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Old 02-28-2020, 01:54 PM   #140
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Originally Posted by sempuki View Post
You can intimidate with a hit that doesn't involve a padded armored shoulder to the head. You can hit someone in the open without giving them whiplash. It just means you can't put someone on the trolley tracks and blow them up -- same way you can't hit from behind currently, because it's just known to be too dangerous.
This argument just doesn't work. You don't know whether someone is going to be "blown up" before committing to an open ice hit. It's not at all like hitting from behind - in that situation, you see numbers, and you hold up. An open ice hit that doesn't end in someone getting destroyed and one that does look very, very similar before the collision occurs. You have a split second to go for a hit, and half of that is just instinct - you do not have time to analyze if this is the type of hit that will be traumatic. You just know you're about to run into them at speed. What determines whether someone is going to get hit, or get creamed, is at least as much in the control of the person being hit as the person doing the hit.

If your rule outlaws an outcome from an open-ice hit that I only have partial control over, I'm just not going to line anyone up for that type of hit at all anymore. And I understand that for some people, that's an acceptable outcome to make the game safer... I'm just not sure I agree that the cost / benefit is enough to justify that change, for me.
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