Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley called it perfectly.
As an English NHL fan, I don't get to watch many games and I'm always deeply skeptical when the commentators are from the other side (Penguin coverage is especially unbearable).
But you couldn't fault the Boston commentators. They were spot on.
It looked like the Flyer lost an edge, causing a nasty but unlucky collision into the end boards with McQuaid. They were right, at first glance, to give the Flyer the benefit of the doubt.
I saw a five and even thought initially that it might've been Nodl.
But replays showed otherwise, and showed Flyers "tough guy" Jody Shelley deliberately and dangerously shove a defenseless McQuaid headfirst into the boards on a delayed icing call.
This is exactly what recent rule changes have been trying to eradicate, but no one can legislate for idiots like Shelley.
He wasn't ever going to get to the puck—hell, McQuaid wasn't even going to get to the puck, as it bounced behind the other side of the net to Ference—and it's hard to argue (as he has tried to) that he wasn't intending to injure.
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