We know this morning that Brenan Gallagher will not have an in-person hearing for his hit on Adam Pelich. This is not a league. Of the New York Islanders. We'll talk about the Islanders game in a second because I do think there's some other noteworthy things. But this is obviously the big story of today. Now, Gallagher... I got two different angles on a Jessie that I sent to you. I don't know if it matters, but I think by now, if you're a hockey fan, you've probably seen this hit. Basically, Pelich isn't Gallagher comes across center ice. It's the neutral zone, and his elbow is up, and it hits him right in the nose. And Pelich's head snaps back. He's on the ice. He's shaken up, and we still have nothing. And this comes back to an issue that we see time and time again in the NHL where there is no true standard for what hit equals what. That is, as blurry as that is. One day, guys, we're going to be able to run clips on this damn network. That's crazy.

That's on par with shit Matt Cooke did. Oh, yeah. Back in the day.

That is Look at that shit. Now, Jesse, I can't tell from the screen, is he off the ice, too, with his skates? No. Okay, his skates are planned. It doesn't really matter. I know, but you know that would make it worse. That would be icing on the cake.

Okay, so remember Remember a few weeks ago when we were talking about nick Cousins and everything and the Panthers and just running amok? I was like, Okay, the next player to get hit by one of those guys has to pretend that they're dead. They have to pretend that they call out the stretcher and blah, blah, blah, everything. Am I still crazy? Am I crazy?

I think the entire internet is wondering that today. You have everybody. You got to get their attention. Everybody is going, Really? Really? There's not even... Even Habs fans are like, Yeah, I'm really surprised, too.

Last night... Oh, no. Habs fans have been perfectly reasonable about it, and that's zero sarcasm.

No, I'm serious. No, they have.

Oh, actually.

I'm serious. I mean, there's always going to be some idiots, but most people are like, Yeah, no, that's pretty shit. Jeff Merrick tweeting like, Yeah, we're not going to see Brennan Gallagher for a while. It was four games a while or five, even.

It's probably going to be three.

Jesus, Lord. It's probably three. Lord above in heaven. Are you serious? What are we doing here? What are we doing here? Someone texted me, and again, I bring this up. I know I'm a leaves homer when it comes to this, but I bring this up because it is still one of the least explainable suspensions based on the precedent that the NHL has set. Jason Spetsa versus the Jetsch.

Oh, Oh, yeah.

A thousand games played. First offense, six games. And yes, there was an injury on the play. Yes, it was intentional. It's bad. It's bad. Came out of fucking nowhere. And I looked at it and I went, All right. Well, every time a play gets suspended the amount of games it ought to, we go, Okay, I'm fine that as long as that's the standard going forward. It never is. That's less than the Spetsa one? You're on drugs.

How much was Peron?

Peron was six games.

Was it six?

Yeah. I don't even think they're done the appeals process. He had to sit the games, but I think it's because from what we've heard from Alan publicly, they were just going to continue to fight that until the end.

They're still appealing for the check.

They want the money back.

That's six games, which was like intention to injure in the moment in the heat. This would be something very similar with somebody in... That was outside of play, I guess, so maybe. But that doesn't make sense that this would be anything less than six.

Sometimes you see a hit. There was one last night, I'm trying to remember. Sometimes you see a hit and it's from behind and it's not a great hit.

The Huberto.

Oh, it was Huberto. That's what he was thinking about.

Where he hit him and then he looked up and he's like, I I just ran into him.

Fuck, I didn't do that. I don't think he meant to, but he was like, I'm going to lose the game. I'm getting kicked out. I know that.

That's one of those ones where you can't do it, you should be punished, but you understand how it happened. I don't understand how that happened. No. That's just a...

Gallagher is going across the ice and is like, I'm going to hit this guy in the head with my elbow.

It's just a player being completely irresponsible.

If you want to look up something interesting to compare and contrast, Jason Spatz taking a run at... Which Winnipeg Jet was Where he did the flying knee.

It was Neil Piank or Josh Morrissey. I can't remember.

Spets absolutely runs him over. It was Neil Piank. And rightly got six games for that. Nobody appealed, nobody protested. It was his first offense. Never even been fined, I believe.

I protested because I'm like, Dude, you take these things into account until the moment you don't.

And Drew is saying, if you go back and you look at Nazem Khadri in the playoffs for the Avalanche, the first year he was there, third year in a row, he got suspended. Same hit against the St. Louis. Just the fork. Yeah. It was eight.

It was eight games.

It was eight? Yeah. For Codry?

Yeah. Well, so with that one, you have to take into account it's the playoffs, but it's also Nas. So you grade on a curve one way because it's the playoffs, you grade on a curve the other way because it's a repeat offender. Brandon Gallagher, I couldn't believe this when I looked it up, has never suspended.

Oh, good for him.

I mean, the type of game he plays, I think he's been fined.

It's chipping, but he's never been dirty. We're not saying, Brandon Gallagher, a bad guy.

It was a shitty hit. No, Steve, the playoff games mean more.

That's what I'm saying. I'm saying it goes one way because he's a repeat offender, it goes the other way because it's a playoff. I mean, look at that.

Yeah. No, this eight-game suspension for Najib Khadri on NHL standards is a 16 regular-season game suspension because playoff games are worth two, that they I would say.

Which, when you consider it was the third playoff run in a row or something like that? When you consider that, you need to sit. You need to have a seat.

Sure. But I don't think 16 or eight playoffs equals four regular season that Gallagher is going to get. It should be more. It's very similar. The way the hit happens and he comes across and he just elbows him in the face, it's not dissimilar to the hit.

Like Palik, he has a concussion history.

Yeah, same hit.

Dude, what are we doing here? What are we doing here as a league?

Yeah. Falk had the fuck. Falk had the fuck.

At least Falk had the fuck. Did Palik have the fuck?

Well, yeah, he just shot it. Pelik It was so far after. He did. They make the play and it goes up the boards, but then Galler just keeps going. It's ridiculous.

It's one of the rare instances where the whole hockey world went, That's fucking Bullshit. Even Cousins Good Branson, there was some, Wow, wow, wow. There's always going to be a little, well, well, well. And that's where the lack of suspension comes from, or it's not very much, or it's a fine. I've never seen the whole hockey world united. That guy is getting suspended immediately. And he is, by the sounds of it, but it's not even going to be the biggest suspension of the season. What Peron did was inexcusable. Even if you're like, Well, he saw the red mist. He wanted to stick up for his teammate. He hit the wrong guy. This is way worse. Are you joking? It's at least on par, minimum on par.

The hearing is today, so we're going to get some answers. Yeah.

The interesting thing with Khadri is that amounts to a 16-game suspension by the NHL. I just said that. Sorry. I guess my point is that I'm like, What I'm trying to understand is what are the reasons, and I think that's everybody's question, what are you grading this on? I know Nazem Khadri was a repeat offender, and Brandon Gallagher is not. I know Khadri was a three-time repeat offender at that point in the playoffs, although it's debatable, some of those hits, because I could have sworn I saw them in other series against other teams. I'm wondering what the NHL has to gain at this point from not having any standards on this. I just don't know. The one thing the NHL really needs to do that they refuse to do, and this goes for any player, Brennan Gallagher aside, is you have to minimize these hits to the head. You have to do this for well-being. You must do this.

If there was any hit so far this season, where you need to set an example and throw the book at it and say, This can't be in our league. This has to be number one. It has to be- Because that didn't even affect play.

It doesn't do anything.

Given I don't think people liked that nick Cousins got nothing for his hit on Valamacky, and that's valid criticism. But Zucker should get three games for intentionally hitting a guy from behind and injuring him. Sure. Injuring him, you can't do that. And the league sent a message, Here's three games. You can't do that. I mean, this just is so much worse. Now, it's so much worse. And I mean, if a guy, if you're looking at Zucker and suspending him for intentionally injuring player, which, make no mistake, is exactly what happened. That should be more than three games. Yes. He intentionally injured a player. Cousins, I don't think has played since. He intentionally hurt a player. He got a concussion. He's, I think, started skating. And you suspended him for... Let me... 3 divided by 82. You suspended him for 3.6% of the season. Yeah.

What are we doing? One of the main things you said there, Adam, I think that's really important, is that it has nothing to do with the game of hockey. Going across the ice and elbowing someone in the head is so far outside of making any type of hockey play that it's ridiculous that you don't throw the book at them.

What do you want, producer?

I have some cadre appreciator as something.

I'm saying if Pelic was stretched off the ice, is this more than five games, even though injuries don't matter? That's Steve's theory that you got to pay off the hospital workers. Act like you're dead. You got to pay off the ambulance, get them in the building, Everybody's got to die and then put them in, and then you're going to get games. Yeah.

And what? You got more integrity for being the one who hurts people? All right. Well, I'm going to throw all integrity out the window and be I'm hurt guy and lay there like I'm dead. 20 minutes stoppings in the game. Try to pick me up and my muscles won't work. I'll pretend I'm unconscious.

Yeah.

What do you got to do to grab this leg with a fucking collar and be like, take this shit seriously? We We all whisper about it and say it. Something genuinely repugnant is going to happen on the ice one day, and we're all going to wonder where it came from.

I don't think we're going to wonder.

No, it's going to come from years and years and generations of not giving a general vague fuck about player safety.