The Florida Panthers drop Game 1 against the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4. We recap specifically the second period... Toronto wants Sam Bennett suspended, it appears he hit Anthony Stolarz in the back of the head causing him to leave the game minutes later throwing up.
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00:00What a slow, crappy start.
00:02Yeah, it was a bad start for the Cavs.
00:04I mean, you didn't even recognize them, right?
00:06It was weird.
00:06They were like, you know what it felt like?
00:09They had a hangover.
00:10A little bit.
00:11It felt like, and Toronto went into the game,
00:16and they were like, you know, they've been kicking our butts
00:19and being physical for the last two years, right?
00:22If we're going to win, we're going to have to be quick, fast,
00:27physical, and get after it.
00:29I thought they were still going to win.
00:30When they made it 4-3, I was like, oh, cats are winning this thing.
00:35And then Nico Mikula, because he's a polar bear on skates,
00:38you can't control him.
00:40Cats couldn't stay out of the box last night.
00:42It was the craziest.
00:44I'm like, hold it on to the stick.
00:47You're not near the puck.
00:49Let it go.
00:50Nico, you're too big to get away with the tactics
00:54of hitting somebody upside the head next to a bench.
00:57And then the worst part is,
00:59the skate of shame.
01:01When they take that skate to the box.
01:03They escort you.
01:04Yeah, they escort you.
01:05And you're like, oh, I'm sorry, guys.
01:09Well, I mean, like, this is the guy who's like,
01:11it's the one filthy, just like we like it.
01:13I'm like, no.
01:15What am I supposed to do?
01:16I'm supposed to get mad at that guy.
01:17This is, he's two minute filthy.
01:19That's his new nickname.
01:20Two minute filthy.
01:21Yeah, it was two, two, one filthy.
01:23That's how we like it.
01:25And a tight game, tight game.
01:27What we expected.
01:28And it was good to play against the Eastern team.
01:31And like, you can't control him.
01:34You can't control him.
01:35Like, he eats a salmon, like literally out of the stream.
01:39You like, he's like, oh, what are you kidding?
01:42That's all I did.
01:43Nico, Nico, the eating.
01:44Just like.
01:44Standing on the end.
01:45When they jump in the air.
01:47Just catching them.
01:48Oh.
01:49Cross check.
01:51Panthers.
01:51Everybody's mad at him again.
01:52Because our friend.
01:55Our friend.
01:56Peaky blinders.
01:58Stoli the goalie got taken out.
02:00Oh, yeah.
02:01Because Sam Bennett.
02:03I don't know if I should call him a good boy.
02:05He's a misunderstood boy.
02:07He's a misunderstood boy.
02:08You mean it starts with him.
02:10A menace.
02:11No, he is a menace.
02:12He is a menace.
02:13He's an angry boy.
02:14And our guy, our champion, Anthony Stolarz.
02:19Now, the goaltender for the Blue Leafs, he starts throwing up in the middle of the game
02:27after it appears he took a chicken wing from Sam Bennett, who was going for the puck, by
02:34the way.
02:34He had the puck.
02:36And all of a sudden, they're just like, yeah, Stolarz is throwing up on the bench.
02:40Then they're like, yeah, now he's gone.
02:41Then they're like, oh, he's taken away.
02:44That's like.
02:45That's like.
02:46Yeah, it was serious.
02:46When you throw up from a concussion, straight to the hospital.
02:51They and then, you know, people are freaking out.
02:54They're really, really mad at him.
02:55Now.
02:56The guy hit me for that.
02:57I'm going to point out.
02:59The dude took a rocket off the dome from Sam Reinhardt.
03:02And he was trying to shake it off.
03:04He and in the in the NHL, you're like your master meant to collapse when that happens as
03:09a as a, you know, so you don't get the bell ringing like it's supposed to detach to help
03:14with that.
03:14But dude was clearly lit up from that.
03:17Um, but yeah, I look, I get it.
03:20It's it's Sam Bennett.
03:21So it's tough because it's like, oh, you just always around trouble.
03:27Sam Bennett.
03:28Is he Draymond Green of hockey?
03:31You know, this is what happened with Boston last year.
03:33Everybody's like, you know what you did to Marshan with that with that punch.
03:37Now, nothing appears like it's going to happen.
03:40No, nothing's going to happen because you can't ignore that rifle of a shot that hit
03:45him right square in the dome.
03:47People are mad at them at the Panthers because, you know, he wasn't made available to the media
03:52yesterday.
03:52And he didn't answer his quote.
03:54He didn't answer.
03:55Look at it.
03:57Look at this.
03:57Look at this face.
03:58You can already tell hockey.
04:00You can already tell how he's coming out.
04:02This is the, uh, Toronto, Craig, Craig Barube.
04:07I think that he is, uh, he's hockey.
04:10He's already tell his face.
04:11Maple Leafs, Maple Leafs coach.
04:13And, uh, this is what he had to say on the Bennett hit.
04:15Craig, what was your view on the Sam Bennett hit on Stolar's and elbow to the head?
04:20Yeah.
04:21Clearly.
04:21Yeah.
04:22Clear.
04:23Clear as day.
04:25Were you satisfied with your players response to that?
04:27Like, did they handle it the way you would like or?
04:31Yeah.
04:32I mean, I, I don't know what you, I mean, I think at the time, I think, you know, we handled
04:43it the way we should handle it.
04:44I'm not sure why, uh, there's not a call on it.
04:49Um, but you know, I get it.
04:52They missed calls, but it's clearly a, it's clearly a penalty.
04:59Somebody said he looks like the district, a district DA.
05:02Right?
05:03The hockey district attorney.
05:05But wait, here's the deal.
05:07And, and here's why.
05:11I think.
05:12People need to be careful because if this coach or Toronto, the team, I don't care what the
05:23fans do.
05:23They're going to do, cause I'm with, I do a show with you.
05:27So I know how fans react.
05:30If they don't even mention the fact that he got hit by an 80 plus 90 plus mile an hour
05:37puck straight to the head.
05:39If they don't, then they are, you know, kind of being ridiculous.
05:46Nobody seemed to really mention the puck thing until after the game and everybody was going
05:51by the hit because he's taken out and that's what they kept showing.
05:54Nobody went to this until they showed the blast that he took early on in the game, which was,
05:59I mean, it was very early in the game when he got hit by that.
06:02So, um, Chris Nowinski, who of course is our, our favorite.
06:06He's, uh, he's called out the dolphins for murder charges on Tua.
06:09He is King.
06:10He's King of the concussions is basically what he is.
06:13Former wrestler turned, uh, neurologist, neurologist, PhD.
06:18I don't know what his official doctorate is in.
06:20I think it's just yelling at people on Twitter.
06:22No, he is a neurologist.
06:23He went to Harvard and he said, Anthony Stolarz likely suffered a first concussion five minutes
06:31into the game when he took a puck to the face that knocked his mask off 25 seconds.
06:35After this, he did a shake, which is a spontaneous head shake after a kinematic event, which predicts
06:43concussion 72% of the time.
06:46Um, so maybe the Bennett thing had something to do with it, but I would say the more violent
06:54hit was probably the puck because it didn't look like Bennett hit him that hard.
06:58No, it didn't look like Bennett hit him that hard.
07:00And I get it.
07:01He's not the easiest guy to defend because he is a peaky blinder and he's just always around
07:08chaos.
07:09He did this to the Leafs.
07:10The last time he played, he did this to Brad Marchand.
07:13He's always around conflict.
07:17He's a menace on skates.
07:19Like, so I get it.
07:22Like, this isn't like Aaron Eckblad where I could say he's a good boy.
07:25Now, I just want to be clear here.
07:27He does save dogs because Benny's buddies is a great foundation and all of the, and all
07:34of the blue, all of the blue Leafs fans are harassing Benny's buddies on Instagram.
07:40And you guys, I'm going to tell you all something.
07:42Why are they going for the puppies?
07:43Exactly.
07:44Jay fig.
07:44You, you people need to get a grip.
07:47Okay.
07:47The puppies did nothing.
07:50And you want to know something?
07:51He's not running that account.
07:52Okay.
07:53Debra at, at Benny's buddies is running that account of their social media manager.
07:58And you guys are annoying Debra.
07:59She did nothing.
08:00Okay.
08:01So please stop commenting on Beagle pictures and worry about the closet crying.
08:07Please leave her alone.
08:09Leave her alone.
08:12Now, I don't know what's going to happen with this, but it does sound like the early reports
08:16are that the league is not going to discipline him for this, which obviously infuriates a
08:20lot of people because it feels like he's always getting away with this, but I got to tell
08:25you, you got to acknowledge the fact he took one to the noggin.
08:29You got to, you have to stole ours is reportedly out of the hospital, which is great news.
08:35Oh, he'll be out for a while.
08:38He took a rocket.
08:39I mean, that was something Paul Maurice asked about this afterwards, after the game.
08:43This is what he had to say on the matter.
08:45Your vantage point of a play involving Sam Bennett and Anthony Stolar is obviously leaving
08:50the game.
08:51Not nearly as good as the referee's vantage point standing right there.
08:55He saw it.
08:56So, you know what, hopeful for Anthony and his health, like we love that guy and we hope
09:07he gets better real fast.
09:08I've answered one on it.
09:13I understand that you're late.
09:15The referee is standing right there when it happened.
09:20And then you will do your thing and the league will do its thing and I'll coach the next game.
09:25Hopefully.
09:26There you go.
09:29Paul Maurice yesterday on the...
09:31See, and I tell you this all the time.
09:37One of the things I hate about interviews right after the game is because you don't have all the facts.
09:45Neither coach or the players knew about the hit to the head.
09:53They didn't think it was that big of a deal because he kept playing.
09:58And so it would be hard to come to the conclusion...
10:00He started right here on his shoulder and then went to his...
10:03It would be hard to come to the conclusion at that time that that's what caused it.
10:09So by asking people questions about the hit, everybody's insinuating or assuming that that caused the injury.
10:20But, like, is there any shot, like, people are going to look at this and say...
10:23Because I'm not...
10:24Obviously, we all have eyes.
10:25He was hit in the back of the head by Sam Bennett.
10:28Well, not even on the back.
10:29It was kind of on the side.
10:30Whatever.
10:30I mean, like, you get hit...
10:31They set it up, like, right here off the shoulder.
10:32Okay, but we're not neurologists.
10:34Like, he could still get hurt by getting hit on the back of the neck or the side of his head.
10:38Sure.
10:38So, like, I'm not...
10:39Like, he very clearly got hit in the dome early.
10:43But what can happen is you can take a hit in a game.
10:46This can happen in football, too.
10:47When people have said this with Tua, where, like, Tua's taken a hit and then he's hit the back of the turf and then it was out.
10:53Like, that's happened to him as well.
10:55Like, you could take multiple hits and that's going to make it worse because your brain's in a more vulnerable spot.
10:59The thing is, is, like, do I really think that Sam Bennett meant to hurt his former teammate with a dirty hit?
11:08Like, it looked pretty incidental.
11:10He was going for the puck.
11:11It was definitely incidental because you can see how he's trying to avoid his head at one point.
11:15Obviously, you can't because of the speed, but it didn't look malicious at all.
11:18I don't know.
11:19He's...
11:19It's the guy.
11:20And that's the thing that makes it tough.
11:21We'll talk to David Dwork about it.
11:23Obviously, this is going to be the big thing we're monitoring.
11:26Do you think anybody's going to come out and make that point that, hey, he might have got hurt earlier in the game?
11:35I'm sure now.
11:36Or are they going to just keep making it a Sam Bennett thing?
11:40Well, look, it's a bad guy to defend.
11:42I know!
11:43Like, believe me, we do it with Draymond.
11:45He's...
11:46Yes, he is.
11:47He's a menace on skates.
11:48Like, this is that...
11:49Like, part of this is who it is.
11:51Well, no, we all got on Draymond when he tried to put old boy in a figure four on the ground.
11:57Right?
11:58So, yeah.
11:59Was it Dylan Brooks that he tried to...
12:02That he got into it with?
12:04No, it wasn't Dylan Brooks.
12:04He gets into it with everybody.
12:06Huh?
12:06He gets into it with everybody.
12:07Right.
12:07Can't keep trying.
12:08I'm just saying.
12:09Paul Maurice will speak to the media today at 11 a.m.
12:12I'm sorry.
12:12I'm sorry.
12:13I'm sorry.
12:27I'm sorry.