Pittsburgh Penguins forward Bryan Rust is suspended three games for an illegal check to the head against Canucks forward Brock Boeser.
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28 Comments
Absolute clowns at the department of safety.
If that is worth a suspension, serial offender Marchand needed 20 games for his very deliberate elbow on Matheson.
NHL not even trying to hide the corruption.
Pretty weak, yes the contact was to the head but it wasn't the intent of the hit. You can see Boeser move backwards but he left his head forwards. Rust was going for a clean check, but to suspend a guy for taking the "wrong" angle for a check is kind of ridiculous.
3 games for what looks like an accidental hit to the head is crazy, yall have let worse go with no suspension
I see worse but he definitely hit his head.
This is insane to suspend him for that. “He took a bad angle towards his front” he was going his front because from behind is illegal last time i checked so he had very limited space to get the hit and brook moving is his fault? Does the nhl not know how physics work or how your own rules are written
light elbow to the head gets 3 games delusional individuals at player safety
Parros needs to go. That might be the softest suspension I've ever seen.
Absolute clowns at the department of safety.
If that is worth a suspension, serial offender Marchand needed 20 games for his very deliberate elbow on Matheson.
NHL not even trying to hide the corruption.
Absolute studs at the department of safety.
This is clearly a dirty hit. Intentional or not, it is still an illegal head shot. Thank you for getting it right for the safety of the players and for the bone head players not being cautious of the health and safety of other players.
If anything, to be honest, Rust should have gotten 5 games. But I am satisfied with 3.
Just ban hitting if we are suspending people for this
Trouba, a repeat headshot offender, has never received a suspension as long as the one Rust just received. What are we even doing at this point? George Parros sucks at his job.
People saying thos didnt deserve suspension i hope you joking. You clearly see rust charging toward boeser lifting his elbow right in the face. We can CLEARLY see he target the head and even if not this is as dirty as it can get. YeS BuT ThEn MaRChaNd deserve 20 games…not because another player didnt have a suspension that no one else should. Should marchand been susoended for 5-10 games for then hit on matheson yes. But Rust is lucky to just get 3 games
Well deserved suspension… he was clearly trying to clip him instead of go for a full on check. Dirty play.
3 games is excessive
You could argue rust was going in for a shot at chest and shoulder but Boesser moved, then rust was sort of flailing to make contact. I have no problem with this, the problem is with inconsistency as many others have pointed out. Particularly how it relates to guys on a certain team in Florida.
If these suspension decisions were made equally to all players who make such hits, Tom Wilson would have been suspended approximately 10,000 games ten years ago.
One maybe I see it was dangerous he should have avoided it at least just keep the elbow down for it being the first time he has ever had a hearing I feel like 3 games is to much
Meh. I don't think it was intentional. At that angle, hitting the chin clean like that is almost flukey. Does not matter though. it was a blow directly to the head that caused injury, and it was 100% avoidable by Rust.
Boesser moves his body back right before contact causing the main point of contact to be his head…. 🙄get out of here NHL. What a joke.
Dept for Player Safety will suspend Marchand for that hit to the head…
as a Canucks fan, that shouldnt be a 3 game suspension, if they just gave him a 1 game suspension we probably wouldnt be talking about this
685 games no prior infractions and the player moves as rust is hitting and he gets 3 games. Wild call. 😅
It’s definitely an elbow but he’s not a dirty player. 3 games is too much. 1 at the most
You can barely see if he raised the elbow. If Rusty played for the Panthers, suspension would be on Boeser.
Rust wasn’t even looking at the time of contact he was aiming for the shoulder and the player moved, this is a stupid enforcement
And Sandlak gave him a two minute penalty, suspend the ref also
We just want consistency! 3 games for this kind of illegal hit is fine, but if you're going to suspend someone for this, you have to suspend guys like Marchand for a solid 10 games for the elbow on Matheson.
Sorry Boeser got hurt but that was not targeted hit. He turned as Rust was about to check him. 1 game for a player with no prior history. Meanwhile repeat offenders get less.