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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 22, 2021 at 9:38 a.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 3, 2021 at 8:50 a.m.
If you take Kadri vs. Scheifele out of it, imo, this play is worse than any of the Kadri suspensions.
1) Scheifele knows exactly how fast he’s skating (imagine what Josh Anderson could do to opposing players with his size and speed if he played that way).
2) Scheifele knows that Evans is 100% vulnerable, and completely unable to defend himself.
3) This is in no way a hockey play. He in no way makes a play on the puck or the stick when he arrives at Evans.
4) Scheifele does absolutely nothing to let up, he makes impact full on at basically his maximum speed.
5) This is a textbook example of charging, rule 42.1, which brings supplemental discipline into the equation.
6) Evans is injured on the play.

It’s binary, if the NHL wants to continue to see this play in the game, it will give Scheifele 2-4 games.
If the NHL wants to eradicate this play from the game, Scheifele will be gone for this series minimum.

Sidenote, respect to Nick Ehlers. He just went up multiple notches in my book. Scheifele’s only chance at redemption is full mea culpa, no excuses like the b.s. his apologists have been spewing since. I want to see him crying on the podium exhibiting full remorse. None of this « it wasn’t my intent » b.s. he was trying to hit him as hard as he could. If he didn’t think he was going to injure Evans hitting him at maximum speed when he’s vulnerable like that, then he’s not the human being I previously thought him to be.

He was angry. He snapped. Now he needs to own what he did and make ammends. He’s not coming back in this series, or the league is going to lose a ton of fans. The NFL figured it out. The world has changed, and some hits simply need to be eradicated from out sports.

This is a precedent setting suspension. And the choice for the league is binary whether we’re moving forwards or backwards.
Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 23, 2021 at 9:19 a.m.