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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Not remotely true. The NFL still has plenty of contact. You simply can no longer hit unsuspecting players whether it be a DB on a defenseless receiver or a blind side block on a return. Those are only recent changes made because we now know that head trauma is incredibly bad for athletes. There are many totally clean hits in the game of hockey unrelated to this type of hit and we are simply discussing removing the ones like this where the player has his head down and does not see it coming.
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If it were always illegal to hit players skating with their heads down, every player would skate with his head down all the time to make himself ineligible to be hit.