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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Sure and in that 1/10 of a second between that still frame and contact he could have probably done something slightly different. I suspect by that point some form of body contact was inevitable. My point was only that the decision to try to prevent the goal with a body check makes sense to me.
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I get your point, but if he thought a body check would prevent the goal his timing was off. He got there as fast as he could, and wasn’t in time
The decision puck vs hit was obviously made earlier, further up ice
At that point, although the puck race is not winnable, he still has time to decide whether / how to proceed with the hit