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Originally Posted by monkeyman
You do realize it was a Lucic hit that took Fehervary out of the game right?
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..and? Is the goal of pro sports to injure the opponent, or to beat the opponent?
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but there's a value to playing a hard heavy game. it takes its toll on opposing players.
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"No human can withstand that many hits,” Ryan Kesler once said during the 2015 Ducks / Blackhawks series
(the Ducks proceeded to lose to the lightest and smallest team in the NHL, who proceeded to win the Stanley Cup)
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There's a reason teams aren't made up of a bunch of skilled 5'7" players.
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Strawman argument, no one is asking for a team made up of a bunch of skilled 5'7" players. No one is even asking for a line of sub 6'0" players. It is entirely possible to construct four lines where two players are above average size and the third player complements their skillsets. That is literally how last year's top line succeeded. MIXED skillsets aggregating strengths and offsetting weaknesses. That is how the 2019 fourth line ended up being the best fourth line we've had in the my lifetime as a Flames fan, despite Ryan and Mangiapane both being "undersized", they worked well alongside Hathaway. They had a role and they overwhelmingly crushed it.
Quit with the strawman arguments implying people just want a bunch of soft players button-hooking around the perimeter and giving up on plays when they see some neanderthal coming at them from a hundred feet away.