Rasmussen high sticks Krejci forcing him to leave the game (UPD - 2 game suspension)

[DangleCity]

I'm curious if people think this is suspension worthy. Seemed very intentional and caused an injury

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[Barry Amsterdam]

didn’t look terrible but krejci got hurt.
also don’t think it was intentional but you gotta control your stick man. Good fine or at most 1 game

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

Should be multiple games. Rasmussen needs to learn to disguise his cheap shots. You know, Luke Krejci.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

It's at least reckless, but hard to guage any intent based on that clip...i can't see why he'd want to wack him in the head like that though...

 

[tny760]

i don't even think he was going for the high stick, he wanted one of those gross checks where you lever back for the "slew foot" like zadorov did to kotkaniemi a couple years back and he mistimed it

pretty solid buttend to boot

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Should be multiple games in the least.

But if Kuznetsov's baseball swing to the head yielded one game, don't think we can expect much out of this.

 

[SEALBound]

Gotta be in control of your stick but let's not pretend this was Chris Simon 2.0.

1 game. I would even be okay with 2 or 3 to help set the tone early that high stick infractions that result in an injury won't be tolerated.

 

[BruinsBtn]

Kassian got 5 games for this:



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[Nico Hischier]

 

[Gee Wally]

Good.
butt end and high stick. Cheap shot.

 

[Toby91ca]

He should have just taken his time and wound up and slashed him across the face like Kuznetsov....then he probably could have gotten it knocked down to 1 game.

 

[TheNumber4]

Should have just clubbed him in the face Tkachuk style instead of hitting him on the helmet. That’s only a 5K fine apparently.

 

[Sheppy]

Surprised on the suspension a bit, I figured a fine.

 

[Ezekial]

I've seen worse get nothing. IIRC first offense as well.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Dude had a real clown game. A suspension should help the Red Wings, and maybe Rasmussen himself.

Should have just clubbed him in the face Tkachuk style instead of hitting him on the helmet. That’s only a 5K fine apparently.

So obsessed lol

 

[TheNumber4]

Dude had a real clown game. A suspension should help the Red Wings, and maybe Rasmussen himself.



So obsessed lol

It’s a supplementary discipline thread related to purposefully clubbing players in the head with your stick. The Tkachuk incident is relevant context for the eventual DOPS discussion.

 

[Ishad]

Yikes, that's definitely suspension worthy.

 

[AvroArrow]

Just wish they'd get them all right, 2 games is fair.

Inconsistencies just get frustrating as hell with these kind of plays but good call here.

 

[Suntouchable13]

They admit that injury does play a factor. When Kuz slashed someone in the face (sorry forgot who it was) that player wasn't injured. This one was not malicious intent to hurt Krejci, but it was reckless as hell. I just hate when players are reckless with their stick. This was total BS by Rasmussen. I hope he thinks long and hard during his time off about what he did.

 

[DamonDRW]

I've seen things WAY worse than that going completely unnoticed, even without a minor penalty.

Random suspension is random. Not like it will affect my team anyway.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Love the fact the NHL suspended that kind of play for 2 games, hate the fact they think this is more dangerous than what Kuznetsov did.

 

[deca guard]

ras has his dumb moments and this was one of them . ide say completely accidental but that doesnt matter as wether it was accidental or intended it still has the same possibly real dangerous affect upon krejci , doesnt matter if krejci was injured or not a stick to head play has to be dealt with . i agree with 2 games

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Love the fact the NHL suspended that kind of play for 2 games, hate the fact they think this is more dangerous than what Kuznetsov did.

They care about PR. They don't care about intent or danger.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Obviously as a Wings fan I'm biased, but I had a hard time even finding a clip of it this morning because in the game it was so inconsequential.

If Krejci plays the rest of the game this doesn't even get a second look. Fine, two games for this. But then you look at Kuznetzov and Tkachuk and wtf???

The NHL gives way too much weight to if there's an injury or not. To be clear I'm not saying they shouldn't consider injury, but if by some fluke a guy didn't get his eyeball skewered or neck broken on a dangerous play doesn't mean it wasn't worthy of suspension.

Good.
butt end and high stick. Cheap shot.

That wasn't a butt end. He got suspended for the high stick.

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

Meanwhile Derek Forbort taking a flying leap into Joey Veleno's head got nothing. NHL is absurd with their inconsistency.