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Originally Posted by Trailer Fire
The fact that there is a debate about if this is a hockey play or not is a sad statement in itself. The hit and the pin are fine, but the extra push to the ice when Petterson is already offbalance/falling is over the line. I don’t care if Matheson was “in the moment” or whatever, it’s still a reckless and dangerous play.
I hope those of you arguing in favour of this kind of “play” ***don’t*** have children in hockey, because I’d like to see how quickly your opinion changes when the exact same play happens to your kid, and they end up with a brain injury.
This play isn’t part of the game, and never should be. Stupid, reckless, and dangerous.
EDIT: missed a very, very important word. I do not wish I’ll upon anyone’s child.
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Slashes, cross checks, and face punching also aren't part of the game and it feels to me like people here are changing the goal posts because of the particular player that got hurt as if this happens to a 3rd or 4th line player for any team it's not even news worthy. The play was unnecessary but I find it hard to believe it was premeditated intent to injure nor is the play over the top dirty. I think any check from behind into the boards is much more dangerous and dirty than that play and we saw Andersson take one of those shots Saturday night without even a penalty call on the play.
If anything I think this calls into question Pettersson's ability to play in the league at his current weight. It was only game five after all and he's going to probably face more physical or even dirtier plays than that over the course of the season.