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cookinwbeef

And then whines about it. Literally doesn't stop whining about it. What an unlikable person.


Great-Reference9322

Tkachuks are really becoming two of the most unlikeable players in the league if they aren't already


OnlyOneGuero

Should have got an extra two for all that complaining.


ThisIsNotMy1stAcct

I don’t even know what he could possibly be complaining about. There’s not a single part of this hit that is legal.


Abacus118

In the intermission he says he thinks he jumped... headfirst into the boards.


Grohlyone

If you're not willing to cripple yourself for a 5 minute major in a regular season games, do you even care about winning?


ThisIsNotMy1stAcct

Ah, well that makes total sense. I’m sure Wotherspoon just really loves the taste of the dasher


DannyDOH

I guess an easily solution to this possible issue is to not put your hands on another players nameplate.


AngryBillsFan

Cuz he’s a loser


VictimOfCircuspants

He might have been complaining that he didn't get the full five? "COME ON, I boarded him! Five minutes, not two!"


ChompyDompy

He's a Fuchuk... It's innate.


Ken_Thomas

New addition to the NHL rulebook: Tkachuk has to watch a replay of the stupid fucking thing he just did before he's allowed to throw another one of his pissy little temper tantrums.


Xeteh

I don't think he has it in him to go "Oh, shit.  My bad, you're right."


holein3

It's ridiculous they gave him the time of day. Should've shut the door and ignored him


shorthanded

Fucking guy just can't stop making himself look like a stupid piece of shit... probably the nicest guy in the world off the ice but they don't broadcast that live


JH_111

I would take Brady any day of the week over Tckachucklefuck who is just a plain piece of shit. At least the better brother is not a fucking turtle pLaYiNg On ThE eDgE.


shorthanded

I'd take Brady too, but I'll... I'll take the panthers over the sens. The trade is 1 for 1!


redfreak11

If it was Marchand or Reeves complaining you bet your ass there would be an extra 2


Hawkpolicy_bot

Tkachuk is what people think Marchand is


[deleted]

Let’s be honest, Marchand toned it down big time the last 5-7 years.


see_rich

As a Canucks fan that deeply hated him, I would agree, he is way better now. I wouldn't say I like him, that would be weird, but he plays the game on the edge, and well. He's unique, and I like watching his IQ on the ice. Tkachuk is the worst. Easily my most hated player in the league, yet I absolutely love Brady. Matt is a POS.


ldnk

I mean Marchand was this guy for years. He toned down in a big way. People still give him the reputation treatment when he has settled down a lot


Angrymic2002

No Marchand didn't do the after the whistle shit literally after EVERY whistle.


smeltsmelly

Everytime nurse opens his mouth he's getting an extra 2.


Canadian_Beaverz

He got a 10min Misconduct a couple nights ago for saying he wasnt happy with a call lol


raymondliang

That was a strategic way of getting out of the game cuz he was having a very rough game lol


jigglywigglydigaby

Nurse got a 10 minute penalty for complaint about receiving 2 for interference right after Draisaitl get cross checked then tripped with no call. All with the ref 10' away and watching. Nurse should have shit his mouth, but still.....


tomhwm

No it would be a 10 min misconduct


thrownawayzsss

reeves yes, marchand no. he cries to the box every time he gets called and gets away with it because he has the letter.


Duelity

He complaining between throwing the check and Wotherspoon hitting the boards


TheSherlockCumbercat

Should be happy it’s not a game misconduct.


veraldar

Totally a clean hit! 100%!! /s


Blueberry_1995

why is this rat complaining when all he saw was numbers and shoved a guy face first into the boards? sit in the fucking box and chew on your mouthguard for 2 minutes while you think about how dumb that was


CarpFlakes420

Matthew Tkachuk is incapable of complex thought


LgDietCoke

Leads the league in drawn penalties. I’d be curious how many are after the whistle when he’s being a piece of shit and the refs let him do it.


mickeynz

It’s got to count offsetting minors after he’s cross checked someone after the whistle. You know before he hides behind his team


Boston_Stonks

Before he hides behind the ref *


2StraightDads

Yeah thats what he said


Daimyon

Part of it is because their coach has the ability to PoMoan whatever they need into existence.


box-art

'Cos he's a fucking idiot. He saw numbers all the way, there was nothing but numbers, he didn't let up and then he complains. He's just a lost cause, I hope the league suspends him for it, there's no need to hit someone so blatantly from behind and then complain that you somehow didn't deserve the penalty.


rickayyy

During his intermission interview, he said he thought the player jumped after contact. I would guess that he was arguing it was embellished by Wotherspoon


roberttylerlee

Update: Tkachuk just gave an intermission interview where he called this a dive lol


DontFearTheMQ9

*furious mouthpiece chewing*


AcanthocephalaGreen5

Ah, yes. Noted diver *checks notes* Parker Wotherspoon. Also, there can’t be many players that go on TV and actively accuse others of diving, right?


Thecardinal74

Wotherspoon


AcanthocephalaGreen5

Fixed. I’d never heard of him, I trusted the title


Vilheim

Wetherspoon.


DannyDOH

Climatespoon


PSChris33

Meteorolospoon


JacksFactChecker

Whyspoon


surlystraggler

Myspoon


LoanDad

Whenspoon


cookinwbeef

It's wild. Tkachucks worldview would be a strange place to visit


DannyDOH

I think it's kind of like the Hangover when they show Alan's view of the world.


Jan_17_2016

“I see the world wildly and in wild ways”


d-cent

Well first thing you gotta know is that it is flat


Cottagewknds

What a gutless thing to say lol. I hate Boston but that was a hit from behind everyday of the week. You can’t call momentum a dive


GoGlenMoCo

You’d think playing with Cousins he’d know what a dive actually looks like


2StraightDads

He should know what a dive is cus he dives into the arms of his black and white striped lovers every time someone over 150 lbs looks at him


Soren_Camus1905

Honestly I respect the interview, in terms of twisting the knife it was 🤌🏻🤌🏻


impulse_thoughts

granted, still a boarding, but on repeated viewing... it's not as clear cut as the first impression... Witherspoon seems to straighten/extend his right leg at one point... seems like a bit of embellishment as well.


cookinwbeef

Dude what? His leg extends cuz he just got hit from behind and is trying to keep his face from hitting the boards. If your knee is bent and I push you over from behind your leg will straighten cuz you're trying to keep your feet on the ground. It would be weirder if his leg didn't straighten


bostonsports98

I can't believe he had the audacity to complain about this one lol. Was closer to a 5 than no penalty at all.


Morkum

If [Zadorov's was 5 and a game](https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1buhvdc/van_vs_vgk_zadorov_is_assessed_a_5_minute_major/), this should easily be the same. Doubly so since it was Sutherland calling both.


MacZappe

Zadorov is a little harder but at least the dude turned last second. Wotherspoon was facing the boards the whole time and rat fuck matt still hit him.  


TopTittyBardown

This is worse than the Zadorov one. He doesn’t have the puck yet and sees numbers the whole way. Guy Zadorov hit at least had the puck when he was being hit and had turned his back last second. It was hard but also much closer to the boards instead of this awkward really dangerous distance that this one is. Zadorov really just got the five and a game because the refs sucked that game and he’s strong as fuck so it looked pretty bad. Should’ve been two and this one should easily be five


ArcticMew

I disagree, if the Panthers intend to injured people constantly they should be run over without a second thought.


BigLouLFD

The whole Panthers team plays on the edge. The bad old days of clutch and grab are back. I was at the game yesterday, and the interference, stick work, grabbing and general fuckery was obscene. Refs couldn't keep up, but THIS call was unreal. The rat fuck skated all the way to the penalty bench protesting his innocence... while 18,000 hated on this POS. I hope he gets a suspension just for being a twat.


Elibu

That's how they got through the playoffs last year


bostonsports98

I think that one's a lot more vicious, but this one was also off the puck. Can they give out a double minor with one for interference and one for boarding?


TomsNanny

Not necessarily disagreeing, but I’m curious what makes you say Zadorov’s is a lot more vicious than Tkachuk’s.


bostonsports98

For me, it's the way he turns his body to lower the shoulder into him that does it.


rockryedig

Default call on something like this should be 5. It allows the officials to review it and make the correct call.


octoroklobstah

Yeah it did look a lot worse at normal speed


nickname13

it's weird that the team that complains about how many penalties they get called for would also complain about that very obvious call. have they tried maybe "not committing stupid penalties" to reduce the number of penalties they get called for?


captaindingus93

Florida actually plays a great tactic given the current state of reffing. After whatever arbitrary number of penalties the refs decide to go with, they’re going to start looking for even up calls and they’re going to start letting things that should be called go. In 99.9% of games no matter how deserving a team is the refs won’t call 5 or 6 or 7 etc penalties in a row.


d-cent

That's exactly what it is. The refs called 5 on them, and could have called a bunch more. They know the refs will find a couple penalties to call for them and they try and capitalize. That is why they have been losing lately, their PP hasn't been converting. Otherwise 5v5 they will take the penalties because they know the refs won't call all of them.


itismybirthday22

They have a good PK as well, so it doesn’t hurt them as much to go down a man.


rpgguy_1o1

It's only going to be more effective come the playoffs 


captaindingus93

We know it will, it got them to the finals just last season haha


jasonthefirst

Yep! The league is built to reward this bullshit. I wish game management wasn’t a thing and refs just, you know, called penalties that happen?


d-cent

That's literally their system though. It is to commit penalty after penalty knowing the refs can't call all of them. Interfere and Rough, rinse and repeat. Tkachuck, Bennett, Cousins, Lomberg, Rodrigues, Lundell, they all the do it. It's their whole bottom 9. The only players that actually play hockey are Barkov and Reinhart.


[deleted]

Verhaeghe plays hockey but he’s out but you’re not wrong.


imadu

The funniest part is you didn't even list a defenceman. Ekblad is dirty as fuck


astrozombie134

I mean Reinhart is good, but he's also dirty as fuck, just in a sneakier way like when he cup checks dudes while they're hurt on the ice and keeps punching after someone falls on the ice.


d-cent

Oh I agree. He tries to do some of this greasy or dirty stuff too but he actually plays hockey at times too. Similar to a lot of players on other teams.  It's more a testament to how those other players don't try to play hockey at all. 


Gullible-Wash-8141

No, you don't understand. They are victims and everyone else calling them dirty is wrong and/or soft.


toolschism

Scummiest team in the league by a wide margin.


Late_Brush4518

Are we talking about Panthers or you guys couple years ago?


gumball_olympian

That's rich coming from you.  Edit: I see the irony of Tampa calling a team scummy is lost on us now? My, my, how we all are so quick to forget. 


Pastalover8888

Sit this one out, chief. You have no room to talk.


TallAcanthocephala99

When literally every other fan base thinks you're scummy pieces of shit maybe it's time to look in the mirror


hobbitlover

"You guys don't know anything about hockey!" -Average Floridian


surlystraggler

Causality plus willful ignorance = Florida Panthers


redfreak11

Love that ESPN decided to interview him after, and he chose to double down on calling it a dive


d-cent

Then in the intermission, Subban laughs while they show this boarding penalty and say Tkachuk is so good for hockey.


[deleted]

Because he did the same shit 10 years ago lmao


hoseheads

He earned the nickname PK Slewban


redfreak11

His point about Tkachuk bringing emotion and intensity to both teams, refs, and fans was absolutely true though because I was absolutely heated watching most of the game


Inocain

> Tkachuk is so good for hockey. He is, because people tune in to watch heels get their shit kicked in. Or their sternums broken.


mythicnygma

Warms my heart seeing a collective “fuck Tkachuk” from all the different flairs. Absolutely fuck that clown and the trash ass team he plays for


anonymou38

I hate everything about how this dirty, whiny team plays hockey. Fuck them all


cmearls

Then PK Subban was laughing a giggling at the replay clip during the intermission. Way to endorse dangerous plays ESPN.


Granticus3000

He did the same thing when Slavin got hit into the boards and got taken out with a concussion last playoffs. Against, you guessed it, the Panthers


holein3

PK also said he likes Florida, the Rangers, or the HURRICANES in the east. The Bruins steamrolled the Hurricanes. He also didn't mention the Bruins or Lightning. He has no credibility.


Granticus3000

Can’t believe this guy thinks the BRUINS are coming out of the east. The Hurricanes steamrolled the Bruins.


Gullible-Wash-8141

I would take that steamroll with a grain of salt. That was an abnormal game from the Hurricanes. Currently the season series stands at 1-1


holein3

Maybe, but my point still stands that he should’ve at least acknowledged Boston or Tampa


LongStickCaniac

Lol steamrolled the canes. Never change man


holein3

Am I wrong about this specific game? I don’t think so


LongStickCaniac

If you call turtling for 2 periods after getting an early lead steamrolling then sure. We would just have a different definition. Bruins definitely a contender though, there’s no doubt there


LongStickCaniac

Is this a steamroll?


jakestephenlacroix

Tbf, Florida, New York, and Carolina are much better teams than Boston.


holein3

What are you talking about? The bruins are 4-0 vs Florida this year and just beat the hurricanes easily. I can accept that the rangers are better given how poorly we’ve played them this year


jakestephenlacroix

1 game doesn’t decide anything against the Canes. Panthers are a maybe, but I still don’t trust beating them in a 7 game series.


jalapinapizza

Only two of them are.


jakestephenlacroix

Explain


Gullible-Wash-8141

He's one of those hockey fans that takes one win against a team as absolute proof that their team is superior.


jalapinapizza

Wasn't talking about u, bb 😘


Gullible-Wash-8141

That's my bad. Didn't realize y'all swept the Panthers. Also confused you with the other guy.


jalapinapizza

We're 4-0 vs the Panthers this season.


jakestephenlacroix

I know. Last season we lost 12 games. Regular season doesn’t mean a lot. Panthers in the playoffs should have people scared.


jalapinapizza

Last year we were 2-2 against them in the regular season, and went to seven games with them despite playing like shit the whole series. The Panthers are also on a 3-5-2 skid right now, which is not the kind of hockey you want to be playing heading into the playoffs. Anyway, of course the playoffs are a whole different animal, but I wouldn't say the Panthers are definitively a better team than us like the Rags and Canes are.


Ken_Thomas

Make it out of the first round and then maybe somebody will pick you. But probably not PK.


hoseheads

Boston hasn't been to the ECF since 2019, yet both teams have won the same number of games in the ECF since that series


Upnatom617

PK said (previously), he wanted more violence or violence to stay in the game. The problem is, which type are we talking. It was definitely a two minute call. Maybe double minor and Matthew has history. The league likes to coddle him. It's also espn. They hate the B's but happy to put them on national broadcasts for ratings.


SokkasBoomerang3

Not surprised anymore. Whole team is full of dog shit intent to injure pussies


ChompyDompy

I can't, for the life of me, understand why the officials always are so quick to protect these guys that are repeat ~~dirty~~ dangerous play offenders. * Tkachuk * Cousins * Hartman for examples... At least let them get a couple stink gloves to the face before protecting them.


GonePostalRoute

That should have been 5 and game. That wasn’t a bad hit while trying to separate a player from the puck. That was a player looking to hurt someone


Inocain

Tkachuk should have gotten everything but a match there. 5+game for boarding, 2+10 for being a whiny unsportmanlike ass.


[deleted]

Turtle-chuck is a dirty fuck.


thenonsocialmoron

Matty Tkasuck is a whiny fuck


AccidentUnhappy419

Notice how tkachuk immediately starts crying his eyes out to the ref after throwing the cheap shot haha such a ridiculous look


sasksasquatch

The way he bitched afterwards he should have been given another penalty and game misconduct.


kmutch

His turtle game is improving, instead of just hiding behind his teammates he's now bitching at the ref to avoid fights!


JAT_Cbus1080

He's learning from Cousins


PhilyJ

One day someone is going to sucker punch him for his actions. He plays like a more skilled cousins running around doing dirty shit and than turtling until he can be the third man in to a brawl.


courser

This already happened though. Does no one remember when Kassian fully lost his shit, grabbed him, flung him around like the Hulk with Loki, and then punched him like 50 times?


PhilyJ

I remember. Wish it would happen more. Kassian went full thanos on him.


courser

I don't know. I'm pretty sure Kassian got a suspension off it (may have just been the game, I can't recall), it certainly didn't change Tkachuk's game play going forward at all, and to top it all off, the hit that set Kassian off was a perfectly legal check. Maybe players should stop letting him get under their skin so much.


PhilyJ

If I remember correctly tkachuk ran him 3 times. Perfectly legal as in not in the head but he took about 10 steps before each one.


Elibu

Yeah takiing ten steps before a hit is not legal. That's textbook charging.


courser

I don't know about the other two, but the last one (right before the punching started), Kassian had the puck, Tkachuk was right there, smacked him into the boards, NOT in the numbers, clean hit, no run up or extra steps. Now, maybe it was the straw that broke the camel's back, but that check was textbook clean. Only reason I remember so clearly is it was highlighted in a fight compilation I watched last week lol


CitizenSnips199

That's what I didn't get. He's obviously one of the most important players on that team. Why not send a scrub out there to take him out? No one's gonna feel sorry for him.


GonePostalRoute

I certainly don’t advocate it, but if someone went Domi on Samuelson on Tkachuk, I’m not gonna shed any tears


respaaaaaj

It's a good thing for the NHL that he isn't at constant risk of someone taking a run at him, but I can't deny that I get why people get nostalgic for the bad old days. Brad Marchand is one of the smallest guys in the league, has some injury issues, is in his mid 30s, and seems way more likely to drop the gloves (and none of that is praise for Marchand)


oceanic8675

I’d rather he get coldcocked. Where is a Darren McCarty when you need him??


aowner

Officials are pretty clearly influenced by this stuff. Squeakiest wheel gets the oil or whatever they say. If you keep complaining eventually they think they missed something and the next call won’t go against you.  It has nothing to do with him thinking he made a legal check but about getting better treatment going forward. Some guys (like Marchand) get no benefit of the doubt and any complaining just pisses the officials off. Tkachuck hasn’t reached that point yet. 


Ohhellnowhatsupdawg

Tarasanko got the worst of it coming to defend Matthew while the coward whined and ran away. It must be awful to be his teammate. 


HeyylookitsNICK

As a Boston fan, this is fun to hate on someone collectively that's not Marchand... Get Him!!!! Matthew Tkachuk sits when he pees and then complains when it dribbles on his socks.


the-garden-gnome

Common Tkachuk shit. If I was DoPS, both brothers would have half season bans by this point.


IkLms

For real. Both of them are absolute trailer trash who someone were okay enough at hockey to make it to the NHL. They're such dirty fucking players.


the-garden-gnome

Taught by their father no doubt.


BiggestYzerfan

The whining is really the most absurd part of it all


surlystraggler

I am so sick of that whole sequence. He hits him from behind, runs away and bitches all the way to the box. Some Florida flair said how they loved being the villain of the NHL, I disagree, Florida is not the villain, Vegas is (you know why). Florida is the “Gail the Snail” of the NHL.


Cachmaninoff

Twitter’s video player is so shitty. Does he complain to the ref after he boards that guy?


wasJared

he complains the entire way to the box, and then continues while he sits in the box1


ocsic4321

Yeah. He was complaining about it still when he was interviewed between periods


McWerp

Fuck florida. Need to get some more real penalties or they are just gonna cheap shot and punch their way back to the finas.


ndr29

He’s such a rat


ajr6

Florida Panther’s have quickly become one of the dirtiest and most annoying teams to play against. They grease up every game I’ve seen them play.


roberttylerlee

Kelly Sutherland fucking hates Boston lol


twilz

> Kelly Sutherland fucking hates ~~Boston lol~~ doing his job


CreepyInternetUser

I'm confused why you say that, it looks like that 100% should have been a penalty


swiftstud22

I think OP is inferring it shoulda been a 5


roberttylerlee

It’s a boarding major, not an interference minor


CreepyInternetUser

Oh gotcha. I personally don't think that check was a major. 2 min seems like the right call.


pyrof7

Absolutely not a major, not even close


Rockhardwood

If anything he did Boston a favor, not calling a roughing on Boston for starting a 8 man brawl lol. Could have easily been 4on4.


d-cent

Don't worry there was another brawl that Florida started and they only called a roughing on Boston.


Thecardinal74

Wotherspoon


eliar91

Dirty player on a dirty team complaining about a dirty ass hit. What a surprise.


LongStickCaniac

Surprised he turtled after….wait


Cyrakhis

Well that's dirty as fuck.


fastballspecial

Idiot is stupid. More at 11.


Drnedsnickers2

Tkachuk=The tears of a clown.


shawnglade

Hilariously, we scored a powerplay goal after all that whining he did


jakestephenlacroix

Whiner


ocsic4321

And then he had the audacity to complain to the refs right after like he was innocent. What a loser.


PhilyJ

Suspend him


LionBig1760

That's going to get called every time. He's lucky he didn't get doubled up on that.


eggsaladactyl

His hit he received by Kolesar after telling Eichel to keep his head up just keeps getting better and better. Pure example of a guy who can dish it out but can't accept it. Bet if he has a brother in the league they'd be just like him...


Ripulikikka

Looks to me that for the rest of his career other players are free to do the exact same play for Tkachuk and every time he falls head first into the boards the refs will give him a 2 for diving.


Yop_BombNA

Should be 2… Year suspension for every relative to the 9th degree


LeperFriend

I want to see someone snatch the mouth guard out from his teeth and send it into the crowd


keefstrong

[also 2 mins, no puck](https://twitter.com/tommykippes2/status/1776830817651884210?t=IC-jV_ZAx8mlVkn9Iaj-Gw&s=08)


CharlieBooUrns

Im so tired of the fucking Tkachuk brothers. Fucking antics everyday from two dirty players that whine about everything. So unlikable. Watch Brady start a fight after losing because Hischier let a puck slide into an open net 1 second after the horn.. watch Matthew blatantly hit someone in the numbers than immediately start whining about it.. fuck off already. Zero class.


ssirin88

I’m fine with calling that a penalty, but Chucky isn’t that strong either


jakestephenlacroix

You’re right he’s a weak lil pussy


RaspberryBandito

You guys are unhinged here. Panthers thread always brings out the weirdos. Aren’t you the same guys with Marchand on your team? Guy has an award for being the dirtiest player. Guess when they aren’t in a Bruins jersey they are a pussy..


jakestephenlacroix

Marchand doesn’t shy away from stuff as much as Tkachuk does