Nick Cousins delivers two crosschecks to Auston Matthews and as he goes to give him a third Matthews has had enough and trips him. Cousins gets three crosschecks in but only two minutes and Matthews gets two for tripping. Have Your Say!
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Well it’s definitely multiple crosschecks and a tripping penalty. If it wasn’t the NHL, likely send them both to the box.
I'm willing to bet that if Matthews looked up and saw an arm up already or the play was whistled down to call the cross-check, he wouldn't have gone for the trip. Classic case of poor game management, not to mention that cross-checking isn't a skill, it's a penalty. I hate how often players get away with it in these scrums, but this is egregious.
I wonder wtf Cousins was thinking to do that in the first place! Mathews isn't even close to the play on the boards, maybe to get his team motivated? But I think Bunting caught him with a good jab to the face cuz he looked a bit disjointed after the ensuing scrum
Matthews takes a lot of that kind of abuse, especially in front of the net. No wonder he has back issues. Refs let cross checking go to often
Slickest trip I have ever seen. Used his forward momentum against him. Beautiful retribution for the clear crosschecks
Any penalties called here?
The refs favour the fucking leafs
Brilliant move subtly done by Auston! He must have bruises all over his back from these constant cross checks…. Retribution is sweet 💙
I’d rather see him drop the gloves and slap the fuck outta that guy instead of using his stick
The Ref is literally right fucking there..
Cousins got what he deserved. Had it only been a small cross check, it wouldn't have mattered much, but the fact that he kept going and going…no, no one should have to stand for that. Good on Matthews for standing his ground and giving him what for!
Soft
Just once Mathews has to go full Lindros and absolutely hospitalize one of these little rats. Don't punch him and mess up your hand, but slap him across the jaw and throw him into the boards Mach 10. If he can't do that, then everyone will target him.
nick cousins was obviously trying to draw a penalty. you see the way he flew in the air he was expecting something back lol
0:22 ref is checking someone out in the crowd and misses the initial hits lmao holy shit
what a play
Cousins gives relatives a bad name
I prefer to watch Auston Matthews play than Nick Cousins. Send goons like Cousins to the box and let talented players play without getting injured by hacks like Cousins!
Refs were brutal and coaches from both teams agree.
This is the ineptitude of the NHL — a league that has a whole group called Player Safety who do nothing to protect the players — that sporadically goes on benders where they proclaim to want to crack down on cross-checking or whatever infraction and then entirely forget about calling the same offending actions for months at a time. Why are stars hurt all the time this year?? Maybe it is time to blame the league itself and the low-quality of the officiating.
Slick knee jerk response by 34 to 3 crosschecks.refereeing of Leafs games is at an all time low.
the inital penalties are 3 cross checks on cousins and a tripping on matthews. but you dont CALL 3 cross-checks in nhl games so i’d give cusins are minor for cross checking, matthews for tripping, and roughing penalties to make it so the leafs have a powerplay because the cross checks are obnoxious and deserve to be a root of a powerplay
The standard in NHL by referees is : 2 minutes to the guy who responded to a hit : Toronto 34 …..2 minutes for tripping 😊