Todd Reirden says T.J. Oshie will be out a while | No suspension for Warren Foegele

[StephenPeat]

They have press credentials given by the Caps organization.

So do plenty of other worthless hacks that post in obscure wastelands of the internets (for all teams including the Canes, don’t try to spin this as something unique to the Caps). Doesn’t make them any more credible or official.

 

[StephenPeat]

Izzy is the beat writer with WaPo, no one is more connected to the team in the media than she is.


Also Oshie basically confirmed it on his own twitter.

All of this is correct. Who knew, a Caps fan that knows Authentic Caps Beat Writers. Shocking.

 

[Svechhammer]

Death threats are cool, right?

 

[PB12]

Hate to see he is getting death threats, but its going to be a tough night for Foegele. Caps players are probably going to make his night a bad one every time he touches the puck.

 

[The Jones Zone]

 

[koth]

I think they have to start calling these pushes from behind when a player is off balance. I guess the problem becomes diving and players immediately falling down when they feel any sort of pressure on their back. It's a tough situation. You have to protect the players, but you also can't have it turn into basketball.

 

[StephenPeat]

Death threats are cool, right?

This is weak. Tom Wilson got threats against his family from an ARENA CROWD while in the PENALTY BOX earlier this season. It happens. Grow up.

 

[TooManyHumans]

Death threats are cool, right?

Has someone said they are cool? I get that arguing in bad faith is S.O.P. on the internet but man is it tiring.

 

[third man in]

Hogwash. It’s not like the Capitals are suddenly going to be able to throw a switch in game five, down a key roster player. This seems like a desperate narrative for Capitals fans to tell themselves and will have no actual bearing on the Canes. Sleeping giant my ass.

This post looks real f***ing stupid in hindsight. Looks like they did flip a switch. Actually they look pretty similar to last years run. Huh maybe Caps fans know their team after all.

 

[Stealth JD]

This post looks real ****ing stupid in hindsight. Looks like they did flip a switch. Actually they look pretty similar to last years run. Huh maybe Caps fans know their team after all.

You don't lose a top-6 winger and get better. Winning a game isn't evidence of flipping a switch, ffs.

 

[third man in]

You don't lose a top-6 winger and get better. Winning a game isn't evidence of flipping a switch, ffs.

It does when it sparks the team. This is by far the best game they've played in this series. However you'd like to spin it, it looks exactly like they flipped a switch.

 

[Ridley Simon]

Sure. Cap does that to a Cane, and the world is on fire (or a Cap wins a fight against a Cane and he’s the Devil).

I’d expect the Caps to now be fully engaged. Congrats Canes — you may have finally awoken the sleeping giant.

Ding ding ding

 

[Sol]

That was cheap by Warren. Should have been suspended easily.

 

[egelband]

Oshie skated with the puck right in front of Foegele. I'm sure he expected to get at least a shove. It was bad luck. I'm sure Oshie would agree.

 

[dkhockey]

guess there will be a free lifetime supply of Viagra written into Foegele's next contract

 

[PrototypeX85]

Wonder what happened to all those people that said it was a dive.

 

[StephenPeat]

This is what I like right here. A real solid take from someone without any clear bias.

Calls out Caps fans for whining by........wait for it........whining. Stellar.

 

[StephenPeat]

So Pesce initiates contact, from an angle where he clearly sees Wilson coming (thus the hit isn’t from behind, unlike Foegele’s hit in Oshie), and is clearly able to brace himself and we’re supposed to see these two incidents as one-and-the-same. Methinks someone needs to get a clue.

 

[TSA0402]

I was going to say those hits are completely different.

The only thing that makes sense in that post is that it would be a different situation if Oshie wasn't hurt.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

I didn't think the hit was that bad, or predatory. Deserving of a penalty, I guess, but I've seen worse go uncalled. Oshie just seemed to get tangled up awkwardly on the way down so he couldn't protect himself. It would suck if it was a broken collarbone. That's 6 weeks.

Yeah I agree more or less. It's a dangerous area and he fell awkwardly but it would be hard to argue intent was present on that one. I think the refs probably made the right call.

This is the type of boarding that gets suspended:


Where the player skates from far and rams a guy from behind or to the head.

 

[discobob]

The idiocy of the NHL, where dangerous boarding is a 2 min penalty, and a high stick that causes a lip to bleed is 4 min...

Scramble someone's brain while driving them head first into the boards... no biggie, but bloddy someones nose (which happened to me yesterday because it's dry)... Shame in you!

 

[StephenPeat]

Yeah I agree more or less. It's a dangerous area and he fell awkwardly but it would be hard to argue intent was present on that one. I think the refs probably made the right call.

This is the type of boarding that gets suspended:


Where the player skates from far and rams a guy from behind or to the head.

The problem on the Foegele hit was that he clearly extends his arms into Oshie’s back which is the precipitating event in Oshie falling awkwardly. At that distance from the boards extending your arms into someone’s numbers from behind is almost never going to have a good or even hockey-play type of outcome. An injury in that circumstance is practically guaranteed, what differs widely is the extent of the injury; from a simple brush it off to a miss-the-remainder-of-the -Playoffs. It’s undeniably dirty and if Ovi or Wilson makes that hit, from behind, on a Canes player you can guarantee Canes fans would be crying foul.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

The problem on the Foegele hit was that he clearly extends his arms into Oshie’s back which is the precipitating event in Oshie falling awkwardly. At that distance from the boards extending your arms into someone’s numbers from behind is almost never going to have a good or even hockey-play type of outcome. An injury in that circumstance is practically guaranteed, what differs widely is the extent of the injury; from a simple brush it off to a miss-the-remainder-of-the -Playoffs. It’s undeniably dirty and if Ovi or Wilson makes that hit, from behind, on a Canes player you can guarantee Canes fans would be crying foul.

Sure of course - there are always people upset about everything. And I like Oshie and it is too bad he is out. I just can't see that play warranting a suspension.

And I think the bolded is hyperbole.

But of course the Caps aren't happy with the hit. It was a bit reckless.

 

[StephenPeat]

Sure of course - there are always people upset about everything. And I like Oshie and it is too bad he is out. I just can't see that play warranting a suspension.

And I think the bolded is hyperbole.

You can suggest the boldest is hyperbole but you CANNOT argue with the very TANGIBLE and UNDENIABLE OUTCOME which argues against said suggestion.

But of course the Caps aren't happy with the hit. It was a bit reckless.

Responding to hyperbole in kind I see.

 

[JasonRoseEh]

Was on vacation so just chiming in now. Clearly a major penalty for boarding, it's basically text book on a vulnerable player and a cross check from behind. I don't really support a suspension regardless of losing Oshie. Saying that, the fact the ref wasn't even going to call a penalty until he saw TJ not getting up is embarrassing for the officials.