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Originally Posted by Infinit47
I don't understand the point you are trying to make. He hit someone from behind, got his elbow up, and drove his head directly into the boards. What exactly do you think hitting from behind is?
Sure, the 8 games was a result of escalating penalties, but it was super dirty. He had so much time to do anything other than what he did.
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My point is that hits from behind like this is which aren’t aggressive happen all the time. The elbow being up was stupid and I feel like Rempe probably deserved a game misconduct for it. This was a dirty play for sure but an 8 game suspension feel very excessive given what other plays the NHL doesn’t provide discipline on. Bertuzzi with his slash last game wasn’t even given a misconduct or review, and Pospisil getting sucker punched was ok by the league.
What Rempe did was dumb and dangerous, but I don’t think it deserved 8 games at all.