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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
Back in minor hockey a team mate of mine was on a breakaway, and a kid gave him a 2 handed chop on the side of the shin pad. His stick broke and sliced into my friends calf and cut him pretty good. No permanent damage but he missed a lot of the season.
So really the argument of a harmless hack to the shin pad isn't the best, because you never really know what could happen.
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Ah yes, because that one freak occurrence of a slash to the shin pad causing injury stacks up really well against the thousands upon thousands of times that a punch to the face has cause injury
