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Originally Posted by 2ArmBands
What do you mean by “this type” of hit? Just interested to hear your take.
Not sure what more Bennett can do on this play. He stays on his feet, tucks his elbow in and initiates contact to the chest. From my eye it looks pretty textbook. I’m really not certain what you would attempt to eliminate from this type of hit outside of eliminating the hit completely.
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I'll answer this but I also don't want to be one of those posters that beats on the same drum all the time and de-rails thread. So this post will be my last one on it, in this thread anyways. I think, under the current rules of the game, this hit is completely clean. But this for me illustrates how the game needs to evolve as the hit is about more than getting the puck back. That to me is what needs to change.
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Originally Posted by gt4flames
Thats a clean hit. The guy just got his bell rung. It's a fast game with Bennett providing a hard forecheck. Just because a guy has his head down and gets clocked in the middle of the chest doesn't make it a dirty hit. If it was so dirty why wasn't there a penalty or suspension on the play?
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Under the current rules of the game it is indeed 100% legal.
Again, I won't post further on it in this thread, as there have been many threads on this topic of late and don't want to de-rail this one away from the core topic (Sam).