GDT: wascar | Game 4 ECQF

[Ole Gil]

Pretty sure there'll be no discipline. Same as the Hamilton elbow and the OV high hit. People just are losing their minds in the playoffs thinking everybody is all of a sudden going to be suspended for fairly routine 2 minute minors.

 

[Canes]

Caps players, coaches and fans should just shut up now with this "intent to injure" nonsense.

Let's review all 4 prior ganes and hand out punishment then. Start here.....

It's Tom Wilson, this hit is like not even in his top 100 worst hits therefore it's relatively clean for him.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Caps players, coaches and fans should just shut up now with this "intent to injure" nonsense.

Let's review all 4 prior ganes and hand out punishment then. Start here.....

The only difference is that Faulk wasn’t Bambi on skates, so he didn’t go into the boards and break his collarbone.

 

[ONO94]

Caps players, coaches and fans should just shut up now with this "intent to injure" nonsense.

Let's review all 4 prior ganes and hand out punishment then. Start here.....

Well, Faulk actully hadn't touched the puck yet--and never did touch the puck--so that's different. And Wilson came from the blue line to make the hit on somebody he wasn't engaged with--so that's different. And really--according to Caps fans--Faulk is supposed to face up to Wilson to allow himself to be checked--even though he had not actually played the puck or even stopped Wilson from actually playing the puck--so that's different.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

They just need to STFU, to be honest.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Caps players, coaches and fans should just shut up now with this "intent to injure" nonsense.

Let's review all 4 prior ganes and hand out punishment then. Start here.....

I'm as big a Canes homer as anyone here, but this isn't a bad hit in any way, shape or form. Faulk knows the hit is coming, sees the hit coming, tries to brace for a "reverse hit," but loses to a guy with way more momentum, and ends up spinning off the hit into the boards. It wasn't a hit from behind, wasn't a head hit, wasn't boarding, nobody left their feet. You *could* make a case for charging, but with what's going on in this series, I don't think either team would want anything called on this play.

 

[RodTheBawd]

Foegele barely f***ing touched the guy, this is nuts. The angle from behind looked bad, but when you see it from the front it's nothing.

 

[NotOpie]

I'm as big a Canes homer as anyone here, but this isn't a bad hit in any way, shape or form. Faulk knows the hit is coming, sees the hit coming, tries to brace for a "reverse hit," but loses to a guy with way more momentum, and ends up spinning off the hit into the boards. It wasn't a hit from behind, wasn't a head hit, wasn't boarding, nobody left their feet. You *could* make a case for charging, but with what's going on in this series, I don't think either team would want anything called on this play.

The puck was no where in the vicinity and he hadn't even recently played it during the sequence. I think one of either charging or interference would have been the appropriate call. Given that Faulk was essentially facing him, the rest of the assessment seems accurate.

 

[My Special Purpose]

The puck was no where in the vicinity and he hadn't even recently played it during the sequence. I think one of either charging or interference would have been the appropriate call. Given that Faulk was essentially facing him, the rest of the assessment seems accurate.

It was actually a *puck battle*. Faulk was protecting the puck. He actually made a play on the puck -- and a good one -- as he hit the boards.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

I'm as big a Canes homer as anyone here, but this isn't a bad hit in any way, shape or form. Faulk knows the hit is coming, sees the hit coming, tries to brace for a "reverse hit," but loses to a guy with way more momentum, and ends up spinning off the hit into the boards. It wasn't a hit from behind, wasn't a head hit, wasn't boarding, nobody left their feet. You *could* make a case for charging, but with what's going on in this series, I don't think either team would want anything called on this play.

You're wrong, but that's ok.

If that's a perfectly good hit, then everyone just needs to shut up about Foegeles hit. It was much less dirty.

 

[NotOpie]

It was actually a *puck battle*. Faulk was protecting the puck. He actually made a play on the puck -- and a good one -- as he hit the boards.

Right, my characterization of "no where in the vicinity" was inaccurate. The point still remains, he hadn't played it yet. And you're also right about the good play he made on the puck.

As hard as we've all been on Faulk, he played a pretty great game last night.

 

[WreckingCrew]

I'm as big a Canes homer as anyone here, but this isn't a bad hit in any way, shape or form. Faulk knows the hit is coming, sees the hit coming, tries to brace for a "reverse hit," but loses to a guy with way more momentum, and ends up spinning off the hit into the boards. It wasn't a hit from behind, wasn't a head hit, wasn't boarding, nobody left their feet. You *could* make a case for charging, but with what's going on in this series, I don't think either team would want anything called on this play.

Why wouldn't it qualify as boarding? It doesn't have to be a hit from behind...

 

[Neighbor Lee]

Hmm. Who si Renaud Lavoie and why is he getting my hopes up by tweeting that there wont be a suspension for Foegele

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Hmm. Who si Renaud Lavoie and why is he getting my hopes up by tweeting that there wont be a suspension for Foegele

The league announced earlier today he’s not having a hearing and there’s no suspension.

Caps fans got overexcited when the league said they’d look at it.

 

[WreckingCrew]

The league announced earlier today he’s not having a hearing and there’s no suspension.

Caps fans got overexcited when the league said they’d look at it.

They probably looked and started laughing hysterically going "THAT'S what the uproar is about?"

 

[Neighbor Lee]

The league announced earlier today he’s not having a hearing and there’s no suspension.

Caps fans got overexcited when the league said they’d look at it.

Got it, thanks. Missed all that, somehow

 

[Svechhammer]

They probably looked and started laughing hysterically going "THAT'S what the uproar is about?"

if this was said in the main thread, you probably would have been able to see the mushroom cloud all the way down here in NC

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

if this was said in the main thread, you probably would have been able to see the mushroom cloud all the way down here in NC

I don’t want to talk to you anymore, thanks.

 

[Svechhammer]

I don’t want to talk to you anymore, thanks.

lol that was awesome.

I really should make it my signature.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

truly a ringing endorsement

 

[Svechhammer]

truly a ringing endorsement

the highest of honors, really

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

So I re-watched part of the game. There was a stretch in the 1st, where the Canes, inexplicably played for probably 20 seconds with only 4 guys on the ice. Staal and Foegele were out there and I think Williams had gone off, but nobody came on (not sure about that as it was shortly after a Canes PP). Finally, Patrick Brown jumps over the wall and races in just in time to lift the stick of a guy taking a shot. John and Tripp were oblivious to the fact that the Canes only had 4 players on the ice they rave about the play Brown made and Tripp says "Talk about starting on-time". LOL, as it was exactly opposite of what happened (assuming Brown was the guy that was supposed to be on the ice). That was right before the too many men penalty so things on the bench were obviously messed up for a bit there.

And then later Tripp doubled down by saying "you won't see a better change than the one by Brown though."

 

[Svechhammer]

So I re-watched part of the game. There was a stretch in the 1st, where the Canes, inexplicably played for probably 20 seconds with only 4 guys on the ice. Staal and Foegele were out there and I think Williams had gone off, but nobody came on (not sure about that as it was shortly after a Canes PP). Finally, Patrick Brown jumps over the wall and races in just in time to lift the stick of a guy taking a shot. John and Tripp were oblivious to the fact that the Canes only had 4 players on the ice they rave about the play Brown made and Tripp says "Talk about starting on-time". LOL, as it was exactly opposite of what happened (assuming Brown was the guy that was supposed to be on the ice). That was right before the too many men penalty so things on the bench were obviously messed up for a bit there.

And then later Tripp doubled down by saying "you won't see a better change than the one by Brown though."

Brown just waited for his moment

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I don’t want to talk to you anymore, thanks.

You already made that very clear in my case, lol

 

[NotOpie]

You already made that very clear in my case, lol

By the way, Hank, in no uncertain terms, assured all who would listen that to the DOPS this would be a nothing-burger. "Got any of them lottery numbers"?