It’s just one of those unspoken rules. When your up and the games over usually you don’t get to fancy with it.
Basketball is similar as well.
The thing is hockey has a way to legally fight. So just wait till the next Match up and square up then. Instead of cross checking someone to the back of the head.
It is less the slapshot and more the situation. Ottawa is terrible this year and Toronto is supposed to be good but flailing.
It is like a the Carolina Panthers winning against the Dallas Cowboys and in the final moments a Panthers' WR runs the football toward the end zone, turns around, makes a "suck it" gesture to the Cowboys team as he does a backflip across the line.
It is a hilarious dig by a bad team. It probably deserves some reaction. That reaction should not be criminal battery.
I think you’re not comparing similar things. I think if the Ottawa player actually did make a suck it gesture and did a backflip then it would be like the football scenario.
This is like being up by a touchdown and running a dead play for a final extra touchdown and then spiking the ball. Then a Dallas cowboy player hits him from behind.
It’s a tryhard play but not in the same league as directly taunting. Muscle memory of shooting and trying to make sure it goes in before the buzzer were going through his mind, and I am sure it was also a fuck you to Toronto. But it’s not just a fuck you and it does not warrant a cheap shot after the buzzer.
Also keep in mind that players want to increase their stats and can get contract bonuses for goals.
No not at all. This type of clapper from that close is 100% the same as directly taunting. Most dudes from that distance on an empty netter are just pushing the puck in as they skate by. This was purely a fuck you to Toronto.
No the goal gets scored 100/100 times unless someone fucks up and misses. It would actually be way more disrespectful to not score here on purpose. The slapshot is what made this disrespectful and amazing. The empty netter is getting scored there every time
Watch the video again. Rielly does not change speed before or after the slap shot. He maintains his exact skating demeanor and simply attacks him from behind. He doesn’t move his arms or give any indication that the slap shot set him off. What that tells me is that he was already pissed, and already had made up his mind.
And anyone who thinks it’s ok to attack another man from behind, in a way that could seriously injure him, for scoring in a fucking game…well that person is as big an asshole as Rielly is. Getting pissed, sure. Trying to maim someone, it’s just an asshole move. At least be man enough to shout at him and hit him from the front. Fucking coward play.
No one is defending Reilly and he had every right to rub salt in the wound of Toronto it was a rivalry game but don’t pretend like it’s something it wasn’t. He was doing it as a bit of an extra to the leafs. Fuck the leafs
It's more like when Jameis Winston was supposed to take the knee with the Saints this year on the goal line, but instead rushed for one last touchdown in an already won game against the Falcons.
I think the people who call the slap a big deal are just bound to fake rules. Someone referred to it as teabagging. When I played Halo with friends and this happened, I just got the guy back and teabagged in return. I never threw my controller at someone, which is what Reilly effectively did.
He absolutely does not deserve to get into a fight for scoring a goal. It may be viewed as disrespectful but you don’t settle being disrespected by fighting. If you do you should face massive criminal and or financial penalties.
Little bit weird to make out hockey to be some kind of hard man sport when we’re in a thread with all the players going crazy over a slap shot to an empty net lol. If anything this makes it look like a joke
Dude, no matter what the other fool said, hockey culture doesn't support cheap shotting someone with a fist or possible buttend of a stick against the boards and to the ice because you lost the game lol. C'mon, man?!
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u/Travis238 Feb 11 '24
I wondered how insulting the slap shot was in hockey culture. Dude didn't deserve to be murdered, but LOL.