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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Khaira is looking for the puck in his feet and Trouba sees opportunity to crush him with his head down.
Players need to stop seeing opportunity and start seeing a defenceless guy who will get seriously hurt.
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I think it is difficult for player to do, us fans watching it in the stand or on TV is easy to say Trouba start seeing a defenceless guy. But when a player is on the ice, in the game is to crush your opponent. Trouba is a physical defenseman, all his life, he's been told, taught to be physical, hit hard. Can't really blame Trouba for the hit, it's completely legal. Can't blame Khaira either, he's expecting a pass and when a pass went errant, it's his first reaction to look for it. If he didn't look for it and be worry about being hit, he'll play timid. I don't think he realized Trouba was there gunning for him until the BOOM!
This is an unfortunate incident, I hate seeing player stretcher off the ice. Don't want to go off topic, but compare this hit to what McDavid did, that's intentional and dirty. McDavid should get the book thrown at him, set an example. If the league outlaw big hit so Khaira's incident don't happen in the future again, they'll have to take all hits out. Because how do you determine what is big and what is small? It'll become a judgment call, and if you leave it up to the refs on ice, they'll screw it up, 100 times out of 100.