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Originally Posted by the_professsor
It is odd, a hockey play that happens around 30 times per game (absolute guess here) in the NHL, given 1230 games played per year lets assume this tactic started 5 years ago? This type of play has occurred 185,000 times. The one time it goes wrong and looks who's involved....
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Just because it doesn't happen a lot and this case turned bad, doesn't mean that it was intentional or anything more than a freak accident. I ride my bike to work almost every day, that one day that car hit me did he do it on purpose? no and that's hundreds of times but the chance is there, etc... I could keep listing off things that almost never happen. This could of easily been someone else instead of Cooke in the same exact place and time and have the same result.
people get hit and fall against the boards A LOT more times than that, yet a zednik incident has not really happened since his or really before his often.
Just because it happens once in 185,000 times doesn't mean it was "intentional", it may not happen for another 1850,000 times. In fact it's amazing it doesn't happen more often.
it's the name that is involved in this incident that people are just jumping to "it was intentional", take out karlsson or cooke and everyone would be commenting it was a freak play.