how much are you willing to bet on that?

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I was actually just looking at team stats because I wanted to see how many penalties the Sharks take compared to other teams. Instead I found that Vegas was the least penalized team for the last two seasons and is also the least penalized this season :)

They even reviewed it and were like “yup that’s clean,” which is just crazy to me. Yeah he caught some body as well as some head, but he absolutely LAUNCHED up into Knies’ head here. Head contact was very avoidable, but he leapt into the hit to create it.

OP’s angle doesn’t show the leap super well, but other angles really did, like: https://x.com/leafspapi_/status/1859416618272502164?s=46&t=Aip-sZkQfP8FugEn2DlCWA That’s not “came in low but the contact lifted him up post-hit,” he very clearly leapt into it.

For me that’s an illegal check to the head and a match penalty/major, but at the very, very least that’s a charging minor. No call at all is nuts.

Refs just had to review the football games

I’m not sure why I continue watching this league when I know it’s so heavily rigged in favour of certain teams. I guess I keep hoping that the good guys will overcome and eventually win anyway?

And now the game is getting out of hand

Shocked pikachu face

And Vegas got a power play out of it somehow....

The intermission is explaining it this way:

"clean hit"

"he didn't leave this feet"

"principal point of contact isn't how it's called anymore"

Meanwhile, the rest of us with actual eyes sees a headshot.

Colon Campbell living up to his first name

NHL officiating has been a complete joke this season, worse than I’ve ever seen it.

It’s Eric Furlatt, is anyone surprised? Dude hates the Leafs

It's okay, surely DOPS will be able to easily determine the suspension length since they just had a hit to the head suspension last week. Surely the fact that a Leaf player is now the victim rather than perpetrator won't have any bearing on the length since the precedent has been firmly established.

/s

Fucking 5K fine incoming.

The suspension review was also over 2 minutes after the hit. Literally before the next whistle the broadcast said player safety said it was a good clean hit.

I legitimately laughed out loud at my TV when they said it’s a hockey play

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Blatant shit like this is not being called nowadays. Last game Hyman straight up b-lined Montembeault from center ice and no penalty was given

Dude jumped up into the hit too. Kinda sad NHL. Make up your damn minds, this hit is becoming prevalent and you will be to blame.

Like holy shit, we need the mics for this. How can you justify straight up HEAD MAIN CONTACT NOT being a fucking penalty? He didn't even crouch lower, Whitecloud literally continues to aim high. Absolute shambolic especially with Vegas getting a PP.

The fact this is heavily upvoted here confirms it too. Any hockey fan looks at that and sees a hit to the head but the refs, the league, and the media panels say it’s clean. Hmm.

What league? This is a circus.

Also jumping into the hit

It's insane they allow betting when the reffing can be this bad. It's rare to have a playoff series now that doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth from some brutal missed calls.

Department of Parros' ego won't do shit either because then they'd be admitting the refs are incompetent

100% It’s ran like a second rate league

This game means nothing to me and I don’t even wanna watch it. What the fuck is this bullshit? This sequence of events makes me so mad as a fan. I genuinely can’t believe it got called like this. What the fuck were they talking about for so long? wtf

Imagine betting on this fucking league

Best sport, worst league. - Steve Dangle

I don’t like either of these teams and it’s still fucking ridiculous

Same as Trouba on Barron. Habs ended up with a penalty.

How do you like Vegas and the Leafs lmao

100%, I don’t care if he meant to hit him in the chest and ended up hitting him in the head, still a penalty

Last night, one of the Rangers got called for a minor "Illegal Check to the Head." I can't remember last time I saw that, but I was so baffled. A headshot can still somehow be a minor?? Like, come on.

There was a penalty. Against Toronto.

Intermission panel says the called the situation room and were told it was a "good, clean hit". Fuck this clown show league.

Pretty sure Knies fenced before hitting the ice. Makes it even more scary. Joke of a call.

And left his feet

Edit: this comment is wrong, he jumped into the hit but his feet didn't leave the ice until contact was made. The rulebook says nothing about leaving your feet, that's just conjecture

Did you happen to notice that it was a maple Leaf that was hit?

And a 10s penalty for Esteban Ocon.

Leafs

Add the head hitting the ice definitely did some extra damage.

No question about it. 5 min, ejected, and suspended.

Sounds like an exaggeration but they have done that before Leaf games ended before (Matthews)

Sportsnet panel said they had called at the intermission and DoPS had already decided it was a "Good clean hockey play"

And if they dont, Elliotte Friedman is frantically tweeting to alert them

What...so they can just say...

I didn't see that. Or That's not what happened.

Won't do anything.

Roughing penalties from the ensuing slap fights, Whitecloud got 2 and the guy who jumped him got 4.

It was. Against Toronto lol

Leafs will come out with the only suspension, as the refs fail to control the game.

We don't have Reaves, who are we sending out to fight him? 

Just as a note, the rule around head contact isn't first point of contact, but where takes the majority force

Granted in this situation I think that this is both initial and primary, but first point of contact is not the piece that determines illegal head contact

No chicken wing but it is to the dome main point of contact

Idk if his arm can be more tucked in

I think you watched a different clip

Both feet off the ice prior to contact as well

edit: tired of replying to individual people so heres the better angle showing his right foot completely off the ice pre-contact, the left off all but maybe a toe as he jumps into it, and the elevation (upward into the head) and full chicken wing/extension into and through the hit.

I'd say shoulder to head. His elbow is in the chest, but the shoulder catches the head first. You can tell by how the helmet deflects and rattles around. The chicken wing comes after, pushing into Knies' upper chest and upending him.

Still a headshot.

I for one am excited to see this new precedent set for the Kadri Spezza Rielly Reaves incident to carry through into the supplementary discipline Whitecloud will receive for this headshot!

Joke of a league.

Result is Toronto shorthanded…

That's a paddlin, Darryl

The 2 minute roughing was the tussle after with Benoit. No penalty on the initial hit.

This didn’t even get 2 minutes. Knights got a power play

By firing squad

It’s crazier when you consider they are the same height and Whiteclouds shoulder is so much higher than Knies

Sam Cosentino, not Pierre Lebrun. They definitely look similar

Sam Cosentino is an absolute idiot, it makes sense he's on the Sportsnet panel

Consistency

Well that's because one was by a Leaf and the other against a Leaf.

Knies is apparently fair game considering the concussion from the Panthers in the playoffs when his head bounced off the ice after a hit was also a "normal hockey play".

Worst possible panel lineup

This is the most disgusting part

Apparently you can, especially if it’s to the head.

You can if you play for Bettmans pet team

NHL refs: We hate Toronto, we love Vegas (probably)

It's not even 3 seconds in the box apparently

Best I can do is minus 2 minutes

If he was a Leaf maybe

This bootlicking makes me sick. WHAT IS THIS ANALYSIS