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Originally Posted by The Big Chill
I seem to have a different opinion on this then most people in this thread so far. I think both of Lucic's punches this season were over the line and should be penalized.
I really don't like that the refs/league don't protect players when they should and teams still feel like they need to make goon-ish plays to protect themselves. We see so many soft "holding" calls, or "hooking" calls where there is almost no contact, and yet you get nothing when Rittich gets speared twice, or Getzlaf crushes Mangiapane after the whistle.
If you want to be serious about player safety then put a greater emphasis on penalizing plays that actually have a higher potential for injury and that will cut out a lot of these retaliatory plays.
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He was penalized. Double minor in fact.