Mike Smith Huge Dive

[Chief Walking Stick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVPuIvuP6O8&feature=player_embedded



Didn't catch this live... what a joke.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Fuckin pussy acting like he got shot to sell a major... I'm sick and tired of teams doing this in the playoffs. If it was so serious why did he finish the game?



Shaw has a disciplinary hearing today.



"Smith battling his was back up".... shut the **** up Foley and call it what it is.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Whoops... please move this to Hawk talk.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

Fuckin pussy acting like he got shot to sell a major... I'm sick and tired of teams doing this in the playoffs. If it was so serious why did he finish the game?



Shaw has a disciplinary hearing today.



"Smith battling his was back up".... shut the **** up Foley and call it what it is.

With all of the various hits and infractions going on in the playoffs, having a hearing for Shaws play. Really?

 

[Mach29]

Shaw won't get anything more than the 5 minutes out of it. Shanahan will be too busy with REAL problems like cracked helmets and concussions.



Change my prediction: the team doesn't have to get too used to that Arizona weather - they only need one more trip dowm there.

 

[chasman]

What time is his hearing?

 

[chasman]

Saad can play now, his team is out of the playoffs

 

[Rex]

Saad can play now, his team is out of the playoffs

Saad isn't going to jump from OHL playoffs to NHL playoffs.



Plus, it would burn his ELC contract.

 

[Rex]

isn't the first time Smith has done this. Watch him grab his face and sell a concussion here when he gets "viciously slashed" in the mask



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGjgdQ8rSdg&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[chasman]

History of diving.....maybe he should get fined, for the good of the game

 

[Variable]

Yeah I don't buy that. There's nothing to sell, that was a shoot out. He just got punked by a great move, that's all. Wasn't looking to get any call or anything. Unless he said something after the game about it.

 

[Rex]

Yeah I don't buy that. There's nothing to sell, that was a shoot out. He just got punked by a great move, that's all. Wasn't looking to get any call or anything. Unless he said something after the game about it.

playes for contact to get the goal waived

 

[Variable]

Like I said, I don't think it was as much acting as it was a reaction of just being made to look bad by a star player, he wasn't motioning for any penalty or that he was slashed and unless he said something afterwards, I just don't buy that. The Shaw hit, that was a hit to the head. That's not saying Shaw was looking to do that,but there's no reason he would need to act like he's hurt to stop the play and have a penalty be called on that, his damn equipment went flying off him from the impact.



So that said, now we're putting ourselves in the position of criticizing a player who is down from a hit to the head that he is faking the severity of it. You really want to do that, considering how hard we come down on other idiots in the NHL over the past year or so criticizing Seabrook for "playing dead" after he took headshots from Torres and Wiz and/or getting back into the game almost immediately after? Let's be smarter than that at least.

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

Like I said, I don't think it was as much acting as it was a reaction of just being made to look bad by a star player, he wasn't motioning for any penalty or that he was slashed and unless he said something afterwards, I just don't buy that. The Shaw hit, that was a hit to the head. That's not saying Shaw was looking to do that,but there's no reason he would need to act like he's hurt to stop the play and have a penalty be called on that, his damn equipment went flying off him from the impact.



So that said, now we're putting ourselves in the position of criticizing a player who is down from a hit to the head that he is faking the severity of it. You really want to do that, considering how hard we come down on other idiots in the NHL over the past year or so criticizing Seabrook for "playing dead" after he took headshots from Torres and Wiz and/or getting back into the game almost immediately after? Let's be smarter than that at least.

If the hit to the head was so bad that he was down for 10 minutes (insinuating high severity of injury), he should have left the ice. Simple as that. Everything else is acting to get more out of it.





Seabrook's cases were before the "silent room" rule. Still during the stone age mentality of rub dirt on it. And didn't Seabrook suffer a concusion from the Wiz hit...

 

[xatruio]

his glove went "flying" off because he dramatically grabbed his face and took the helmet off himself...



the speed of the NHL no doubt he felt the hit, but he definitely flopped his legs a few extra times.

 

[supraman]

playes for contact to get the goal waived

Bullshit. Go watch both SO goals against the hawks when Savvy was coach. Clear GTI but goal stood

 

[klemmer]

With all of the various hits and infractions going on in the playoffs, having a hearing for Shaws play. Really?

The hearing is Monday.

 

[Variable]

So wait, now there's a time limit? And we have to count how many times his legs move to determine whether he's faking it or not? Again, another huge disconnect in the NHL fandom I will never, ever understand. Hahaha, yeah he "dramatically" went to cover his face.....after getting...hit...in....the face? I want to see someone "casually" do that. I need an example of that in order to determine the authenticity of Smith's hand going to his face.



The NHL may say or think they are past the stone age of rub some dirt on it (which is debatable), but the fan base sure as hell doesn't seem to be. "Yo sissy! Let's go hockey! They fight!!11! GET USED TO IT!!"

 

[klemmer]

Smith leaned into Toews, drawing a GTI penalty.



He also put himself into position to be hit by Shaw by the way he played the puck.



It was a bullshit call, magnified by the fact that NO PHX players went after Shaw.

 

[Ton]

So wait, now there's a time limit? And we have to count how many times his legs move to determine whether he's faking it or not? Again, another huge disconnect in the NHL fandom I will never, ever understand. Hahaha, yeah he "dramatically" went to cover his face.....after getting...hit...in....the face? I want to see someone "casually" do that. I need an example of that in order to determine the authenticity of Smith's hand going to his face.



The NHL may say or think they are past the stone age of rub some dirt on it (which is debatable), but the fan base sure as hell doesn't seem to be. "Yo sissy! Let's go hockey! They fight!!11! GET USED TO IT!!"

He didn't get "hit in the face" he got hit in his mask. Slap shots to the mask would hurt more than someone breezing by you and catching you in the head and you never see a goaltender flail on the ice after something like that.



After he got up, he went to feel his nose and his chin -- two things that were fully protected! After I saw that I was positive he was faking it. The only thing that may have gotten hurt was his neck after it snapped back. It had nothing to do with that though and it was quite obvious he was trying to sell it. No chance he even felt any pain there.



If he had a concussion he wouldn't have been desperate to get his mask off and flail his arms and legs, he would have just laid still and motionless. My first reaction was that he tweaked his neck after he had shown how much "pain" he was in. The bottom line, his face was protected. There is no way that anything on his face could have gotten hurt from that impact compared to an impact delivered from a 100 mph slap shot. You're head is pretty much fully protected these days, either it would have been a concussion or a broken neck, his face would have been fine so the fact that he was feeling his nose and all that bullshit is a fucking farce.