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Originally Posted by Canada 02
Skate on the ice at contact should not be the determining standard. If he is in the act of jumping into a hit, whether he is airborne before contact or after is irrelevant. The point should be that he jumped into the hit and therefore illegal
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In fact skates on ice at contact and then driving upwards is arguably a more violent hit. His feet leave the ice because he drove so hard.
I keep thinking back to that hit Valimaki made leading to a Neal goal. This could have been the exact same hit and accomplish much better results (Dumba wasn't even thinking about where the puck went).