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Originally Posted by FanIn80
How to defend against skilled players that you can't hit cleanly
- Hack at their ankles (Forsberg)
- Hack at their wrists (Gaudreau)
- Goon them in the head (Crosby)
- Hit them in the back (Gretzky)
- Hit them when they're not looking (Lindros)
- Etc, etc.
This pisses me off about the NHL more than anything else. They're finally going after headshots (though not nearly tough enough), but they still haven't done anything about the chintzy lower-back cross-checks in front of the net, or the extra-chintzy little hacks and slashes to the wrists and ankles. These things add up over the course of a season and can lead to career-shortening problems.
I don't get it. People buy tickets to see guys like Crosby and Gaudreau, not Prust or Cooke. Wtf is the NHL doing? The game is the NHL's product. If I sold cars for a living and I had a bunch of cars that everyone wanted to see and buy, but I had a few other cars with 6' spikes sticking out of their sides that mangled all my other cars every time someone drove it around the lot... how long do you think it would take me to collect every last one of those #######s and plant them in the bottom of the ocean?
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This is a gross over exaggeration. These slashes and cross checks that you are describing as career threatening have been happening for 20 plus years and I have yet to see any major effects from them.
They are more annoying than damaging, hence why the correct call remains a 2 minute minor.