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2023-24 NHL Misc. Thread

Sure. On the one hand, 3 games for throwing a stick at a ref makes perfect sense, but on the other hand they keep letting Trouba whack other players in the head with his stick and all he gets are fines.
 
Picture those turtles slogging thru the La Brea tar pits, and you're onto something. Every loser point that sorry bunch collect is suddenly a massive deal.
 
TheBigKahuna said:
Rangers / Devils game only a few minutes in and already about 11 players with misconducts.
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At 2 seconds into the game, all 10 skaters received fighting majors and 8 of the 10 got game misconducts. Jimmy Vesey and Curtis Lazar were the onky skaters that escaped. Travis Green started his 4th line, including Kurtis McDermid, and Laviolette responded with his 4th line including Matt Rempe. He wasn’t even pretending to play hockey, he was squared up before the puck drop.


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andyt said:
At 2 seconds into the game, all 10 skaters received fighting majors and 8 of the 10 got game misconducts. Jimmy Vesey and Curtis Lazar were the onky skaters that escaped. Travis Green started his 4th line, including Kurtis McDermid, and Laviolette responded with his 4th line including Matt Rempe. He wasn’t even pretending to play hockey, he was squared up before the puck drop.


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The good ole days. Only thing that would make that more 1980’s is if they all went to the showers smoking Marlboro reds and chugging Budweiser.
 
Fayettenamcanesfan said:
The good ole days. Only thing that would make that more 1980’s is if they all went to the showers smoking Marlboro reds and chugging Budweiser.
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Very true! remember those days well. After the game go to a bar with the other team.
last nights fights appeared to be pre arranged.
 
TheBigKahuna said:
Rangers / Devils game only a few minutes in and already about 11 players with misconducts.
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That was a curious approach from refs Hebert and Dwyer. They're old timers so they had to know what was coming and I'm guessing they had the call queued up and ready to go. Throwing 8 guys out of the game 2 seconds in on what amounts to a technicality is almost as bonkers as squaring up for a line brawl at the opening draw. The whole thing smacks of the Ringling Brothers no matter how popular it was with the masses.

Bottom line ... what was the point of any of that?
 
jeffbear said:
That was a curious approach from refs Hebert and Dwyer. They're old timers so they had to know what was coming and I'm guessing they had the call queued up and ready to go. Throwing 8 guys out of the game 2 seconds in on what amounts to a technicality is almost as bonkers as squaring up for a line brawl at the opening draw. The whole thing smacks of the Ringling Brothers no matter how popular it was with the masses.

Bottom line ... what was the point of any of that?
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The Devils probably felt like they had a score to settle with Rempe becuase of what he did to Siegenthaler the last time they played in March, which caused him to miss 9 games. So Green sent out his 4th line (but Marino instead of Smith on D?) and Lavi responded accordingly. And Dwyer and Hebert had to have the game misconducts in mind when they saw the lineups, it’s odd to toss players for a fight.
 
Any secondary fight at the same stoppage is supposed to get the game'rs, so they said one of the fights was "first" and the rest yer outta here. I'm fine with the refs actually following the rules. Rempe needed to answer for his sideshow act since he seems to just be doubling down on his act, but the rest? Joke. Leave that stuff back in the 70's where it belongs.
 
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