Brad Marchand pushes linesman – Have your say!
Brad Marchand was tangled up with Tyler Bertuzzi of course, this time near the benches. The linesman came to pull them apart and then went back to watching the game, while standing in front of the bench door. So Marchand shoved him out of the way. Necessary? Have your say!
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“Dear linesman, please allow me to go to the bench! Thank you!"
Did you want him to say that? 🙂
He will get a fine but no suspension.
This is what you get when refs don't do their jobs right because the NHL doesn't want the game to have too many interruptions during the playoffs. Here you have a player checking another player with no puck in sight which is already a penalty by definition. Then the linesman can't call penalties so he tries to separate them to cover the ref who didn't make the call.
Even the Leafs' broadcast team completely ignored this. I was shocked.
I'm not a fan of how much leeway there is in hockey to abuse of officials. I think this should be an automatic game misconduct.
That was the linesman in his way he needed to get on the bench so a too many men wouldnt get called by the referee
This has to be a game misconduct for physical abuse of officialls. One could consider it mitigating that the linesman is standing in front of the bench door, but there is no way that's a defense. I consider this intentional contact without intent to injure, which carries an automatic suspension of at least 10 games. Maybe one can argue that it should be less than the 10 games, but he still needs to be punished.
hey don't censor my comments fuckroid
Why is Marchand getting away with EVERYTHING
Ref should get 2mins delay of game 🤣
The rat needs to be suspended abuse of an official
Abuse of an official. Automatic suspension. But…it’s Boston so of course no call. Imagine if Domi did that.
Marchand's career is fake. He gets a whole different rule book. It's not the NHL rule book. It's something else that's maybe half as long.
I admire Marchand for his grit and determination…..Truly a great player and a formidable opponent.
a few of the ladies in this comment section seem to be the type when the elevator door opens, just stand there right in front of the door, and do nothing. get out the f**king way
i love hockey for the normality of the physical element like the linesman doesnt react really cause brad needs to get off to get another man on or its too many men
they just move on
any other sport u push a ref ur suspended
The linesman was in the way.
linesmen are big pussies they get shoved and skate away
Late hit. Interference. Abuse of official.
…on and on.
Suspension or a fine 100%. That's a no no.
Lots of softness in the comment section.. if im marchand im yelling gtfo of the way! its the NHL not the PWHL lol
And his teammates voted him captain, did they have no other options?🤔
As an official this is aggressive but fine, I tell guys to tell me to f off if I'm in their way when they're trying to change
Could have easily been a penalty but I think they let it go since it was for the door and not just because someone was upset, he also doesn't shove him too hard so that probably helped a bit too. May still be fined by the league after the fact though.
I don't think the linesman realized he was standing in front of the door, so Brad took the opportunity to be a dick. Getting suspended in the playoffs would be the most Marchand thing that Marchand could do.
Is this all during play?? No excuse for marchand, but what the fuck is an official doing getting hands on a player during play?