Love to see Cousins get destroyed afterwards, whimpering on the ground like a kicked puppy. And before anyone clutches their pearls, there's a Grand Canyon of a difference to me between the Cousins hit which could have done some SERIOUS damage, and Gudbranson getting after him when he knew what was going on. Had Gudbranson delivered a cross check I'd be less inclined to side with him.
The hit was clean, Gudbranson looked at Cousins before the hit was made, and it wasn't a hit from behind he made contact shoulder to shoulder. He was bleeding cause, his nose hit the spot between the glass and the boards. It was a clean hit that Gubranson made into something he will be suspended for.
@KevinBrevin that is called boarding. Also it's a hit to the head. Also it's delivered on a player in a vulnerable position. Also it's on a player who has a reputation for being pretty tough. Not the type to embellish. Not a fan of either of these teams. But you should lay off the meth bud. That stuff ain't healthy for ya.
@@KevinBrevin Guy wasn't near his shoulder, 0:50 or 0:44 take your pick, his hit the nametag. Also Gudbranson never looked at Cousins, he looked at #9 ya goof.
I take Gudbransons side for sure. Cousins should’ve been booted after that hit. And he acted like a coward afterward. What’s with the Panthers and dirty hits!? Mike Matheson and Petterson a few years ago…
I’m so glad guys like Gudbranson are still in the league. Cousins has always been sneaky dirty player, glad he got his ass handed to him. Once again a player makes a dirty hit but is too soft to stand up for what they did so decides to turtle up like a baby begging for his mother.
what do you mean? guys that can't skate and then are too hot headed to square up? I'm pretty sure most of the comments who likes that he jumped cousins were born deep into the 90s
Hey Cousins deserved every bit of payback and then some ….no guts to stand up for himself, turtle like the coward he is- not impressed with him but he fits his dirty character reputation @@beepboopbleep3695
Yeah cause having your face near the ice, getting pounded in the back of the head repeatedly, is easy to defend yourself. Guddy was the one with 7 minutes of penalties, and Cousins doing what he did by "turtling" got nothing which was the smart move. Possibly different outcome of game had he fought back
A terrible angle is that players are going to see Gubrandson basically punished for not staying down and waiting until the major gets called. I see players pop up literally at the moment the ref finishes his call so many times, and players will absolutely continue to lay on the ice to bait more and longer penalties.
This. Like, if how long a guy lies on the ice is the criteria, thats a shitty way to do it. If im leveled and im not seriously hurt im getting up and pounding some flesh, teammates help or not. It was a dangerous hit and thats it. Major penalty for the hit, and the way things are going in the NHL right now, automatic ejection. Let the players know that wont be tolerated. Dont know why the league has to wait for someone to almost die to get smart about this. SMH.
Last year I swear pietrangelo lumberjack slash was only a game cause drai is a tough bastard, shook it off, and stayed in the game. If he goes down the tunnel it would’ve been more.
I'm a Panthers fan and I can't stand Cousins. He's terrible and needs to go, needed to a long time ago. I can't wait to see Samoskevich come up from the AHL. Yes, the team instigates, they are pushy and annoying to other teams. But they don't, as a team, go out there and try to hurt people. I can absolutely see why people don't like them, but I do.
Give Gudbranson a medal. We have an NHL where it seems everyone waits to see what the refs will do when someone plays dirty. I'm glad to see someone doling out some justice where justice is due. I'm glad to see he defended himself with the gloves off, too. It is shameful that Cousins didn't fight back. Good on Gudbranson being the real hockey player.
If we still had enforcers this kind of nonsense would be less of a problem. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...FAFO...whatever. There were still plenty of cheap shots back in the day, but you could bet you would pay a price with your body afterward.
As a hockey fan since the hallowed days of the Broad Street Bullies, I'd say that was a 5 minute major AND match penalty if I ever saw one. Cousins has been a marginal player for his entire career, and he did himself no favors by pulling that cheap shot. I don't care if he has a clean record or not, he should be facing a multiple-game suspension. Gudbranson didn't act very smart, either, but I can understand his frustration after the officials totally blew that call. What the hell is going on with the refs? The quality of officiating, as has been noted in numerous recent commentaries, has gone in the toilet this season, and something needs to be done about it before things get even more out of hand.
then you don't know the difference between a minor and a major penalty : if he hit him with a crosscheck in the middle of the back and drove him into the boards it would rate a major but as he hit him with a shoulder in the arm pit shoulder area and was spun around so that he hit the boards and Gubranson with his back it only rates a minor penalty
doubt you are a serious hockey fan and surely you probably never played the game, there is no antilock brakes on the ice, as to your marginal player comment? Clueless as to what it takes to make a high school team never the less the NHL. Hockey the last sport the Karen's have left to conquer. but by all means as a believer of free speech keep trying.
The referee crisis has turned the NHL into a laughing stock. Will Betman do anything about it? Not likely. But he really has to go. At this point, every game played is won and lost by the refs. It doesn't matter which team is playing better when, through missed calls and wrong calls, the refs are deciding the outcome of the game.
@@billkurkjian7865 this I totally disagree with, yes should’ve been five but if u watched that game CBJ was 0-2 on PP with 2 shots, could they score on a 5 min Major yes but also could that not score also yes. The refs didn’t throw this game away Erik did with a 7 min power play, you can’t lose your emotion like that. Have a goon do it be more smart about it. if they just play the third period out I bet they tie it.
That conversation with the ref and Tkachuk went something like: Tkachuk "no way you are giving my guy 17 minutes he didn't even fight back" Ref: "No, we are giving their guy 17 and your guy gets nothing" Tkachuk "Seriously?" Ref: "Yeah the league office informed us during that boarding review that the Draft Kings gambling odds have Cousins on an over/under of 2.5 PIMs so we can't give him anymore penalties and Gudbranson needed at least 4 PIMs and Columbus needs 16 PIMs as a team. Toronto wanted us to give Gudbranson a major for getting boarded face first and bleeding all over the ice but we thought that was too obvious. It worked out though." Tkachuk: "Is this why the cap is going up next season?" Ref: "No it's off the books and straight to the owners. Cap is because Bettman sold out the fans and signed huge deals with the 2 partners literally no one wanted: Fanatics and ESPN."
Yeah, I was watching the Columbus feed where you have the one and only Jody Shelley as the color commentator. He was calling this from a mile away as well. I agree, 5 minute major and I don't think any self-policing happens. Maybe more finished checks, but nothing like this.
Refs are not calling anything but the piddly shit that's why. Idk maybe the they are being instructed to let these majors go to stoke the fires and heat things up. Seems dangerous. Seems like they never miss the SUPER minot hooking calls but love to let the headhunters go off with a warning. Unless it's in retaliation then it's "woah you can't do that." Well what did you expect you out here letting star players get crosscheck in the back of the head all game long.
@@Gas_Station_Tampons But....that's not what this video is about. Stay on subject. Or just talk about things that you know about, like tampons, being a douchebag, etc.
It should have been boarding if that was the proper call. Just because the one guy got up and went after him, does not make it not a boarding call. This is what happens when you get refs not making the right call when they should be.
They called it as a boarding, just a minor boarding through. Like, the same severity for punishing a boarding when the player accidentally bumps someone who turns the wrong way to show the numbers and is off balance while both players are stationary. If that is 2 minutes, and they are penalizing Cousins' boarding with the same punishment, anyone could see where a player would be left feeling like things need to be settled.
I was at the game and that should've stayed a major and all of the aftermath would not have happened. The officials were terrible and at one point a linesman literally threw down Cole Sillinger because they ran into each other on his way back to the bench.
Was also there and I remembered thinking to myself “huh it’s weird knowing who is on Florida that there hasn’t been a single penalty or even really any scrum yet” and immediately after that hit happened.
That's the whole Panthers roster. Tkachuk is literally the same, Bennett, etc. The only two guys I respect from the Panthers roster are Barkov and Bobrovsky. The rest are all rats.
@@scottymascotty8692 Verhaeghe, sure. I mean, the guy plays well and is not dirty like the majority of the roster. Reinhart I've seen take some cheap shots, but it is rarer. The other I don't even remember who he is, so that's a good thing coming from this team lol
When is the NHL going to do something about the horrible officiating in this sport? A blatant hit from behind gets nothing but punch a guy in the helmet, when he’s down and you get a huge suspension. What a joke
It's hard to say that hockey is still mostly skill with a bit of luck, now its 50/50 since refs are calling basically anything that even resembles an infraction, and they can strike at any time.
Def on Gudbranson’s side here. But I don’t get why his teammates didn’t jump in to defend him. Like Provorov is right there and he doesn’t move in until after Gudbranson does. I’m not saying drop the gloves, but idk it’s a weird look to just play the puck like nothing happened after your teammate takes a bad hit that leaves them on the ice right in front of you.
Johnny Hockey was in there throwing punches and fantilli was pushing and shoving but yea.... When Guddy Turtled Cousins the 2nd time Silly was the only other one throwing
Should've gotten a harsher penalty than a 2 minute minor. I understand why the guy being tackled against the boards did revenge for it, but you gotta think about the advantage of the team over all.
Cousins hit could have seriously injure Gudbranson. But also Gudbranson's paypack could have ended Cousins hurting his neck or getting concussion. Refs did horrible job here.
@@BramStoked-uq4hp Cousins hit was a game situation, sure it was boarding but those hits happen sometimes with high-speed hockey. What Gudbranson did however has nothing to do with hockey.
@@BramStoked-uq4hpthere’s no way 😂 … that was boarding and that was grabbing someone’s head, throwing them on the ice and punching the back of their head. Two different things there
In any sport, if there is excessive violence I tend to blame the refs because it is their job to ensure the game is fair and safe. If they don't care to do that, or aren't capable, then we see more fighting and the players will start to push against the limits of what is allowed.
When erik grabbed nick after there was an innocent little girl that had the pitchfork mentality and started smacking the glass cheering him on lol... that little girl is a savage
All could've been avoided if a) Refs call a major on Cousins or b) Cousins takes the beating immediately after. Instead you get worst case scenario where Gudbranson has to wait and gets likely more angry and arguably couldve ended Cousins career punching him the back of the head repeatedly. I think the only side you can take is the NHL needs to do more to get dangerous hits out of the game.
They have a rule to take dangerous hits out of the game. It's the refs calling a 5 minute major with a game misconduct/match penalty which leads to a hearing. The refs didn't do that. They literally didn't call the rule to take dangerous hits out of the game. There's nothing more the NHL can do except get better officials.
McAvoy gets suspended for four games for elbowing Ehkman-Larson. Larson stays down for dramatic effect and misses no time. There was never any way that that hit was going to do the kind of damage that Cousin's hit could have done to Gubrandson and yet no match penalty on the play? Florida is goon hockey and the refs are the worst they have ever been. They constantly get it wrong including in the Bertuzzi/Moore incident. Moore elbows Naslund in the head as Naslund loses his edge, clearly intentionally and needlesly. No call on the play and Naslund is gone, concussed and out for signifcant time as the concussion is not his first. No call, Bertuzzi decides that he has to exact justice since the refs don't. The refs and the league get it wrong every time and are responsible for many of the retaliation injuries that follow.
McAvoy clearly deserved what he got. It had nothing to do with the play of the game, it was a cheap shot for cheap shot's sake. The Bertuzzi hit was one of the lowest of all low cheap shots in the history of hockey. Only a few attacks are in that category. This one cousins hit follows through with his back. Not a way to drive a guy whine you are skating the same direction. You could make an argument either way. Charlie's there was no argument and none was made. He didn't mean it is not an argument. He took his suspension and moved on.
Panthers fan here. I can tell you that the absolute vast majority of the fanbase cannot stand him and don't want him on the team. He's awful. That was clearly a major for boarding. He was in the wrong and Gudbranson was in the wrong for the way he responded. Can't board someone, and can't take someone down like it's the UFC. I mean, Gub was a Panther for many seasons. I have nothing against him at all. Both players can be in the wrong - and the Refs were so damned inconsistent this week, like especially bad. Something needs to change.
Clearly? It was reviewed and downgraded. Probably because the hit was made with his back. So clearly ain't so. Gudgransson put his revenge over the team. Likely why a guy with so much promise has been mediocre is whole career.
Another Panthers fan here. What Gudbranson did was possibly more dangerous than Cousins hit. He did not gave Cousins much of a chance to actually fight. By the way, they are both replacement level players now, so this topic is a bit overblown.
Bad hit. Hard to say it was intentional although strome didn't make any evasive action. Atleast Strome was man enough to drop the gloves for it unlike cousins.
@RIS3N1 i rewatched the replay from a birds eye angle and you're right it was definitely intentional. From the first angle i saw it looked like a collision but from the above view you can see Strome swerve a bit towards Connor and leave the knee hanging wide.
Did Maurice already whined about that? Or, my bad, I forgot, he's whining only when refs doing their job. Gudbranson did a good job, I would like to see him doing that for longer to Cousins so he will think twice next time.
@@mariokartmatt51 nope. Just got eyes, and tired to see Bettman give these southern teams all sorts of avantages. Panthers got in the playoffs last year only because of games where penalty minutes ended 2-31, 24-48 and 12-52. All In their last 12games alone, no wonder they clutch a playoff spot huh. What a miracle run
I wonder what would happen if Florida got the calls they should be getting. It happened throughout their run to the finals last year too. Greasy play after greasy play.
If it was someone else than a tough guy like Gudbranson, it would have been a misconduct for Cousins. Typical guy that acts tough just because his line mates will back him up. Still a dirty play.
I think the hit wasn’t meant to be head, looked like he was trying to go shoulder to shoulder but Gub#44 keeps his back turned which the nhl needs to do something about because players know how to draw penalties like this
Perhaps the worst case of mismanagement was the Good Friday brawl between Montreal and Quebec (City) in 1984 though, to where the NHL effectively fired the referee.
since it was originally called a major, that means the league looked at the play and deemed it to only be a 2-min, no? So i think it's unfair to say "refs are to blame" when it should be league is to blame
The league only looks at any incidents after the game, they don't review them during the game, only the refs review the replay footage so they are to blame for the outcome as they blew the call.
Ref screwed up the call on the hit but Gubranson has to maintain control of his emotions. Once Cozens saw Gubranson "lose it" he was in perfect situation to play the "rat" role and try to draw more penalties and he was very successful. Like it or not you have to stay in control of your emotions or the other team will take advantage.
We need to see fines/punishments for refs. Sometimes their missed calls cause injuries, ala Larkin or Luke Hughes. It's forming a pattern that puts players at risk. Just because Gudbranson got up and started going after the guy doesn't make it any less of a dangerous play, you're right Eck. Neither player here is a goon. Gudbranson is just a little more old school tough and got up and fought back. Look how the Columbus fans reacted, they loved it. They fucked loooveed it. Good on Gudbranson. I think Cousins was frustrated more than anything but that's what happens when refs don't use their discretion properly. It's becoming a huge issue in the NHL. They have fucking video review and time to assess the situation on the ground and they are failing. Luke Hughes was just a missed icing and thankfully he wasn't hurt, but holy shit NHL. This is what can happen and these new school fourth line grinders are running into bottom pairing old school guys and it's going to cause shit like this. Cousins should have gotten the five and the game misconduct which would have put CBJ on a 5 minute uninterrupted PP instead of FLA getting a fucking full sevens minutes on the PP. Refs pull this shit and the entire game suffers. Larkin was more of an example of how I think the refs should have been screaming for trainers way way earlier before Perron even had time to go after the other guy.
You won't get any sort of situation of refs being openly penalised for their performance outside of not being kept on to ref any further series during the playoffs. If the league openly started to publicise any punishments for the refs' performance then it will cause reputation issues for the league based on frequency of conduct issues and you'll get refs not wanting to continue working for the nhl if they know any mistakes will be reported on publicly. Would you want to work for a company that publicly posts every time you fuck up at your job on social media or it got reported on in the news? There was nothing the refs could really do in the Larkin incident as it all happened in the time it took for Zub to get to his feet and gesture to the officials before he got hit by Perron, nobody could've known what Perron was going to do and reacted to it fast enough to stop it.
NHL is by far the worst officiated major sport. Refs are often in the same picture frame of the offense and screw up the call. There is also no consistency with calls throughout the league.
Haven't you noticed? Every time something happens with Panthers players, it's just an "unfortunate accident". The opposite doesn't work, it's always "extremely dirty play, needs to be suspended for the rest of the season"
Refs are destroying the game they have no clue... all about money.... Florida is allowed to do what they want... that's why there playoffs run last year was good... help by refs and bettman
Looks like 5 and a game misconduct to me. Hoglander of the Canucks got 5 and a game for slue foot a few weeks back, nowhere near as vicious or dangerous as that hit.
Gudbranson and Olivier are literally the big tough guys on CBJ roster. IDK how many more tough guys you can fit on the roster we already have enough of a log jam for most positions
Part of the issue is the text in the rule book leaves so much up to the individual ref as to what “excessive” violence is, and there needs to be some wiggle room but there’s no standard of what that looks like beyond personal opinion leading to wildly inconsistent calls
It's like some people have no eyes. Panthers did score, surprisingly. Gubrandson cut the corner just before the hit, they both smash in to the boards out of control. Gubrandson pretends to be hurt, hears a wistle and jumps. Refs did well, surprisingly
are people getting coached to turn their backs to bodychecks now-a-days or what? absolutely insane. man up and take a hit. few days ago one of the nhl panels for one of the games were talking about if the NHL is becoming a no-hit league. they all agreed it is, and i don't know how anybody could possibly refute it. the nhl is a joke. basically not a contact sport anymore. every single open ice hit instantly starts a brawl, and 50/50 hits against boards turns into a brawl. but one thing that definitely doesn't help the case is turning your back to the guy actively coming in to bodycheck you. you're setting yourself up for disaster, but they do it for the next PP or something, i dunno.
What's funny is that I feel that the Refs did the opposite in the Kings-Rangers game. There wasn't a lot of dirty hits in the game but once that interference/embellishment call happened, the refs decided that both teams deserved to be punished. Only after the penalties the refs gave out did we start seeing more scraps and punches thrown.
In the previous 2 seasons: Anderson on Pietrangelo, Slafkovsky on Luff, Landeskog on Dach, Coleman on Harkins, Paquette on Zegras - all got 2 games. The Cousins hit looks as bad or worse than any of those but no news of even a fine coming his way. Larkin got 1 game for his retaliation against Joseph - looks like Gudbranson is about to get 5+ for pretty much the same thing. Can anyone from DOPS explain? If this is what happens, they're basically saying a black eye and a broken nose is more concerning than a broken neck!! I feel like Gubranson should be getting 1 game, Cousins 3+ and the officials should get 5+ Also...funny how Lomberg escaped any kind of punishment for his hit on Schultz last year...
@@Gas_Station_Tamponsthey'd have to stop tracking stats and call it a different league name for a change that severe, it wouldn't be fair to the Gretzkys and record holders to allow new players to break records in a league where they can't get socked in the mouth, truly
What would the enforcer have done other than get an extra 2 and a game for instigating a fight with a guy who identifies as a fetal position when confronted?
@@Gas_Station_Tampons No they didn't, they played the same game. Go watch the NHL alumni game, the old guys wearing new equipment and new skates, they are able to keep up the same as the pros today do. Actually you are right, I think the goalie change was too severe that it causes certain stats that Brodeur had to be unattainable by future goalies. If you remove physicality from the league, that means McDavid gets to skate end to end around players like they are pylons since they cant hit him and just score. Meanwhile Gretz and Lemieux had dudes hugging on his arms whole way down the ice. So what I would say to any new player in this "future" league who breaks any records I would say it doesn't mean anything you broke that record in a pansy soft league that's way easier so the original record holder still holds more weight than you do
Panther fan here, and I agree it was a dirty hit from Cousins, can't do that to the guy on the boards, but Gudbranson should have dropped the gloves later on and if Cousins did not fight him then that's that. What Gudbranson did was uncalled for and does not need to be in the game. Can't tackle the guy to the ice and then proceed to hit him while he's down. Specially in such a close game. Not saying Cousin didn't have it coming, but not the way it needed to go down imo. It will be interesting to see what happens when the Panthers see Gudbranson again later on in the season
Refs don't let Panthers do whatever they want. Sometimes it feels like refs are against Panthers and that is what every nhl fan must feel sometimes. No referee has a bias towards certain team, let alone Panthers😂 if some ref would be bias i think it would be with a team like leafs
It feels cliche to say that reffing has been terrible this season but damn, reffing has been terrible this season. Good on Gudbranson for taking care of things. That was a dangerous hit and Cousins deserved what he got.
How the fuck are you gunna curl up in a ball like that? Granted im not a hockey fan and just kind of follow through channels like this, but I've honestly never seen that outside of soccer. Id be asking the other players if thats their boy on the Ice like that. Ask them to claim him right there
They did score on powerplay though!
You're right I must've read my notes incorrectly
Do you know what point it was in the major? I'd hate if it was after the 2:00 mark.
It was like 6 minutes in so it was the minor@@balkthor
@@KevinBrevin Can we trust you Kevin, you have a tendency to make stuff up.
There was like 30 seconds left
Love to see Cousins get destroyed afterwards, whimpering on the ground like a kicked puppy. And before anyone clutches their pearls, there's a Grand Canyon of a difference to me between the Cousins hit which could have done some SERIOUS damage, and Gudbranson getting after him when he knew what was going on. Had Gudbranson delivered a cross check I'd be less inclined to side with him.
The hit was clean, Gudbranson looked at Cousins before the hit was made, and it wasn't a hit from behind he made contact shoulder to shoulder. He was bleeding cause, his nose hit the spot between the glass and the boards. It was a clean hit that Gubranson made into something he will be suspended for.
@KevinBrevin that is called boarding. Also it's a hit to the head. Also it's delivered on a player in a vulnerable position. Also it's on a player who has a reputation for being pretty tough. Not the type to embellish.
Not a fan of either of these teams.
But you should lay off the meth bud. That stuff ain't healthy for ya.
@@KevinBrevinyou officially have no credibility and will never be taken seriously again after that laughably delusional comment. Yikes…
@@KevinBrevin Guy wasn't near his shoulder, 0:50 or 0:44 take your pick, his hit the nametag. Also Gudbranson never looked at Cousins, he looked at #9 ya goof.
@@buttkick22neither will a guy that writes Yikes
I take Gudbransons side for sure. Cousins should’ve been booted after that hit. And he acted like a coward afterward. What’s with the Panthers and dirty hits!? Mike Matheson and Petterson a few years ago…
I’m so glad guys like Gudbranson are still in the league. Cousins has always been sneaky dirty player, glad he got his ass handed to him. Once again a player makes a dirty hit but is too soft to stand up for what they did so decides to turtle up like a baby begging for his mother.
what do you mean? guys that can't skate and then are too hot headed to square up? I'm pretty sure most of the comments who likes that he jumped cousins were born deep into the 90s
Hey Cousins deserved every bit of payback and then some ….no guts to stand up for himself, turtle like the coward he is- not impressed with him but he fits his dirty character reputation @@beepboopbleep3695
Cousins learned how to turtle from tkachuck
And tkachuck learned from the og turtle, lemieux
Yeah cause having your face near the ice, getting pounded in the back of the head repeatedly, is easy to defend yourself. Guddy was the one with 7 minutes of penalties, and Cousins doing what he did by "turtling" got nothing which was the smart move. Possibly different outcome of game had he fought back
A terrible angle is that players are going to see Gubrandson basically punished for not staying down and waiting until the major gets called. I see players pop up literally at the moment the ref finishes his call so many times, and players will absolutely continue to lay on the ice to bait more and longer penalties.
This. Like, if how long a guy lies on the ice is the criteria, thats a shitty way to do it. If im leveled and im not seriously hurt im getting up and pounding some flesh, teammates help or not. It was a dangerous hit and thats it. Major penalty for the hit, and the way things are going in the NHL right now, automatic ejection. Let the players know that wont be tolerated. Dont know why the league has to wait for someone to almost die to get smart about this. SMH.
No I think this will be just like the Claude Lemieux situation
Has the "I didn't jump him, I looked him right in the eyes" kinda energy
Oliver Bjorkstrand pulled this move the other day when I was at the game. I totally fell for it, he was absolutely fine.
Last year I swear pietrangelo lumberjack slash was only a game cause drai is a tough bastard, shook it off, and stayed in the game. If he goes down the tunnel it would’ve been more.
@@balkthorAlmost like Mike Ribeiro when he faked an injury on the ice only to smile as he skated off.
Cousins has always been a punk. What a coward, too.
Many of the Panthers are
@@jeffreycairns767 Bunch o' jerks.
Yeah Florida is such a punk arse team.
That's why he's a perfect fit for the Panthers
I'm a Panthers fan and I can't stand Cousins. He's terrible and needs to go, needed to a long time ago. I can't wait to see Samoskevich come up from the AHL. Yes, the team instigates, they are pushy and annoying to other teams. But they don't, as a team, go out there and try to hurt people. I can absolutely see why people don't like them, but I do.
Give Gudbranson a medal. We have an NHL where it seems everyone waits to see what the refs will do when someone plays dirty. I'm glad to see someone doling out some justice where justice is due. I'm glad to see he defended himself with the gloves off, too. It is shameful that Cousins didn't fight back. Good on Gudbranson being the real hockey player.
Agree. He was getting revenge, nothing a ref could do.
If we still had enforcers this kind of nonsense would be less of a problem. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...FAFO...whatever. There were still plenty of cheap shots back in the day, but you could bet you would pay a price with your body afterward.
I've never seen someone turtle up so much like Cousins did after he got tackled. He was covering his face like his life depended on it
As a hockey fan since the hallowed days of the Broad Street Bullies, I'd say that was a 5 minute major AND match penalty if I ever saw one. Cousins has been a marginal player for his entire career, and he did himself no favors by pulling that cheap shot. I don't care if he has a clean record or not, he should be facing a multiple-game suspension. Gudbranson didn't act very smart, either, but I can understand his frustration after the officials totally blew that call. What the hell is going on with the refs? The quality of officiating, as has been noted in numerous recent commentaries, has gone in the toilet this season, and something needs to be done about it before things get even more out of hand.
Sports gambling is what’s going on with the refs. No way you can be that bad and it not be obvious that your blowing the calls for a reason.
Gudbrandson took care of it himself. Cousins should have been wiped out straith after he was out of penalty box by any 4th liner
then you don't know the difference between a minor and a major penalty : if he hit him with a crosscheck in the middle of the back and drove him into the boards it would rate a major but as he hit him with a shoulder in the arm pit shoulder area and was spun around so that he hit the boards and Gubranson with his back it only rates a minor penalty
@@jamesberry3230Tell me you don't know NHL rules without telling me you don't know NHL rules 😂😂😂
doubt you are a serious hockey fan and surely you probably never played the game, there is no antilock brakes on the ice, as to your marginal player comment? Clueless as to what it takes to make a high school team never the less the NHL. Hockey the last sport the Karen's have left to conquer. but by all means as a believer of free speech keep trying.
Ngl this just made me a HUGE Gubranson fan. Love how the fans immediately recognized what was happening as well.
I loved when the pens had him. I wish we still had him as we need a big bruiser defemseman
@@entheogenocide So does Seattle. Big Rig doesn’t count.
@@entheogenocidewe literally gave up everyone good
They've lost the entire season so far
So many games this year where huge incidents have happened
Every year they find a way to get worse
They pulled the same crap during the Kraken Bolts game, with Tanev in place of Gudbranson. Only cost him 2 minutes though.
this ^^^^ straight facts
Larkin...
This season has been especially terrible officiating. Larkin, this, the thrown stick during a Wings game...
The referee crisis has turned the NHL into a laughing stock. Will Betman do anything about it? Not likely. But he really has to go. At this point, every game played is won and lost by the refs. It doesn't matter which team is playing better when, through missed calls and wrong calls, the refs are deciding the outcome of the game.
@@billkurkjian7865 this I totally disagree with, yes should’ve been five but if u watched that game CBJ was 0-2 on PP with 2 shots, could they score on a 5 min Major yes but also could that not score also yes. The refs didn’t throw this game away Erik did with a 7 min power play, you can’t lose your emotion like that. Have a goon do it be more smart about it. if they just play the third period out I bet they tie it.
Pretty sure gudbranson said “I’m going after him and it’s your problem” or something like that to the ref after the hit lmao
That conversation with the ref and Tkachuk went something like:
Tkachuk "no way you are giving my guy 17 minutes he didn't even fight back"
Ref: "No, we are giving their guy 17 and your guy gets nothing"
Tkachuk "Seriously?"
Ref: "Yeah the league office informed us during that boarding review that the Draft Kings gambling odds have Cousins on an over/under of 2.5 PIMs so we can't give him anymore penalties and Gudbranson needed at least 4 PIMs and Columbus needs 16 PIMs as a team. Toronto wanted us to give Gudbranson a major for getting boarded face first and bleeding all over the ice but we thought that was too obvious. It worked out though."
Tkachuk: "Is this why the cap is going up next season?"
Ref: "No it's off the books and straight to the owners. Cap is because Bettman sold out the fans and signed huge deals with the 2 partners literally no one wanted: Fanatics and ESPN."
Caught this one live, great game to watch and knew it was going to get outa hand after Cousins only got 2
Yeah, I was watching the Columbus feed where you have the one and only Jody Shelley as the color commentator. He was calling this from a mile away as well.
I agree, 5 minute major and I don't think any self-policing happens. Maybe more finished checks, but nothing like this.
This season seems particularly unhinged for some reason lol
Refs are not calling anything but the piddly shit that's why. Idk maybe the they are being instructed to let these majors go to stoke the fires and heat things up. Seems dangerous.
Seems like they never miss the SUPER minot hooking calls but love to let the headhunters go off with a warning. Unless it's in retaliation then it's "woah you can't do that." Well what did you expect you out here letting star players get crosscheck in the back of the head all game long.
The knighys being defending champions will do that to a mf 💀
End of days.
Because the referees are failing to do their jobs. They are supposed to be policing the game.
love how cousins turtles in both altercations
@@Gas_Station_Tampons Clearly not a mental game. He's 100 percent a coward.
Best Part was Johnny Punching him several times after the 1st Hit!! Sadly he was one of the only ones who had Guddys back!!!
@@pantsarmstrong863 And won them the game. The big dumbass from columbus lost them the game by loosing his cool.
@@Gas_Station_Tampons But....that's not what this video is about. Stay on subject. Or just talk about things that you know about, like tampons, being a douchebag, etc.
It should have been boarding if that was the proper call. Just because the one guy got up and went after him, does not make it not a boarding call. This is what happens when you get refs not making the right call when they should be.
They called it as a boarding, just a minor boarding through. Like, the same severity for punishing a boarding when the player accidentally bumps someone who turns the wrong way to show the numbers and is off balance while both players are stationary. If that is 2 minutes, and they are penalizing Cousins' boarding with the same punishment, anyone could see where a player would be left feeling like things need to be settled.
I was at the game and that should've stayed a major and all of the aftermath would not have happened. The officials were terrible and at one point a linesman literally threw down Cole Sillinger because they ran into each other on his way back to the bench.
Was also there and I remembered thinking to myself “huh it’s weird knowing who is on Florida that there hasn’t been a single penalty or even really any scrum yet” and immediately after that hit happened.
@@sewerrat9086 I was thinking the same thing! I was surprised nothing really happened until the 3rd.
@@bretts7694I know right!! Voronkov and Guddy were blowing people up!!
The league has been plagued with terrible officiating this season. What a shit show.
Cousins played both situations like a coward, afraid to face the consequences of his own actions.
That's the whole Panthers roster. Tkachuk is literally the same, Bennett, etc.
The only two guys I respect from the Panthers roster are Barkov and Bobrovsky. The rest are all rats.
And he was still chirping after Guddy got Kicked!! Dudes a bitch and i wouldn't be surprised if Guddy was waiting at the Bus for Him😂
@@peacebringer8 Reinhart? Verhaeghe? Forsling?
@@scottymascotty8692 Verhaeghe, sure. I mean, the guy plays well and is not dirty like the majority of the roster. Reinhart I've seen take some cheap shots, but it is rarer. The other I don't even remember who he is, so that's a good thing coming from this team lol
i got genuine joy out of watching gudbranson jump that boy
I know right!! Dude chirped the whole time when he being a Turtle
i got joy from watching the panthers score on the pp and Cousins be fine. big dumbass lost his cool and sold tha game away.
When is the NHL going to do something about the horrible officiating in this sport? A blatant hit from behind gets nothing but punch a guy in the helmet, when he’s down and you get a huge suspension. What a joke
It's hard to say that hockey is still mostly skill with a bit of luck, now its 50/50 since refs are calling basically anything that even resembles an infraction, and they can strike at any time.
Only against certain teams while others get away it everything
and brutal when Gudbranson has to face a in person hearing for sticking up for himself. freaking brutal.
There's no way 😂
He wasn't defending himself during the zone entry. That's why he was kicked out, completely unnecessary.
@@therealjezzyc6209 Full necessary. But yes, fully warranted ejection.
It's only a phone hearing. Probably 2-3 games.
@@therealjezzyc6209two things can be true
It was a proper response to a guy breaking the code and it was a proper ejection too
Def on Gudbranson’s side here. But I don’t get why his teammates didn’t jump in to defend him. Like Provorov is right there and he doesn’t move in until after Gudbranson does. I’m not saying drop the gloves, but idk it’s a weird look to just play the puck like nothing happened after your teammate takes a bad hit that leaves them on the ice right in front of you.
Are there people on the side of curling up on the floor?
Johnny Hockey was in there throwing punches and fantilli was pushing and shoving but yea.... When Guddy Turtled Cousins the 2nd time Silly was the only other one throwing
jiricek did the same thing for a few games. kostin and gudbranson fought a game when jiricek was letting players try him.
this is the best hockey review channel, needs to have his own brodcasting network hed be goated anouncer
Should've gotten a harsher penalty than a 2 minute minor. I understand why the guy being tackled against the boards did revenge for it, but you gotta think about the advantage of the team over all.
Cousins hit could have seriously injure Gudbranson.
But also Gudbranson's paypack could have ended Cousins hurting his neck or getting concussion.
Refs did horrible job here.
Cousin’s was worse. Gudbranson mugged him to the ice. Cousin tried to drive Gudbranson through the boards.
@@BramStoked-uq4hp Cousins hit was a game situation, sure it was boarding but those hits happen sometimes with high-speed hockey. What Gudbranson did however has nothing to do with hockey.
@@BramStoked-uq4hpthere’s no way 😂 … that was boarding and that was grabbing someone’s head, throwing them on the ice and punching the back of their head. Two different things there
@@FLGirly if cozens would have manned up it never would have come to that, period,🐢
@@willie9397 Cousins* you don’t even know his name. But yea you sure are a “hockey fan” 🫣😂
In any sport, if there is excessive violence I tend to blame the refs because it is their job to ensure the game is fair and safe. If they don't care to do that, or aren't capable, then we see more fighting and the players will start to push against the limits of what is allowed.
When erik grabbed nick after there was an innocent little girl that had the pitchfork mentality and started smacking the glass cheering him on lol... that little girl is a savage
The NHL doesnt care about the mistakes the refs make. They know it creates clicks and drives attention from the consumer.
NHL, like all pro-sport in USA, is primarily about money. Circus and bread for tax-slaves.
"They know it creates clicks" stfu. No league thinks this way, only idiots do.
All could've been avoided if a) Refs call a major on Cousins or b) Cousins takes the beating immediately after. Instead you get worst case scenario where Gudbranson has to wait and gets likely more angry and arguably couldve ended Cousins career punching him the back of the head repeatedly. I think the only side you can take is the NHL needs to do more to get dangerous hits out of the game.
not going to end a career punching the back of a helmet of a turtle
They have a rule to take dangerous hits out of the game. It's the refs calling a 5 minute major with a game misconduct/match penalty which leads to a hearing. The refs didn't do that. They literally didn't call the rule to take dangerous hits out of the game. There's nothing more the NHL can do except get better officials.
Will you make a video like this regarding the Evander Kane hit on Brodin into the boards similar to this hit.
McAvoy gets suspended for four games for elbowing Ehkman-Larson. Larson stays down for dramatic effect and misses no time. There was never any way that that hit was going to do the kind of damage that Cousin's hit could have done to Gubrandson and yet no match penalty on the play? Florida is goon hockey and the refs are the worst they have ever been. They constantly get it wrong including in the Bertuzzi/Moore incident. Moore elbows Naslund in the head as Naslund loses his edge, clearly intentionally and needlesly. No call on the play and Naslund is gone, concussed and out for signifcant time as the concussion is not his first. No call, Bertuzzi decides that he has to exact justice since the refs don't. The refs and the league get it wrong every time and are responsible for many of the retaliation injuries that follow.
McAvoy clearly deserved what he got. It had nothing to do with the play of the game, it was a cheap shot for cheap shot's sake. The Bertuzzi hit was one of the lowest of all low cheap shots in the history of hockey. Only a few attacks are in that category. This one cousins hit follows through with his back. Not a way to drive a guy whine you are skating the same direction. You could make an argument either way. Charlie's there was no argument and none was made. He didn't mean it is not an argument. He took his suspension and moved on.
Look at that, a Bruins fan being dumb as bricks again!
Panthers fan here. I can tell you that the absolute vast majority of the fanbase cannot stand him and don't want him on the team. He's awful. That was clearly a major for boarding. He was in the wrong and Gudbranson was in the wrong for the way he responded. Can't board someone, and can't take someone down like it's the UFC. I mean, Gub was a Panther for many seasons. I have nothing against him at all. Both players can be in the wrong - and the Refs were so damned inconsistent this week, like especially bad. Something needs to change.
Clearly? It was reviewed and downgraded. Probably because the hit was made with his back. So clearly ain't so. Gudgransson put his revenge over the team. Likely why a guy with so much promise has been mediocre is whole career.
Another Panthers fan here. What Gudbranson did was possibly more dangerous than Cousins hit. He did not gave Cousins much of a chance to actually fight. By the way, they are both replacement level players now, so this topic is a bit overblown.
Do you have any plans to make a video on the Kyle Connor/Strome Knee on Knee Hit? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Bad hit. Hard to say it was intentional although strome didn't make any evasive action. Atleast Strome was man enough to drop the gloves for it unlike cousins.
@deemid7017 Hard to say it's intentional? You sure you're watching the right clip?
@RIS3N1 i rewatched the replay from a birds eye angle and you're right it was definitely intentional. From the first angle i saw it looked like a collision but from the above view you can see Strome swerve a bit towards Connor and leave the knee hanging wide.
@EckHockey could you do a comparison of this boarding to the robinson boarding call 2 days ago?
Did Maurice already whined about that? Or, my bad, I forgot, he's whining only when refs doing their job. Gudbranson did a good job, I would like to see him doing that for longer to Cousins so he will think twice next time.
You stated that it was an. Illegal hit, yet you never explain why.
Florida are so used to preferential treatment. A penalty getting reduced wont help that
Toronto fan spotted
@mariokartmatt51 Why's he a Toronto fan? Florida has got away with murder for a couple years now, except again the Knights. I wonder why that is?
@@mariokartmatt51*person with common sense I think is what you meant
Are you saying that in Vegas the nhl rigged Vegas to win@@jeffreycairns767
@@mariokartmatt51 nope. Just got eyes, and tired to see Bettman give these southern teams all sorts of avantages. Panthers got in the playoffs last year only because of games where penalty minutes ended 2-31, 24-48 and 12-52. All In their last 12games alone, no wonder they clutch a playoff spot huh. What a miracle run
Oilers fan here with no interest in either team, but man if your buddy gets crunched like that you HAVE to drop the gloves. That’s not okay at all
I wonder what would happen if Florida got the calls they should be getting. It happened throughout their run to the finals last year too. Greasy play after greasy play.
Yup, except again Bettman's Knights
2 min? That’s crazy
That hit could be a ejection at the least in my opinion maybe even a suspension
NHL officials are getting worst each season. Wonder how you could apply, I feel with a year training most people could do a better job.
If it was someone else than a tough guy like Gudbranson, it would have been a misconduct for Cousins. Typical guy that acts tough just because his line mates will back him up. Still a dirty play.
Florida going crazy with the line brawls this season
I think the hit wasn’t meant to be head, looked like he was trying to go shoulder to shoulder but Gub#44 keeps his back turned which the nhl needs to do something about because players know how to draw penalties like this
The line's man's hit was just awesome
Perhaps the worst case of mismanagement was the Good Friday brawl between Montreal and Quebec (City) in 1984 though, to where the NHL effectively fired the referee.
You nailed it. Piss poor officiating.
Isn't the siuation room in Toronto involved in a review?
refs have been braindead this week
since it was originally called a major, that means the league looked at the play and deemed it to only be a 2-min, no? So i think it's unfair to say "refs are to blame" when it should be league is to blame
Unless they changed it I think it’s the coach challenges that are reviewed by the league but I could be wrong
I believe just the on ice officials review these calls not Toronto
The league only looks at any incidents after the game, they don't review them during the game, only the refs review the replay footage so they are to blame for the outcome as they blew the call.
Ref screwed up the call on the hit but Gubranson has to maintain control of his emotions. Once Cozens saw Gubranson "lose it" he was in perfect situation to play the "rat" role and try to draw more penalties and he was very successful. Like it or not you have to stay in control of your emotions or the other team will take advantage.
Johnny G gave cous a pounding to the head during his first turtle too.
I know I was so hype!!!! To bad Pascal wouldn't put Voronkov back in the game because he was ready to fight that whole team of turtles
We need to see fines/punishments for refs. Sometimes their missed calls cause injuries, ala Larkin or Luke Hughes. It's forming a pattern that puts players at risk.
Just because Gudbranson got up and started going after the guy doesn't make it any less of a dangerous play, you're right Eck. Neither player here is a goon. Gudbranson is just a little more old school tough and got up and fought back. Look how the Columbus fans reacted, they loved it. They fucked loooveed it. Good on Gudbranson. I think Cousins was frustrated more than anything but that's what happens when refs don't use their discretion properly. It's becoming a huge issue in the NHL. They have fucking video review and time to assess the situation on the ground and they are failing.
Luke Hughes was just a missed icing and thankfully he wasn't hurt, but holy shit NHL. This is what can happen and these new school fourth line grinders are running into bottom pairing old school guys and it's going to cause shit like this. Cousins should have gotten the five and the game misconduct which would have put CBJ on a 5 minute uninterrupted PP instead of FLA getting a fucking full sevens minutes on the PP. Refs pull this shit and the entire game suffers.
Larkin was more of an example of how I think the refs should have been screaming for trainers way way earlier before Perron even had time to go after the other guy.
You won't get any sort of situation of refs being openly penalised for their performance outside of not being kept on to ref any further series during the playoffs. If the league openly started to publicise any punishments for the refs' performance then it will cause reputation issues for the league based on frequency of conduct issues and you'll get refs not wanting to continue working for the nhl if they know any mistakes will be reported on publicly. Would you want to work for a company that publicly posts every time you fuck up at your job on social media or it got reported on in the news?
There was nothing the refs could really do in the Larkin incident as it all happened in the time it took for Zub to get to his feet and gesture to the officials before he got hit by Perron, nobody could've known what Perron was going to do and reacted to it fast enough to stop it.
NHL is by far the worst officiated major sport. Refs are often in the same picture frame of the offense and screw up the call. There is also no consistency with calls throughout the league.
Until the pussification of the NHL 15 years ago, that was a two-minute boarding call all day long.
why has florida been involved in crazy things like this twice this season and we're still not even halfway done lol
Because that's Florida's game. Just slightly over the edge. You can only play with fire for so long, and they've been at it since Tkachuk showed up.
Haven't you noticed? Every time something happens with Panthers players, it's just an "unfortunate accident". The opposite doesn't work, it's always "extremely dirty play, needs to be suspended for the rest of the season"
What are your thoughts on Fiala/Quick?? Officiating seems STRANGE this year
Cousins got what he deserved. some few punches nothing to cry about, and we shall be glad Gubrandson did not get really hurt there,
Refs are destroying the game they have no clue... all about money.... Florida is allowed to do what they want... that's why there playoffs run last year was good... help by refs and bettman
I am a Panther's fan,but that is ridiculous,how is that only 2mins for boarding.....😱.
Looks like 5 and a game misconduct to me. Hoglander of the Canucks got 5 and a game for slue foot a few weeks back, nowhere near as vicious or dangerous as that hit.
IM BLIND IM DEAF I WANNA BE A REF 🔥
They used to be called the 3 Blind Mice but there have been 4 of them for decades now.
Would love to hear you speak on that Larkin play last red wings game
Refs have been deciding outcomes for decades.
A hit like that should be minimum 1 game misconduct and for that level of danger I wouldn't mind seeing him miss 2 games.
Gudbranson and Olivier are literally the big tough guys on CBJ roster. IDK how many more tough guys you can fit on the roster we already have enough of a log jam for most positions
Refs this year are absolutely hideous
Matt Tkachuk taught cousin well play dirty and act tough. Coward down when the bill comes due reminded me of his time in Calgary
I'd love to hear your take on the Kane hit on Brodin the other night
Part of the issue is the text in the rule book leaves so much up to the individual ref as to what “excessive” violence is, and there needs to be some wiggle room but there’s no standard of what that looks like beyond personal opinion leading to wildly inconsistent calls
Awesome summary
100 percent in agreement
At 1:45. Looks like the bone is sticking out of his nose??? Or am I seeing things?
Players who throw dirty hits and won't answer the bell are just cowards
I will take Brad Marchand for $400, Alex!
If the game turned out like this is a result of incompetent refs, how can you only give 2 minutes for a board check like that? That's a joke!
Cousin’s dad never taught him to not start a fight, but finish one
It's like some people have no eyes. Panthers did score, surprisingly. Gubrandson cut the corner just before the hit, they both smash in to the boards out of control. Gubrandson pretends to be hurt, hears a wistle and jumps. Refs did well, surprisingly
are people getting coached to turn their backs to bodychecks now-a-days or what? absolutely insane.
man up and take a hit. few days ago one of the nhl panels for one of the games were talking about if the NHL is becoming a no-hit league. they all agreed it is, and i don't know how anybody could possibly refute it. the nhl is a joke. basically not a contact sport anymore.
every single open ice hit instantly starts a brawl, and 50/50 hits against boards turns into a brawl. but one thing that definitely doesn't help the case is turning your back to the guy actively coming in to bodycheck you. you're setting yourself up for disaster, but they do it for the next PP or something, i dunno.
Cousins will never live down the fact that he turtled twice.
What's funny is that I feel that the Refs did the opposite in the Kings-Rangers game. There wasn't a lot of dirty hits in the game but once that interference/embellishment call happened, the refs decided that both teams deserved to be punished. Only after the penalties the refs gave out did we start seeing more scraps and punches thrown.
In the previous 2 seasons: Anderson on Pietrangelo, Slafkovsky on Luff, Landeskog on Dach, Coleman on Harkins, Paquette on Zegras - all got 2 games. The Cousins hit looks as bad or worse than any of those but no news of even a fine coming his way.
Larkin got 1 game for his retaliation against Joseph - looks like Gudbranson is about to get 5+ for pretty much the same thing. Can anyone from DOPS explain? If this is what happens, they're basically saying a black eye and a broken nose is more concerning than a broken neck!!
I feel like Gubranson should be getting 1 game, Cousins 3+ and the officials should get 5+
Also...funny how Lomberg escaped any kind of punishment for his hit on Schultz last year...
a prime example of why enforcers are needed in hockey
Gudbranson is basically an Enforcer
@@Gas_Station_Tamponsthey'd have to stop tracking stats and call it a different league name for a change that severe, it wouldn't be fair to the Gretzkys and record holders to allow new players to break records in a league where they can't get socked in the mouth, truly
@@Gas_Station_Tampons yea won't be long before hitting is banned
What would the enforcer have done other than get an extra 2 and a game for instigating a fight with a guy who identifies as a fetal position when confronted?
@@Gas_Station_Tampons No they didn't, they played the same game. Go watch the NHL alumni game, the old guys wearing new equipment and new skates, they are able to keep up the same as the pros today do.
Actually you are right, I think the goalie change was too severe that it causes certain stats that Brodeur had to be unattainable by future goalies.
If you remove physicality from the league, that means McDavid gets to skate end to end around players like they are pylons since they cant hit him and just score. Meanwhile Gretz and Lemieux had dudes hugging on his arms whole way down the ice. So what I would say to any new player in this "future" league who breaks any records I would say it doesn't mean anything you broke that record in a pansy soft league that's way easier so the original record holder still holds more weight than you do
Panther fan here, and I agree it was a dirty hit from Cousins, can't do that to the guy on the boards, but Gudbranson should have dropped the gloves later on and if Cousins did not fight him then that's that. What Gudbranson did was uncalled for and does not need to be in the game. Can't tackle the guy to the ice and then proceed to hit him while he's down. Specially in such a close game. Not saying Cousin didn't have it coming, but not the way it needed to go down imo. It will be interesting to see what happens when the Panthers see Gudbranson again later on in the season
This was bound to happen eventually as the refs always let FLA do whatever they want
Refs don't let Panthers do whatever they want. Sometimes it feels like refs are against Panthers and that is what every nhl fan must feel sometimes. No referee has a bias towards certain team, let alone Panthers😂 if some ref would be bias i think it would be with a team like leafs
Yeah the 4th most penalized team in the league (20 minutes less than most) gets away with everything.....🙄
It feels cliche to say that reffing has been terrible this season but damn, reffing has been terrible this season.
Good on Gudbranson for taking care of things. That was a dangerous hit and Cousins deserved what he got.
This is what hockey needs more of players standup for there teams not ref involvement....
Wow he turtles 2x. He’s the new Matt Cooke.
The nose bone at the end 😅😅 hockey players are tough as nails!
This cousins guy is a real turtle.
#44 should be suspended
Speaking of the refs losing the game. Earlier in the game a ref checked Sillinger hard blocking a clear breakaway. Some of the worst reffing ever.
You hit a guy into the boards, you’ve got to expect for knuckles to be chucked.
Man if cousins doesn’t get bitch of the year award i dont i dont know what to say. Each time he folded like a cheap lawn chair lol
Best part was Johnny Hockey punching him when he turtled the 1st Time
How the fuck are you gunna curl up in a ball like that? Granted im not a hockey fan and just kind of follow through channels like this, but I've honestly never seen that outside of soccer. Id be asking the other players if thats their boy on the Ice like that. Ask them to claim him right there
Just wait until these teams meet again.
Nhl doesnt like Columbus. The league loves florida
Bush league gonna bush league. Refs lost the essence of why a 5 minute boarding penalty exists in the first place
How is gudbranson still in the league? His numbers are terrible
Cousins should go play soccer this is just embarrassing for the sport