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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I don't think that it was a spear, as Dell turns his stick and hots him with the flat end of the blade, he didn't spear him.
It should have been a slashing penalty. It could also be interference.
And since it was pretty bad in that Bennett didn't even have the puck ( i.e. not a hockey play but designed to likely injure), I would have given him a 5 minutes major and a game misconduct for it.
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The NHL uses a loose definition of spear. Reference that time Tkachuk tapped that Red Wing guy on the leg and they called it a spear.