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Tkachuk crosscheck on Hathaway – Have your say!



Matthew Tkachuk was given a two minute minor penalty for cross checking to the back of Garnet Hathaway at the end of a period. Tough Call will be reviewing the incident. Have your say!

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  1. Two bruins on one panther, in comes the equalizer with a cross check to the mid section, probably hit his liver, its all going for shit in the NHL, lawlessness is taking over, the refs are a joke, they stare right at infractions and not call them, if this was the real world of business any company would be up on charges for unsafe practices.

  2. What is Hathaway doing there? Why is he going after Forsling when the period has already ended? He went to stir something up and got what he ordered, if they call Tkachuk they should also call Hathaway for instigating the whole situation.

  3. Vicious. Attempt to injure. May have broken his stick too. Plus he looks straight over at the ref to see if he caught it. Definitely a penalty.

  4. Compare that with Draisatl's "unsportsmanlike" penalty couple days ago on Doughty. If Drai got a penalty for that, then Matthew should get 2 games for this.

  5. You don't see all the dirty jabs, hacks, baby butt ends etc on television folks. Live games and out of camera stuff happens always.

  6. Tkachuk is very talented but at this point he is just a liability for the Panthers. He scored a goal but immediately has it erased with dumb penalties that constantly put his team in bad situations. Trying to take Hathaway out was dumb. Physically attacking Linus Ullmark is just dumb & bad karma.

  7. Good I enjoyed every moment of it, played it over and over for my enjoyment, he deserves every cheap shot and injury that comes his way and I hope there are many more to come, this piece of garbage Hathaway has hurt many players with head shots and stick work, I hope some day soon marchant will get the same

  8. If marchand did this he'd be out for 3 games minimum. Tkachuk has got to get at least 1 for this. It's intentional, forceful, and was 100% aimed to injure. I hope none of the bruins shake his dirty hands at the end of this.

  9. Coward!But typical for him and the league allows him to get away with it.I can see how the REF did not see it,lord knows they miss obvious calls,but it can be clearly seen on video revire.Suspend him for a game.

  10. if the first thing a player does is look to see if the official saw it then you know he knows it was intentional. It should be looked at by Players Safety as intent to injure. Not sure Sneaky Matthew wants to seriously tangle with Hathaway, hence the back stabbing cheap shot where the ref will save his ass

  11. I hope someone beats the hell outa him at center ice for all to see. He has it coming

  12. what's tough about this one. clear cross check on someone w/out the puck after the play is called dead. rotten fruit don't fall far from the tree, eh!

  13. The NHL added a 2nd ref years ago and still miss so many calls. This game had a lot of after the whistle crap. Florida knows they're done. As a fan of hockey overall, I wish the league would clean up a lot of this stuff…and Hathaway has his fair share of past exploits but this cross check isn't right.

  14. Dirty rats are make dirty plays….Tkachuk is a dirty rat. His glance at the refs told you everything you need to know about the play. Kid is talented but is a cheap shot dealing dirty rat.

  15. Not shown on this angle but while Hathaway is down Sam Bennet come over and give him a cup check from behind probably why he stayed down

  16. in the words of his own coach….gutless. marchand would be hanging from the gallows for the shit matty does. wake up DOPS.

  17. Fine & Suspension for sure , that is dirty and worse then many of the head checks that go severely punishable today (attempt to injure). !

  18. Hathaway and Marchand gave the little extra and unnecessary shove after the period born sounded. Tkachuk simply defending is teammate. Worthy of a penalty, but not a suspension. Boston is far from angelic when it comes to after the whistles antics. Play on!

  19. Your looking at literally the dirtiest player in the league, even over pat bafoon

  20. that's the NHL for you maybe the guy has to be paralyzed before the NHL do anything about it. I couldn't take a hit like that I'd probably be dead

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