TSN Hockey analyst Bruce Boudreau joins SC with Jay Onrait to share his thoughts on Zach Whitecloud’s hit on Matthew Knies, which forced Knies to leave Wednesday night’s game against the Golden Knights, and explains why he thinks the hit is worthy of a suspension.
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He didn't leave his feet. Boudreau is an asshat.
Clean hit. Leafs homers should watch basketball or soccer if hockey is too rough for them
Um.. his arm is tucked the whole way…. sorry Knies is so small…. What is he supposed to do? The right call.
Left his feet after the hit. Clean. Everyone who doesn’t think so is biased, soft, or both.
I mean, questionable hit, but the way leafs media is crying is really getting ridiculous.
TSN, left his feet? His feet only came off the ice after impact. If you understood kinetic energy, you would understand at impact momentum changes. That energy has to go somewhere before it stops. Leaving your feet to hit someone occurs BEFORE impact.
Good non call. They have to take hitting out of the game if thats a penalty
I hate the Leafs, but I agree that should have been a major.
This is 100% knies's fault. He literally see's the 18 wheeler coming at him and says "meh" keeps his head down, and then gets fucking rocked. A low iq play, that whiteloud takes advantage of and closes off the attacking lane. No sneaky angle, no surprise play or player, that play was readable from before KNies even touched the puck, and yet, he chose to put his head down and "hope" whitecloud didn't paste him? Moron.
Routine NHL double standard. The player left his feet in order to deliver a needless high hit. Not a defensive play but an effort to crush an opponent. Any head hit deserves a suspension. The NHL has now kicked open the door to more of this type of play. Not needed in a skills game.
It's all about the jersey the nhl doesn't know what consistency is
Clean hit
The irony is the same blind homers that defended Knies elbowing Slafkovsky in the head a few days earlier are the ones trying to say this was a dirty hit. Difference being, this wasn't an elbow in the head.
When Katrina played for leafs look at his suspensions. Ridiculous then. Ridiculous now. Hits on leaf players optional for player safety
Always has been always Will be
It's not over yet.
😮It's the leafs. Says it all
I can't believe there are idiots comparing this to the Reaves hit.
I don't know if they're idiots or being intentionally obtuse, but if you think the two are the same then there's a good possibility your mom is your aunt.
tough call IMO. Knies is coming in like a train at 230 pounds plus gear. Whitecloud makes the decision to throw an aggressive check. he has to brace hard AF or he's getting run straight through so he does and the impact is so great they both go flying and WC goes up on the air. i know it's not a popular view but that's how it looks to me. super aggressive decision but i don't think it was necessarily dirty. i'm not an NHL ref and i'm not sure exactly what they look for here. if it's the spirt, well, that's mad dog mean shit, but if it's purely technical and they want big hitting in the game, well, maybe they let it go.
NHL refdering and that room in toronto is below the players level. Its such a low level of consitency and who are the sh heads in that room? Its a hit to the head. NOT EVEN A 2 min penalty.
And they dont need Aston Mattews clearly. 6-1-0
The elbow drove into the head. That's a suspension.
Edit: In that, I mean that it was a dirty hit, done in such a way as to look like a clean hit.
wasn't that a clean hit ?