Call that slight slash with some embellishment but not a dirty cross check to injure a guy? NHL refs at their best.


Edit: Crosscheck Boarding checking from behind. You pick.

What the hell, the refs are trying to get the Wild back into this...come on, this is insane! Yet no boarding on the Maatta play! Interesting

Nah, more than just the breathe... Maybe a stinger on the leg... midsection bruised... but NOT the shoulder unless they decided to help him off the ice in the dumbest way possible.
- Guile

I'm probably just hoping. But ya youre probably right.

Perron's was a penalty. No doubt about it there.
- Pens_Burgh

How so? Perron can go into the crease if the puck is there and it was. He almost scored on the play. He didn't unnecessarily push off.

I'm probably just hoping. But ya youre probably right.
- Zac_O

I'll take hyperextended or bone bruised something in the leg... out ~2weeks. Not the shoulder, or our dreaded concussion (or high ankle sprain of years past).

How so? Perron can go into the crease if the puck is there and it was. He almost scored on the play. He didn't unnecessarily push off.
- jfkst1

That's all true, but in the process he plowed the defenseman right into the goalie. He even knew it was a penalty as the first thing he did was look at the ref. He didn't even argue that one.

I'll take hyperextended or bone bruised something in the leg... out ~2weeks. Not the shoulder, or our dreaded concussion (or high ankle sprain of years past).
- Guile

It looked like his low back.

We should totally trade malkin after this game while his value is at its highest...

It looked like his low back.
- powerhouse

Hes too young to have back issues

We should totally trade malkin after this game while his value is at its highest...
- j.boyd919

Why wait? Trade him in the intermission so he doesn't have a bad third and lower his value.

That one's for Olli you (frank)s!!!!



- Victoro311

What ... the Malkin goal or the stupid slash by Notre Dame boy?

Hes too young to have back issues
- Guile

Never to young for back issues. It just depends on your body type. Dont think Maatta has the body type for it though.

What ... the Malkin goal or the stupid slash by Notre Dame boy?
- Oneonta Penguin

The Malkin goal

That's all true, but in the process he plowed the defenseman right into the goalie. He even knew it was a penalty as the first thing he did was look at the ref. He didn't even argue that one.
- Pens_Burgh

And the forward has every right to go to that area if the puck is there. That's on the dman to not be in that position- not the forward.

Never to young for back issues. It just depends on your body type. Dont think Maatta has the body type for it though.
- Zac_O

You shut your trap you whippersnapper!

You shut your trap you whippersnapper!
- Guile

Just saying man. My dad has some very serious back issues so Ive learned a bit about back issues.

My first thought was that Maatta hit his back off the part of the door that was just opened. With the way he needed help it seemed like a back thing but who knows.

Somebody needs to line up Nino. Punish that fvcker.

Somebody needs to line up Nino. Punish that fvcker.
- madmike71

Plot should do it... hes gonna get called for another penalty anyway

My first thought was that Maatta hit his back off the part of the door that was just opened. With the way he needed help it seemed like a back thing but who knows.
- Weisenheimer

Looked like his right leg to me the way he was carried off.

Plot should do it... hes gonna get called for another penalty anyway
- Guile

Agreed! Love that Jeremy Roenick is all over this non-call, and calling Nino out on it!

I think you make a statement, not responding as team means that the culture hasn't changed!

I'm all for good clean hits but something like that, away from the play, player already falling down should be a statement suspension...I think 10-20 games to make it a point to get it into the players heads that you can't do this crap!

But at worst it might warrant a fine in this contradictory NHL product.

Looked like his right leg to me the way he was carried off.
- madmike71

It could be but the replay I watched showed his low back/pelvis getting crunched to me. Yet no call? WTF?

I'm all for good clean hits but something like that, away from the play, player already falling down should be a statement suspension...I think 10-20 games to make it a point to get it into the players heads that you can't do this crap!

But at worst it might warrant a fine in this contradictory NHL product.
- iworkatinitech

He'll get a game or two. Maatta will get 6 weeks to a year of rehab.

I'm all for good clean hits but something like that, away from the play, player already falling down should be a statement suspension...I think 10-20 games to make it a point to get it into the players heads that you can't do this crap!

But at worst it might warrant a fine in this contradictory NHL product.
- iworkatinitech

First offense no way its a big punishment.