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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I think he has though, hasn’t he? Tkachuk was suspended twice in his rookie season, but I don’t recall any League discipline since then. And while he plays on the edge, agitates opposing players and will from time to time make a questionable hit, I never get the sense that he is a reckless or dangerous player. Unlike Marchand, Perry or Nazem Kadri who all have a history of willfully injuring other players I don’t see Tkachuk ever doing stupid things like this—not since his dirty elbow on Doughty. And he has never caused wilful damage like that moron Darnell Nurse did when he attacked Roman Polak, or like what Kassian did on Saturday night.
Tkachuk is still a damn easy player to cheer for. And so long as his really keen sense of where the line is from one game to the next doesn’t change, then he will continue to be a really easy guy to cheer for.
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Really?
The Tkachuk hits were in my opinion one of the most cowardly things you can do on a sheet of ice...
Predatory blindside hits to a player engaging with another player...
The type of hits the NFL has outlawed...
The type of hits that has an almost unanimous reaction from current and former players who think it was a dirty hit...
The turtle job was one for the ages, you gotta give Tkachuk credit for that...
Kassian's reaction and whether it was over the top is a totally different discussion..
But to say after this incident that Tkachuk is cleaning up his dirty play is comical...