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Sam Lafferty crosscheck on Ross Colton – Have your say!



Sam Lafferty crosschecked Ross Colton during a net front battle after the whistle, catching him in the head. Lafferty got a minor penalty for roughing. Should it have been more? Tough Call will be reviewing the incident. Have your say!

36 Comments

  1. I'm more interested in Samsonov giving Jeannot a little whack in the face with his stick in the background. Maybe a little accidentally on purpose.

  2. NHL fines are jokes. $3K is the equivalent of average people getting $10 for doing 200 h/h on the 401.

    On top of that, the standard of officiating an NHL game during playoffs is a farce.

  3. dirty hit but was at least 2 mins,unlike some other hits in the game,Leafs fighting back is the beautiful game

  4. He obviously wasn’t trying to stick him in the face. It hit his shoulder and slid up. Definitely a dumb play, and 2 minutes.

  5. It's a penalty since he took it on the chin, I guess. But the crosscheck rolled up Colton's shoulder because of the way he was trying to sell it.

  6. COmpared to what the bolts did to Reilly and during that scrum, this was nothing. he hit the visor after hitting his shoulder. The league just loves going after the leafs for fines and suspensions. Such a joke of a league.

  7. Lafferty is a legend. Glad to see him finding a mean steak out there. Kid is fast, physical and has a crazy high hockey IQ. His hands haven’t really translated to the NHL yet, but I bet they will soon. Even if not, Sam is an excellent bottom 6er.

  8. The guy should have been in the box for embellishment. Phony and if it was really so bad, why not stand up and defend yourself instead of rolling around like you have been hit by lightning.

  9. Need more camera angles but if that makes contact with the neck or head then that should be at least 1 game

  10. Lafferty got a 2 minute penalty and a fine.

    Funny how the penalties and fines only seem to go one way in this series.

  11. Should've done it again. And then did it to Cooper so he couldn't talk.

  12. I'm still waiting for the correction call in response to when they gave Schenn 2min for pushing with 1 hand, which apparently counts as cross-checking, IN FRONT OF THE NET, where you commonly see real cross-checks in abundance without any calls. This was also immediately after O'Reilly got cross-checked to the ice in front of the net, stood up and scored without the refs raising a hand.
    This series has been about as consistent as NBA refs and about as fair as the Tim Peel call that got him fired.

  13. ya looked worthy of a penalty and the fine, but there was a HARD cross check in game 1 to the neck of a leaf player, knocking them to the ice. If this was worth a penalty and fine, that other cross check has to be worth a fine possibly a 1 game suspension.

  14. Colton pushed Lafferty's stick up…Lafferty was going to shove him lower. Penalty? Sure. Fine? A joke.

  15. He gets fined for this but Maroon boarding McCabe right on the Numbers while he didn't even have the puck doesn't get looked at.

    Stamkos freeing himself from the Referees grasp to start throwing punches at a guy who has his gloves on back turned and a couple of sticks in both hands doesn't get looked at by the league.

  16. Just like everyone on Tampa, embellishment all the way by Colton just like big baby Point. Amazing you get a fine for this BS. Tampa can get away with murder, no problem but the Leafs are suspended or fined for everything. Looking back at the Bunting hit, at most he should have got 1 game.

  17. If they dont like getting hit, maybe they should play basketball instead.

  18. Dive all day bro! Sad state of the nhl when these dudes cry like little babies after getting back what they dish out.

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