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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
You can't seriously accuse Cooke, because there's no way to prove intent, but these players are experts at making "accidentally on purpose" dirty plays. The reason we don't see these injuries during board battles more often is that players are typically careful with their skates.
I also don't understand why we should take the person doing it out of the discussion. It's not "objective" to ignore a player's history in these situations. I'm absolutely more suspicious of Cooke than most other players.
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The reason why we don't see these injuries is that the circumstances of this were almost a perfect storm, slight loss of balance, the back of Karlsson's blade sticking out and making a perfect cutting guide.
If it was a deliberate dirty play then you can attach Cooke's name to it and throw the book at him. But a play like this that's a hockey play with an unfortunate result, you can't pretend to be a psychic and get into the mind of the player, that would be drumhead justice and pretty stupid.
The only way that you can prove that this is deliberate is if you can personally read his mind and see that he decided in less then a couple of seconds to stomp on a players tendon.
Too many hockey fans are over thinking this thing, thank god you're not judges.