Clarke MacArthur's a baaaad man. Memo to Jaro Spacek, if you're going for Justin Bourne's third most dirty play in hockey, might I recommend not slewfooting MacArthur because he will kill you.
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This is team truculence. Not just having one guy designated as your fighter, it’s about having a team full of guys who don’t take shit from anybody.
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by SkinnyFish on Dec 12, 2010 1:26 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
Give MacArthur credit, instead of trying to hit the correct chin, he just went ahead and hit both of them.
Does he call it Luongo underwear?
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Dec 12, 2010 1:30 PM EST reply actions 11 recs
I cannot stop laughing at this.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Dec 12, 2010 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
Awesome.
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still laugh my ass off at Hammerlik trying to avoid fighting grabbo by palming the much smaller players head
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 12, 2010 1:30 PM EST reply actions
Love how pissed off Clarke was and rightly so. Slew foots are filthy plays.
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Poor Spacek. he didn’t even know what was coming.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Dec 12, 2010 1:39 PM EST reply actions
How do you prepare yourself for a fight with a guy who never fights? You can’t.
Assist Ninja is sneaky like that.
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by nhlcheapshot on Dec 12, 2010 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
yeah he did. ask yourself the question ‘why was spacek already backpedalling out of the offensive zone when the puck was moving deeper into the leafs’ zone?’ he was scared… rightly so.
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by danishmarshmallow on Dec 12, 2010 7:50 PM EST up reply actions
I think he means he didn’t realize MacArthur was going to knock him the fuck out.
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by nhlcheapshot on Dec 12, 2010 9:16 PM EST up reply actions
Pretty much.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Dec 13, 2010 9:01 AM EST up reply actions
I love how the French announcers have no clue why Clarke MacArthur attacked Spacek.
How the hell can noone see that in both official languages!
That happened in the English broadcast too, they kept starting the replay right after the filthy Spacek play, so all you saw was MacArthur going crazy; they couldn’t figure it out.
This coming from the same broadcast team, while discussing the Leafs turnovers defending Edmonton’s turnovers because according to Glenn Healy “they are a young team”. Newsflash, the team you’re watching in Blue is the youngest in the league you Bagpipe loving fuck.
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by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Dec 12, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions
Can someone translate the commentary around 45 seconds in? Sounds like the announcers are in disbelief about what happened. Idiots.
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My French listening comprehension isn’t that good…but it goes something like this. I missed a word here or there, and didn’t always translate literally.
From 45 seconds in:
Spacek isn’t a fighter
No
Spackes gets up and heads directly to the dressing room.
He seemed to have hurt himself, his hand or the bottom of his arm (?)
So I absolutely did no see the sequences. I don’t know what happened and I don’t understand how it could get to this point.
And so MacArthur literally hurled himself at Jaroslav Spacek
Yep
And Danny/Denis, the worst part is that the two of them knew each other in Buffalo. They played together on the Sabres.
[Other announcer agrees]
And so there’s a collision between the two players. (I’m missing a word here, couldn’t catch what it was…something describing the collision)
That is not without the territory of the Leafs after a shot on Jean Sebastien Giguere. (I’m not really sure what the expression sans territoire means with regard to hockey)
Nothing…nothing of…nothing serious intially (he kept getting interrupted by the main guy)
And there, MacArthur hurled himself at Spacek.
I don’t know why, why it came…
by Theodles on Dec 12, 2010 2:27 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
this is exactly why i dont want to trade mcathur for a 2nd round pick as some have suggested. He puts in a ton of effort, and he doesn’t lack a bit of truculence either. We should re-sign him – he probably will return for cheap since he gets good minutes with us (not as cheap as right now, but that’s okay he’s a fucking steal at 1 million+)
he probably will return for cheap since he gets good minutes with us
Followed your logic up until this point.
I really doubt that is why he’d re-sign, it will probably have a lot more to do with the fact he’s RFA and he doesn’t have much choice unless he gets offer-sheeted.
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by nhlcheapshot on Dec 12, 2010 2:33 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe, but a player like him wants minutes. He’s on pace for having the best season of his career so far and that’s partly because we give him plenty of ice minutes on our de facto first line.
by Goosemonster on Dec 12, 2010 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t think anyone (at least not here) was suggesting trading him for a 2nd.
Sure some advocate the pump and dump if some team goes nuts with an offer and throws a first or something around then yeah, trade him, but the only way he gets traded for just a 2nd is if him and Burke come to an impass over a resign and Burke plans on letting him walk in the summer
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 12, 2010 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
The worst case scenario if he keeps playing like he has is a trade from what I see.
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yup, he could be in danger of an offer sheet if he plays that well, but it wont be anything of significance
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 12, 2010 2:41 PM EST up reply actions
Worst we get from an offer sheet would be a 2nd rounder and we’d be at status quo anyway. If a 2nd rounder is all he’s worth at the trade deadline then pass.
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by nhlcheapshot on Dec 12, 2010 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
If he gets offer sheeted the equivalent of a 2nd rounder then I think the Leafs would match. Don’t know why he’d want to leave TO if he keeps up production.
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Doubt anyone would make an offer sheet for a guy with one good year under his belt, and at any rate, if it’s for $3 million or less the Leafs would probably match. In that case, you’d have to offer him over $3 million a year if you wanted to lure him away, in which case the Leafs would get both a 1st and a 3rd. Not worth it. He stays a Leaf.
by Draglikepull on Dec 12, 2010 3:33 PM EST up reply actions
Since he’s RFA Burke has a lot of leverage. Hopefully he uses it.
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MacArthur’s basically playing up to his $2.4M arbitration award this summer. If Burke can sign him for a few years at that I’ve got no problem with that.
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by Sergei Puckizin on Dec 12, 2010 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
I love MacArthur and am seriously considering getting his jersey. I might hold off to see what his long term plans are in TO.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Dec 12, 2010 4:05 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Title.
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by FiftyMissionCap on Dec 12, 2010 4:09 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Nice
It’s too bad there’s no high quality stills of him dumping Spacek though. (a la Kane vs. Cooke)
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by nhlcheapshot on Dec 12, 2010 4:58 PM EST up reply actions
Clarkey Mark
giving good vibrations to Spacek’s chin.
Awesome.
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by blurr1974 on Dec 12, 2010 4:51 PM EST reply actions
rec’d for Markey Mark reference.
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by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Dec 12, 2010 5:29 PM EST up reply actions
Hey Spacek, you play for the Habs right?
Say hi to the trainer for me.
/knocks him out.
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by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Dec 12, 2010 5:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Total CBC/RDS Commentary failure last night…
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by Future_considerations on Dec 12, 2010 6:19 PM EST reply actions
I think my favourite part of this sequence
is how scared spacek was. He was already backing out of the zone when the Habs had possession. Cut and run!
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by danishmarshmallow on Dec 12, 2010 7:56 PM EST reply actions
ironically macarthur got up and tried to slew foot spoke, failed then said fuck it. imma smash you instead you little twit.
What are you talking about MacArthur trying to slew foot him? At 1:18 of the video you can clearly see him throw a shoulder to shoulder check. He bounces off and that’s when he spins around and his leg flies out. He didn’t lead with the leg, nor was the leg extended to trie to take him out.
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by CanadianMaple09 on Dec 12, 2010 11:10 PM EST up reply actions
When I watched this video the first time I thought MacArthur was mad that Spacek knocked him off balance near the net but now it looks like Clarkey was more pissed off about the hit right near the start of the video along the boards. I didn’t watch the game so I didn’t see it happen personally but the announcers seem confused.
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It’s pretty obvious that Spacek’s hit is dirty and cheap and that’s what set MacArthur off. Watch Spacek approach MacArthur from behind, literally stalking him while his back turned. Lcuky it didn’t turn out worse.
Refs are also out to lunch to for allowing Spacek’s hit without a penalty.
MacArthur is all kinds of awesome for the way he handled the situation. Outstanding.
by general borschevsky on Dec 13, 2010 8:37 AM EST up reply actions
am I missing something here? MacAarthur will watch that play back and say “what the hell was I thinking”. you Leaf fans can put your spin on it all you want but the bottom line is that MacArthur dodged a huge bullet. his team just went up 2-0 and he does something stupid like that? he could have (and should have) taken an instigator penalty and put Montreal on the PP and possibly allowed the Habs back into the game. I have watched this play 100 times and there was nothing wrong with the hit from Spacek. the CBC announcers were not “out to lunch”. guess what? the production team has access to many camera angles and I can guarantee you that they looked at all of them to find out what set MacArthur off. they had to go with the “he (Spacek) must have said something” because all the replays from every angle showed ZERO! if Leaf fans are applauding this type of play then nothing has changed in Leaf land. you embrace knuckle-draggers like Tie Domi and boo hall of famers like Larry Murphy. why am I surprised?
which part are you having problems with mister habs fan? the part where Spacek takes several strides (charging) and slew-foots (tripping) macarthur FROM BEHIND? or the part where one of our goal scorers one punches your double chinned defenseman?
For macarthur to freak out the way he did means he felt the hit was fairly dirty.
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by Matt_Roberts on Dec 13, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
WHY DID WE EVER BOO LARRY MURPHY!!??
He’s right, we need to take a lesson from Habs fans and never, ever, boo our players.
by Grabovski's better than you think on Dec 13, 2010 12:15 PM EST up reply actions
remember how good Larry Murphy was as a Leaf?
oh thats right, he was epically brutal, Lebda brutal
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 13, 2010 1:10 PM EST up reply actions
You guys loved your enforcers too so you can shut your ill-informed yap about Domi.
As for what set him off, I’m not surprised that a fanbase that embraces a diving cheat like Maxim Lapierre or a cheap player like Subban would miss a slew foot.
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Didn’t Pleckanic (sp?) just about decapitate someone with his stick when he was in the AHL?
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Dec 13, 2010 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
I think you’re thinking of Perezhogin.
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by Karina on Dec 13, 2010 7:21 PM EST up reply actions
oh yeah, c-balls should learn classy play from this guy:
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by danishmarshmallow on Dec 13, 2010 9:43 PM EST up reply actions
fixed
MacAarthur will watch that play back and say "what the hell was I thinking May that be a lesson to any smurf that tries to blindside elbow me in the head again!"
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by danishmarshmallow on Dec 13, 2010 9:47 PM EST up reply actions
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