Crosby lied and said it was an accident. And then several members of the Canadian media nominated him for a sportsmanship award a few weeks later. This was all within a few weeks of the Methot slash too.

Being a 'good Canadian boy' has its perks.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Kotkaniemi.