Ben Eager hits Mikhail Grabovski from Behind, NO PENALTY

[anonanon556]

he saw eager coming and turned into the hit on the last second, shouldnt be any penalty, calls like this cause guys to want to draw these kinds of penalties and put themselves in bad spots rather than just manning up and getting hit, if they didnt call this the nhl wouldnt be starting to fill with pussies (like crosby, for example) who dive and cry and dont know how to play like men

[somepurplestuff]

i think it's a good call. he turned so it should not be a penalty. just sucks that he went into boards. we also get the benefit of replay.

[mcmdad05]

Even better view of a nasty hit on YouTube video "Fairy lemonade mother"....  and in English...

[TheDigiDestined16]

@carcaril hes belarussian actually...

[carcaril]

nice hit on dirty russian.

[SMITTY10262004]

eager was must of been a habs fan or something growing up, because it seems like everytime he plays the leafs he trys to take one out. :P

[CrimsonSkorpion]

Saw him coming, turned his back and got hit. Who the hell turns their back at a guy coming to hit you. Man up and take the body, for the love of God.

[chitsweire]

Blatantly dirty hit. I know he was coasting but he was moving fast, similar to if it had been a charge. He clearly lined him up and went at him from completely across the ice and knocked him into the boards head first. Definitely suspension-worthy because it was definitely intent to injure IMO.

[Kartracer6]

@chitsweire I don't think you understand intent to injure. He just went for a clean hit and the guy turned his back on eager. It's not suspension worthy it's not even a penalty.

[otamrof13]

Why was there no penalty? HE DID IT TO HIMSELF!

[Fifa09Wii]

ben fanelli also "did it to himself" yet the guy who hit him got kicked out of the league.... stupid point

[sabres685]

grabovski did that to himself. if u turn ur back like that, thats your fault.i used to do that in hockey all the time, but guys just destroy you know in higher levels

[Kartracer6]

This is actually a very poor call on the refs part "44.1 Checking from Behind –When a player intentionally turns his body to create contact with his back, no penalty shall be assessed." It happens and refs mess up. You just gotta learn from it.

[jayzz99]

look how he turns...

[nikebauer1993]

That wasnt a cheap hit, apply the 3 second rule...

[Ftdwptheygay]

Eagers scum, not a very skilled player and all of his hits seem to be dirty.

[Chargersman77]

@Ftdwptheygay hes not that scummy, he has a cup

[anthonychrisbradley]

@Chargersman77 lot's of scummy plaeyrs have cups. See Claude Lemeiux.

[Chargersman77]

@anthonychrisbradley for every ONE scummy player with a cup. i could name TEN good players with one,

Claude Lemieux - Martin St. Louis. Steve Yzerman. Patrick Kane. Patrick Roy. Pavel Datsyuk. Sidney Crosby. Eric Staal. Johnathan Toews. Wayne Gretzky. Jean Beliveau.

[anthonychrisbradley]

@Chargersman77 I know obviously, I'm just saying some Scummy players win cups. Shit happens.

[Chargersman77]

@anthonychrisbradley well, every team has a scummy player, and eventually A team has to win the cup, therefore a team with scummy players will win the cup

[Noiss96]

no penalty my ass

[gracom1977]

guy turned so therefore a clean hit. then pocahontas comes in and does nothing.

[kellyspub23]

@gracom1977 doesnt matter if a guy turns it's still a penalty, either go read a book or talk to an actual ref.

[gracom1977]

@kellyspub23 talk to a ref?? hahahaha what a joke. guy turns and almost hurts himself. grabovski is a little faker, taking the spot of someone who wouldnt lay on ice for no reason. puss

[kellyspub23]

@gracom1977 yeah talk to a ref cause you don't have a clue about the rules. he has the puck and turns with it and gets hit in the back by a player. he was 8-9 feet from the boards and whinds up in them? so there is charging and hitting from behind. what exactly did he fake? he got up after the play and never embellished anything!

[gracom1977]

@kellyspub23 ya exactly. he aint hurt. wanted to hear it from u. he wont turn next time. womens hockey has no contact tho...u would like it

[gracom1977]

@kellyspub23 ya exactly. he aint hurt. wanted to hear it from u.  he wont turn next time. womens hockey has no contact tho...u would like it

[kellyspub23]

@gracom1977 what does being hurt have to do with a penalty? are you arguing that this is a penalty or grabovski is a pussy? or just being a dick?

[gracom1977]

@kellyspub23 should be no penalty and grabovski is a wuss...jeez im arguing with a leafs fan now...well theres always next year for the leafs. theyll have a good first round draft pick this year and um...wait a minute. enjoy the leafs bud. good season. last in east. get your money back

[CoheedMars90]

So, that's ben eager for you.

[whitecloud1980]

like i said... try that shit when Domi was on our team. you wouldnt dare.

[Walberi]

that is what eager does.. cheap player all the way

[gabgab200]

my favorite video *****

[viper850hp]

Mikhail Grabovski turned haha it was his fault

[Fireupatree]

i hope someone runs this cheapshot artist into career ending injury this guys gave countless cheapshots over his career and he's got it coming to him.

[FitzLOL]

Why would there be a penalty? Eager lined him up, Grabovski saw him coming and turned his back, and he was a good 6 or 7 feet from the boards anyways. Grabovski's a pussy anyways

[candyland195]

Two words: Colton Orr

[sh1yne]

He's going to be a nice addition for situations like this!

We need to get rid of Jamal Mayers, I mean, with Orr what the hell do we need Mayers for?

[codfan4life]

it actually was a penalty, he got kicked out. it shoudnt hav ebeen tho, the guy turned... GO HAWKS

[gsideking]

how much time leafs wear that white 3rd jersey this year at home if anyone have on id ?

[quietriot46]

another eager hit from behind,late or a combination of both,this guys a coward

[Kartkid024]

I'm confused on why a penelty should be called. It was a good hit, he had the puck so no interference, no cross check, its not checking from behind cause he turned before the hit, its no roughing, or charging, its a good hard hit, its just unlucky he hit his head into the boards, but really Grabovski is to blame for that. He did turn at the last secound.

[boudrozoltar]

kartkid, you are all over the internet spreading bullshit. you should go fuck yourself

[Kartkid024]

Nothing wrong with me spreading the truth. Excuse me for enjoying youtube. Sorry your too stupid to know anything

[boudrozoltar]

take the truth and cram it up your ass. you will find it easy because it has nothing to do with anything that comes out of your mouth.

you are an idiot, stop doing what you are doing.

[Kartkid024]

What ever man, you obviously can't admit when your wrong. I'm just gonna leave you crying. We both know what call was made. Sucks for you I guess.

[boudrozoltar]

It actually doesn't suck for me because I am watching the wings in the finals again. Even if they lose, at least they beat the shit hawks.

[Kartkid024]

Your like a damn 5 year old. You get proven wrong so out of desperation you change the subject and hopes to get the last word. Who cares about you beating the pens, we could have done that. That fact is the redwings had to injure the Hawks just to barely get by the hawks. It was in no doubt a seven game series that could have gone both ways and the wings pussied out. Sad, once again they ruin a good thing.  No wonder so many people hate them. Now shut the fuck up and walk away. Its over

[boudrozoltar]

I didn't read your response, but thanks for the effort. are you the guy who thought Kronwall's hit on havlat was interference?

is your vag still bleeding?

[Kartkid024]

Umm... Kronwalls hit was interference. If you think it wasn't your a complete idiot. LOL, it was a 10 min game misconduct as well. Wow your dumb.

[boudrozoltar]

I think you meant to say "you're dumb" not "your dumb" Anyhow, enjoy fucking yourself shithead.

[Kartkid024]

What ever man. Still crying I see. Going after grammar on youtube, once again another sad attempt on your part to gain some dignity back. Well it didn't work. Are you quite done yet.

[boudrozoltar]

and the feel good pony award for bravery goes to :

Kartkid024 for non stop bitching for 3 months about something that nobody cares about.

way to go kid, you are a hero.

[Kartkid024]

What are you a 5 year old immature kid. My guess is yes. Sorry that I know the rules and I had thought that just maybe I could make a detroit fan see the truth, but guess not. Guess you will forever think your team does no wrong, your all the same.

[Kartkid024]

Maybe instead of searching video's looking for my name, maybe you should go get a life.

[boudrozoltar]

don't be so vain, I was just looking at other hockey hits, and here you are bitching away like a jackass.

have your opinion, that is great. have the feel good pony award too.

you are a hero

[boudrozoltar]

I  can't believe you think this is clean and that every Kronwall hit is dirty.

I suppose you are the same person that read "Charging? not so much" and concluded that the person was saying it was charging (puck daddy)

you are a persistent little idiot.

[Kartkid024]

Again I say that was a quote in an article saying the hit was illegal. The quote was of someone else saying that. But then again detroit has a terrible habit of twisting words. So keep insulting me. That's all you have left. Save some of your self dignity, try and make it up to the maturity of a nine year old.

[boudrozoltar]

here is another one Damien Cox (toronto star) who is always critical of Detroit "Sorry that Havlat got hurt, but hockey's a contact sport and Kronwall's hit was absolutely clean"

I don't want you to respond unless until you read puck daddy's opinion, and understand what he said. Then, come back here and appologize to the world for being an idiot.

after that, we can go to the next source you misquoted, and we'll get through it.

so either apologize for wasting my time or just disappear.

[Kartkid024]

What the hell man. Kronwall is not even in this video. And you call me an idiot. Wow man. And just so you know absolutely clean hits don't normally result in a 5 min major and a game misconduct. But again this has no factor in this video. I find it sad how you are going from video to video just looking for my screen name. Seriously get a life. Maybe its you who needs to disappear cause guess what, I was here first. Now leave.

[jmiller006]

you're a fucking idiot...the red wings were a better team than the hawks last year and the intereference call was bullshit...

i'm a bruins fan...you're the only one who looks like a complete fag in this conversation.

[bdubbdub88]

habs suck , eager's a pussy

[owenboen67]

way to go eager

[jmiller006]

habs fans have some serious jealousy issues or something...grabovski gets traded, gainey gets nothing back for him, and no apparently every play/hit he's involved, montreal fans have to curse him out like little bitches...this was such an obvious hit from behind...i mean, maybe i wouldn't care as much if i hadn't seen eager's antics before, but c'mon...take off the sunglasses guys.

[metalcritic81]

grabovski needs to learn to not turn around at the last second.. this is a classic example of a guy lining him up and a the person turning

[jmiller006]

as much blame should be assessed to eager...he didn't have to hit him full on like that either...so while grabovski may be at fault, so was eager, and i would've given the penalty to eager.

[metalcritic81]

ya, he deserves a penalty for that hit..

[leafsFTW123]

acctually with that 2nd round toronto gave up, they used it on robert lang, grabovski has one year and restricted and lang has two, grabovski has .61 points a game, and robert lang has .85 points a game playing on a better team(less ice time), he is now injured but only has one less goal then grabovski and has played 20 less games, plus montreal got another player who isnt even noteworthy (Greg Pateryn). but i do think hab fans suck so we can agree on something.

[Onquadrillion]

gay sex

[fagel258]

fuck you, habs suck

[hubrmb]

grabovski is a fucking bitch good hit !go habs go

[jack9man]

its cause he turned at the last second

[jslefebvre8]

grabovski deserve what he gets

[leafsfan7410]

you suck man go lick the floor

[jslefebvre8]

wtf ?

[samie1013]

wow ur an idiotttttt

[xVincex8]

clean hit

[Maximum40]

good on ponikarovski

[damien1169]

haha dude last time i checked phoenix is doing better than the leafs, and not a cheap hit isnt grabs in the nhl shouldnt the idiot no not to turn his back when a hit is comming. like fuck come on. then ur giant pussy'PONY' runs at eager and does nothin just head locks him.. his nick name explains the hole fucking team..

[icewolf293]

at the last clip, Grabovski turned around and Eager had time to see it, not only did he have time he still wound up and delivered the Hit.

If true player would still make contact as it is near impossible to stop, but would not put the extra effort into the the hit and eager did at the very end

[thatotherguy186]

that wasnt a cheap hit he had him lined up and he turned at the last second its not eager's fault

[supernaturaldeangirl]

i know that is a bad hit, but the same thing happend to patrick kane vs the red wings earlier in the season and there was not call..so its still consistant with how they r callin these shots

[beansthe23]

wow that wuz the worst call ever, how far wuz he from the boards? boarding my ass

[mckendo83]

i dont think that hit was anything, he was closer to 10 feet from the boards and turned his back and slid into the boards after the hit.

[mapleleafsrock13]

haha seriously, anger issues, or someone without a real team..

i bet hes a phoenix fan.

nothing against the coyotes, but ya know...phoenix

[mikeblondin]

Grabovski turned at the last second to draw a penalty. And failed.

The right call was made.

[londonONTARIObiker]

you are exactly right

[leafsgirl41]

i guess u never heard of a CHARGING penalty?

[youknowmyname004]

Yeah, because hockey players always risk serious injury by getting their head slammed into the boards to draw a penalty. Brilliant deduction there.

You know how many players have gotten seriously hurt because of a hit like that? No one draws penalties like that.

[toros92]

atta boy pokihonsky jumpin in

[mapleleafsrock13]

"its going to be a charge at the very least"

well no penalty.

game changer.

its a shame no leafs kicked eager(for cock)s ass for the rest of the game.

this year they through about as many hits as a rec league- where hitting is outlawed.

[londonONTARIObiker]

its because leaf players, all of them except for schenn are "PUSSIES" leaf players have for the past few years been pussies, with the exception of tucker, and domi, its because your team doesnt get any canadians, you draft europeans, that have no heart for the game,

[londonONTARIObiker]

oh and by the way, a player turning his back to a player coming at him for a hit, and then falling to the ice, isnt a cheap hit jeff, maybe if grabovski wasnt a pussy and took the hit like a man instead of turning his back, thats why there are so many injuries this year, because idiots like grabovski are turning there backs to hits, eager clearly planted his feet when grabovski was facing him, if grabovski woulda gotten hurt, it would have been his own fault, oh and HAHAHA the hawks won!!!!!!

[londonONTARIObiker]

lets look at the facts of this hit, 1. grabovski at least 5 feet away from the boards, 2. eager commited to his hit, and planted his feet before grabovski turned, 3. eager didnt have alot of speed, 4. at the last moment grabovski turns, 6. grabovski loses his balance, goes into the boards, 7. look at grabovski, and look at eager, if eager had come in there with alot of speed, trying to injur, then grabovski wouldnt have gotten up, and if you watch carefully, watch eager let up before the hit

[Exzellent]

damn jeff that was fast.... :p

[Jefflered]

It was actually much slower than usual, I've had to deal with Roy/Clark stuff too. :P

[ChrisCutta87]

It was a pointless hit.

[londonONTARIObiker]

how was it pointless, he had the puck, its the opposing teams job to get the puck, you do that by hitting, if grabovski didnt turn at the last second then he wouldnt have gone head first into the boards, so dont say it was pointless because grabovski is an idiot and decided he was gonna turn, if anything grabovski shoulda got a penalty for unsportsmenlike conduct for turning, eager could got suspended, and for what? for retardedness by a meadioker player

[youknowmyname004]

"for retardedness by a meadioker player"

-londonONTARIObiker

This has to be one of the funniest things I've seen on a youtube comment.

Good job disproving all those stereotypes about London.

[londonONTARIObiker]

first of all i just moved to london, so i dont know the stereotypes, nor do i care about them, secondly, did you watch the replay? grabovski turned his back to eager at the last second, he couldnt of possibly let up, when you have commited to a hit, and a play turns his back to you at the last second, you dont have much reaction time, obviously you dnot play hockey, cause if you did you would know how difficult it is to "let up" or "stop" when you commit to a clean hit, and the guy turns away...

[youknowmyname004]

Read. I didn't say it was a cheap hit. I only said it wasn't a dive. You're reasoning about players being pussies and taking hits to the back is idiotic. No one turns so they can take a hit to the back. That's screaming for injury.

And how the hell could you possibly like Tucker and Domi? They were brainless thugs on skates. No talent there at all. Getting rid of them is one of the best things the Leafs have done (not like that's saying much, but still.)

[abyssiniaboy]

grabovski is a pussy anywayz! no one respects him! he dives and cries wen he gets hit! 2 bad he wasnt injured!