I’m going to push back on the “the hit was unnecessary” narrative a bit here.
If we’re going to call our Andersson for throwing a hit at that time of the game, why aren’t we going to call out Laine for trying to score on an empty net from his own end when the game is clearly over?
My position is that I have no problem with Laine trying to score there, but if he’s going to score I have no problem with Ras stepping up and making him pay for it.
The hit itself was bad, but to call it “unnecessary” is ridiculous. If someone pulled that against my team I’d go after them too. Next time, make it clean. But I wouldn’t tell him to make a different decision in a million years.
I’m not usually a “you have to play the game” kind of guy, but I seriously question if some people actually played the game when they say stuff like that. You want to try score on my team? Go for it. But I’m going to make you pay, and I’m especially going to make you pay if it’s with 5 seconds left and you’re up by two and you’re shooting from your own end.
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