Jacob Trouba Lays a 🩸Big Hit🩸on Ryan Leonard

Shikrin keeps him from entering the zone, however, and now the Ducks need to restart. Zelwiger hesitates in the logo and didn’t get a lot on it as he tried to flip it in on the backand. Great pace to this opening period. Not a lot of whistle. Ryan Leonard, rookie out of Austin College, goes in behind that, takes a huge hit, and he is down. It was Trouba who got him and everybody comes after Jacob in front of the Anaheim net as the youngster Leonard is on all fours. Leonard had good speed. You can see that he got absolutely clocked by Jacob. He’s leaking. Looks like that’s blood’s coming from the nose or mouth of Ryan Leonard. We’ve seen a couple of big hits. One from Gudas, now one from Trouba. [Applause] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Leonard. We’ll show it to you now. Leonard’s got his head down. He’s looking the opposite direction. Toua comes by. shoulder check by Jacob Trouba. He’s in a vulnerable spot and he pivots at the very last second. That to me is is a clean hit. That’s a hockey hit on a vulnerable player. That shouldn’t even be a penalty. I’m not sure why Trouba is in the box. We’ve got a look now, a couple of looks there. You can see both referees and neither one of them had their arm up on the hit. So unless these are roughing miners after the whistle, let’s listen in. Anaheim 65 Washington number six for roughing. It is just the one roughing on Chrin and that was after the fact. Yeah, he went to jump on Jacob Trouba because of the hit. Now look, Ryan Leonard was injured on the play. He was bleeding obviously, but in this sport, if you run right through the body, that’s a good hit. and and Ryan Leonard, unfortunately for him, was bent forward looking over his shoulder in the opposite direction from where Tuba was coming. Yeah. And and this happens so fast. Yeah. This is going to hurt more cuz this is full speed. Watch this full speed here. Leonard comes by just I mean it’s a good hockey hit. It’s all there is to it. The referee’s got it right. So Ryan Leonard went directly to the Washington locker room. You could see he was bleeding and Spencer Carbury feels like it was contact with the head, but I didn’t see any contact to the head. If if a player puts himself in a position, the only possible contact would involve the head when a player is bent that far forward. It was not targeted, John. The head was not targeted on that hit by Trouba. And that’s the difference. If he just got his head, completely different story. But he didn’t. Ryan Leonard is listed, and I say listed at 61. Jacob Trouba is 6’3. I had the opportunity to speak with Ryan Leonard this morning. I might be 510 and a half. I didn’t feel like he was 2 and 1/2 in taller than me when I was talking with him. So, I say listed at 6’1. You wearing your heels this morning? I was standing up straight.

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29 comments

  5. I don't know about the hit, whatever, but the Ducks crew there saying they saw no contact with the head is pretty funny. His face did not just start randomly bleeding, it was bleeding because the shoulder or elbow crushed his nose. And, I learned in my biology class that the nose is part of the head. When one of the young Ducks is carried off the ice in January in DC I don't want to hear any whining

  16. Is everyone blind? First point of contact was shoulder to face, watch the video at the 2:00 minute mark. It’s clearly not shoulder to shoulder. This is a penalty and an obvious one. ☝🏻

  17. That's a perfect hit just like retired Senator Chris Neil used to throw all the time behind the net.

    Don't walk the tracks when u can't see a train coming from a distance.

  19. Primary impact shoulder and then to head, Leonard made himself small, clean tough hit. Unfortunately a concussion, but you have to protect yourself every play, keep your head up, tough lesson.

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