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Originally Posted by Dion
Give Doughty credit for owning up to his part in the fiasco. This time it bit him in the behind and he knows it!
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Totally. Tkachuk and Doughty were battling all game and in the seconds leading up to the elbow. I suspect Tkachuk was anticipating Doughty coming at him with the cross check as is usual in board battles and wanted to be a bit proactive to keep Doughty back and protect some space. He just got the elbow up too early and caught Doughty by surprise. When those things time out properly, they're savvy veteran type moves. When they don't time out properly, they can be bad and deserving of punishment. That's life.