In last nights game 4 matchup of this Edmonton Oilers vs Las Vegas Golden Knights series, things got pretty testy at the end. Up 4-1 with the net empty, Leon Draisaitl tried to put a bow on it with an empty netter when Alex Pietrangelo came down and 2 hand slashed him. I haven’t seen a slash like this in a while. Over the head with both hands. I would say this is pretty clear intent to injure. Puck wasn’t anywhere near Draisaitl and its just not even remotely a hockey play. There is no place in the NHL for this. With that said, I feel the NHL and officials have some blame as well. Evander Kane took a nasty run at Pietrangelo in the last game with a cross check to the neck that only got a 2 minute minor. With the inconsistency these playoffs have seen, at some point players will begin to take things into their own hands. Pietrangelo does have a hearing, so will the NHL do the right thing and suspend him?
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UPDATE NHL Player Safety:
Vegas’ Alex Pietrangelo has been suspended for one playoff game for Slashing against Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl
Edmonton’s Darnell Nurse has been automatically suspended for one game and Coach Jay Woodcroft has been fined $10,000 under rule 46.21, Instigating in Final Five Minutes of Regulation.
Wow, cross checking a player in the neck with obvious intent in injure draws less scrutiny than slashing a player in the hands/wrist with obvious intent to injure. Thats a yikes for me.
You can expect the referees to call everything now. league made the call. The Oilers have gotten away with a lot , but not now!
Both were inexcusable. You have to look back at 1:20 cross-check. Petrangelo did throw a questionable cross-check on an oilers player earlier in the period. Even then it doesn't excuse Kanes response, nor was the hit on Draisaitl. I think the right call was made, maybe Kane should have gotten 5 just for how late and high it was.
I agree with everything you've said here… Extremely lucid and logical. This is a criminal act. I think he should be way, way more heavily suspended… like the rest of the playoffs. He should also be heavily fined. You are right though, the referees need to start punishing people for non-hockey plays – and so does the spineless (at timers) NHL.
It's simple throw his ass out.
I’m still mystified how a stand-up club and city like Edmonton signed someone like E.Kane.
Well everyone says there are two seasons in hockey,I didn’t think there are two seasons for penalties,a slash is a slash and a cross check is a cross check.
It's all fine. Playoff hockey at It's best.
No no no no this does belong in hockey Jesus just because someone gets slashed people really forget that hockey 40+ years ago was a blood bath that’s how it was now if someone farts on you you will probably get a penalty was that slash a penalty sure but that’s hockey it’s a though game if you aren’t willing to play with the big boys don’t put your skates on
The NHL is more worried about a slash than the head shots and blatant attempts to kill in the Florida/ Toronto series . This league is truly screwed if they don't fine someone with some common sense to run it . There priorities are really out of wack . Wonder what nonsense will come out of there mouths when someone gets killed on the ice .
Pietrangelo should absolutely be suspended. At least three games. Bunting got 3 for elbowing a guy, how is this any different?
Kane should have been suspended FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE is dirtier than Marchant by 10 fold
Bruh
Kane absolutely should have been suspended. He’s a repeat offender that has been doing dirty, cheap shit like that his entire career.
Refs and rules are leaning toward the liberal side i think. Ridiculous calls.
Say it with me… STOP. TRYING. TO. DISCOURAGE. FIGHTS. this is what happens when you outlaw fights, players find other ways to get at each other.
"I'm only human after all" 😂
Next time drisaitl hacks someone,I hope the guy grabs him and cleans his clock,literally beats the shit out of him.
You're not wrong. But honestly, I lost all faith in the NHL when Colin Campbell the VP of NHL directed the refs to 'put their whistles away' after game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals in 2011 when Vancouver was leading 2 games to 0. The Boston Bruins who had Colin's son Gregory on the team, then proceeded to rough, hack, punch and manhandle the Vancouver team that was built for speed and skill due to the NHLs previously new rules which claimed to reward skill and speed and penalize 'non-hockey brutality'.
Being a typical Canadian, I have always loved the physical aspect of the game. HOWEVER, the previous 2 years the NHL had been promoting itself to be more focused on skill. All season AND ALL playoffs the refs consistently called penalties penalties. But for some strange reason after Game 2 they stopped calling penalties. Vancouver had been dominating on the powerplay and were not built for toughness. That is how Boston then won 4 of the next 5 games.
After that, I noticed the NHL uplifting smaller US markets and taking advantage of the Canadian markets as they knew we would tune in no matter what. Then the NHL went woke and supported Bilderberg funded marxist organizations like BLM and promoted a LGBT…. agenda to my kids. So I haven't watched an entire NHL game in almost 8 years. I've only just started to watch highlights of the Canadian teams in the playoffs, but can't bring myself to support this league anymore even though I do still love the game.
Yeah the refing in that game absolutely sucked, mark stone was blatantly cross checked in the back in front of the net and no one called it🤦♂️
Bunch of goons. It's why I gave up watching hockey about 15 years ago. These guys have ZERO class.
Feel like everyone else is already saying it but seriously great take
Playoff hockey babyyyyy!! Man up pussies. 😢
OH FFS… will yall stay away from sports at least. You can have all the woke whiney soft sh*t everywhere else, but stay tf out of sports. Yeah… dk move, but this happens all the time, and far worse. And real hockey players and fans love it.
I can’t believe how soft hockey has become. It’s unwatchable.
Yeah how about that cross check on stone into the post
Willie Plett is probably going if he saw this: "Back in the day, I would whack a goalie over the head and be hit with maybe a $500 fine." For years now, I just watch Canucks hockey, but looking at this, my answer to your note about not having seen something like this in a long time: well, that's partly because Chris Pronger is thankfully out of the NHL, the guy who is partly responsible for tougher rules around the net – i.e., no more vicious cross-checks to the back of a defenceless player in front of the net.
Not a hockey play!
Suspended him
everyone knows Kane is a piece of shit. we just found out now Pietrangelo enters that category now
They called 10 min penalties one after another at the end of the game. What else can the refs do? Plus, why not go after Kane instead of Draisaitl? Leon didn't do anything to him. So he goes after another innocent player. That was a very bad idea! Eichel and Karllson should stay loose! What goes around comes around.
Don Cherry warned for years that if they removed enforcers from the league, then this crap would become problematic. Parros didn’t help much giving AP only the 1 game. He could have broke the arm of a player who is on pace to break the all time playoff goal record.
thats the nhl
rules change depending score or regular season and depend what player is involved
just a beer league
The officiating this entire playoffs has been dogshit
same could be said about you and youtube.
Crosschecks him in the throat… you mean the crosscheck rode up the shoulder.
1 game suspension is a joke. This is how you get players to start to run at goalies
I agree. It's one thing to for a team to be frustrated because a team is able to forecheck, name of the game. It is why players get penalized for retaliation. It is something else when blatant crosschecking and slashes or anything with the intent to injure or to target known injuries becomes pathetic. Playoffs are playoffs, but this game has no room for the intent to end someone's career.
Pietrangelo needs at least 2 games if Nurse gets a game for a fight. A fight in hockey? WTF? It is the HOCKEY playoffs…. don't be children
Pffft just let these guys fight again instead of linesman acting as if there bouncers.
MONEY TALKS EH BETTMAN !?!?! ⚡🖕⚡
No he should not be suspended he took a cross check to the face and then he took a boarding cross check to the back neither one resulted in anything other than a minor penalty one wasn’t even called the boarding penalty it’s ridiculous
Nhl playoffs have been full of poor defense and dirty plays. Someone may say that is entertaining but when too many goals are being scored they start losing the glamour..
Surprised he got suspended they don't do that to the yank teams no matter what they do 99% of the time.
Good he had it coming , he has been slashing and hacking behind the play all series long,
Two games get him out of there.
The officiating orchestrated this act of violence right from game #1 by the non-calls on both sides.
BS….he should have been suspended for the remainder of the playoffs …NHL is a JOKE!
Kane and Pietrangelo need to get sat by the league. Uncalled for