John Tavares had enough of this net front battle with Vinnie Desharnais, and decided to end it once and for all. With two handed axe chop to the wrist. Was it justified? Does that even matter? Tough Call will be reviewing the incident.
Fine, suspension, or nothing? Have your say!
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Ax chop to the wrist to try and break it, where it's not protected! ๐ญ๐
Never mind the uncalled cross checks and spears to the back of the leg. Two wrongs don't make a right. This is a bona fide slashing call. Borders on being a major.
JT fined. Good. Gutless slash
Was absolutely deserved. Wouldn't have happened if officials did their job at any point during this game
This is keefe fault this is why you traded for Luke shemm to protect your star players didnโt dress him again but still has holl in the line up
As an objective fan of hockey theyโre both at fault..but I can honestly say that if I took 4-5 cross checks to the back and arm where thereโs no padding and then a hook/attempted trip I would most definitely retaliate in one way or another similar to Tavares ๐ค
Scumbag move. Tavares always gets heated vs the Oilers. Not sure what gets him so riled since he coached McDavid as a youth lmao
Should have been a suspension for the reason that, notwithstanding what Desharnais himself did, Tavares is holding the Oilers player's stick as he slashes him. Desharnais's wrist is in fact very vulnerable as he can't remove it from what's coming.
Money well spent.
While the slash is a penalty and yeah a fine fuck around and find out. If your going to Piss people off like that your going to have consequences ๐
read a whole lot of the responses…. Light 2 hander? it was an "intent to injure" should be 2 game suspension at least …The Great TAVARES… he is chicken shit and I hope the next time he is on the ice with Desharnais, he puts his head on a swivel and Vincent lays a couple of those hands of stone on the side JT's jaws … the only way this lumber jack chops STOP!!
4 uncalled cross checks, attempt at a trip via a spear to the foot/calf and then a hook…….yeah these refs are fucking retardedly blind…..And im a Wings fan not a Leafs fan lol…..Desharnais got what he deserved
All I know is the score was 7 for the leafs and 4 for the coilers haha.
Desrnais instigator
He xchecked tav 3 times and speared the back of his leg once ! So he deserves what he got !
And then he cried about it
After trying to trip him up with that stick version of a slew foot (with JT coming off a concussion) Desharnais got what he deserved.
Desharnais crosschecks were clean then Tavares grabbed his stick
2 handed slash with a huge swing down that could've broken a wrist snd ended a season and only a fine? Oh wait, the sweater he wearing, nevermind about it being illegal.
I would absolutely love to see the response if an oiler did that to mathews. I bet all of a sudden it would be suspendable.
I thought the โcross checksโ by the d man would have been a lot worse. But those look pretty standard , happens 10-20 times every game in front of the net.
Tavares messed up by losing his cool. Leafs fan here and Tavares is lucky he is a star player, if the defender slashed him like that, i think they would have probably got a 5 and 2 game suspension
The third crosscheck was where it went too far, and then the intentional attempt to trip. Don't care if Tavares was holding the stick or not, desharnais is the one that put it there initiating a hook. Twit got exactly what he deserved for that. The real blame should be on the refs. Ignore stuff like that and this is going to happen.
5000 for a multimillion sports player๐ suspended him
Desharnais FAFO'd. Just a small back story here, the ref crew were the same ones in Leafs/Tampa Game 7 last year. Let Perry grab 34's sweater for ten seconds or so getting towed around the ice. Tell you one thing, you dare me to call a penalty on you… I'll certainly oblige.
Like others have said, refs let the d man crosscheck all the time when it should be called. When the refs donโt make calls, stuff like this happens. He even jabbed Tavares in the leg trying to knock him down. When refs donโt make calls, the game gets more dangerous. Itโs pretty sad that refs just choose what and when to call things and get away with it.
I know if I was cross checked like that, then a stick to the balls etc, I'd do a lot more than slash. Take his head off
Dat shoot don't get called in game 7! Go leafs go
1 slash for 3 cross checks and a hook. Seems fair to me
Dirty. Looking forward to Vinny seeing him next year
Tavares takes this shit all the time. The jab behind the knee to throw him off balance pissed him off followed by two hooks and he hacked the guys wrist. That's it. Too bad it hurt the guy but this shit happens all the time.
Desharnais can dish it out but canโt take it. Suck!