Travis Konecny may have just forced the NHL's hand after Sidney Crosby incident
Travis Konecny and Rick Tocchet are back in the middle of it after a fresh call for league discipline involving Sidney Crosby.
This series was already boiling over, and now the temperature just jumped again.
A post from Josh Yohe on Tuesday put Konecny under a harsher spotlight after an incident involving Crosby once play had already ended.
Yohe didn't frame it as playoff edge.
He framed it as a suspendable act, and that's the part that changes the conversation around Philadelphia right now.
Crosby has 5 points in 5 playoff games, so anything involving him is never staying inside the usual postgame noise.
The clip makes the whole thing look worse.
Konecny comes in after the whistle and drives his stick into Crosby when the sequence is already dead.
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That matters because Yohe also pointed back to the earlier sequence in the series where Konecny appeared to kick at Bryan Rust. One ugly play can get debated. Two in the same series start building a file.
The Flyers now have a discipline problem looming with Travis Konecny
This is where Tocchet gets dragged into it, fair or not. Coaches don't take the penalties, but they own the tone of the bench, and this bench has been walking the line for days.
Philadelphia can live with nasty. Most playoff teams do.
What they can't afford is having one of their top forwards become the story for the wrong reason.
If the league looks at this and decides to make an example out of Konecny, the Flyers lose more than a winger.
They lose pace, agitation, and a player who drives emotion through the top six.
And if there's no suspension, the reaction in Pittsburgh won't die down.
Crosby is still the biggest name in this series, and anything that looks cheap around him gets replayed from every angle.
The Penguins have already leaned on Crosby hard, with 1 goal and 4 assists through 5 postseason games.
That only sharpens the blowback when contact comes after the whistle.
Right now, this isn't about whether the series is nasty. Everyone can see that.
It's about whether the league thinks Travis Konecny crossed from playoff hate into something that deserves games, not just fines.
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