My bet is that he won’t even get a hearing. Playoffs and Marchand as the target.
He’s literally pushing it forward horizontally before contact, and it makes contact with Marchand’s head, but contrarians gotta contrarian, I guess.
My momentum argument is off looking at it more closely. I edited my post but still am hard pressed to think it’s intentional namely from how difficult it is to make that intentional based on personal experience and having hit and been hit at high speeds. My best guess is most haven’t had the same personal experience. I hate playing that card but I feel it’s appropriate here. My best guess is Bennett’s bracing for the hit in his chest and Marchand hits him in an unexpected spot that caused his body to do unexpected things. He looks at the ref because he knows he punched Marchand but that doesn’t make it intentional. Guys look at refs all the time when they do something unintentional that may be a penalty like tripping. I don’t view that as anything outside of a “shit I hope I don’t get a penalty because I probably could get one” look.
That’s exactly my point, though. You could just not have a “going in position,” in recognition that reality is not inversely related to the majority position on the board. You’re not a bad dude, but it’s fucking weird, and that’s what leads you to do things like make completely contradictory arguments on the same subject, depending on the target, or doing what you’re doing here: completely abandoning the reasoning that you were so convinced was correct, yet miraculously coming to exactly the same conclusion on new reasoning anyway.
I mean, if you’re going to ignore the fact that his right arm is going forward horizontally and not elbows down, tight to the bodyprior to the actual contact, sure, he’s just bracing.
I think he knew what he was doing, but got lucky in the particular outcome. Just think it’s weird for people to suggest that a pretty plainly unnatural motion that just so happened to land right on the button of a hated opponent in a chippy, physical series, by a team known to take such liberties, in the first period a game after several game misconducts, was surely just babe in the woods clean play dumb luck.
Bracing is the best argument, and I understand where you’re coming from, but I still think he saw him and lined him up. He could have easily braced for impact with just his left shoulder and staying low. Or, he could have dropped his stick, if he was turning his hand over. You can’t be throwing your stick up in the air like that and leveling your hand/stick with someone’s head.
Dude I watched the play at full speed once and made an initial judgment that it was a hockey play. Saying completely convinced is a bit much. I can change my mind and don’t have to go to the other side of the boat. To the rest, I disagree and I’m not alone in my conclusion but I’ve already sorry more time on this on a Saturday than I care so whatrver.That’s exactly my point, though. You could just not have a “going in position,” in recognition that reality is not inversely related to the majority position on the board. You’re not a bad dude, but it’s fucking weird, and that’s what leads you to do things like make completely contradictory arguments on the same subject, depending on the target, or doing what you’re doing here: completely abandoning the reasoning that you were so convinced was correct, yet miraculously coming to exactly the same conclusion on new reasoning anyway.
You’re a really smart guy. You don’t need the intellectual shortcut of starting out with a position dictated by what others are saying. Just evaluate what happens on its own. I’m not trying to be an ass by pointing that out.
As for what happened, these guys have pretty amazing body control and I think he knew exactly what he was doing and hid it reasonably well, to the point of plausible deniability. I’ve thrown pretty much exactly that punch in other sports contexts. That doesn’t make me 100% convinced that’s what happened, but I think it’s more likely than not.
I mean, it’s not like this is the only time you ever came into a conversation half-baked to show how reasonable you were relative to all the people crying wolf. Your cognitive bias is to buck the trend. It’s your function at this point. I just think it’s a really weird one.
This is exactly my take, and I'm never one to complain about refs or dirty hits. He and Marchand are both highly skilled at making stuff like that look natural.
It’s clear to everyone. The league acting like it’s nothing is just insulting our intelligence at this point.
Would you prefer I say I’m not wrong and double down or go the half baked route? It’s the function I choose to engage on in SoSH. Your fascination with this and need to call it out as frequently as you do is weird as well. Appreciate the constructive criticism (I think?).
There’s another angle now, and the guy has a history of doing the same thing. Do you still think it was unintentional?
Seriously, they’re probably losing this series anyway. Someone should take him and not give a shit about a suspension. Doubt anyone on this squad has the balls honestly.
I got a feeling that’s he’s saying the right things in the room, but thinking to himself, these bunch of cowards aren’t worth the effort. Maybe when they’re getting blown out again on Sunday, someone will finally get angry.
He's just collecting a check until next year. I'd sit him for just about anyone. Gentle giant.
Actually the game checks end at the end of the regular season. All he’s doing is literally playing out the string.
I was hoping Forbort would make himself useful and do it. The suspension would have just been a bonus
I’m more pissed at the Bruins lack of response after they saw it between periods. Especially the coach. Somebody should have been tapped on the shoulder to respond.
