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Originally Posted by transplant99
I am still completely baffled how this is even a story, nevermind the monumental one it has transformed into.
15 years ago, this would not even have been a paragraph on a news site/paper other than the winning goal was scored on a PP. Two legal checks, player attacks another player and lands a couple punches.....average night in any NHL game.
Now? We need a parliamentary panel convened to investigate how things should be handled moving forward.
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Absolutely. The firestorm of controversy over this just highlights how rare hitting has become in today's NHL that a couple heavy hits are now considered dirty and something the player has to atone for. Hits, retribution, and fights used to be so common as to pass notice. Now people are going bananas over it.
Even all the gushing over what an incredible game it was left me shaking my head. Sure, it was a good game. But I don't know if it even cracks the top 30 Flames vs Oilers games I've seen, let alone the top 10.
Says something about the state of the NHL's on-ice product in the regular season that some hitting and emotion in a game flares up into a national story.