Last night in the Rangers-Lightning game, Artem Anisimov scored a shorthanded goal to put the Rangers up 2-1 with about 6:30 left in the second period. It's not necessarily the scoring that got people upset. Rather it was how he celebrated that resulted in over 38 penalty minutes and 2 game misconducts.
Now I'm not sure exactly why he did it. Perhaps it was saying he's a sharpshooter and doesn't miss or maybe that it was a signal saying that the Lightning were done for the night and that he scored the winner. But whatever reason he had for doing was silly and immature.
Now everyone has seen Teemu Selanne's sick shooting goal celebration back from his Winnipeg days but that celebration was a bit different considering the jovial attitude of it all. The symbolism was obvious. It was like him shooting at a clay disc in the sky.
Here, the Lightning had to interpret on their own what Anisimov was shooting at. Immediately after he did the shooting, Tampa forward, Vincent Lecavalier, who skated right into the line of fire of Anisimov, skated right toward him in anger. And before you knew it we had a whole line brawl.
Tampa forward Steve Downie skated onto the ice from the Tampa bench to get into some of the fighting. Now believe it or not, this was technically allowed because it was ruled as a legal line change because a Tampa forward had already skated off the ice just prior to Downie going on. Downie (and Anisimov) were given game misconducts and everyone combined totaled 38 penalty minutes. It's still realistic for Downie to receive a suspension for going on the ice to fight but we'll have to wait and see. And I doubt Anisimov will get suspended either. If you have an opinion on what should happen leave a comment.
In the end, the Lightning pulled off a 3-2 shootout win.
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Last night in the Devils-Senators game, the Devils had a 4 on 3 man advantage going into overtime. However, the rule book says that a team must have at least 3 men on the ice at all times. So the Devils had a 4 on 3 to start overtime. However, once all the penalties expired and the penalized players went onto the ice, both teams had 5 skaters aside for about a minute. This was a very interesting and unusual occurrence. I'm not sure if it has ever happened before but I doubt it.
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This year there have been a larger amount of suspensions due to headshots in the NHL. Brendan Shanahan has been busy making explanation videos since the beginning of the pre-season. Well Shanahan didn't have to make 1 video thanks to Philadelphia's Claude Giroux's great reflexes. Watch:
Malkin clearly was aiming for the head and would probably have warranted a suspension had he connected with his deliberate head shot. But Giroux somehow ducked under the punch just in the nick of time.
Now I'm not sure exactly why he did it. Perhaps it was saying he's a sharpshooter and doesn't miss or maybe that it was a signal saying that the Lightning were done for the night and that he scored the winner. But whatever reason he had for doing was silly and immature.
Now everyone has seen Teemu Selanne's sick shooting goal celebration back from his Winnipeg days but that celebration was a bit different considering the jovial attitude of it all. The symbolism was obvious. It was like him shooting at a clay disc in the sky.
Here, the Lightning had to interpret on their own what Anisimov was shooting at. Immediately after he did the shooting, Tampa forward, Vincent Lecavalier, who skated right into the line of fire of Anisimov, skated right toward him in anger. And before you knew it we had a whole line brawl.
Tampa forward Steve Downie skated onto the ice from the Tampa bench to get into some of the fighting. Now believe it or not, this was technically allowed because it was ruled as a legal line change because a Tampa forward had already skated off the ice just prior to Downie going on. Downie (and Anisimov) were given game misconducts and everyone combined totaled 38 penalty minutes. It's still realistic for Downie to receive a suspension for going on the ice to fight but we'll have to wait and see. And I doubt Anisimov will get suspended either. If you have an opinion on what should happen leave a comment.
In the end, the Lightning pulled off a 3-2 shootout win.
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Last night in the Devils-Senators game, the Devils had a 4 on 3 man advantage going into overtime. However, the rule book says that a team must have at least 3 men on the ice at all times. So the Devils had a 4 on 3 to start overtime. However, once all the penalties expired and the penalized players went onto the ice, both teams had 5 skaters aside for about a minute. This was a very interesting and unusual occurrence. I'm not sure if it has ever happened before but I doubt it.
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This year there have been a larger amount of suspensions due to headshots in the NHL. Brendan Shanahan has been busy making explanation videos since the beginning of the pre-season. Well Shanahan didn't have to make 1 video thanks to Philadelphia's Claude Giroux's great reflexes. Watch:
Malkin clearly was aiming for the head and would probably have warranted a suspension had he connected with his deliberate head shot. But Giroux somehow ducked under the punch just in the nick of time.
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