Holy Frick: Jamie Benn Got A 2-for-1 Special After Dropping Mark Scheifele And The Ref With This Massive Punch
Listen. I hate to victim blame here and everything. But c'mon...
Mark Scheifele needs to be a little smarter than this. You're up 3-0 in the 3rd period with very little time left in the game. The Dallas Stars know they aren't going to come back and win this one. They need to send a message heading into game 6. Mark Scheifele knows that Jamie Benn is an absolute lunatic. He knows that he's a psychotic mutant. He should know at this point of the game, you can't skate anywhere near that man while giving him a clear shot to punch your skull straight off of your shoulders. Jamie Benn might not go down himself, but he has no problem dropping anybody else.
Now in case you're not familiar with Mark Scheifele's game, the man flat out refuses to ever say any cuss words. He's the most respectful lad in hockey. Which means that last night's fiasco absolutely needs to have any sort of mic'd up footage released from the NHL. I know they have cameras and microphones rolling everywhere. The people deserve to have this mic'd up footage in our lives.
To be that angry, yet not allow yourself to even say any cuss words? It's going to be an all-timer. Scheifele got dropped like a bad habit, he took the linesman down with him, and somehow the Dallas Stars came out of that whole scenario with a powerplay. Benn and Scheifele both got matching roughing penalties. Benn got the gate for a misconduct on top of that, but then Brandon Tanev also got 2&10.
Jets save themselves from death and force a game 6. McDavid and the Oilers will be waiting for whichever team is able to come out of this one, but they might both kill each other before we even get to the WCF.