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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Everyone calling this hit dirty is the reason it's called the No Hitting League now. Backlund had his head down and was in an unfortunate spot, Dumba didn't do anything wrong
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Except his act of targeting a player hunched over with his head down, directly in front of him trying to clear the puck out of his zone. If you are going to do this, except retaliation. I don't have a problem with the hit aside from the above. Wasn't late, primary contact was chest, incidental head contact. No blame should be placed on Backlund for trying to make a hockey play late in a close game.