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@TropicalFruitGirl26 Haha, just watched almost two hours on that topic on all angles. Antoine Roussel and Maxim Lapierre, two identical type of players when they were in the League, completely disagreed: Roussel was all on the Leafs' side, giving Reilly a 2-game suspension max, Lapierre said he would have shot harder while making a 360-michigan, and giving at least 10 games to Reilly lol. I'm wondering how fans in Centre Bell would have reacted if Greig had done it in Montréal...

I mean... Montréal fans... you know, the self-claimed best fanbase of the galaxy.

Montréal fans that are still putting this in front of the scene to prevent any return of the NHL in Québec City.

Is it part of the code to retaliate because Greig made an empty-netter slapshot instead of simply letting the puck go in? So what's the limit? 60 mph? is a wrister ok? Reilly should get a 35-game suspension, just to prevent such epic BS thing to happen ever again. If this pisses you, just try to win the game first...

I don't think there's an intent to deliberately injure. It's a play along the boards, Acciari saw Dillon coming, but Dillon made an upward motion that led to a check with the head as the first contact point. If he had bent over and target the body, it's a hard but clean hit. Dillon was a bit dumb on that one because there was no need to lift your body up like that. A two, maybe three-game suspension IMO. (But again, George Parros is still the boss of the Departement... so expect anything from that point.)

Zegras is the most overrated player right now. Scoring michigans doesn't make you win Stanley Cups. If some teams have the objective to go for a deep run, he's the last player to go after. @JR Ewing I remember that goal. Wasn't the one where Ovie let himself slide on the whole rink length during the season where he had the League's worst +/- at something like -38 ?

This one was written all over the place, Habs fans must be all fulminating right now. That being said, if Monahan is back with Montréal this summer, Hughes will be seen of the new God in place. If not, ouch...

I think it's always good to digest a trade before and try to see the whole picture. First, I thought that the Canucks lost their minds, but it's really not that silly overall. Vancouver had a hole on the 2C position and on the PP as weel, as they don't seem willing to play Pettersson as a full natural center. Kuzmenko is a 0.0098-dimensional and overrated player that could fourish in another environment. I understand this in a salary dump persepctive, as the Kuzmenko had one more year on his contract. The fact that Lindholm is not willing to re-sign immediately, making him a pure rental is something that bugs me a bit and the price to get him is still a bit too much IMO. But that's the risk you have to take if you think you can go on a run and not miss the train. Now, let the dominos fall !

@JR Ewing I love your analogies. I hope you won't charge me royalties fees if I'm using them in french in some other context

All aboard with this as well. Not to mention that the social media environment contribute to feed the devil and make things worse and out of control. That's why I truly despise the Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok of this world and I think these platforms are really toxic for the humanity in general. (Did I mention AI? Let's let the scariest for later...)

I mean, there's no smoke without fire. The case is known since 2018 and a financial agreement was found with Hockey Canada just a bit later to hide the dust under the rug. There must have been some sort of non publication order but the players involved were already targeted. Formenton was a good prospect in the Sens organization, someone that could have been like Pinto or Greig let's say. And all of a sudden, he literally ran away in the Switzerland butthole. Went there several times in this deep valley with almost no sunshine in winter, you have to be strong to not turn into Jack Torrance. In 2022, his team was already severly criticized when they decided to sign him knowing what was pending above his head, and all this finally backfired straight in his face. So either the Flames were not aware of that and they are naive to say the least, or they didn't do their due diligence on that matter. Another assumption is that Dubé went with the mental health assistance program thing with the hope that no one would notice... Either way, that's definitely ridiculous and trying to extinguish a fire with a barrel of gasoline is never a good idea.

I don't buy this at all. It's impossible that the Flames were not aware of that.

You want to trade for McDavid and play him as goaltender? That's a strange strategy...

Mmmh yes, I think that's what I was trying to say.

And Former Wild Zach Parisé officially signed a 1-year deal with Colorado. Their D sucks, they don't have a legit back-up goalie even after claiming Prosvetov off waivers, so that signing makes total sense...

I remember the Habs claiming that Poehling would be their future superstar after he scored a hattie in his first NHL game. But then, yeah... the balloon deflated a bit. Nevertheless, I still think it's a good bottom-6 signing for the Flyers.

Seen in Toronto. It's pretty badass.

Open ice late hit, upward motion, elbow used to hit Pelech, head as the first contact point. This one was checks almost every checkbox. To put a bit of context, this hit occured after Clutterbuck made a huge but legal hit on Harvey-Pinard shortly before. This is exactly what the League is """""trying""""" to get rid of. Should be four games at least but we know it won't be more than five because Gallagher won't have a personal hearing. Edit: He got five games. Seems legit.

Gretzky would say that the justice misses 100% of true offenders that are not sued by their victims.

Letting Brodeur design their third jersey?

Luckily for the Avs, their offense is rolling. Because their D and goaltending are pretty much sub-average.

They suck at D and don't have any reliable back-up goalie to unload the already struggling Georgive, so this move makes perfect sense to me.

Well, I do agree with all this. It's more a feeling in my perspective, and the fact that it's very difficult to have significant evidence of any guilt in those type of cases. I'm also pointing out all the negative aspects of rumors along with social media that tend to polarize opinions and influence the role of the true justice (by "true", I mean official trial courts, etc.) On a side note, all this smells like a final "financial arrangement has been reached outisde the justice court" at some point, with all the people involved having the obligation to not talk about it publicly. Then the players will go home with the dust swept under the rug. I won't bet my house on it but it's kind of a feeling I have. It's hard to believe that any of these players will go to jail. Maybe I'm mistaken, but right now I highly doubt it.

As sad as it sounds, the essential concept of "innocent until guilt has been proven" is no longer valid in today's society. And right now, even if the lame answer of "we don't know what really happened" prevails, once the popular trial has spoken through the wonderful social media platforms that are Facebook, TikTok and Co, it's game over. Any judgement by a legal justice court doesn't change anything moving forward.