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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Yeah, there is barely a second separating the time from when Perrault touches the puck from the time Bennett makes contact. There is no way he could possibly be expected to avoid the hit, or even to let up. Unfortunate, but clean.
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I get that, and I don't think it's a really bad hit, but that hit that takes out a player a foot or foot and a half from the boards is a very dangerous play. I'm not sure that Bennett could have laid up there as he was committed to the hit. Perreault didn't help the situation with the turn, but he wasn't turning to avoid contact, just trying to take the pass going the other way.
I don't like the hit, and I'd likely bitch a little bit if it was against us, but at the same time I can't really blame Bennett. I'd only bitch out of bias.