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Old 06-02-2021, 09:07 PM   #273
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Originally Posted by Ashasx View Post
If I had to make an argument against the hit, it would basically be that Scheifele had a chance to actually prevent the puck from going into the net and instead made no effort to prevent a goal and had every intention of laying a big hit. From that sense, it's predatory, but I see no errors on the other fundamentals of the play.
I agree.

I think the actual hit is technically OK as far the contact goes, outside of the distance travelled aspect of charging that has always been kinda vague... but to me it's the intent to light the player up regardless of if a goal was going to be scored + the resulting injury = dirty.

It's not cut and dry so I can see why there's such a debate about it, but I think the combination of everything makes it dirty.
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