Dans le match de ce soir entre le Wild du Minnesota et les Red Wings de Detroit, Ryan Reaves a lancé un MASSIF coup sûr sur la glace ouverte sur Filip Hronek qui, au départ, m’a semblé assez suspect. Vous ne voyez pas souvent ce genre de coup. Il n’y avait pas d’appel sur le jeu mais je me suis demandé, était-ce juste un coup brutal? Ou était-ce sale ? Plus je le regardais, moins j’étais confiant. Donc, dans la vidéo de hockey d’aujourd’hui, je devais vous demander, est-ce que c’est propre ou pas ? #Ryanreaves #minnesotawild #detroitredwings #filiphronek #énorme succès
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It's really hard to say it could have been a little bit of both. Reaves does have a history of some pretty dicey hits. Hronik should have kept his head up. I do like you're analysis do you actually work for NHL currently?
Although hronik should’ve kept his head up, Reaves clearly hit his head. That’s dirty
Looks clean to me
clean hit, but who knows what NHL sill say. Keep your head up
Tough call. Head was down, Reaves is just a bigger dude who caught a guy not looking. Definitely some head contact, however I don’t think it was targeted. Hronek hit his head on the ice as well which is unfortunate… looks like a for sure concussion type of hit.
clean. Reeves didn't do anything wrong. Making this hit illegal invites head-down, up the middle play. As a defensive player, you can't let the offence do that.
Clean hit, lil bro should have his head up
Thats clean hit, the breakdown was spot on. Hockey hurts, that why its hockey. Honestly what the fck was he looking at, pair of titties in the crowd?
Play 1:53 to 1:57 at 0,25x speed. Looks dirty to me.
I hate the tough guy culture and players getting hurt but here Hronek is just asking to get blasted. Zero awareness, that's what happens. It's like when you cross the road but don't look if there is cars coming.
it's one thing to have your head down…but it's another thing to see it and to hit the guy anyway (to the head). One thing gets u hurt, the other one should get you suspended.
This is 100% a clean hit. He glided into the contact while he kept his elbow and hands down. This is all on Hronek for not being aware of where other players are at. I mean should we just let a guy skate all the way down the ice with his head down and say no one can hit him?
I'm a wings fan. Hronek should be penalized for playing with his head down. He's basically asking for reeves to take his head off in this instance. Perfectly clean hit. Was reeves supposed to let up? Nhl is soft as baby shit these days
Clean unless you consider the play before the hit. Reavo and Hronek were going at it at center ice for a bit. So to me, knowing Reeves and how hard he plays the game, he definitely wanted to send a message. If Hronek didn’t look back at the play and take his eyes off reeves, he could’ve avoided the contact. The head hit makes it dirty, but you can’t take the fault away from Hronek either. Reeves can’t help that he’s taller than fil. So honestly, not really something you can suspend a player for. Unless you’re going for a no contact sport. And that would basically be the end of hockey. Unbiased red wings fan opinion. Don’t @ me.
Clean as can be, and we want more big hits like this.
Clean hit. Need way more of this.
Just no awareness. It’s like he was in a drop in game or something.
Although the initial contact is to the head, there was no way for Reaves to avoid that. Hronek is leaning forward, so Reaves had nowhere to go. And even though the initial contact was the head, the majority of the impact was to Hronek's upper body. This is a clean hit. You can't take these hits out of the game without requiring the players to wear dresses.
Clean big open ice hit. Hits like this only happen when the head is down, and the head was down in the trolly tracks. Boom.
It is dirty, Reaves sees there is a chance to make a huge hit, and he does not think consequences, and yes, he has ALL the time to think about those. Should've gone for the puck instead. There, straight facts.
Everyone saying this is a clean hit…. lmao the same people saying the hit on Oskar Sundquist by Tom Wilson was dirty… literally the exact same hit. He got suspended 20 games for it (bc of his history, I know) If the principle point of contact is the head, no matter what, it's an illegal hit. The fact they didn't call a penalty is shameful, yet not surprising. NHL refs are the worst of all major sports.
It was a clean hit. It's just sad because depending on who lays down the hit runs a huge factor in whether or not the hit is "clean" or dirty. For instance, there would be so much more uproar over this hit if that was Tom Wilson laying down that hit instead of Reaves.
Thats a clean hit
Gotta keep your head up, but it's Reaves doing only what he is capable of doing as a hockey player. He provides nothing else. I don't like Ryan Reaves or this style of player in the NHL.
Wings fan: not much else Reaves can do to make the hit less brutal, unfortunate outcome of not looking at what's coming at you. Fair hit but brutal none the less.
I think the rule is about it being initial contact to the head…which this clearly was…..you can call it a clean hit and blame Hronek for having his head down but it doesn't change the fact that contact was to the head and it caused an injury. Doesn't help that Reaves is smirking after laying the guy out…..makes it look intentional. There also should be a video review on any injury resulting from a hit…..having the refs and linesmen have a conference to see if anyone saw what happened is ridiculous and would take about the same time as a video review. How many times do players get boarding penalties when the player with the puck turns his back to a checker?
Clean hit. No question. I am not a big fan of open ice hits that could end a guy's career, but what is the alternative for Reeves? I suppose he could have just played the puck instead. College hockey has pretty much eliminated these big open ice hits and it seems to be doing okay. I think it is a legit concern that a big hit like this can cause major damage to the player who gets hit. Everyone here is saying hockey is soft, but come on people, we also can't be handing out concussions to players either. I was watching this game and there was a change in the play for the rest of the period for both teams. I think the players were all kind of freaked out by the hit.
I'm a wings fan, but a hockey fan in general. Clean hit hands down, the NHL is getting soft if they start calling penalties on these hit.
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If you really want to see an example of a hard and legal open ice check from a big man, look up Joe Finley's hit on Michel Miklik from the Finnish league (note: Finley got 5 and a game for it and the refs were slammed by pundits as a result). This wasn't that good of a check because Reaves leaned left and out instead of maintaining centered posture, which brought Hronek's head into the equation unnecessarily. Another channel recently pointed out that lunging high like this is unnecessary for delivering a punishing hit in the first place, if Finley's check doesn't drive that point home enough.
As to why Hronek was looking left, his coach explained in an interview that Hronek thought there was a delayed penalty and was checking on an assumed goalie pull. In my book this is still more on Reaves to deliver a better check than it's on Hronek.
Players have gotten so soft and unaware lately because of slacking rules. This is exactly the thing to keep a guy sharp out there.
Reaves doesn't have the best reputation.. but this could almost be used as a training video for a perfect , clean open ice hit. Never want to see anyone get hurt.
It was like someone looking at their phone and walking into a telephone pole
Head down for sure, terrible lack of awareness by Filip. Isn't it still on the aggressor/checking player to avoid the head regardless of bad positional play? Tough to see Hronek go down like this, no doubt he's got a bad concussion, hope he's alright, he's been the Wings best defender this year.
Clean hit. Need way more of this.
as a Red Wings fan, this was entirely a clean hit… what the hell is Hronek doing out there?? HEAD UP
This is a 100% clean hit. I would also say the only thing Hronek does wrong is look back a couple seconds before the hit, preventing him from seeing Reaves stalking the puck for a hit. From my experience, whenever I saw a hit coming and I had time to prepare, they never really hurt. If Hronek would have kept looking forward, odds are he avoids the hit altogether, or at least mitigates the force of Reaves hitting him.
Seems pretty similar to the hit that Jaime Oleksiak just got 3 games for. Principle point of contact was the head and the hit was avoidable. In true department of player safety fashion, Reaves will not face any supplemental discipline and they instead suggest that Hronek should have not had his head on top of his shoulders. If the NHL wants these hits out of the game, they have a really odd way of showing it.