Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov gets shaken up by a crosscheck, then misses his own hit on Mathew Barzal that makes him leave Game 6 against the New York Islanders.
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24 Comments
Fractured wrist, you can see it bending. Bones bend a lot without breaking. But high probability that's a fracture. Goons in hockey. So disappointing.
Tampa need someone like Wilson…
Brutal type of play in hockey.It really needs to be addressed. Broken ribs or worse.Very cheap shot by Mayfield
Chris Lee really Scott foster as disguised
Great crosscheck. 86 is a dirtbag. Hope he’s hurting 👍🏻
0:41 that’s for getting rough with the smaller Isles players every chance you get. Watch out. Big boys are on the ice now💪🏻
Dirty play. Guess NHL likes their stars hurt by taking no action😒
This has been going on for a long time in the NHL. They rarely call cross checking penalties. I don’t think he got hurt on the cross check. If you watch Kuch looks right over at the ref then jumps up after he sees there won’t be a call. He then seems to skate all the way down the ice without issue when he could have stopped at the bench on the way. He seems to have gotten hurt from the check he tried to throw on Barzal because hes immediately in pain after awkwardly hitting the boards instead of Barzal.
0:38, 👎👎👎
oh no.
Just like that the lightning become cap compliant.
Headline should read: Kucherov forced to leave after missing Barzal with a body check
He got hurt jamming his arm and shoulder on the station. Not the hit.
Mayfield def deserved a penalty for it but it looks like the cross-check is on the right side. After he comes together with Barzal, it looks like he is favoring the opposite side.
NHL Rule 59.4: “59.4 Match Penalty – The Referee, at his discretion, may assess a match penalty if, in his judgement, the player or goalkeeper attempted to or deliberately injured his opponent by cross-checking.” This was an obvious intentional attempt to injure Kucherov. He hit him in the ribs/back as hard as he could, after the puck was gone. The refs made no call. In between what the refs did and rule 59.4 was rule 59.2, minor penalty, and rule 59.3, major penalty. Nowhere in the NHL rules does it allow for the refs to simply not call a cross check for ANY REASON. The NHL and the refs are complicit in allowing teams to shape the playoffs by simply taking out the best players and ignoring the rules. A cross-check has to be called. There is no option to ignore a cross check. In my opinion, he knew before he stepped his skate on the ice that he was going to take Kucherov out of the game with a cross check. The refs know it. The NHL knows it. Anyone who watches this video knows it.
Chris lee has to be out of the league. He is going to get players hurt by his non calls.
Mayfield gets 3d Star of the game instead of a major penalty/suspension for putting Nikita Kucherov out of the game and later drawing blood on Stamkos with yet another vicious cross check from behind. Great ref'ing, great league discipline.
I love old time hockey, but that was a pathetic no call.
How was that not called
The islanders hurt a player with no call on the ice?! No waaayy. They haven’t been head hunting teams best players all playoffs or anything.
I’m happy Chris lee is still a ref
At least it's not looking like the hip that kept him out last year.
We Avs fans feel your pain. This is the sort of BS the Vegas Knights did constantly every game all throughout our series and the refs called nothing.
Seriously, Avs players were getting cross checked and charged all over the place and the refs allowed Vegas to do whatever they wanted. Hell, there was a play where Mark Stone cross checked Gabe Landeskog in the face, even drawing blood, and no call.
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