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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Saying that you should not carry the puck with your head down is not putting "all" the onus on the puck carrier.
The same way you need to protect yourself along the boards too.
The goal here is for players not to get hurt, right? Keep your head up.
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It assumes that players don’t know that and keep their head down regularly and on purpose. These guys are in the NHL. Hronek has been playing contact hockey for like… what? 10? 15 years? He knows, so for whatever reason his head was down, it wasn’t because he didn’t.
That’s why it’s the responsibility of the hitter to let up. Not for when guys are ready for the hit, but for when they aren’t.