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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is wrong.
Head contact is allowed if head contact is unavoidable in the process delivering an otherwise legal hit. The question is not whether the hit itself was unavoidable. If you hit a guy straight through the body, often times the head is inevitably going to be one of if not the main points of contact, and in those cases, it's deemed a legal hit to the head.
There is no requirement to avoid making any otherwise legal hit in order to prevent head contact.
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That's what I meant, says so in the article. To the bolded, I know, that's why I said there should be.
The point is that it's a grey area that needs to be removed.
Does it make sense that you can't purposefully target the head, but you CAN purposefully hit through the head if the player has his head down? Not really, right? It's a stupid rule.
Again, was the hit unavoidable? No. Therefore, was a hit to the head unavoidable? No. By adding ii to the rule, they add a grey area that allows guys to open up and check through the head anyone not paying attention or playing with their head down. That goes against the spirit of the rule and the reason it exists.
Just seems counter productive.