Ridly Greig with one of the worst cheap shots you’ll see all year

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Vincent Carbonneau
April 25, 2026  (5:52 PM)

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Ridly Greig gave Rod Brind'Amour's Hurricanes another reason to avoid the nonsense as Senators-Hurricanes boiled over again in Ottawa.

That is the real story from the clip. The series was already heated, and then it turned into another mass scrum.

You can see bodies tied up all over the ice, linesmen trying to separate players, and the whole thing spreading fast instead of dying out quickly.

Greig is the part that jumps off the screen. While Sean Walker is already tied up and occupied, Greig comes in with a late cheap shot that looks bad in real time.

Here is the clip :

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That is why the reaction online hit so hard. It was not a clean one-on-one exchange between 2 willing players in open ice.

It looked like a free shot on a player who was already engaged with someone else. In playoff hockey, those are the plays that get remembered and replayed.

And it adds to the feel of this series. Carolina came into Ottawa up 3-0, and the Senators were already playing on emotion, frustration, and shrinking room.

Greig has built a name on agitation and edge, and that part of his game is obvious. But there is a line between being a pest and taking a shot when a player is already tied up.

This clip feels like it crossed that line. Walker is not squared up and ready for it. He is occupied, and Greig still throws it.

That is why discipline should be on the table. A fine feels fair from the look of it, and depending on how the league reads the timing and the lack of a real chance for Walker to defend himself, more than that would not be shocking.

The bigger problem for Ottawa is that this kind of sequence does not help the comeback. It just drags the game further into the kind of chaos Carolina is more than happy to let the Senators drown in.

Brind'Amour's team usually stays cold in these moments. Ottawa is the club chasing the series, and that makes every extra scrum more dangerous for the home side.

Greig will always play near the edge. That is part of what makes him effective. But this was not smart edge.

It looked like frustration spilling over into a cheap shot, and that is exactly the kind of moment that can earn league attention after the buzzer.

Previously

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