Rielly deserves at least 3 games suspension.

With Reaves in the lineup last night, sending him out to fight after the showboating goal should have been done.

I see the Michigan goal as being a showboating disrespectful goal too, they deserve a head shot more than an empty net goal.

Dale Hunter length or if not hopefully the Kanata district attorney charges him with aggravated battery.

comical levels of pearl clutching

It's called salt bc he was one of the people calling for MO's head after the CLEAN Point hit...

Honestly it could be a fine or 10 games. The DPS is so inconsistent.

Martin Biron did a segment last night where he showed why he doesn't think its more than a fine. I could probably do one showing why its at least 6 games.

League is a joke.

The Michigan is a legit skill play that beats a goalie. Now if you did a Michigan alone on a breakaway on an empty net that would be crazy. I don't like the Michigan, I think it should probably be banned but that's just my personal opinion. I think saying its showboating underestimates how hard it is to pull off and how its only done in a situation where no other hockey play can get you a goal.

No Reilly's reaction has ABSOLUTELY NO F***ING PLACE IN THE GAME THATS A F***ING SC****G MOVE THEY CAN'T OVER SUSPEND THAT PILE OF 💩

*rielly

So the best retort you have is I transposed the I&e. Extremely lame retort it shows you have no intelligent rebuttal.

wait was i supposed to have a serious response to your tantrum?

Explain how that is anything close to an acceptable hockey play there is less than zero chance you can. It was a complete sc**bag move .
If his feelings are so hurt drop the gloves be a man about it not a complete coward .

he used his stick which is hockey equipment, thus it's a hockey play

No play was over it was an attack with a weapon not a hockey play completely gutless f***ING coward

First of all this play happens so often at this point that to imply it isn't part of the game is just absurd.
Second a big reason these types of plays happen more often is because young guys like Grieg didn't deal with this in minor hockey like we did when I was younger so he had no clue how to defend himself.
Third if you watch in slow motion, Rielly is trying to go for the ribs/shoulder. If you don't believe this watch it in 0.5x speed or watch Martin Biron's breakdown on TSN. Grieg does the stupidest thing you can which is that he tries to put out his arm and catch Rielly's stick. This causes his stick to go from below shoulder height to riding up his shoulder an into his face. If anything the only reason this hits Grieg's face is because Grieg directs the stick that way.

All this being said, the league is stupid. Like the Hughes/Hathaway situation the league will punish the veteran because the young kid didn't know how to defend themselves. As Torts said, its a bad precedent. Your essentially teaching kids like Hughes that they can letup before the whistle and if they get hit the other guy gets a penalty and so he'll keep doing it to draw calls until one day he doesn't get back up. Grieg will keep being an idiot and taking slapshot into empty nets then letting guys hammer him to get major penalties and get under their skin and this will work until the day Grieg gets a concussion and his career ends.

I think the reason this is so polarizing is because its really a generational gap. All the former players came out in favour of it. Bieksa even said he'd do it in Rielly's shoes on national TV. All the journalists, younger fans, etc. are outraged. Problem is that the league needs to sort this because the thing the young people don't seem to understand is that you can complain all you want but at the end of the day, Rielly will serve his suspension and come back and do the same think in the same situation. And next time the kid might not stand up.

Using Torts "It teaches kids to let up before the whistle" is garbage complete garbage. The play was OVER he was celebrating a goal play is OVER THIS WAS AN ATTACK His feelings were hurt and he attempted to injure an agitator. He should get at least 10 make f***ING garbage like this so costly no one thinks about it. I'm not a kid I remember watching Dave Schultz Tiger Williams Steve Durbano Mike Milbury I remember goon Hockey . There is no place in today's game for it.

Probably between 6 and 8.

Lol

Lol, love the response. With a tantrum like that, I wonder how his account hasn't been deleted yet, because only people 13+ can have accounts.

Still soft