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On The Jamie Benn Cross-Check

05/24/2023 at 2:51am EDT

Greg Wyshynski of ESPN,

"We will live with the consequences, whatever they are. We'll live with them tonight and we'll live with them going forward," DeBoer said. "It's a reactionary sport. It's a heat-of-the-moment sport. There's a lot of stuff going on there on the ice. I'm not judge and jury. I'm not going to play that tonight."

Forward Tyler Seguin, the second-longest-tenured player in Dallas, after Benn, said there was "zero" frustration with the captain in the locker room. "Jamie's one of the, if not the, best captain in this league and top leader. Collectively, we lost as a group," he said.

Dallas forward Joe Pavelski concurred.

"He was tied up and engaged and went for a little extra. Emotions get the best of all of us at some point," he said.

Pavelski was a captain himself for four seasons with the San Jose Sharks. Was he at all disappointed in Benn?

"No. You guys ask if I'm disappointed in the guy I have so much respect for? Who battles so hard? I have no problems with [Benn]. We have to be better from there," he said. "We're in the conference finals. They don't come around every day. We still have a little life."

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Watch the Benn cross-check below.

biv

He will get nothing additional. Theyll say he essentially got a one game suspension already because he was ejected so early on.


f benn and f player safety. That he got no discipline for doing this the prior two times and now he does it a third? Just enabling a clear action that is intent to injure

MZ2215

Would be nice to think that since he's a repeat offender in the "cross check to the neck" department that he'd get a game or two from the DPS, but then we remember that he wasn't actually punished for ending Larkin's season in '21. It's an act with no other purpose but to try to injure another player, plain and simple. It was also nice that their fans took the lead of their dirty diaper eating captain in throwing trash on the ice to end the 2nd period and popcorn on VGK as they were coming out for the 3rd. 

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