Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14288118)

He has a hearing scheduled now; he'll get a game.

I don't like it, but it's not awful either. It was a play that he could've avoided; he had time to pull up on his check and not drive through Grizwhatever's head. Granted, it's the playoffs and he's going to finish his check there more often than not, but he had a moment to see that the back had gotten turned and not take that last stride through the hit.

In a perfect world he doesn't get the game and had Grizblah shaken off the hit, there wouldn't have been a suspension. But outcomes matter to the DOPS and ultimately the Bruins were without their player for most of the game. They will look back to see if a game misconduct could've been handed out there which would have cost us Sunny for the game as well. If they decide it could've been (which they clearly already have or there wouldn't have been a hearing scheduled), they'll get that game on the back end by suspending him for Game 3.

It's no worry if Thomas is back by then, but we're down to Sanford/MacEachern if he's not and that's not great news. We really need Thomas back big time to get a RH shot out there. We're clearly short a righty shooter at the moment and it's taking the starch out of some of our set plays, especially on faceoffs.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14289431)

That breakdown is pretty much exactly how I figured they'd look at it and like I said - I don't love it, but it's a fair enough conclusion.

They make a good point regarding his angle of attack. Folks are wanting to say he 'turned into the hit' - sure he did, but Sunny turned into his angle as well. Sunny KNEW he'd turned back, that's how he managed to hit him. Had he held his original line, when gryz turned around, he'd have impacted to the right of him. But he had to see the turn because that's how he knew to cut to his left and still make contact with him. Now he ended up hitting a little TOO far to the left because Gryz lost his footing on the turn, but the fact remains that Sunny saw the numbers and adjusted to his left to still deliver a check. No matter what happened, he'd have hit Gryz in the back so the boarding call is legitimate.

So now you have a boarding call with the head as a primary point of contact that led to an injury. Man - that's gonna be a penalty.

Originally Posted by GloryDayz (Post 14290032)

I just hope the Blues aren't influenced by this, they need to keep hitting the smaller Bruins as hard as they can possibly hit them without getting in too much trouble.

A few more hits on some key players in game three might just get the smaller Boston types to be concerned about their health when they get near the boards, and that's a good thing.

Pound 'um Blues, pound 'um.