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[greenrebellion]

Christ, always infuriates me when other teams goalies stonewall us but play like feces versus rivals (see Emery, Ray).

Bryz is coming off a shutout and has been playing well of late.

[redwingfan19]

who is the derp between the benches?

[wingsfan4795]

AHHAHHAHAH the flyers telecasts shows the hartnell hit on smith as hit of the game.

Everyone else sees the kronwall hit as the hit of the year

69%

[Detroit # 1 Fan]

******* Rindalo. I'd love to see someone punch his lights outs

[Jeff6851]

Babcock doesn't want to rush players back. Uh, we kinda NEED players back

[edicius]

The vulnerability aspect of this hit is no different than any other Kronwall hit. Im not using that as defense for the hit, but I don't know that Shanny can use that as the principle reason for enforcing a suspension.
I have to watch to replay again, but Kronner commits to his hits pretty early on and that poses a problem in these situations. When he commits to his hit, it's usually while the puck is in mid pass along the boards to the winger. Theres a good second or two as Kronwall transfers his momentum from skating backwards to skating into the zone. if a player presents his head in front of his body, eyes only in the puck after getting the puck, kronwall is already on top of him. If we give the winger the benefit here, and say kronwall can still pull up and avoid the hit, the winger gets a breakaway because at this point all of kronwall's momentum is going the opposite direction of the play, and hes pinched in from the blue line. Letting up on a hit in those situations would lead to breakaways.
For Kronwall when he decides to engage in the process of starting the hit, he either commits to the hit and risk the injury and the suspension if he happens to never put his head up, or avoid the hit and give the winger an excellent scoring opp.
The way the rules are set up really discourage these types of hits (not headshots but hitting wingers as they approach the blue line). I never really thought about it before this instance because everyone up until this point ( at least since the rules cracked down) got their head up in time to avoid getting it blasted off their body.

Well said, well said.

[SiLkK19]

voracek hit the ice and his arms came up like he was superman!! wow, nice clean hit, i know there was head contact but voracek looked up and still put his head down

Lmao he did get supermaned!

[syntax]

Wow, what af****** bulls*** whistle on that play. Bryz being a douchebag.

[Detroit # 1 Fan]

Quick whistle and no goal. f*** the Flyers

[redwingfan19]

hahahah briere with the flop

[irishock]

Babcock doesn't want to rush players back. Uh, we kinda NEED players back

Exactly. We're not winning s*** with the 4th seed in the playoffs.

[hankzet40]

Bryz is coming off a shutout and has been playing well of late.

Moreso meant Emery beats the Wings and plays great but chooses to go back to his 3.00 GAA self after.

[Hockeytown0001]

Looks like Bryz is pissed at his teammates.

[wingsfan4795]

Bryzgalov should be very forgiving considering the s***show he's put on this season

[Jeff6851]

Flyers would have scored three times on that

[sputman]

Looks like Bryz is pissed at his teammates.

i missed it, what happened?

mick said something about "showing up his teammates?"

[wingsfan4795]

Haha Mick just called him a sieve

[Hockeytown0001]

i missed it, what happened?

mick said something about "showing up his teammates?"

Stopped the puck after a Flyers turnover and then slammed his stick on the ice as if to say "WTF DEFENSE?!?"

[redwashington2000]

Cleary + FRUNZEN whatever hisf****** name is = OOOOOOOf****** PROFESSIONALS

[wingsfan4795]

Good