Artemi Panarin rocked TJ Oshie coming across his own slot, temporarily removing Oshie from the game with an injury. The play was called a major so they could review it, but after a few looks the officials deemed it no penalty at all. Here’s my breakdown of the play and my ruling.
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I thought he was going to do a George the flee Mcfee hip check….. Nonetheless, it looked clean…. L.G.R.!!!!!
This isn’t even close to being a dirty hit.
You know it's a true tough call when it's a 6 minute video. Great break down, especially with the little 45 degree angles. More of that!
That's a lot of blather when he clearly could have hit the shoulder and avoided the head completely instead of hitting the front of Oshie. You're a Rags fan, right?
I don't see a problem with that hit. Too bad for Oshie. He got caught watching the puck. Hope he's ok.
I think the refs made the right call. I also know players know how to play the rules, and I think Panarin did exactly that to perfection. If Oshie hadn't been roughing Panarin up every chance he got, I believe Panarin goes for Oshies left shoulder and avoids head contact. Instead, he makes that double adjustment and gives Oshie the back treatment. It was basically a reverse check without touching the puck.
Dirty hit but no penalty.
I think in real time the arm flapping out makes it look slightly worse, but in slow motion you can see separation before the flap. I think it's borderline but not enough to supplement discipline.
Low-key 3 of 5 Troubas
In todays game that is a hit to the head. The player was vulnerable before the hit.
He locks his elbow, drives it directly to his head
How come you didn’t mention how Panarin squatted down, geared up and lifted up into the head area ? Panarin saw who it was, and targeted Oshie and in his zeal to administer a big angry hit, it became illegal !! You are totally qualifying this footage with subjectivity and predetermined bias .. where many of us disagree !! .. sorry man – he could have stayed low and kept the contact lower .. Oshies head (which doesn’t dip lower AT ALL via his own motion – something you also failed to cover) was contacted from an upward motion from Panarin .. DISAGREE DUDE – if the NHL is worried about injury (which I thought was the point), this has to be considered a dangerous hit and Panarin & Oshie are both very lucky the result wasn’t MUCH worse
Nice hit!!
I will also say this .. if you have to break down in slow motion and frame by frame analysis – including what a player might have been thinking in that 1/10th of a second? .. forget where you stand on this, the NHL has a massive subjectivity problem. If this was an identical hit administered by Tom Wilson? .. how does he answer? .. differently! whether he admits it or not. And that cannot be the point of this! Each play should be evaluated in a vacuum. A hit to the head is a hit to the head and anyone saying that Panarin did “all he could” to avoid head contact is quite literally lying to themselves.
Looks fine to me.
Cap fans need to stop thinking it was a dirty hit and this was the reason they loss game 2. Or the miss call was. First what’s most important is he was ok and checked out cleared to come back into the game and play. Second he was hitting Panarin all night. Got him with a high stick that wasn’t called as well. It wasn’t intentional trying to go for the head. Right call. But let’s not pretend if it was called it would have been some kinda game changer where possibly caps might have won. Cause they got scored on while on the power play. There’s always game 3 and as a Ranger fan I want Washington to step it up and fight back. I want them to wake the Rangers up. Cause this type of hockey they will be out the playoffs in the second round real fast at this pace.
Oshie is a rat….open season on him, playoff hockey
Go, breadman….GO!!!!!!
It’s playoff hockey. Go watch soccer if you don’t like this
Oshie himself said it was a good hit, so……