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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
It's a slippery slope though. We get the benefit of slowed-down replays and hindsight. In a split second where your principal point of contact is aiming to be the body, it can change to the head pretty quickly unintentionally. We see it all the time with hits from behind as well where a guy turns his back at the last second. Guys are going to get hurt from time to time it's unavoidable even if you removed hitting. Someone blowing a tire or having their head down running into an opponent. We will never reach a point of seeing no concussions in hockey and I don't see an issue with the current rules.
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Slippery slope arguments are a tacit admission that the actual rule or law is unobjectionable, and are also almost always not proven out when a law is passed.
Yes, accidents will continue to happen, and IMO they can be taken into account on the punishment. It's just a placing of further onus on a hitter to be careful.
In these cases there was probably no need for Trouba to blow up his opponent, legal or not. For example, he could have hit Khaira just as effectively, and even hard enough to make him sore, without trying to injure him, or at the very least, not caring if it happened.