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Originally Posted by Itse
The dumbest thing with slashes is that it should be one of the easier calls. It's usually pretty obvious whether or not you're playing the puck. The puck is usually on the ice, not at the height of the other players hands. If the blade of your stick is somewhere around that height, you're probably slashing, hooking or crosschecking and deserve a trip to the penalty box.
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The rule even states that an attempt without contact is a slash. So the force of the slash doesn't even really matter. You're right, it should be one of the easiest calls in the book.