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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
But there is no way to stop the goal with your stick there...
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I think we all agree here, and that is hugely problematic for Scheifele who seems to know this as well.
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I see it as reckless, but not malicious. No, he did not skate 200ft with the malicious intent of rocking Evans - I don't see that from the replays.
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But he does start gliding at full speed and loading up for the hit a good 25–30ft out.
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I see a guy who is skating hard on the backcheck trying to save a goal, and there was no other path to prevent that goal.
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Not quite. There was no path
period for Scheifele to prevent the goal, which makes this play all the more egregious.
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...at that last instant, Schiefele appears to slow down some, and you can see from the skates a lot of snow spray - was that him slowing down? ... He didn't hit the head, and if he was trying to blow the guy up, I think he would have launched as well.
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This looks like apologetics to me. I cannot fathom how anyone can honestly say that Scheifele was letting up, or that he didn't launch into the hit.