Jaku Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 doubtful that he will get a suspension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimito Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 hope brown gets knocked out of the series in gm 1. he's getting away with too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DW23 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 This was the post that was in the Series thread, but lets disregard this and continue to talk about how the league is rigging the playoffs so that the Kings win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tera_ha Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Doan showed a lot more class at the end of the game by shaking hands with Darryl than a lot of the people here do. give LA some credit folks. you don't get to finals by luck alone. there was no nhl conspiracy in the series between LA and Canucks. it was as clean as it come. even LA/Blues series was cleaner than most others in eastern conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westsideconnect Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 You know I'm not going to go against the crowd here and say that shouldn't have been a penalty, because it should have been. I don't think it's quite as dirty as all of you are making it out to be though. I had gone to bed last night and missed it, but I figured I should at least watch the live replay to see how late the hit actually was. First of all there is no way Brown knows this is going to be an offside. He sees a guy cutting across the middle and an opportunity for a hit. There is barely a fraction of a second between the whistle and that hit. That collision was well on it's way to happening before the whistle blew. Was it knee-on-knee? Yea absolutely. I don't think he stuck his knee out that badly though. Brown went to make a hit and the way they collided their knees knocked instead of their bodies. If I put myself in the shoes of Doan, Yandle and the rest of the Coyotoes I would have done the exact same thing but I have to say I don't think this is a suspendable hit with dirty intentions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobble Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Don't see it as a real "knee-hunting" hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
î мцšт вяздк чфµ Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 http://www.nhlwheelofjustice.com/ My spin got him a palty fine. Let's see if this is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
î мцšт вяздк чфµ Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Kings advance to Stanley Cup final with OT goal just seconds after Dustin Brown's controversial hit By Email GLENDALE, Ariz. – The hockey handshake line might be the most surreal thing in sports, men missing teeth congratulating other men missing teeth for knocking the ever-living hell out of each other for a series. It's also a custom that metes out justice in the form of respect, or lack thereof. So as the Phoenix Coyotes skated by Dustin Brown after the Los Angeles Kings eliminated them 4-1 in the Western Conference final, they did so without so much as a nod of congratulations. He was going to the Stanley Cup final; they were going home, which hurt all the more because of what Brown had done barely five minutes earlier. Locked in a fierce 3-3 tie that had worked its way to overtime, the Kings and Coyotes spent nearly 80 minutes trading punch after punch – one trying to knock the other out, the other trying to stay alive. With just 2:30 to go in the extra period, Coyotes defenseman Michal Rozsival streaked across the blue line heading toward the Kings zone when Brown laid into him with a borderline bodycheck that left Rozsival sprawled on the ice. Rozsival's teammates immediately pounced on Brown, the crowd inside Jobing.com Arena screamed for a penalty and the referees did nothing. Twelve seconds later, Dustin Penner deposited a rebound into the back of the Coyotes net, and just like that it was over. The Kings mobbed Penner, the stunned Coyotes barked at the referees and the fans pelted the ice with debris. "When Brown gets away with a hit like that after the whistle, knee on knee – if Raffi Torres gets 25 games, this guy should be done forever," said Phoenix goalie Mike Smith, referring to the Coyotes winger who was suspended for a head shot on Chicago star Marian Hossa earlier in the playoffs. Brown, of course, saw things differently. [Related: Coyotes' Smith, Doan irate over Game 5 officiating] "Rozsival is cutting through the middle and I cut across and made contact," he said. "Obviously they thought it was kneeing, it happened at high speed. I felt like I got him with my shoulder – my left side, his right side all made contact from toe to shoulder, so …" Dustin Brown reacts alongside a referee after Brown checked Michal Rozsival. (Getty Images)So … what will Brendan Shanahan do now? The NHL's disciplinarian faces a tough call: Does he suspend Brown, the Kings captain and best player in these playoffs, for part or all of the Stanley Cup final, or does he let it go as a clean, hard hit? The Brown hit all but erases from the discussion what, to that point, had been the very reason sport is worth watching – real drama, not scripted, played out in a second-by-second ebb and flow of emotion that hinged on the result of every single shot. And in this game there were 92 of them. Three times the game was tied; four times the lead changed. The longest either team trailed was seven minutes. There was the shocker, courtesy of Taylor Pyatt's goal four minutes in that had the Kings starting to wonder if that 3-0 series lead could really slip away. There was the savior, a shorthanded goal from Anze Kopitar on a Coyotes power play that, moments earlier, had Jonathan Quick standing on his head – literally. There was the go-ahead from L.A.'s Mike Richards late in the second period and the equalizer from Phoenix defenseman Keith Yandle less than two minutes later. [Related: Kings, Coyotes in hostile handshake line after series] The final 23 minutes of regulation and all 17-plus minutes of overtime provided the argument to end all arguments (if there even is one) that the NHL playoffs are the best postseason going. From one end of the ice to the other was flurry of action and opportunity. There was the 5-on-3 early in the third the Kings somehow managed to survive, the Lauri Korpikoski shot that bounced off Quick's mask with barely five minutes to play, Richards' doink off Smith's face three minutes later, Jeff Carter's blast with a second left in regulation that buried itself into Smith's gut, all of which prompted a collective sigh of relief inside Jobing – for a brief 15-minute intermission anyway. Breath in, breath out, depending on who you're rooting for and where the puck is. This is how it is when one play will determine the fate of your season, and why the hit Brown laid on Rozsival was so pivotal. There the Coyotes were, arguing with the referees, feeling cheated as they watched their teammate being helped off the ice. Moments later, the puck dropped, Carter raced toward the net, fired on Smith, rebound, Penner goal. Game over. Series over. Coyotes season over in the blink of an eye. "I think so," said Yandle when asked if the hit on Rozsival distracted them on the play that followed. "Obviously, we probably let it get in our heads a little more. But you worry about your teammate, you worry about your friend, and Rosie got a bad hit and you're worried for him. It's hard not to think about it. It's a guy's career, a guy's life. It's tough to swallow right now." But they did, because that's the tradition in hockey. They lined up, shook hands with their ousters and wished all of them luck – except for one. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl--kings-advance-to-stanley-cup-final-with-ot-goal-just-seconds-after-dustin-brown-s-controversial-hit.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForsbergTheGreat Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Could've called a 5min major for kneeing. Would've if it was Kesler on Doughty. Should've made that game look a bit less rigged. Cheers. TOML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toews Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 To do that you'd have to start with the amount of power play minutes per game LA and NYR have been getting compared to other teams. Then you'd have to move on to all the things both teams have been getting away with. Hey, like this Brown hit. Then you'd have to notice their respective, reclusive owners coming out and saying that they're close to a cup. Are you kidding me? You don't even have to do anything to figure out that a NYR-LA finals is a Bettman wet dream scenario. What the NHL could do is make it look a little bit less fishy. Cheers. TOML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill-House Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 After watching it a few times, it really does look like an intentional knee. Not as blatant as the one Booth received, but it was a fast play in traffic. It also looked like an elbow to the head on the very same play. It looks a lot worse in slow motion though so the Refs must have missed it. Should have been a penalty. Don't blame the Coyotes for their reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navyblue Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I don't blame the Coyotes either. The look on Brown's face after the game right before he was to be interviewed said it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afesposit Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 http://bcove.me/jra14kx3 Doan post game speaking to media.. It's longer than what I had seen on TV previously.... He actually calls "uncle" against the refs... lol... Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucks.brad Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 what is brown supposed to do? there is less than a second reaction time. he was in stride and there is no way he could have moved out of the way. canucks fans just love to call everyone who doesnt play for the canucks dirty. gotta love it. no way does this warrant a suspension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo5789 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 what is brown supposed to do? there is less than a second reaction time. he was in stride and there is no way he could have moved out of the way. canucks fans just love to call everyone who doesnt play for the canucks dirty. gotta love it. no way does this warrant a suspension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NastiMarvasti Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 About as much time Rome had to react... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer2 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I'm starting to see a pattern with Brown. There are now a few examples of very questionable hits (at the very least borderline) starting with Hank and one in the next series that I can't quite recall on who and now with the knee on knee which IMO should have been penalized He also finds his way back to the bench very quickly after a cheap hit...... I think a Bolland or Marchant type rat is starting to reveal itself.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
We Broke The Cup Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Has anyone seen an injury report on Rozsival? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magician Posted May 25, 2012 Author Share Posted May 25, 2012 what is brown supposed to do? there is less than a second reaction time. he was in stride and there is no way he could have moved out of the way. canucks fans just love to call everyone who doesnt play for the canucks dirty. gotta love it. no way does this warrant a suspension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NastiMarvasti Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Has anyone seen an injury report on Rozsival? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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