Michael Bunting continued his saga with NHL officials after receiving a minor penalty for embellishment after taking what appears to be two crosschecks. There was also a crosschecking minor on the play.
Was it fair to take them both here? Tough Call will be reviewing the incident. Have your say!
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Isn't CrossChecking legal in the NHL? The Refs never call it, and it happens 5000 times a game..
He also trys to put his skate into his groin area
Tampa fan….so I have no love for Bunting or the leafs….thats a shit call.
He embellished the second one Kyper hit it on the head refs don’t respect him as a player they don’t like being shown up
And the Oscar goes to…
Embellishment my ass haha… poor guy.
Tbh the first crosscheck wasn't embellishment but the second one definitely was. He was barely touched and he made it look way worse than it actually was
No embalisment for Bunting, 2 min for walman crosscheck
From my couch coaching perth, a wash on the little late check and first cross check. Slight ease of falling but still a cross check so another wash. And my coaching couch is rarely wrong. 😄
All the whining maple buds is fun to read.
The nhl needs to be soft on American teams
Bunting is a tool, so…….
Looked like a soccer player over embellishments
Bunting gave the first cross check and got away with it, then started to skate back but the puck stayed in and that gave the defender a opportunity to get even, it used to be a retaliation penalty but not these days, Bunting embellished on the second hit hoping for sympathy from the ref. Two minutes for embellishment, and two minutes for cross checking.
To me, it looks like Bunting embellishes both cross checks. I mean he backs into Walman right after landing a hit on him. I’d have to think he knew he was going to get cross checked and took it as an opportunity to draw a penalty. I think it’s necessary for the ref to call embellishment here and I also think reputation matters. It’s bad for the game to let divers make calls for you
I don't think he should have been called for embellishment. I do think he should have been called for charging as he left his feet to make a hit.
this is a classic cry wolf case. The first one didn't look like embellishment but when you have a history of embellishing you aren't going to get those calls. It's one of those you can't have it both ways type thing. Stop embellishing and he will get those calls.
Biggest clown in the league.
A crosscheck from behind, of course he gets down, this isn't really embellishment, it's because of Bunting's reputation.
Doesn't bode well for him or the team, he's not gonna draw a penalty.
Nhl Officials have become a complete joke. From the sounds of it, neither is the Nba.
NHL refs are as corrupt as the NHL is corrupt
Biggest embellishment I've seen all year
I think he was caught off balance the first time. 2nd crosscheck was embellished
He purposefully continued backward 100% expecting to get cross checked and ready to take a dive.
The refs have a problem No dive. Just watch Marchand with Boston. They favours him. Love the way they play good players just rats but the refs don’t want Toronto to win. So sad. NHL is going down hill.