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Originally Posted by fastpuck
Contact, no hit. Meaning if the puck is involved, than you can bump grind, turn a shoulder of an opponent into the boards, but no actual hitting. Still can be a physical game, but no open ice hitting.
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You can puck battle, you can't hit. You can't open ice hit or hit/rub someone out along the boards like you can in the men's game.
Still physical yes, but not, IMO, physical enough.
For the life of me I can't understand the reason for the different rules.