The Hockey Central panel debate whether New York Rangers defenceman Ryan Lindgren should face discipline for his high hit on Pittsburgh Penguins’ Rickard Rakell and also look at Adam Fox’s questionable cross-check on Jake Guentzel following the hit.
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The rangers have devolved to playing dirty, this is disgusting hockey
Let him be out as long as Rakell´s out. Checks to the head should always be penalized.
Targeted head, left his feet……. both feet clearly off the ice
he left his feet….thats a fine all day
Throws his head back like all Pengs do… show me a slo-mo or stop shot of contact to the head…
Absolutely,?hit him in the head
A clean hit end of story
Rakell head is down thats why there was any contact with the chin
You guys are all idiots. Should have been a major penalty and the league needs to suspend him. Dirty play by Rangers and you guys are sleeping on it
People that think this was a "clean" or nice hit might want to stick to watching the NBA or NFL…
fk you, he didn't leap up, it was after impact
is this a fking pens fan panel? It was a textbook clean hit, not high, not late, just finishing a check.
I have never seen a ref call it a 5 minute major only to back off and give it a minor proving he knew it was an illegal hit and that that illegal hit injured a player. That should be automatic 5 minutes. This was sickening IMO.
Clean it refs turning hockey into a joke . And the no goal was a garbage call that was a goal
It’s hard because it happened so fast I just hope that he’s okay
He better be suspended that hit is worse then Donski watch him jump off his feed extending the elbow after the contact!! Suspension in my book!!!!!
that is what we want to remove in hockey (body first mentality), we want fancy plays, not trying to injure players
There was a ton of missed calls high hit on Marino. High hit on Rakell. Cross checks on just about every penguins star.
It was cleaner than 90% of Ovechkin's hits.
No. 😒😒😒😒😒
Rangers getting away with murder
Cross checking? Gtfoh. Guentzel caught a rut and was going down. Minor shove
You could see from the first 10 minutes of the game that a hit like this was inevitable. The Rangers were going to keep testing the waters to see how far they could take it. I think something even worse will happen in game 2 because the refs b*tched out & didn't set the precedent on this hit. Should've been 5min + 1 game suspension and fine. Not to mention a 2 min for the cross check and a 5 v 3 for the Pens.
Soft
God forbid there's a consequence from entering an enemy zone. The weight room calls.
Something else for Pens fans to whine about. Trust me, Crosby and Malkin get away with plenty.
2 minutes for hitting too hard .. hockey is a physical game.. if the hit is clean as this was , it's irrelevant what happens to the other player…. expected suck up to the darlins of Buttman's NHL …
It is becoming so evident that NHL referring is being directed which team to penalize and which teams to turn a blind eye to. So evident in the Toronto Tampa series ( refs pro Tampa)
The decision was rather puzzling. The officials called a major penalty, but upon video review they changed it to a minor. I can see it both ways, but I don’t see a clear and obvious error in the initial decision (major). Even though I’m a huge Ranger fan, I think the initial call should have stood.
Yes, he should. Any purposeful hit to the head should be out of game. He went in for a hard hit and elevated to hit the head. Out. With how bad he was hit that was terrible. And the hit on Guentzel was uncalled for.
He hit him right in the chest and his arm caught him on the chin in the follow thru wasn’t anything malicious just unlucky
In a sport where they literally fight and put each other in headlocks and throw little jabs at every whistle it’s honestly amazing to see people wanna see him suspended for this 😂 I never knew hockey fans were so soft
He came off the ice because of the impact. Jesus christ
There guys are clueless that was an absolutely clean hit should never have been called anything just because you hit hard doesn't mean its roughing
It’s a dirty(ish) hit. Player was not blindsided like some people were saying. He originally came from the side but it was still a head on collision. But his elbow was definitely high. A Penalty is more than fair. A game suspension in the playoffs for something very unlikely to have been intentional, would be excessive. Especially considering how one sided and inconsistent the calls have been in the first half of this series it would be downright hypocritical at this point to go that far. His arm does connect with the chest, but the elbow was not level like it should have been. And though his feet do ultimately leave the ice, it was not
until after initial contact is made which sends him higher than he originally was going into it. You can see his feet on the ground at the point of impact. A reckless move, but very unlikely to have been intentional in such a quick play against the boards with little wiggle room for positioning.
Best hit I've seen in a while