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GDT R1G2 Blue Jackets @ Capitals 2018-04-15 7:30pm EST NBCSWA, USA
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Sunday April 15, 2018, 03:45:23 PM Eastern ---Wilson's charging penalty wasn't a penalty -- or at least, it wasn't charging. It didn't meet the definition.
Charging is defined as taking more than 3 strides to deliver a hit without gliding. Watch the video: Wilson glided the last 15 feet before he hit the guy. And the only reason he hit the guy high was that for some reason he started to drop down just as Wilson got to him. I don't know if he got entangled with Ovechkin somehow, who was behind him, or what caused him to suddenly "lose altitude", but Wilson was caught in no man's land, getting ready to hit a guy who all of a sudden was a foot lower than he was a split-second earlier. Those are the reasons that the league office, despite Wilson's "history", never even considered meting out supplemental punishment to him. There really wasn't much of anything there. And it wasn't like all the other boarding calls in the early playoffs for which games off were handed out. Wilson approached him directly from the front -- no hitting from behind.
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I wouldn't have called it a charging but there is no doubt he made contact with his head. He deserved a 2 min penalty, nothing more. And that's what he got. You could question the Burakovsky penalty too. Did he really trip Jones or did he loose an edge. You can't vquestion Kuzys penalty but you could question that the Columbus player should have gone too. If the score was different those calls might not have been made. Or if Columbus didn't get a lot of penalties early in the game some of the calls might not have been made against us. It seems to be the way NHL officials are taught to officiate. You know if one team gets a lot if penalties the refs will try to even up the calls. We also know if you have a lead in the 3rd period that you are probably going to get some borderline calls against you. The NHL has always officiated like this and happens almost every game. I'd like to see the officiating to be more consistent. The score shouldn't determine who gets the next penalty. Or because one team has had a number of penalties shouldn't mean the other team gets the next one.
Mickstix:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Sunday April 15, 2018, 02:31:52 PM Eastern --- Not sure I liked how they singled out Wilson and Burakovsky for dumb penalties and didn't mention the dumb penalty from Kuznetsov. The Caps just happened to kill that penalty. Just as dumb though.
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Exactly! Don't know if Joe and Loch mentioned it, but the nation commentator did (and Roenik during intermission) After his 2 goals, they got in his head playing patty cake and he fell for it.. Even after the dumb penalty, they noted another time down the ice the Caps were trying to break out and he stopped and started jawing with someone over more dumb shit. If a lack of intensity doesn't get em, stupidity will.. :wackysmile: lol
canadiancapman:
Not sure why Vrana is a healthy scratch tonight. I thought he played well last game and his speed was a factor. I would have put smith-pelley on the 4th line and scratched chaisson myself.
RavenCp:
--- Quote from: canadiancapman on Sunday April 15, 2018, 05:13:00 PM Eastern ---Not sure why Vrana is a healthy scratch tonight. I thought he played well last game and his speed was a factor. I would have put smith-pelley on the 4th line and scratched chaisson myself.
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I think he is very important for secondary scoring, he can be very agile. I guess loosing safely is Trotz style.
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: canadiancapman on Sunday April 15, 2018, 05:13:00 PM Eastern ---Not sure why Vrana is a healthy scratch tonight. I thought he played well last game and his speed was a factor. I would have put smith-pelley on the 4th line and scratched chaisson myself.
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Actually Vrana had a bad game. He did set up the DSP goal but he made quite a few bad mistakes during that game. He was involved in the play on both of the Columbus even strength goals.
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