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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Second, "where the contact is a full body hit", the head is not the main point of contact. Consequently I agree that in such circumstances, the rule isn't engaged. However, that is not what happened here. The body contact was not "full" in any sense, it was an east-west hit where the largest portion of the force applied to Burrows appears to be the shoulder contacting his head.
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Well your opinion right there is the reason you can't see eye to eye with DOPS on this one, or to Resolute.
From the video, it's clear to me that contact is initiated from the right side of the neck to the Canucks logo at the same time. Both players were skating in a North-South direction until the very moment of the hit, that's not considered an east-west hit. Largest portion of force is a very tough accusation to prove, and from just my viewing, I believe that the force was dispersed from the neck down to the Canucks logo fairly evenly.
I believe this because of 2 things. First, the body position Neiderreider is in immediately before and after the hit. His upper body stays in a upright stance, with no "jump" that would indicate an upward force of the shoulder. Second, his elbow comes up immediately after the hit, indicating to me that a substantial amount of force was directed through the arm, not shoulder, as he tried to push the arm in and up on Burrows.