Zibanejad 5 and a game for ‘boarding’ Faksa

[Filthy Dangles]

Lol. I’ll try and get the video...

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[Machinehead]

"Hit"

 

[Filthy Dangles]

 

[Hank Plank]

You could say he was.... head butted.

 

[Wease]

Terrible call.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

I mean I'm biased. But has to be one of the softest game misconducts I have ever witnessed.

 

[K Fleur]

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

Just when I was positive I'd remember nothing about this game as soon as it was over, we get the Zibanejad ass penalty

 

[ItWasJustified]

What the hell was Faksa doing? Looks like a clear dive to me.

 

[Leonardo87]

BS Call. Refs are morons, should be fired. It’s called hockey, it’s called making a hit. Not Zibanejad’s fault Faska was in a bad position.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

We've had a few of these really bad calls lately.

 

[TNT87]

Yikes. That was it? Terrible call.

 

[Saekk]

It would be criminal to give 2 minutes for that, let alone 5.

 

[serp]

What the hell was Faksa doing? Looks like a clear dive to me.

If someone ran your head into the boards with his ass you'd probably be concussed too.

 

[MitchMurphy]

Bad call

 

[HTFN]

BS Call. Refs are morons, should be fired. It’s called hockey, it’s called making a hit. Not Zibanejad’s fault Faska was in a bad position.

He didn't put himself there. This isn't a sudden change of position like turning into the boards to avoid being hit. He's in the process of being hit by another player while controlling the puck. He already took all the precautions he can take, now he's half-trapped and still in possession. Zibanejad could easily seal him off or pick his pocket without putting his head into the wall, and at this point it doesn't matter if he made 100% shoulder contact, Faksa has no options available to him to protect himself.

There is zero, absolutely zero reason for Zibanejad to finish that hit like that. If you ever think "I'm going to hit this guy's shoulder with my hip" you're already in the wrong, I'm trying really hard to think of a justified scenario for that and I'm coming up blank. Seized a completely avoidable opportunity to violently put his opponent into the boards, Faksa has no way to distribute the force through the rest of his body or the wall because he'd only just done that. That's a vulnerable player, perhaps even by definition.

Or maybe this is fine, and I should call the coaching staff in D.C. up tomorrow and let them know that all the team's softbodies need to do is keep people on the tee for Tom Wilson to crank at will. It's a step away from tag team wrestling and totally avoidable

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I’d like to see a better angle(missed the game), but from that view alone, as a Ranger fan, i’m giving him a 5 and game as well. Super vulnerable position and he drilled his head into the boards. When a player is already engaged with another player they are not expecting to be hit and this is why.

 

[Kcb12345]

What the hell was Faksa doing? Looks like a clear dive to me.

Left the game with what appears to be a concussion

 

[Kcb12345]

It's a penalty for sure. Should've been 2 minutes but the injury makes it 5. Nothing new here, no suspension needed or anything like that. If Faksa wasn't hurt, it'd be 2 minutes.

 

[ItWasJustified]

If someone ran your head into the boards with his ass you'd probably be concussed too.

At that slow speed?

It's a penalty for sure

Lol no. The guy who's recieving the hit must be responsible for what kind of situation he put himself in. Stupid of Faksa for getting that low on the boards.

 

[The Jones Zone]

That's just pathetic

Refs are protecting themselves more than they are players in the current "Concussion Era"

 

[serp]

It's a penalty for sure. Should've been 2 minutes but the injury makes it 5. Nothing new here, no suspension needed or anything like that. If Faksa wasn't hurt, it'd be 2 minutes.

It was a hit to the head on the board and the player got injured. You'll allways get tossed for those type of hits these days. He's not getting a suspension and he shouldn't be .

 

[Filthy Dangles]

It's a penalty for sure. Should've been 2 minutes but the injury makes it 5. Nothing new here, no suspension needed or anything like that. If Faksa wasn't hurt, it'd be 2 minutes.

If he gets up and skates away no call is made. No zebra had their arm up when it first happened. The call was made only after he layed on the ice for 5 minutes and they congregated.

 

[serp]

At that slow speed?

I don't think you understand how concussions work. Speed doesn't neccesarily mean [MOD]

 

[ItWasJustified]

I don't think you understand how concussions work. Speed doesn't neccesarily mean dick.

Force doesn't neccesarily mean anything.

Ok.