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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
If you are talking about ‘making things up’, yes on closer look, it appears shoulder to head is principal point of contact
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Then you don't know what "principal point of contact" means from the perspective of the NHL rulebook. That wasn't it. The principal point of contact is the chest. Head involvement is incidental. Again, you're making things up because you want it to be more illegal than it is.
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and the upper arm pushes through and you see the elbow come above the player’s head as it snaps back
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There's no elbow involved in the hit at all. His arm's tucked in. Only after contact does his arm move. That's not elbowing. You've made yet another thing up, because you want it to be more illegal than it is.
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Either way it is a dirty hit, late, and is definitely intent to injure
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"Dirty hit" requires that a rule be broken. In this post, you've yet again failed to accurately describe a way this hit broke a rule. And even in this sentence, you make more #### up in calling it "late" - the puck had barely left his stick, and was still on his stick when Scheifele has committed to the hit - he's even sideways at the time.
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It’s basically classic Scott Stevens. Check to the head of a vulnerable player. The league doesn’t accept that any more
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The league does allow checks to the head, provided that you're hitting through the body and the head contact is incidental to a full body hit... Which this was.
It is like some Stevens hits, but closer to Campbell on Umberger.
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Originally Posted by Getbak
Rule 42 - Charging
42.1 Charging - A minor or major penalty shall be imposed on a player who skates, jumps into or charges an opponent in any manner. Charging shall mean the actions of a player who, as a result of distance traveled, shall violently check an opponent in any manner. A “charge” may be the result of a check into the boards, into the goal frame or in open ice.
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This is why it's hard to say if it's charging - the definition in the rulebook is circular. He clearly doesn't skate into the hit, he doesn't jump into the hit. Does he "charge an opponent in any manner"? Maybe.