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Originally Posted by Hackey
Official and player are pretty different circumstances. If you think his reaction was normal then good for you. We see things differently. Oh no.
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Find me video of a player running over a ref/linseman and the player stops to make sure the ref is okay, or help him up while the play around him continues.
Look at the Weber video, he plows into the ref, face to face, stick up, they both fall to the ice, Weber gets up, and continues to play, the linesmans well being is not his concern, if he's injured they'll blow the play dead, until then, game on. Same thing with the Volchenkov clip, he continues on, and in fact, after the kings score, the Devils bench/coach are outraged as they feel the collision with the ref led to the scoring opportunity. At no time was the linesmans well being the concern, and he was busted up and bleeding pretty bad. That's the nature of the game, you play until the whistle blows, and until it does, it's a contact sport. The refs are well aware of this as well, which is why the play isn't blown dead every time a ref gets bumped.