Mathieu Perreault comments on Virtanen (interviewed in a salt mine)

[coastal.view]

i think that those wild threats about retaliation by hitting another player over the head with a stick

should be sanctioned

maybe just a fine the first time?

but this looks bad on the league when players say this

as it leaves the sense that all illegal stick play is intentional and pre planned

 

i guess the only good thing coming out of this

is that if mp ever does anything like what he has threatened

he will be facing criminal charges

won't matter that the event happened on the ice during an nhl game

it is a premeditated crime

Edited January 16, 2020 by coastal.view

[xereau]

Was a crappy play by Jake. He should have been fined, at the least.

 

Player safety, my ass, indeed.

 

It's pretty sad players have to go behind the league to sh*t talk it.

 

And he will be the one getting fined, most likely.

 

Pathetic bush mafia league.

[Nave]

Looks to me that Virtanen was jus bracing for contact. Could have hit him a lot harder if he wanted too. Perreault is a pussay 

[Chickenspear]

7 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said:

It was 15 past Perrault's bedtime.

Happened in the split second between him being a little b&#*& and a whiny little b&$#(

Edited January 16, 2020 by Chickenspear

[Squamfan]

9 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said:

So will Colin Campbell get involved here? I seem to remember that loathsome turd showing up in Vancouver after Gudbranson stated that Matt Martin was dead, and lecturing the team on retribution pre-game.

 

Guddy's comments weren't directly to a reporter at all, merely overheard by Dan Murphy who proceeded to air it on Twitter, like an idiot.

 

Seeing as how Perreault was speaking to a reporter directly, therefore effectively quoting him, and stated that he intends on using his stick to exact retribution, this should involve, at the very least, the same level of involvement by league brass, if not more.

 

Personally, silence from the league, is a direct indicator that the Canucks are under a different set of standards and rules than other teams in the league.

it was not murph it was the tsn guy abbot

Edited January 16, 2020 by Squamfan

[DeNiro]

1 hour ago, BCNeil said:

Better off just doing it then.  He might get 2-3 games for a dirty slash.  Saying he is going to do it, then doing it, probably doubles that.  

If he swings his stick at someone’s head he’s getting 10-15 games.

 

Would love to see him try that next time.

[dpn1]

59 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Close to the same thing Getslaf did to Jake last season? 

Only Getslaf broke a rib on Jake.

[DeNiro]

6 minutes ago, xereau said:

Was a crappy play by Jake. He should have been fined, at the least.

 

Player safety, my ass, indeed.

 

It's pretty sad players have to go behind the league to sh*t talk it.

 

And he will be the one getting fined, most likely.

 

Pathetic bush mafia league.

A minor penalty at the very most. Nowhere close to fineable.

 

Im glad the league isn’t overreacting to every little hit. The league has gotten way too soft as it is.

[PhillipBlunt]

1 minute ago, Squamfan said:

it was not murph it was the tsn guy abbot

I remember seeing a Twitter post by Murphy shortly after the game. If it was Abbott, I'll amend the original post about it.

[JoshuaGuy]

5 minutes ago, xereau said:

Was a crappy play by Jake. He should have been fined, at the least.

 

Player safety, my ass, indeed.

 

It's pretty sad players have to go behind the league to sh*t talk it.

 

And he will be the one getting fined, most likely.

 

Pathetic bush mafia league.

I see it differently. Virt picked a line on the puck. It got punched out to the middle and he saw Perreault coming straight at him and braced. Didn't elbow, didn't skate into him and didn't jump. He extended elbow after contact. Nothing play and Perreault is fine. Needs to shut his yap. 

[Squamfan]

4 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said:

I remember seeing a Twitter post by Murphy shortly after the game. If it was Abbott, I'll amend the original post about it.

it was abbot tweeted it right after

[dpn1]

46 minutes ago, rychicken said:

I haven't seen violence like that since All Star Wrestling in the mid 80's...

My Grandma used to take me to All Star Wrestling when I was a kid.  Lots of fond memories with my Grandma.  Thanks for reminding me of those good memories.  

[xereau]

10 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

A minor penalty at the very most. Nowhere close to fineable.

 

Im glad the league isn’t overreacting to every little hit. The league has gotten way too soft as it is.

He targeted the guy's jaw heh.. I am not being a homer on this one. Was dirty.

[DeNiro]

6 minutes ago, xereau said:

He targeted the guy's jaw heh.. I am not being a homer on this one. Was dirty.

You know he targeted it?

 

Looks to me like his elbows were down and he was just bracing himself for a collision.

 

Accidental and definitely not predatory.

[JoshuaGuy]

Someone needs to find a different angle lol. I haven't seen anything that showed his elbow up before contact. 

[theo5789]

Have to wonder what the reaction would be here had someone hit Baertschi (concussion history) in a similar fashion. I think it's an overreaction by Perreault, but I can see why he would be upset in the heat of the moment towards player safety. He acknowledges that he's the "smallest guy on the ice", so he has to know the disadvantages of being a player of his stature where bigger players will catch him (by accident too) sometimes. You don't get an advantage of player safety because you're smaller. The league has already made it easier to allow skillful smaller players to excel in this league.

[xereau]

2 hours ago, Shift-4 said:

you can't brace yourself any more?

You can see him finish up and through where the head is/was. I don't like the hit.

[hlinkas wrister]

12 minutes ago, xereau said:

He targeted the guy's jaw heh.. I am not being a homer on this one. Was dirty.

Targeted the jaw? You can look at the hit frame by frame from the sportsnet feed in the large vid player top of article. Jake had his arm tight to his side and only raised his arm after he hit him. 100% a penalty for interference, 100% not worth a dime or a second look by dpos. The only thing I take umbrage with is Jake not shedding mitts with Wheeler after and putting the whole thing to bed.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/jets-perreault-calls-nhl-failing-punish-canucks-virtanen/

 

Edited January 16, 2020 by hlinkas wrister

[DeNiro]

3 minutes ago, JoshuaGuy said:

Someone needs to find a different angle lol. I haven't seen anything that showed his elbow up before contact. 

It was the follow through that makes it looks worse than it was. 
 

Perrault is just whining cause he’s mad Jake caught him with his head down.

 

The lesson should be to keep your head up, not that it’s okay for him to two hand a guy now.

[xereau]

1 minute ago, DeNiro said:

It was the follow through that makes it looks worse than it was. 
 

Perrault is just whining cause he’s mad Jake caught him with his head down.

 

The lesson should be to keep your head up, not that it’s okay for him to two hand a guy now.

The follow through, up and where the head is/was should signal some intent. Jake is not the innocent altar boy being portrayed here heheh.