NHL rules on Mikko Rantanen’s ‘disrespectful’ hit on Islanders’ star!

All right, we’re here at the uh Dallas airport and got word on the way here that Miko Ranton is not going to face supplemental discipline first hit on Alexander Romanov at the end of last night’s uh 3-2 Islanders win over the Stars. Um that is a bit of a surprise. Um I assume that the league agreed with Glenn Gollet’s interpretation of the hit. Um the Stars coach said that he thought Scott Mayfield’s skates got tangled with Ranton in and kind of propelled him forward, but um the Islanders are uh you you can assume the Islanders are going to be pretty upset about that. Um they they were after the game understandably uh pretty emotional about the play. Patrick Walk called it disrespectful, said that um when you see somebody’s numbers, everybody knows you have to lay off. Uh John Gabriel Pio said, you know, it’s yeah, the two points are great, but you know, that’s uh that’s our friend out there who who got hit and and appeared to suffer a pretty serious injury. We we still haven’t gotten word on um anything specific other than that Romanov didn’t have to go to the hospital last night, which is obviously good news. You know, he had shoulder surgery uh a couple years ago. Um he’s dealt with kind of a myriad of um of injuries. Um mostly upper body. Um and it looked like his head kind of hit the glass first. It looked like uh his leg was maybe um hurting as well. Um you know, you don’t want to speculate, but obviously didn’t look great. So, we um are still waiting for word on that and um may not find out anything until morning skate in Detroit tomorrow, but um certainly wouldn’t be surprised if um Marshall Warren or Travis Mitchell or somebody Isaiah George is uh is up from Bridgeport to help uh to fill in there.

Ethan Sears, The Post’s Islanders beat writer, reports that Stars winger Mikko Rantanen will not face discipline for driving Isles defenseman Alexander Romanov into the boards and causing a serious injury in Dallas’ loss to New York on Tuesday night.

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17 comments

  1. Its not s surprise. The NHL has a dean of discipline in George Parros. For those who don't know, George was a goon. Only the NHL would employ this clown as head of discipline. His decisions on these hits are constantly mind boggling. Clown show at best. Hopefully Romanov gets well and lights him up at UBS when they come in to town

  2. I'm an Islander fan but I agree there should be no further action. If you watch in slow-mo, you'll see the contact is caused by Mayfield, but the situation is caused with how Rittich plays the puck. Honestly, Mayfield should have been called for interference because he clearly does. First Mayfield and Rants skates touch just as Mayfield hooks him. All this turns rant to the left just as Romo also turns left to avoid Rittich, putting them on a collision course. If Rittich isn't in the way, Romo continues his original course around the back of the net and it's Rant who hits the boards, probably resulting in a hooking or interference penalty for Mayfield. In short, both players are committed to circling behind the net until Scott and Rittich get involved.

  3. Thats soft play from Romanov. Unless there is problem with the old injured shoulder, there is no chance to get injured there, since he went to the boards alone and even softened the blow with his hand.

  4. Objectively, Mayfield is the player that caused that collision 100%. There are plenty of slowed down clips that illustrate exactly what happened, that’s why zero fines. Mayfield almost got his own player merc’d on this one.

  6. to be honest i am not a Rantanen fan at all.On the other hand i have to judge from what i see and that play was as unfortunate bad timing as the player who got his throat slashed.Didnt read the comments yet but obviously Rantanen was going at high speed on the forecheck.As he he is clearly going for it he gets tripped/hooked by Mayfield making Rantanen left leg goiong out of control.His normal reaction was to protect his fall by trying to lean on Romanov.We can clearly see Rantanen falling through in one motion from the hooking/tripping by Mayfield.

    Just an unfortunate play with terrible outcome but there was no intention of boarding Romanov in a way Tom Wilson or Scott Stevens would have done.

  11. dudes……maybe you guys are forgetting that the game is really SLOW to the people PLAYING the game. Once your at Junior hockey your at full speed…..by the time your a professional the game is slowing down mentally and they have tons of "mental time" to consider their next action. This was no accident. He had so many "hockey seconds" and he decided to push him into the boards. PERIOD.

  12. That 100% was not on Rantanen, you're an absolute goon if you think he deserved to be fined for that. Get your dumb soft mentality out of the NHL. If you even know ANYTHING about Rantanen you know full well this is NEVER something he would intentionally do, he is the guy who helps people up after they take those falls. Fine the islanders idiot , he almost got one of his teammates merc'd

  14. Bs, suspend him until romanov comes back! Mikko clearly cross checked him into the boards, mayfields skates have nothing to do with the hit

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