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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Cool, so what?
It's already been deemed as a legal hit by the league.
He was probably targetting him a good several seconds before.
He took a few strides for sure.
And yet....... still legal.
Maybe the caveman should clue in after the first couple hits and exercise a little more awareness with the puck along the boards.
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100% agree with this.
This play has been overanalyzed in the last 24 hours it's bordering on madness.
"7-8 strides" ? Yes, Tkachuk skated towards Kassian, that's how you hit someone in the NHL, you skate towards them. He stopped skating however and glided. Kassian was the puck carrier, Tkachuk was near him, then hit him. He didn't come blazing halfway across the rink. He didn't hit him low, high, in the head.
Tkachuk made a perfectly clean hit.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
That’s a fair point. He glided at the end and angled his back towards him. He might have killed him otherwise.
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That's correct.
If the hit was different, the result might've been different..
