Adam Pelech Dazed After Being Hit By Robert Bortuzzo

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[@M83333]

The way he looks around as if he doesn't really know what's going on is really scary. I hope he's alright.

[@greathoonta3461]

If it’s any peace of mind, that’s not what he was doing. That’s the dazed, trying to clear your vision reaction. Very common reaction when you hit your head, but not necessarily a concussion sign.

[@mikeb4629]

That was a big collision, even asking Baily "wtf just happened" @0:26

[@elemenop2741]

The gap between the boards and the red line always fkd with me. Players skate full speed to a dead end and either slip and slide straight into the boards, or take some awkward hit. Always hated that while playing

[@j.thomas7128]

Yeah, but I loved touch up icing. Any time somebody gave me bs on the ice, I'd use the icing touchup to make my point.

[@Shatamx]

Man same spot Brandon Carlo got a concussion in the 2021 playoffs. Rink takes no prisoners.

[@jacklavalley8245]

He looks lost, thats a scary moment for anyone

[@Atlas531]

Looks like Bortuzzo committed to the hit and Pelech went to his knee to make the pass. It was too late for Bortuzzo to let up. Shitty result of Pelech sacrificing to make a play.

[@ronaldkonkoma4356]

Yes A few feet over and it would have been Bortuzzo hitting his head after falling awkwardly

[@mrunknown5735]

I agree so tough. Idk if Adam sees him coming either

[@zerofox7104]

He was pushed by Leivo just before Bortuzzo made contact

[@bkcharlie2408]

Bortuzzo could have and should have avoided the hit. Imho he purposely tried to hit Pelech. Should have gotten a game and a suspension imho. Did I play? Yeah, for about 45 years. Coached for 25. I figured I’d put that out there to avoid at least the usual criticism lol. Just one guys opinion.

[@bckelly23]

"Who the fuck just hit me?"

[@matthewbarry7026]

It looked more like " Where am I?" , "your playing hockey sir", "really? how'd I get here?"

[@bckelly23]

@@matthewbarry7026 Definitely looking around like he's never seen an arena full of people before.

[@mrunknown5735]

@@bckelly23 he definitely has not before Atleast in the world he was in. So tough to see

[@motherloverjones6008]

Bortuzzo thru the years seems to absolutely hate the Islanders.

[@iaintnomanstealer]

I mean shit thats the literal definition of boarding and in a 5-1 game..not sure why the ref wouldnt call that a 5

[@yooowhatupribs]

Probably because Pelech started falling on his own and left himself vulnerable. The check wouldn't have looked so severe had he not been down on a knee when he took it

[@TomSmith-kc8mz]

"circumstances of the check, including whether the opponent put himself in a vulnerable position immediately prior to or simultaneously with the check or whether the check was unavoidable can be considered. This balance must be considered by the Referees when applying this rule." They didn't deem it to be boarding in the first place but even if they did, they would consider these factors which it really doesn't meet.

[@cucciscaccia3320]

I hate seeing this. Hope he's okay.

[@stevebuscemi3622]

Clean hit, but why you doin that when your up 5 - 1. Islanders have no one to answer for that

[@iammarkstewart]

Absolutely not a clean hit, or an ethical hit. At any rate, from NHL rule 41: boarding penalty shall be imposed on any player who checks or pushes a defenseless opponent in such a manner that causes the opponent to hit or impact the boards violently or dangerously. The number of injuries that result from these kinds of hits is ridiculous. Pelech has the potential to miss many games if a concussion is involved, and all for a 2 minute minor the refs still got wrong by calling it "roughing". Charging and boarding are two of the most missed and misunderstood rules in the book.

[@zerofox7104]

Leivo pushed him right before Bortuzzo makes the hit, scary

[@daveyboy2497]

Ref 10feet away did not make call, the ref at centre ice did

[@ztak2774]

Nice to see the Islander not answering ...do they ever. Matt do your job

[@chrisarmstrong312]

Brutal call. Hockey play... Be aware of your surroundings

[@youtubeisabunchofpussies6014]

That sucks, falling right as he got hit. Head straight into the wall, hurts like shit

[@projectpylon25]

Robert Bortuzzo being cheap, totally not surprised

[@uskey0007]

hitting a guy already down in a vulnerable position is so idiotic and unnecessary. should be a suspension for that.

[@426jbird]

Bortuzzo LEFT his feet just before hitting him. No one pushed him either. That is a VERY VERY dirty play. you cannot leave your feet when checking someone. He does it right at the boards too. He knew exactly what he was doing. Look at the video if you don't believe me.

[@ixPeekABooBix]

Looks like Pelech falls right before the hit occurs, which leads to the very awkward impact into the boards. Doesn't look like malicious intent from Bortuzzo js...

[@chrislanemann9143]

That’s not a penalty, ridiculous

[@ZaphodTHEBeeblebrox]

christ the poor thing

[@Deflection]

Pelecy had the same reaction as Lee, when he got Kronwalled. 😁 where am I at bruh?

[@MayorRobFord2]

it need one hell of a retard to make fun of this kind of situation like you’re doing right now, congrats

[@Max_m]

Of course, because the ref 60ft away looking through players and the goal net has the perfection position to see whether a collision was legal or not. Ref right there didn’t call it because it wasn’t illegal, just an awkward fall after. Infuriating new league trend of “looks kinda bad so must have been a penalty” bs on display.

[@RangersFan94]

This business of calling penalties based on the end result of a hit, rather than the hit itself, is ridiculous. It wasn't a violent hit and it wasn't delivered at a 90 degree angle to the boards, so it's not boarding. It's not charging, it's not from behind, it's not anything, so they just call it "roughing" because someone got hurt? I mean did the ref from across center ice somehow see that this was a violent hit better than the ref directly on top of it, or was he the one that saw Pelech stunned and decided on his own that it must have been an illegal hit?

[@Bruhmar]

I completely agree

[@DustinGoatPoirier]

Bortozzo fucking elbowed pelechs head

[@dw4867]

I'd say this is a reputation call, considering it's Bortuzzo who's one the biggest pieces of shit in the league. They probably don't make this call if it's someone else.

[@lazyluci4803]

@@DustinGoatPoirier It looked to me like 17 pushed him from behind and he was going down when the check came. Still, I wonder if the NHL is waiting for someone to get killed or paralysed before they take this seriously.

[@buttkick22]

@@DustinGoatPoirier bologna

[@Kristofburger]

Textbook charging from Bortuzzo, a dangerous play regardless of Pelech losing his balance right before the hit. Kinda silly this was called as roughing.

[@YT_Hostility]

Thats not charging he went in to make a hit wen he had the puck and started falling when he went down to his knees

[@iammarkstewart]

Agree it's silly it was roughing, but it's not charging. It's text book boarding, NHL rule 41: boarding penalty shall be imposed on any player who checks or pushes a defenseless opponent in such a manner that causes the opponent to hit or impact the boards violently or dangerously.

[@misakikoko4500]

I'm torn on this one. It reminds me of the hit by Ovechkin on Campbell. To me they are clean hits with a bad result, but Ovi was suspended for it.

[@iammarkstewart]

Bortuzzo should be suspended also, but I'm guessing the lack of immediate serious injury will mitigate that. See NHL rule 41. Textbook, literally.

[@lundyfan30]

UBS Arena Us Being Silent

[@HarryRiceHockey]

Still better than Madison Silent Library though ;)

[@lundyfan30]

@@HarryRiceHockey that doesnt even work tough... wheres the G? lmfao

[@esmbenbenek]

2 minutes for checking

[@AnAceism]

your an idiot

[@blainekerfoot6870]

Exactly turning hockey into soccer for fun sakes , good hit

[@MrOctober44]

For "checking".

[@patrickmccarroll7723]

Bortuzzo is garbage

[@imcarolean]

Thats just the average blues hit

[@ajsingh1296]

Players need to stop hitting close to the boards - especially when your team is winning 5-1! Like F**k. I can understand if it's a 2 goal lead. We are talking about people's lives, long term affects on families. I'm saying take hitting out but this was a pointless play in this stage of the game

[@joeylamack3197]

🤣🤣🤣🤣What's next touch football!

[@jacoblamb3535]

If you literally kill someone on a clean hit there should be no penalty. Clean is clean you can’t decide to call a penalty because of the outcome.

[@nolane3972]

that is a dangerous gap between the player and the boards, he likely would have hit his head on the boards regardless. Look up boarding in the rule books my dude

[@jacoblamb3535]

@@nolane3972 spacing from the boards only matters with collisions from behind. Open ice hits from behind are legal but the danger zone starts fairly far from the boards in the definition of boarding.

[@connorwatson942]

@@jacoblamb3535 that is simply false

[@giff74]

The hit was actually clean, but then physics took over. There was no obvious intent, just bad angles. From someone that has played hockey for decades I will scream it again, the helmets need to make a HUGE jump in technology, size and how they protect. So many head injuries in hockey from hitting your head on the boards or the ice.

[@iammarkstewart]

Not clean at all. NHL rule 41: boarding penalty shall be imposed on any player who checks or pushes a defenseless opponent in such a manner that causes the opponent to hit or impact the boards violently or dangerously.

[@giff74]

@@iammarkstewart Being able to read the rules doesn't mean you understand them. It was a shoulder-to-shoulder hit on the puck carrier. There was no obvious intent. I would suggest a large percentage of concussions in hockey are caused by the head striking the boards or ice when a player is falling. Players can't slow down to evaluate what will happen when physics takes over after contact. Having played for decades, and a few years at some decently high levels, I can tell you that behind closed doors players wouldn't consider this a dirty or overly violent hit.

[@iammarkstewart]

@@giff74 I've never played at a high level but I've played all positions and officiated as well. I get players have a "feel" for what's acceptable. But since you and I don't play at the highest level at those speeds and with those consequences, I don't think anecdotal experience cuts it. Science and reporting continue to enlighten people on how often injuries are occurring, and more and more interviews with retired players, or about dead ones, make this concerning to me. And knowing the rules is important; even if you didn't like this call, that they called it roughing is ridiculous to me. I don't know if it's lack of support from the NHL, too many new refs too quickly, or just talking bs about player safety, but the scope of ability in the NHL officiating is too wide. Also, when you "suggest a large percentage of concussions in hockey are caused by the head striking the boards or ice when a player is falling"...that's exactly what happened here in a hit that Bortuzzo intended to deliver in the known danger area relative to the boards. You've contradicted yourself.

[@giff74]

@@iammarkstewart I realized how he hit his head. My point was that in the immediate moment prior to the check being delivered, how would the checking player calculate the outcome??? That's why it's a clean shoulder on shoulder hit and not boarding. The roughing was called, as we both know, for the officials to save face on a head injury. I totally agree with you that the NHL as a whole is NOT taking head injuries serious and that helmets should get WAY better and maybe even bigger (think NFL size). I also think feel NHL offciating is crazy inconsistent these days and the refs are nervous about not making a call after a head injury and being in the spotlight. Having said all of that, I still strongly feel that the vast majority of shoulder to shoulder or shoulder to chest hits are clean and no athlete in any sport at any level should be held accountable for the physics that take over after that if there was no ill intent. Beyond that we'll just have to agree to disagree I suppose.

[@rsk9228]

@@iammarkstewart cry about, arm chair ref Let the guys who made it to be a professional ref make the call, you keep doing it from your computer

[@lundyfan30]

Lmfao how do no islander fans get into an uproar when that happens?

[@Boyso5407]

First off I hate seeing guys not be able to get their feet under them after they take a shot to the head like that. Scary moment. As for the hit itself I’m just glad Bortuzzo didn’t cross check him like he does to everyone else. I don’t know why but it just always seems like Bortuzzo is always trying to hurt people one way or another. I’ll be honest I don’t like the guy at all

[@monkeyflipper]

The League needs to reconsider how hits like this are penalized... intentional or not, if you hit someone and then need to go to the quiet room you should be ejected. Concussions are devastating injuries and people underestimate how severe and long lasting the impacts can be.

[@giff74]

Concussions are horrible, but you can't base penalties on physics or saying "the player should have thought about.." There is not enough time to consider so many possibilities during the game. The hit was actually clean, but the applied physics made for a bad outcome.

[@Pikolika]

@@giff74 Pushing someone with all your force into the boards as theyre falling i dont think thats very clean just my opinion

[@buttkick22]

Horrible take. Players get concussions on perfectly clean hits all the time. It’s still hockey people. Hitting is legal and sometimes things happen. Ejecting someone every time someone gets hurt even on a clean hit is irrational and an overreaction.

[@buttkick22]

@@Pikolika bortuzzo was committed to the hit before he started falling. It was a split second thing. Sometimes things happen. There’s no controlling that. There wasnt anything malicious here at all. If not for the slip .3 seconds before the hit, it would have been a normal routine bodycheck. There’s nothing bortuzzo could have done there.

[@tyronebiggums1213]

That’s a bad take because the cleanest play in hockey could result in any injury including concussions and every player in the league know that risk also knowing that this is a collision sport and even if you took out checking and fighting there would still be devastating injuries regardless. Let me ask you this if somebody is texting on their phone and walks into the street while you are stopped and not moving at a red light and that idiot walks into your car and breaks their toe, should you be held liable for something that wasn’t malicious or even a crime just because somebody put themselves in a vulnerable position and got hurt and you happened to be involved but not necessarily responsible for the result? The hit was hard for sure, but there is no penalty in hockey for playing hard as long as no rules are broken which is why they called roughing because they realized after the fact that no rule was actually broken and once they raise their arm for a penalty they have to call something.

[@seagullpoet]

He got staggered ! Cloud 9 ☁️

[@patriotfox7192]

There was nothing wrong with that hit

[@mrv6968]

That was a 5 minute boarding call. Not sure why the NHL has such a wide range of discrepancies with their calls. Player safety is espoused as their # 1 rule. WELL... this young man almost broke his GD neck.

[@tyronebiggums1213]

Did he hit him in the numbers near the boards? If he did then it would be boarding, considering Pelech had his back to the boards it can’t be called boarding. Did you watch the game and see Calle Rosen’s boarding penalty, that hit was a textbook boarding penalty this hit was not at all.

[@MrOctober44]

Isles fan. It was awkward hit. If you make it five minutes, then it's a major and he gets kicked out and would be up for a suspension. I had no problem with the call.

[@iammarkstewart]

@@tyronebiggums1213 ...Know your stuff first or throw on a ref jersey. Boarding is not hitting in the numbers. Checking from Behind is hitting in the numbers. Both are a form of NHL rule 41: a boarding penalty shall be imposed on any player who checks or pushes a defenseless opponent in such a manner that causes the opponent to hit or impact the boards violently or dangerously. Refs missing all sorts of other boarding (which is fact) is not an excuse to let this one go. It definitely had potential as a major, and should get a look from DPS but probably won't.

[@rayh592]

Two minute roughing? That is a five minute boarding minimum.

[@binaryanticommunist1882]

Let the women play, NHL. If men can be women, women can be men. Stop the patriarchy.

[@MrOctober44]

Women don't want to play in the NHL.

[@timehrler2686]

I prefer hockey without guys trying to injure other players. Just play the game correctly, that's all I ask. You don't have to send someone to the hospital with a broken neck to prove you are a tough hard nosed hockey player. It's one thing to throw a check and play a physical game, but yet another to be predatory with intent to injure. Just my opinion. Sorry to all the sadists and psychopaths out there who I am sure are going to hate on this comment and tell me to go watch bowling or badminton. 🤷

[@jamesklinski3890]

Get up boy!!