The New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings dug deep into the unwritten rule book to find a reason to brawl on Sunday.<\/p>\n
At the end of the game, Red Wings forward Mason Appleton shot at the Rangers\u2019 empty net a half second after time expired and with the buzzer sounding.<\/p>\n
As the Red Wings came out to celebrate their 2-1 victory, Rangers goaltender Jonathan Quick and a few of his teammates angrily reminded Appleton that this was not a proper way to conduct himself, and both teams converged in the Rangers\u2019 defensive zone, shoving and aggressively hugging each other.<\/p>\n
Please note: If you\u2019d like to see a longer version of the video, which I highly encourage you to view, please see Sportsnet\u2019s long-form video<\/a>, which I could not embed here because \u201cthis video is age restricted.\u201d Honestly, what is our continent coming to when we can\u2019t show people shoving each other during a professional sporting event? So sawft<\/a>. (This is a joke. I respect your decision, YouTube.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The fireworks looked better on photo<\/a> than video, as nothing actually happened beyond a large contingent of hockey players being mad near each other.<\/p>\n \u201cYou guys all saw it,\u201d a seemingly annoyed Jonathan Quick said postgame<\/a>. \u201cThe horn goes, a couple seconds, he shoots it into the net. I don\u2019t know why they were surprised. That\u2019s usually the response when something like that happens. Boys jumped in, did the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked if he was frustrated by what happened during the game, Quick said no.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a complete separate issues from the 60 minutes that took place,\u201d he said. \u201cThen, a couple seconds, and then he shoots it. That\u2019s just that.\u201d<\/p>\n Rangers captain JT Miller praised Quick for his \u201cheart\u201d after the buzzer. Will Cuylle said the netminder had \u201ca lot of passion.\u201d<\/p>\n While that may all be true, shooting the puck into an empty net after the buzzer sounds is not a penalty (see rulebook here<\/a>). It\u2019s not one of the subsections in the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. But, and please read this closely, if you cross-check a guy in the head who does it<\/a>, that is a suspendible action.<\/p>\n The point being, sure, there might be some message sending in shooting the puck into the empty net after the buzzer sounds, but if you take the bait, you might end up being the one who\u2019s actually sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings dug deep into the unwritten rule book to find a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-298780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}