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Originally Posted by Textcritic
No, you cannot possibly be sure about this. You are reading a tonne of apocryphal information into Gaudreau's comments.
Corrado said, "I saw an opportunity to make a hit on one of their skill players." What makes you think that his intent was to hurt him. I think it is at least as likely—perhaps moreso—that he missed his check and carelessly reacted without thinking about what he was doing. you are suggesting a level of premeditation that I have a very hard time believing from everything we saw and from what we know.
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I think every hit is thrown with the intent to hurt and since this is hockey, to also separate the player from the puck. Since Johnny had already passed the puck, the sole reason for the hit was to hurt.