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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This play is so low down the list of dirty plays committed in the NHL I don't even know why I'm wasting my time arguing about it. It's not even as dirty as the hit Andersson took in Denver for crying out loud. I have said several times it was unnecessary but you can't ignore that this was the product of a really slight man playing in a professional contact sport.
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Yeah I think you could argue the hit that Dube took from Gudbranson (partial head shot, never had the puck) was actually a dirtier play than this one too.
First check was fine. The slam to the ice was aggressive but was kinda finishing the check & never targeted the head. IMO the fact he has a concussion is a bit unfortunate and the whole thing looked a lot worse because how small Pettersson is.
I'm not sure it's any worse than how badly Regehr used to maim Hemsky on a regular occurrence.