I know Trouba gets a lot of hate, but the replies in this thread make you think Jacob beat Armia with a hammer.
Jacob Trouba stop elbowing people challenge.
How the refs have called ticky tack hooks all night but ignore this is beyond me. pic.twitter.com/RUB1P203Vw
— Matt Drake (@DrakeMT) January 15, 2023
by Humanaut93
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This wouldn’t have even been posted if it wasn’t Trouba. He just caught him awkwardly in an area without padding, but it wasn’t even close to being a dangerous play. Literally the type of shove that happens 100x a game, but because it’s Trouba he needs to be ‘disciplined.’
The most cringe part of it is the people calling Trouba a ‘pussy’ as if he isn’t one of the most ruthless open ice hitters in the league and frequently fights/defends himself from dipshits who take exception to clean hits. Totally the definition of a pussy, good job lads.
Funnily enough this is probably the most illegal of the hits they love to complain about because it was an elbow. But thats, you know, a missed 2 minute penalty. Hardly something that requires discipline. Otherwise he’s basically mastered the art of blowing guys up cleanly. I think he’d be the poster boy for clean hits if he was in another jersey.
Ppl have no idea what a clean hit is. They literally see a hard hit and call it dirty
When you throw a hit with your shoulder, you always have your elbow out for balance, but the force is in your shoulder. The power comes from his body. When you throw an elbow, you swing your arm and it’s from side to side. It’s hard to explain in words but do the motion of elbowing someone in your chair and you will see that what Trouba did, is not how you throw an elbow.
Not a lot of guys can deliver big clean hits and win fights. That’s why everyone hates on him.
Feel like this all started from that massive hit on the Islanders.
Stay out of there. Got into an incident with some poster on there. Felt it necessary to reach out to me 3 months after the initial thread to call me out. Lot going on in his life, obviously.
This has to be the most absurd one they’ve complained about. I feel like any time in hockey when a guys going up ice like that and you go for a hit it’s definitely more challenging. If he moves out the way you try to get a piece of him to knock him off the puck since you’re pretty much beat
I mean, I can see why people are mad about this. Trouba sees he’s gonna miss armia so he leans even further and throws his elbow out at armias midsection to hit him. I dunno whether or not it was intentional but definitely a reckless play.
Dirty? No. Sloppy? Yes, sure. But this happens 10 other times in a game without any recompense or recall from fans because it would usually catch a player in the arm.
Did he go into nhl mandated kidney protocol after this vicious body shot? He probably has CTE now
How about the Chicago fans talking garbage? Toews is STILL the Captain of that team after aiding in the coverup of a teammate being sexually assaulted. Yet they’re horrified Trouba plays the game of hockey on the edge physically.
These people would have an absolute conniption if they knew how hockey was played not even 15 years ago….
Trouba throws elbows. Other teams are right not to like him
A) it was an elbow and a shitty move
B) his other huge hits haven’t been elbows, most fans don’t understand what a clean check is, they just see a guy on the ice with their jersey and cry about it
c) its Montreal, who gets ten times more discussion than any other team, so their fan base is going to make a huge deal of this.
d) kreider was pushed
This might be the least amount of contact on a play that didn’t have contact to the head that I’ve seen people complain about ever
Am I the only one who thoroughly enjoys the Pittsburgh fans whining about Trouba?
I love how salty everyone is getting over a play that’s a 2 minute minor at worst. It’s actually funny, everyone’s getting so soft.
Most of the top comments from MTL, TBL, and Penguins fans told me all I needed to know about that thread
Idk how any of us can excuse that hit. Blatently trying to injure an opponent. The crosby thing was a freak accident, and the jarvis hit was clean, but the elbows vs Armia, Guentzel, and that NJ Player(i forget who) are dirty, dangerous, and, imo, behavior unbefitting of a rangers captain
When he played for Winnipeg he wasn’t known at all for dirty plays or flying elbows. He was tough and physical but also with some offensive flair. A great partner to Josh Morrissey, now a Norris candidate. Prone to some brain freeze moments, to be sure. I wonder if the big money, the bright lights, and the C have affected him. Feels he has to do more than he can comfortably do. Leads to problems.
you guys defending trouba is actually embarrassing he clearly goes for elbow contact. legit homers.
Really Twitter comments was your first mistake
Kreider catching strays in that thread
It’s been the same with any of his borderline hits. They act like every borderline hits was a brutal mugging like what Wilson did to panarin, except they actually defended Wilson. The hockey and NHL subs are dog shit
That place is full of the biggest pussies on the internet