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Originally Posted by thefoss1957
Again, I never said that the retaliation was "CLEAN", I said it was "PROVOKED"...not to excuse it. In neither case (Sedin or Carter) was Keith the INITIATOR of the sequence of events, and my beef was the lack of sanction, i.e. penalty against that initiator, that could have defused the need for retaliation, under the neanderthal "code", that appears to be in play, even among NHL players beyond Keith.
I truly feel that, lacking provocation, Keith does not routinely play "dirty" hockey.
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That part doesn't matter
99% of players take hits like Keith does (if you even want to call the Sedin one dirty) or get 'provoked' like Carter did
they don't then go throw flying elbows at a guys head, or slash another guy in the face
Keith gets the red mist when he gets hit and reacts to it with dirty plays
how many times is a guy 'not that kind of player' before he becomes 'that kind of player'?
that's two clear incidents of extremely dirty hits, with no grey area about them being accidental or a 'hockey play'
he's a dirty player