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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Both this incident and Tkachuk's kicking Scheifele present the league with a bad problem. IF they were considered an attempt to injure they are far more "dirty, filthy and disgusting" than a head shot or driving someone into the end boards that are miscalculations of a valid legal hit... They should be 20 game suspensions.... because of Benn and Tkachuk's being elite players that people pay to watch it is better to ignore these altogether.
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The two aren't even comparable. Tkachuk's was a freak accident that 9 out of 10 times ends up being a regular hit because Scheifele doesn't get caught up like that in the boards and Tkachuk doesn't lose his footing after having his skate bounce.