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Originally Posted by dobbles
No thats not what happened. As is hockey scrum tradition, he tried to lock up with someone to simplify the scrum. You can see it several more times in that very same video. Wilson was going after an already engaged and down on the ice teammate. It looks pretty obvious that Panarin was simply trying to lock down an opponent and keep the scrum on the ice between 2 people. As I mentioned, that is pretty well backed up by the fact that Panarin makes no attempt to hit, facewash, or anything else. Just lock him up with a hug. He is trying to restrain, not attack. There's a big difference.
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He jumped on Wilson as Wilson was on the top of the pile up. Sort of like Kobasew did in 04 and missed LOL. Why he did that? Who cares? When I feel a guy jump on my back I will feed him his lunch. Good on Panarin, but seriously, what did he think was going to happen there? Of course Wilson would be shoving and punching anybody and everybody in the way.
Just an unfortunate end result, but scrams like that aren't exactly that rare. It's still the NHL isn't it?