Hey @SNPittsburgh does Borque even like the Pens? Nothing but negativity and being overly critical of performance. I get they aren’t playing well the recently, but your own announcers should be trying to keep the fans in the game instead of beating the team while they are down.
@NHL GET YOUR FUCKING HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASS!!! How is EVERY GTI against the @penguins upheld, but EVERY FUCKING ONE for them overturned?? Make it fucking make sense??
@ecfstereo Not sure if you are referring to the actual original tweet (Bryan Rust) or the video of Sam Bennett. Regardless, I’ve watched both several times and I watched both live on TV when they happened.
@ecfstereo You keep trying to turn this from a discussion on the acceptability of an intentional hit to the head for player safety and the inconsistency in the fines and suspensions and turning it into some debate about how the Leafs reacted and if Solarz was already injured.
@ecfstereo 1: Stuck his elbow out well before the “play on the crease” and at goalie head height. Whether he caused the initial injury or not is not the point.
2: How the team reacts has exactly 0 to do with what is acceptable for payer safety. So not sure why you keep harping on this.
@ecfstereo If Nylander did the same hit on Bobrovsky, it would still be unacceptable. The problem isn’t that is was the Panthers, it’s the contanct with the intent to injure.
@ecfstereo Contact is fine. Hockey IS a contact sport. But player safety is more important than contact for the sake of contact. Intentionally trying to hurt someone is not acceptable. Period.
@ecfstereo I’m literally talking about Bennett’s intentional contact to Stolarz head. It was unacceptable and should have been called/fined/suspended. All of your deflection about them being friends, and the supposed puck to the head that caused the concussion is irrelevant.
@ecfstereo@NHLPlayerSafety Also, you are the only one in this conversation saying “elbowing”. Every other instance I have specifically said “elbowing to the head”
@ecfstereo@NHLPlayerSafety 100% agree there. If the NFL puts a player in concussion protocol after a hit to the head, then the NHL can too. No excuse for that. But also no excuse for an intentional hit to the head not getting some sort of repercussion.
@ecfstereo@NHLPlayerSafety Stood up, tried to shake it off, then after 2 minutes he was showing more stmptoms and did not return. Doesn’t make the intentional elbow to the head acceptable.
@ecfstereo@NHLPlayerSafety Um… no he didn’t? He was taken off the ice, vomiting, and taken to the hospital where it was confirmed he had a concussion. He dressed for game 7 in that series, but he didn’t play again.