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Originally Posted by 8sPOT
Keep. Your. Head. Up.
That was the #1 rule when playing hockey growing up, and for your own safety it should still be the #1 rule.
Beautiful open ice hit. You can't eliminate this type of hit without eliminating hitting.
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If hits to the head with your shoulder would be treated like hits to the head with your stick, it may incidentally ban big open ice hitting, but the idea it would bad all hitting, or even any physicality, is absurd.
The purpose of a hockey check is to separate player and puck. You don't need to put people in the trolley tracks to play hard physical hockey.
Not that I make the rules, or play hockey -- my brain (mostly) works just fine.