The league could/should adopt a few very simple guiding principles that would clear a lot of this up:
On high-speed 'hockey-plays' between the whistles, err towards leniency.
On stupid shenanigans after the whistle, err towards punishment.
If you want to legislate these violent hits out of the game that's fine, but you have to draw a much clearer line. Can anyone explain draw a line between his Kase hit, or Oshie/Bennett, or the Gaudreau hit and this one?
Or another simple guiding principle for Goalie Interference: if the skater is in the blue paint he loses the benefit of doubt (of course you still look at how he got there and whether he tried to leave); if the goalie is outside the blue paint he loses the benefit of doubt.
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