100% understand his reaction

Nah, he said "fuck you for high sticking me"

@Chingachu yup. Ref came in and he gave no fucks and kept throwung hands. Honestly thought the ref was gonna get caught up in some crossfire and take a hit on accident.

@@xPredatorization He was trying to prevent the NHL from looking bad by once again not enforcing its automatic suspension for starting a fight in the last five minutes.

@@xPredatorization yes ..by accident. 🤔

The ref waited too long In this situation to step back

LINESMEN break up fights. REFEREES don't. REFEREES wear orange arm bands on their shirts. LINESMEN don't.

They called the penalty though... Look at the game report. Smh...

@@Scott9002ca Would they have called it had the fight not happened though?

They missed a dozen before this happened and they did not call the highsticking penalty. It should have been 5 each for fighting 2 for highsticking and an extra 2 for drawing blood.

@@hockeyfreak207 look at the game report. They each got 5 for fighting. Mayo got an extra 4 for high sticking and mac got 2 for unsportsmanlike. Try again.

@@alexjordan9370 yes probably since it drew blood and any of the 4 officials can call a double minor. But that's not what the original commenter argued. He said it was missed and implied it was the refs fault that a brawl happened. Maybe they sucked the rest of the game (i couldn't care less about two teams that only exist because bettman wants to prop up unprofitable American teams) but they didn't miss that call.

Mask protect

@@jounik8980 dude's chin is bleeding but sure, the mask protected him...

i have no disrespect for the guy who whooped the opponent but also he's a pro athlete and he should focus on tying the game not getting vengeance. he lost his mental focus there. but hey most people watch hockey just for the FIGHTS!!!!!

Yip

Good to see the ref not catch one.... good target punches

That could also explain why he was extra pissed by that. That was pretty close to his nose haha

ya stick up for himself, crying to the ref after he throws a temper tantrum like a fucking child. someone should tell him that its hockey, and you might get hit sometimes.

@@BH-gh6qm yeah we cant be mad at players who cut open faces, nope against the rules

The guy is a absolute tank ngl he’s a big boy

Who actually hates Mack? Guys a beast.

Seriously…the players today gotta grow a pair.

LMAO THAT WAS ACTUALLY SUCH A FUNNY JOKE

Well idk if he was relying on the ref to stick up for him, I think everyone could see that he got clipped in the face by a high stick. He just didn’t like the fact he got clipped but what would the refs have done to prevent it? They couldn’t

If anything, the ref held him back

@@Minimish28 They could have blown the play dead and called a penalty... Mac didn't start swinging until it became very clear that the only way he was going to get any sort of justice is by throwing it himself.

you mean with mayo over top of him and a ref pulling mayo away while Mackinnon gets up with some potshots while Mayo is still being restrained...yea, such a pummeling there...

@@WWYD0 I mean yeah Mayo got the shit end of the stick in the "fight" ref should have never allowed it to keep going, but refs should have also just blown the play dead with 8 seconds left when Mackinnon got high sticked, games over whats a 2 or 4 minute penalty worth at that point? nothing. In a way its a form of fucked up karma because the refs were to incompetent to do their jobs correctly in either situation

I know, losing to the Coyotes🤣

It's a high stick. It happens. Not intentional at all. Any other player would have gotten a suspension for going ballistic like that.

291 people like this bullshit comment? It wasn't intentional lmao, so no, he did not have every right to be pissed off. Really can't believe that many people liked this dumb comment.

@@xdoctorblindx idk what league your looking at but that isn’t suspension worthy at all

@@xdoctorblindx : Bullshit, McKinnon was justifiably pissed. I'm a Coyotes fan, and even I can admit he had every right to rearrange Mayo's face. Suspension? Get outta here with such nonsensical, close-minded, blind support. 🙄

Try listening to the Yotes announcers lol

Its number 2 player in the league dropping gloves its as good as it gets

@@ianhuntercatfish well at least you delusional avs fans stopped saying he’s the best playing in the league.. we’re getting somewhere

@@MachoManAndySavage125 i dont make the rankings. Mack is #1 all around. Mcdavid is locker room cancer and he only hits when he has someone lined up. You will never see a fight from that ckn sh!t

@Ian Hunter lmao yall so damn dumb it's sad

Fun Fact: He's 30, not 22...

@@conorcahill5422 that's the joke you moron

Yes fuck trying to score with 5 seconds left and you’re down, let’s just be a whiny baby. That’s why he’s not elite

@@YupDock kind of a weird take but ok

if you're including the commentators in that then this is a shit take. 2nd worst homer in the league. dude acts like they're going to commercial when the other team scores. ruins OT calls on purpose. Guy is a clown.

@@YupDock being a whiny baby would be if he went to the refs. instead he took matters into his own hands and fought the guy, but yeah you're right that makes him not elite

@Nick he's trolling, the best players will always get hate

Refs this night totally were smoking something before they went out, next time I go to a game I'll have to bring an eye chart for em.

I don't usually watch the avs but the refs in this entire game were crap.

Honestly at that level the game is so fast that it’s virtually impossible to catch something like that when it happens so quick, especially when there’s a giant explosion of movement like a last second faceoff And everyone’s pushing each other. Still a pretty terrible call to miss, just saying.

They called the penalty tho... Look at the game report. The ref even tells landeskog that he had the penalty being called. What do you want the ref to do? Jump in a time machine hire a body guard to take away the players stick before he can high stick him? Mac was jumping him no matter if the penalty was called or not.

@@magic_taxes42 that was an easy call out in the open right on the puck though. I think this was a case of both officials trying to do each others job. You can tell the neutral zone official is looking to the middle of the ice off the faceoff when he should be looking more at the puck if its on his side boards. The deep official cant see the penalty through all those players and would be able to see any penalties in front of the net at that time.

They're instructed to prevent superstars especially from fighting in the last five minutes, because instigating at that point is supposed to be an automatic suspension. Even though this was blatant instigation from MacKinnon, they covered it up by giving him two minutes for "unsportsmanlike conduct" instead.

@@closethockeyfan5284 yeah, he only took an intentional stick to the face...he deserved to get beat

In this case they would have deserved it!

@@closethockeyfan5284 How is this blatant instigation on Mackinnon? Dude took a stick to the face. Did you miss that or something? Mayo deserves that and more. Fuck a loser who smacks someone in the face with a stick

“I AM A GOLDEN GOD!!!!”

LIKE THE GUSTS OF A THOUSAND WINDS

*untethered

@@nigeldean3726 I realized it as soon as I commented, but I figured it worked with the video title haha

Yep Mayo had the advantage until the linesman stepped in and grabbed for McKinnon to right himself and land punches

Agreed. I am an Avs fan, and I have seen this help and hurt Avs players in fights this year. Even if it always helped the Avs player in the fight, it shouldn't happen. It makes it less safe for the players fighting (odd thought, but it is true). There are players I really REALLY don't like, and I really enjoy a good hit or a spirited tilt, especially when it is two dudes legitimately pissed at each other, but I don't enjoy seeing guys get seriously hurt. When stripes get involved before the fight has died down to the point where they can quickly and effectively break it up, it usually puts one of the guys in a good position to get hurt. It seems like officiating is getting worse, but that could just be my brain recognizing it more right now and forgetting how bad it has been in times past.

Mayo smoked him

@@TonyOdayII he really didn't lol.he got lit the fuck up. while Mac has 2 people trying to pull him off. Got Mac on the ground and lost top position. and then got lit the fuck up even more after they both got up. are you blind

Mcdavid literally watched someone get bodied after the whistle and did nothing tonight, it's really getting annoying that they don't get physical

You clearly don’t watch Battle Of Alberta games then.

ooof

Yep, agreed. Now you got Kaner peacocking around, doing it out of ego not passion. Good luck Oil, I got tired of your soulless heart fifteen years ago.

As a Sabres fan I feel that. But that extends to our front office as well.

Everyone on earth has a temper and if you dont youre a b@$!#

Agreed .. Spoiled lil shit

@@eljerc5894 Bro you're all over these comments shitting on a man with a closet the size of your house. Are you okay?

@@spooter9686 he's probably a Minnesotastan Mild fan. Their Team is on the way to sitting the postseason out🤣🤣🤣💪🏻

100%

As a wings fan im jealous you guys have a captain like that. Our captain is constantly diving and selling high stick calls that either don't touch his face or barely hits his visor. Love larkin for his skill but the dude is constantly diving its embarrassing our captain is acting like that

Hey, if you want a captain who boards people hard, writes an essay about getting it out of the game, and then still continues to hypocritically do it, Landeskog's your guy! Hope the filthy hypocrite's career is over from this knee injury so that he doesn't have the opportunity to board yet another player and maybe end that guy's career.

@@closethockeyfan5284 if anyone wanted a hot take like that, it wouldnt be from an "hockey analyst" who can't get above 50 views per video.

@@casey1973 Wow, sick burn, dude. It doesn't change the veracity of my "hot take." You're welcome to still like every Avalanche all you want, and I like several Colorado players. Landeskog will just never be one of them.

@Chingachu they never will the NHL PA will NEVER let that happen. fighting here to stay.

@Chingachu Yeah it's part of the game, I don't really know why they are trying to lessen its occurrence or make it happen so little, makes no sense to me.

@@coltb26 Because the world now-a-days is full of a bunch of soft pussies. Most people don't realize fighting prevents career ending injuries though.

@@coltb26 The base answer? Because Bettman is a beta male. His excuse, of course, is he's trying to make the sport family friendly. Last I checked, however, the sport was plenty friendly to families prior to Bettman's reign.

@@esperago Yeah family friendly, pretty sure a lot of kids like watching the hits or fights, sometimes the goals but they don't know the full game of hockey just quite yet lol

He doesn't get a free pass because he just had surgery. That's no one else's problem.

Lol it was moronic. They gave Mayo a 4 minute penalty after they stopped play. If he didn't jump Mayo they get a faceoff in the yotes end for a chance at a shot on net. Instead because he jumps the dude now you get offsetting penalties in the neutral zone. And with 3 seconds left you lose.

@@Shatamx no penalty on the high stick. No ref had a hand up. 3.5 seconds would need a perfect play anyway, so..... still no issue with it.

@@petermain6791 not a free pass, but that and the non calls are why he got so pissed. I doubt any player would have let that go.

@@Shatamxno, they didn't. And even if they did, the game was over. Penalty would have literally meant nothing.

Boards guys; writes an essay about how players must stop boarding guys; continues to board guys. What's not to love?

Both teams are coming off some rather sad losses haha

Ahh this didnt age well lol

@Root or Beggar it was an entertaining game tho

I mean, Mayo got jumped and still put him down with a right and then the refs let them keep going after being down. Hardly something to hype up.

@@jonathannavarro6679 you’re probably not gonna put up a great defense when your face is bleeding, so you gotta still credit mack and Mayo for a great till

@@jonathannavarro6679 i bet youre fun at parties

It did. Did you not watch the whole video?

Linesmen. Please learn the difference. To answer your question, they've been instructed for 17 years to prevent stars from instigating fights (which MacKinnon objectively did) in the last five minutes, which is supposed to be an automatic suspension.

@@closethockeyfan5284 that was a dirty play by the Coyotes player

Lol

☝️☝️

He saved NM from getting is ass handed to him from Mayo

@@matthewshepley8298 Uhhh...what? Mackinnon literally threw the ref off of him so he could rain down more punches and eventually push the guy down...This is a video, did you watch all of it?

@@kschell286 🤣😂🤣😂

@@matthewshepley8298 wow you are clueless. MacK rag dolled him to the ground, somehow ended up underneath Mayo getting punched in the back, then proceeded to win the fight when they stood up

It was intentional given that he intentionally didn't control his stick and aimed right at his head. But you keep trying to justify dirty plays. It says everything we need to know about you.

@@redsoxfan0923 maybe watch hockey once in a while there bud

@@bja009 I've been watching hockey for 45 years. What's your excuse? Celebrate your ignorance somewhere else,BOY

Lmao just like jerod Mayo of the pats

your name is literally Bryce

@@bholstt9347 ok?

No way, one of the hardest jobs there is. Get real.

Yeah way. Fighting is dangerous and the whole sport is physically risky, even for the refs. The refs are the ones on the ice responsible for managing that risk to some degree. If they let too much slide and the game gets out of hand, people are more likely to get hurt (as a very much not closeted hockey fan, I hate when the whistles are blown too much just as bad). When refs jump in and try to stop a fight before they are in a position to decisively do so, the safest thing is to let the players fight and not hinder one player's ability to defend themselves. If they jump in and make it so one player is less able to defend themselves from incoming punches, I would say any punches the ref takes in the process are well deserved. I am a dyed in the wool Avs fan. I bleed burgundy and blue. I was amped to see MacK get fired up like that. All that being said, the ref put Mayo in a bad spot and that was wrong. I would rather see MacK get pissed and Mayo have the upper hand in the fight than see any player put in a bad spot because the ref wanted to be the hero. As a side note, MacK is mostly pissed because he is insanely competitive and was incredibly frustrated. The high stick was just kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. He is not going to go off because of a high stick alone. I have seen him take a bunch of high sticks. He does not often get nearly that animated because of it. I am happy to see MacK get pissed because for years I watched the Avs seem to not give a shit when they were playing like a garbage bottom dweller team. I'd rather watch my team sell out every night, win close games, win come back games and be the excellent team they are because their leaders show that kind of passion than watch my team lose every puck battle and play every game as though they already lost because that is the example the leaders set.

So the double minor that was assessed is not a call? Hmmm

@@Scott9002ca literally watch a Colorado game and see how many infractions aren’t called against him.

@@LemonadeBoxer 1. I'm not interested in watching Colorado. 2. literally every team will say that about their star though. I've never seen a team fanbase consistently say that the refs were great. This is a perfect example of how ridiculously biased fans are. The refs got it right yet you still blame them.

@@Scott9002ca do I look like a Colorado fan to you? Literally look at my pfp.

@@LemonadeBoxer i could not care less.

If you are a star in the league you have certain benefits in your contract such as "ref assistance during fighting".

Linesman--please learn the difference. They've been instructed for 17 years to prevent stars from instigating fights (which MacKinnon objectively did) in the last five minutes, which is supposed to be an automatic suspension.

@@closethockeyfan5284 lol chill out, nerd

Just trying to help people understand why that happened. The problem is the NHL board of governors demands linesmen do this. They're merely following instructions.

The linesman was trying to break it up the whole way so hard to judge either of them. Linesman should have let them go at it. One guy cuts opponent with high stick he deserves to take a few punches.

Linesman couldn’t decide if he was stopping it or not, not safe for anyone involved in that to be honest.

@@RB_750GS and he couldnt see the high stick before that lead to it so he probably didnt know what was going on

Mackinnon ends up on top of him he wins

@@auzmo Might makes right. It would've been just as ok if Mayo had also beat the crap out of Nate. There is not, and should never be a 'right to revenge'. Just people being pussies who think that everyone should get theirs because 'fairness'. There are no heroes here.

Ummm... Mayo got a double minor for high sticking

@@Scott9002ca Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see a single hand up after that, might have played into that or might not, kind of a spur of the moment I guess. If that was accessed after then cool I guess.

@@coltb26 the hand only signals a delay. If the Ave had possession the ref could just blow the play dead. They called the penalty. It was pretty obvious. Team bettman finished the game shorthanded. Mac was jumping him penalty or not. The resentment towards the refs is misplaced here. Not saying they're perfect but they got the calls on this play correct.

@@Scott9002ca yeah at 3 seconds left

@@Scott9002ca Oh no hate on refs and yes I know how the penalties work lol, I can't see the ref at blue line, but from the talk on the ice seems like a penalty wasn't called or wasn't going to be called until after that. Shitty scenario to be a ref in in but, way the cookie crumbles.

The linesmen (not referees, please learn the difference) have been instructed for at least 17 years to prevent superstars from instigating fights (which MacKinnon objectively did) in the last five minutes, because it's supposed to be an automatic suspension. Your prerogative is with the rules, not the officials.

Lol

They didn't miss the call. Check the game report. Colorado got a power play from it. They had to wait to call it because Arizona never had possession of the puck. The referees and linesmen are not the problem--it's the NHL board of governors making terrible rules and instructing the officials to selectively enforce them.

They did call it. It was a delayed penalty because Arizona hadn't gotten possession. MacKinnon's instigator (which they factually did not call, even though they should've) and Landeskog's hypocritical whining were weak-minded, immaturely misdirected frustration from losing to Arizona, plain and simple.

@Turbonium good luck in the playoffs

Do we really need to bring the Leafs mishaps into this?

U got humiliated by the habs stfu lmao

Something something losing 5-1 to the Sabres

At least Colorado loses to professional goaltenders in net.

You guys think losing to shit teams hurts me as a leafs fan, I’ve been watching these bastards for a decade, try again lmao.