For the record I'd have no problem if Crosby was penalized heavily for that play (he got 2 minutes that game, assume it was for that play. I'd be fine with more). There's a massive difference between Crosby wrestling with a guy his own size and shoving his head, and Wilson body slamming two separate guys to the ice, punching one of them in the back of the head while his head was on the ice, ripping a guy's helmet off before ragdolling him to the ice. Wilson has at least 5 inches and 50 lbs on Panarin. The intent clearly isn't the same when Wilson actively rips off Panarin's helmet. Crosby's intent was to physically tell Koneckny to fuck off, Wilson's was to put Panarin in the hospital. He had a lower body injury from getting whipped around by a giant. The fact that Panarin's head didn't directly make initial contact with the ice doesn't make Wilson's intent any less, it just means his aim was off.Ozzies09tc wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:23 pmThis is only a big deal bc it involves Tom Wilson. If TW "slammed panarin's head into the ice"...why did he suffer a LOWER body injury?Dave's a mess wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:19 pmIf you can watch Wilson against the Rangers and Crosby against Koneckny and say they're the same thing I'm not sure this conversation is going to be very productive.Ozzies09tc wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 6:44 pm Buch should've never been on the ice for Wilson to hit to ensue the panarin fiasco
Buch did a dirty hit to OV that injured him and instead of giving him a misconduct they did nothing. Then Buch starts whacking at their goalie so Wilson politely reminds him of his presence on the ice. Now the refs, knowing Wilson is on the ice, should've been hovering around to grab him knowing full well what was going to happen...but they wimped out and grabbed smaller guys allowing panarin to get free shots to Wilson and if you pull the lions tail...........
Coincidentally, Crosby did the same thing to a player that same night only he smashed the guys head in to the ice THREE times and no one is calling him a goon or needing a trident....
resume the witch hunt and probably flaming me for this post
The main difference is konecny had his helmet on but the INTENT was the same
I don't like what Crosby did, but the situation and difference in the amount of force applied makes these wildly different in my opinion.