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Originally Posted by dino7c
shoulder into the numbers...penalty was deserved
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Watching it again, he puts his shoulder into the back of Bailey's arm. Definitely not in the numbers. Kunitz moved his body laterally (and so did Bailey) like he was preparing to collide shoulder to shoulder, and because Bailey had a step on him Kunitz caught him almost on the outside of the shoulder blade.
Certainly wasn't dirty, in my eyes anyway. And because they both braced for the contact and leaned into each other, I don't think it should have been a call at all. Not interference (according to precedent), and it didn't fall within the lines of a boarding call either. I don't see how Kunitz intended to put Bailey into the boards, I saw him trying to jar him away from his line to the puck.