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Originally Posted by BigFlameDog
I understand that it is a dirty hit but IMO you and a few others are going overboard with the hyperbole.
He clearly did not make the correct play to avoid the hit, he did not get "clotheslined" and what I meant by "worse because he's our player" is that we are way more emotionally invested in JH so the reaction is out of proportion to the crime.
I am not agreeing with the hit, I am not disagreeing that we need to protect the skilled players. My heart stopped for a second when I saw it but at the end of the day it was not, IMO, a rule changer but there are plenty of examples of those out there.
And it was JH who said he needs to have his "head on a swivel" so even he knew he was not paying proper attention. He was expecting college hockey "close the gap speed" and got caught. Good news is he probably learns from this and makes the guy look stupid next time.
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What's hyperbole to you is rational to another. I disagree that it's worse because he's our player, Johnny said what he did because he's Johnny and doesn't get mad. There's nothing he could have done, he played it perfectly, had his head up and avoided the check. He didn't get caught and didn't make a mistake. Watch again more closely, I'm not being biased because it has nothing to do with pro vs. college speed.
Johnny sees the hit, turns on the breaks, Corrado completely misses the hit and targets his head with a flying elbow. When I see a players head targeted on a dirty play it makes me like the game less, despite whatever team it's on and your argument that because he's on our team it's more emotional is outright false. When I see Chara gooning it up doing things that would land him in jail on the street and the announcers celebrate it like it's a good hockey play I'm a little disappointed that the one sport I love so much allows utter garbage like that to happen.
Same thing when Gaudreau plays it perfectly and gets assaulted. It's not hockey, it's not fun and there's really no logical defense for it. Lindros and Savard had their careers cut short because the discipline in the league is embarrassing, honestly, I'm embarrassed sometimes to be a hockey fan. It's an opinion, you might not like it but calling it hyperbole is just cheap rhetoric. If it were my way a flying elbow gets you an instant 10 games, crosscheck the numbers and the player goes face first into the boards 15, punching a player after a clean hit repeatedly when he's defenseless should get you 20, cheap blindside that leaves a player knocked out 40. Each time it doubles. The discipline needs to be way more harsh because as it is clean hits are nearly always retaliated upon, you want to defend Corrado attacking Gaudreau for a hit that one of his teammates through? That's hyperbolic to me.