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Originally Posted by dino7c
What penalties...it's a battle in front of the net .. everything was fine until the cross-check to the neck
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Umm Matthews didn't have the puck, and he was cross checked first in the lower back, then tried to push him into the cross bar and knocked him down, before Matthews cross checked him.
Even the DPS video acknowledges that Dahlin and him were in a "shoving match" and that Dahlin tried to push him into the net. If they call the first cross check on Dahlin (lower back right at the top of the crease), or the interference when Dahlin tries to push him into the cross bar/ net then I doubt it escalates. This isn't even specific to this play, NHL lets way too many cross checks to the lower back happen in front of the net with no call.
I'm not surprised that Matthews retaliated after Dahlin tried to push him into the cross bar.