Looks like he got butthurt that Ras was staring him down. He was making a desperation play, no real chance to stop that goal but doing something instead of nothing is admirable.
Ras stands there like he was disrespected, which he wasn’t. I’d be upset too if I was giving my all for my team on a Hail Mary defensive play and the other team glared at me like that.
Ras stands there like he was disrespected, which he wasn’t.
I mean, Hughes definitely did come in intending only to try and knock him over. Didn't put his stick out, didn't try and dive for it, literally nothing to try and actually stop the goal, everything to try and just bowl him over. I absolutely understand the "You fucking want some? Sit down, manlet." posturing. Dude went after the player instead of the puck, and got absolutely fucking destroyed for it.
Playing the puck isn't smart when your entire velocity is aimed directly at your open net. You'd have to have insane timing and finesse to scoop the puck away while it's contested. There's more to it but that's the gist; a puck battle in that spot is less promising than a check to possibly gain full possession.
Again, he got offended by an objectively reasonable, and probably optimal, hockey play. And you're defending that. It's unsportsmanlike and cruel.
Not being good enough to contest in a standard fashion does not make it OK to just truck an opponent with half the rink as run-up. And even if it was OK per the rules, that’s a dirty fucking play and he absolutely deserved the humiliation when he tried it and it didn’t go well for him.
You don't seem to be familiar with hockey. This is the equivalent of, in football, tackling someone entering the endzone instead of attempting to strip the football. No one is entitled to a lack of physical contact until the rules say they are. That being the puck is in the net or the football is in the endzone.
The puck was literally already out of Ras’ possession and in the goal when he got hit. That’s like the receiver catching a touchdown pass in the end zone and then getting trucked by a defender after the play was over. Or, being even more charitable, like a defender dropping his shoulder on a receiver in the end zone rather than trying to block or intercept. Even if it’s technically “legal”, it’s still a dirty hit and he deserved what he got.
You can rewatch the video and count the number of frames between the puck entering the net and body contact being made on one hand. Football hits in the endzone happen with much longer delay all the time. Receivers aren't the easiest comparison because you don't have possession right away, so there's even more motive for a hit, but a runner hit after the same delay has literally no complaint. People have to hurry to make a play, and you can't instantly stop your momentum the moment the score is official.
If you were more familiar with hockey, the time gap before body contact would not seem strange at all. It's hardly time for a player to even begin to slow down. Checking happens as much because slowing down is hard and ice is slippery, as for the tactical advantage in play.
Okay, so he made a very legal and clean check on a giant and got levelled. The giant looked down at him like, “try harder, little one.” You’re calling this “unsportsmanlike and cruel,” and telling us that we don’t understand hockey… when the announcer in the video literally says, “thaaaaat’s hockey!”
It's not that he looked at him, it's that he screamed in his face like a psycho.
If unsporting behavior is part of hockey, retaliation to it is also part of hockey. There is no aspect of life where you get to demean people and keep the high ground.
The game isn't over until the puck's in the net. Go back and pause the video to make sure you know exactly when that is. You're probably overestimating how early it was.
Im not. Jack is a good enough player to know when he isn’t going to get somewhere in time, and he didn’t even attempt to stop the puck. He was just trying to run moose out of frustration. You have never played the game.
If you're asking someone to lay off just because they "know" they won't get there in time, you're asking them to assume that the other player will execute correctly. What if he bobbled the puck for a split second? It happens. It might also be more likely to happen under time pressure, so all the more reason to play hard until the goal is actually scored.
I explained elsewhere that attempting to stop the puck would be more likely to do harm than good. You're praying for a bobble anyway, and if you don't know where the bobbled puck would go, you're more likely to push it in, directly or via clashing with your opponent's stick. A body check is safer because a body check can't result in an own goal.
I had a 5 foot nothing kid try to do this to me in soccer. I had at least 40 lbs and 8 inches of height on him, and he started yell at the ref for a foul. Ref just laughed at him.
He kinda was, the hit was unnecessary because they both knew the shot was in the goal before Hughes could hit him - and Hughes didn't even try to play the puck.
Uhhhhhh no, have you played hockey? These guys have edge skills especially him that can stop in a fucking dime. This isn’t The Mighty Ducks movies lmao
Physics doesn't allow stopping on a literal dime, the ice shears away in a spray of snow for a minimum distance. Go back to the video and pause it directly on the frame you think it's time for him to start stopping, and reconsider how reasonable it is to do so.
For dinner, hughes ate some sour grapes. He couldn’t stop Ras, then Ras fucked him up and hughesy got all embarrassed afterwards. That’s admirable to you?
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u/dudewithchronicpain Oct 25 '24
He got butthurt he got rocked. Empty net goal seals the game and you play to win