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2024-25 NHL Misc. Thread

Oh yeah, that was straight up a forearm shiver to the neck. That's BS in anything other than combat sports.
 
That looked like Ekblad was practicing a Roman Reigns Superman punch...Tampa will be all over the league this morning lobbying for a suspension...especially considering Hagel never returned and is probably concussed.
 
The Department of Player Safety has spoken. Mikkola was fined $5,000. Ekblad has a hearing today. So the Panthers will be missing him for at least a game.
 
Florida getting benefit of doing too much shady stuff can't make them play 2 men down. DoPS is a joke.
 
They both should have been suspended. The league missed a chance (by design?) to send a message about player safety.
 
CanadaCanes said:
That looked like Ekblad was practicing a Roman Reigns Superman punch...Tampa will be all over the league this morning lobbying for a suspension...especially considering Hagel never returned and is probably concussed.
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Yeah, well even Roman Reigns didn't pull that crap when he played football for Georgia Tech ... although he WAS a bit of a cheap shot artist.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Both of those plays should be suspensions. But if I have to choose only 1, I think the Mikkola boarding incident deserves a suspension more than the Ekblad forearm shiver to the head.
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Mikkola's incident was even less of a hockey play than Ekblad's but yeah ... they both should sit and contemplate how much they value the safety of their fellow competitors.
 
bagopux said:
To me it looked like Ekblad got Hagel in the shoulder and maybe the neck and it wasn’t that forceful (for hockey… if I were walking down the street and someone did that to me it’d be considered criminally forceful). Then Ekblad pushed Hagel down pretty forcefully and Hagel may have hit his head on the ice. The puck was there and a player is allowed to push another player off the puck. But everyone (except maybe the NHL) says it’s a no-doubt suspension. What am I not seeing? I’m not trying to be contrarian or disrespect Hagel. Some say the forearm was to the jaw. Ok, that would be contact to the head and hits to the jaw are an elevated concussion risk. That would be a suspendable offense for sure. That may have occurred but i didn't actually see that. What am I missing that everyone else is seeing?

Mikkola’s hit? Vulnerable position, direct to the head, completely avoidable. Textbook suspension.
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I just had my eyes checked. Let me give you the address to my optometrist.🤣
 
NoMich said:
My money is on Tocchet going to Pittsburgh for that job.
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I'm sure Sid will lobby for Tocchet. Never been impressed with him as a coach, so ... knock yourselves out.

I'm a little surprised that the Rangers haven't already pounced on Sullivan. They like to back up the Brinks truck quickly.
 
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