If I was Tkachuk, I would come out and say that I was trying to injur him, with a clean hit. You want to hurt a guy when you hit him, you want every guy you play against to look over their shoulder to see if you're coming. It would have been a clean hit but shiefele tried to get out of the way. At that level, you should know how to both throw and take a clean hit. He should keep trying to hit everyone on the team, they can take the punishment of the hit or put themselves at risk of an accident. Either way, keep hitting everyone with more clean hits.
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