Johnny Gaudreau Is A Very Bad Boy
If you’ve watched anything more than about a minute of NHL hockey so far this season, there’s a good chance you’ve seen at least one slashing penalty get called in which you said to yourself, “wait a minute, what the freakin heck? He barely even touched him!” Well that’s because the NHL has been cracking down on stick infraction penalties this year in what can be referred as the Johnny Gaudreau Rule. Last year in just one game, Johnny Hockey was whacked in the hand about 20 or so times. None of them looked particularly malicious but when you get smacked with a giant stick time and time again, eventually something is going to give and Gaudreau ended up with a broken hand. So this year the NHL is making sure their star players don’t have to sit out for a few weeks with a fractured finger anymore and will call a penalty pretty much anytime somebody gets hit with a stick above the waist. This slash by Blake Comeau was probably the easiest penalty the stripes will call this year.
At the very least, that’s a slash. Maybe Johnny gave a little bit of an acting performance to sell the high stick but not really. At the very least, the toe of the blade had to have caught him in the collar bone here.
You try getting whacked in the jugular with a hockey stick and not looking like you just got shot. That ref has some fucking nerve to call embellishment on the South Jersey native right there. Would love to see what he’d look like after that that Comeau twig to the throat going full speed. But anyway, he ended up calling an embellishment penalty on Gaudreau which robbed the Flames of a crucial powerplay being down 4-2 in the 3rd period. Obviously Johnny was gonna be a little pissed off about the fact and decided to give the ref a little piece of his mind.
You can take the kid out of South Jersey but you can never take the South Jersey out of the kid.
It would appear that Jonathan considers this particular official to be, and I quote, a “fucking moron”. And that’s going to land his ass in detention and his parents will be receiving a call from Mr. Bettman when they get back home from work today. It sucks because he’s right to consider the ref a fucking moron. But that language is going to land you a misconduct 10 times out of 10. But I guess they don’t call Johnny Gaudreau the bad boy of hockey for no reason. It’s times like these when you could really use Dennis Wideman back on the squad.
P.S. – The Avalanche could be a very fun team to watch if they’re able to squeak themselves into the playoffs this year. Anytime MacKinnon is out on the ice, something happens.