The return-to-play protocol requires a player to quarantine for four days if he leaves the bubble. “We were asking the refs and their whole response was, ‘He got pushed, he got crosschecked, he hit another player and that was how it happened.’ ” Seriously? Players know the risk that comes with playing the game, but the hope is that certain rules and etiquette can mitigate these incidents from ever occurring. The injury came with just under two minutes left in the Maple Leafs 3-0 win over Columbus, evening the qualifying round series at 1.
“A player is off two-to-three feet from the boards and a crosscheck does happen, usually it doesn’t matter how good you are on your feet, there’s always a possible chance of you going head-first into the boards and it’s a scary incident,” said Muzzin's teammate Marner. Rivalries exist and the playoff atmosphere brings out the most physical side of teams. Emboldened with that knowledge, Dubois applied a casual crosscheck that could have the potential to end up very, very badly for Muzzin. Bill Keenan lived it, wrote about it – and now it's the latest hockey movie.With players from other leagues sitting on the sidelines to protest racial injustice, hockey players were forced to have some difficult conversations.
Muzzin suffered a suspected head-neck injury after a Pierre-Luc Dubois cross check late in the game. Jake Muzzin has a scary collision and is taken off the ice on a stretcher. And now they want us to have them, too.If the league's return-to-play protocols are followed, Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Jake Muzzin will miss at least Games 3 and 4 of his team's qualification series against the Columbus Blue Jackets because of a casual crosscheck that has become commonplace in today's NHL. If that’s the case with Muzzin and the league does not make an exception, the best-case scenario would be that the Leafs would be without one of their most reliable defensemen for Games 3 and 4 of this series. And that is that the power brokers of the NHL are directing their on-ice officials to go easy on calling crosschecking and in many cases, to basically ignore it.
In a scary incident Tuesday late in the third period of Game 2 between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Columbus Blue Jackets, defender Jake Muzzin was taken off of the ice on a … Even if Scotiabank Arena had been full of fans, it would have been just as quiet.
To reiterate, Pierre-Luc Dubois actually didn’t do anything wrong on that play. Regarding Jake Muzzin … I have long maintained that the latter is the case because, more than any other sport, the league’s positions of power are held by former players, in many cases the kinds of players who made careers out of straddling the NHL rulebook. Updated daily with news and features from over 130 writers worldwide.
More News. But it was reckless and careless. “I’m told he’s responsive and we’re just awaiting his assessment,” Keefe said. If Mitch Marner’s version of the events is accurate, the NHL has a very serious problem on its hands. And maybe, just maybe, it will if the Muzzin injury turns out to be a serious one. He was also skating on the team’s top-pairing alongside Justin Holl.Any missed time for Muzzin will be a significant loss for the Maple Leafs, especially on a team who’s biggest weakness actually comes on their back-end.Still, the Maple Leafs are going to have to push forward and figure things out in the meantime.
If you’re already a subscriber, click on the My Account button to sign into your account to renew your subscription, make a payment, redeem a gift, update your payment method and much more...After a two-day pause to reflect on things bigger than hockey, the NHL resumed Saturday and the Tampa Bay Lightning continued their mastery over the Boston Bruins, who are suddenly searching for answers.What happens when your hockey dream sends you to the fringes of the European minor leagues instead of the NHL? The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-0 to tie their NHL playoff qualifier at 1-all, but lost defenceman Jake Muzzin following a scary incident in the 3rd period.
As he was falling, his head made a clear collision with Oliver Bjorkstrand’s knee.The collision with Bjorkstrand’s knee was clearly an accidental incident that led to Muzzin being attended to on the ice by medical professionals for minutes on end.Muzzin was eventually taken off of the ice on a stretcher, but both the Maple Leafs and Blue Jackets benches both seemed visibly rattled by the situation.In a game like hockey, injuries like this are hard to watch. After being transported to hospital following an on-ice collision last night, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Jake Muzzin is back at the team’s hotel.Muzzin was discharged overnight but will not be available to the club for the duration of its series versus the Columbus Blue Jackets as a result of his injury. It’s easy to imagine so many other plays going wrong in similar fashion but when something like this actually takes place, everything gets put into perspective. Maple Leafs' Jake Muzzin: Should be ready for 2020-21 14D ago • by RotoWire Staff Maple Leafs' Jake Muzzin: Resumes skating
In the 16 games Muzzin was sidelined for due to injury in 2019-20, Toronto still managed a 7-5-4 record, and are at least somewhat familiar in how to get by in his absence. NHL apologists will maintain that Muzzin “fell awkwardly” into the boards, but the reality is that he was crosschecked into them from behind by Blue Jackets center Pierre-Luc Dubois. The worst-case scenario is unimaginable.Not a subscriber? 02:17 •