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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You're missing the forest for the trees. The argument here is quite literally that you can't use body contact to separate a guy from the puck if his head is down.
That hit was not a charge. it was not blind side. Nor an elbow nor any other dangerous or illegal action. it was not unnecessarily violent. All Trouba did was step into Dal Colle's path and let Dal Colle's own momentum create the contact.
Literally the only thing wrong with that play was on Dal Colle's end. Yet you are talking about punishing Trouba. So yes, if you are going to remove a completely clean hit from the game, then you are arguing the removal of body checking entirely. Because what you argue creates scenarios where players too afraid to make a hit in case someone drops their head at the last moment and players leading with their domes to gain that shield of invincibility. And at that point, you might as well just remove hitting altogether.
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Regardless of it being within the rules it was a predatorial hit end of story. Trouba lined him up and fully intended to crush him. I can guarantee separating the puck was secondary in Trouba's thought process there as he primarily looking at running him over. I assume if you played hockey you would know players eyes get real big when they see a player with their head down carrying the puck and they aren't thinking about separating pucks, they are looking at an opportunity to flatten a guy. We have to remove this thought process so when players see that they focus more on the puck than taking out the player.