He doesn't have to explode through the guy.
Rugby has all kinds of rules like this, safety protocols even for big hits, and the players manage to execute them correctly in split seconds game after game. It's quite do-able.
Sheifele decided to explode a guy, and was successful.
Cassie made a great point on the panel later, Sheifele was just in super-frustrated rage-mode all night, there were a number of scrums etc and his eyes are just bulging out, he's in full chimpanzee rage mode.
So he's not quite right in the head through this game, and it ends up he blows a guy to pieces.
Going off the ice, you see him glance back to the rink with obvious regret and even understanding in his eyes, like he knows he just offered a guy a career-threatening hit for no reason at all, and he knows too that he's not gonna see the ice again in this series.
Too little, too late.
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