![]() ![]() Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner made 25 saves, allowing only a third-period goal by Nicolas Roy. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, a 100-point scorer in the regular season, got his first goal of the postseason. The Oilers won 4-1 on Wednesday with Nick Bjugstad and Evan Bouchard scoring 52 seconds apart in the first period. Their series is tied 2-2 with Game 5 scheduled for 10 p.m. ![]() Pietrangelo and Nurse lead their teams in ice time and Pietrangelo has six assists to Nurse's four. That led to an automatic one-game suspension for Nurse for instigating a fight in the final five minutes of regulation, plus a $10,000 fine for Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft. That included Nurse drawing an instigator penalty in a fight with Vegas' Nicolas Hague in the final minute. The slash was part of a total of 93 penalty minutes called in the third period. "The puck has been gone for some time before Pietrangelo chooses to ignore the play, raise his stick and deliver a slash to a vulnerable area of his opponent with sufficient force for supplemental discipline," the department said in its suspension video. NHL AWARDS: Who are the finalists for regular-season honors?ĮXPLAINER: Why are major penalties reviewed and what has been the impact? But NHL Player Safety ruled that the play went beyond the on-ice penalty. Pietrangelo received a five-minute major and a game misconduct. It's as 'intent to injure' as you can get. "You'd like to see it reviewed, for sure," said McDavid, who tangled with Pietrangelo after the play. Pietrangelo raised his stick high and delivered a hard slash to Draisaitl's forearm with 1:27 left. Pietrangelo was suspended one game for his infraction in the Oilers' series-tying win on Wednesday, but Edmonton will be also down a defenseman for Friday's crucial Game 5 because of a suspension to Darnell Nurse.ĭraisaitl, who leads all playoff goal scorers with 13 goals, had unsuccessfully attempted to score into an empty net. However, for the average player who will not really bother to dig deeper than what is presented, the true meaning will only be presented to the Japanese players aware of the context, and not have as much of am impact aside from sounding “cool” in English.Watch Video: Just how good can Connor Bedard be in the NHL?Įdmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid was correct in saying that Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo’s slash on star forward Leon Draisaitl was suspension-worthy. In conclusion, when one knows the origins of tsujigiri (and hence night slash), then one can appreciate it for how dark the move really is in both languages. I see that fans translate tsujigiri to “Crossroad Killing,” which is about the closest anyone can get to describing it in a word or two, but it still loses out on the connotation of just how evil it really is. ![]() Waiting in ambush is likely done in the dark, and a slash is the end result, regardless of whether the opponent dies or not. One can see how “night slash” comes from “tsujigiri” though. testing out a new sword) is lost in translation. The specific act of doing it for a rather trivial matter (i.e. In English, the move became “Night Slash.” That has the connotations of attacking and slashing someone in the dark, but the reasoning behind it is left more open-ended (slashing for fun? Out of revenge? etc). Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid was correct in saying that Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo’s slash on star forward Leon Draisaitl was suspension. In 1603, shortly after the unification of Japan and beginning of the tokugawa period, tsujigiri was outlawed and became punishable by death.īack to Pokémon, with the above in mind, no wonder it’s a dark move! A move with the connotations of lying in wait to ambush, cut, and kill a person simply to test out a new weapon is pretty “evil.” In Japanese, the “dark” type is referred to as the aku (悪 “evil”) type too, and so it makes sense. The rather barbaric practice came about during the chaotic sengoku jidai (warring states period, from 1467-1600) which was when Japan was in a state of anarchy. It was a way to test how well their new swords could cut. Night Slash Cheetor (Universe) Beast Mode Robot Mode Allegiance: Autobot Size: Deluxe Difficulty of Transformation: Easy Color Scheme: Dull gold-yellow. ![]() Tsujigiri was a practice (and became a way to refer to the practitioners, too) in feudal Japan where samurai would wait by the roadside for unsuspecting individuals to pass by, and ambush them with the intent to kill in order to test out their new swords. In Japanese, the move is “tsujigiri.” (つじぎり) This Dark-type move has a rather mundane meaning in English on the surface, but it has quite the dark cultural origins in Japanese. Today’s post is a brief comparison of the Pokémon move name: “Night Slash.” Many have written on the subject already, I’m sure, but I thought to add my own post about it. ![]()
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