The NHL’s Department of Player Safety handed down a five-game suspension to Morgan Rielly for his cross-check on Sens forward Ridly Greig. That’s Hockey host Gino Reda explains the league’s reason for deciding five games was the right number and why the suspension may ultimately cost the Leafs a first round pick.
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How about a one game instigator 😁🇨🇦🥊
Call it bothways 😂🇨🇦
I think the 5 games is not enough for an international cross check to the head. The rest of the team have to pickup the slack and if they can’t do that then they don’t deserve to be in the playoffs..imo
C'mon Canada 🇨🇦🥊
McCabe and Liljegren are gonna cook
Doors wide open 🇨🇦😄
Murder is legal in the state of California
It should've been 8 games plus a psychiatric evaluation to see if Reilly is mentally stable enough to remain in the league. Ditto for anyone else who has a tantrum and tries to seriously injure someone.
The color of the sweater he wears duh, I wanna see a 2 hand stick to the face of mathews next time he scores a goal and see how many dozen games they get.
How did they decide? blindly throw a dart at board, go with whatever it lands on.
Again A Leaf gets off lightly because he is a LEAF!! Any NONe Leaf would be sitting out the season
As much as I hate seeing a year of Matthews wasted Treliving has failed to do anything to make the blue line better and unless it's a defenceman with term or a sign and trade it's not worth a first.
Once again the league proves they don’t have a clue. Mark Scheifele got 4 games in the playoffs for a similar play. Only difference he didn’t cross check him in the face. He blew a guy up after an empty netter shoulder first then hit his head. What a joke
5 games suspension is a joke for trying kill someone.he should be banned for life .
Should have got the same punishment as Dale Hunter for his after whistle hit on Pierre Turgeon. This is the same crap and could have ruined a man's life. Sooooooooooooo sick of after the whistle stuff like this.
Not a hockey play? What a load of baloney. The department of player safety is not just wrong,they’re 100% wrong. If there is no respect for playing the right way, with respect for the opposing team, then you’ll eventually get down league crap like the handshake fiasco down east.
It should have been closer to 8. I wonder who the Leafs paid off.
Shame that Reaves and Keefe didn't get fined for endorsing Reilly's actions that ended up being a suspension.
Who cares…Move long folks. Nothing to see here…Move long.
I'd have given him a dozen. How many did Hunter get?
There's no place for poor sportsmanship in professional sport.
Only 5? That's bullshit on a deliberate attempt to injure. He cross checked him in the head.
Well, after Cousins, Bennet, Trouba, Gryzcelk it is clear that he shouldn't get a fine.
But the NHL is a joke.
All the biased maple grief TV announcers say 5 games is too much. Who gives a $hit how he put the puck in the net! Reilly is a pussy for not dropping his gloves and a massive douche bag for cross checking the guy to the head. Bullocks to TSN and Sportsnet announcers!
Should be for the rest of the season.
5 games is a joke. The National Hockey Leafs always get preferential treatment from the league. Should have sent a message to the league that plays like this have no place in hockey and made an example of him. Instead they give him a slap on the wrist and send a message to the league that this is ok to do and you will only get a few games for coming inches from seriously hurting a player and possibly ending his career. For shame NHL.
They won their first game with him out. They'll be fine for 4 more games. Relax. They don't win every game because of Reilly.
5? Should have been 10
How did you like that inferior leaf game gino u fool
2 for the hit 3 for being a leaf
Rielly should have got 10 games!
Shouldn’t Perron gotten 5 instead of dog 6 for the same reason? Or Rielly get 6 to be the same as Perron. Both never had a suspension or fined in their history.
He should’ve gotten at least 8. That was some unmanly showing of his character.
The Babcock curse
Decided: dart & balloons! Its the NHL 😂😂😂
I used to play so keep this in mind. This was a hit not influenced by the fast nature of actually playing the game so I think the penalty discipline should have been far longer.
400k usd loss for him, not a cheap punishment
For once the DoPS gets it right. Hope this set's a precedent and players learn to respect each other's right not to get crosschecked to the face for scoring a goal.
Yeah, that hit was as bad as the one from Gallagher, right?fnbs.
The Leafs were an average team before Rielly f*cked everything up, now… they're finished. What you gonna do, knock out Florida and Boston… yeah right! You might as well start considering when to sell Matthews 🤣
Steve staios, mouth open under bettmans desk, that's how
I'm cool with 5. The Leafs need to learn a lesson about how to be tough and when to be tough!
Why did Rielly attended an in person meeting (meant for a suspension greater than 5 games) when in the end he only got a 5-game suspension? Did Rielly’s explanation that he didn’t intend to cross-check Greig mitigate his action resulting in 5 rather than 6 games?