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Originally Posted by DoubleK
The point is the league doesn't do enough to protect their stars. If you can't see that, then there is no helping you.
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God..I so disagree with this.
The game is softer than it has maybe ever been in history. There is so much done to protect star players from head shots, hitting from behind, hooking, slashing...heck, even the player's sticks are protected from being slashed and broken now.
The game is still a contact sport, and sometimes in contact sports a star player gets pushed around a little. Hell, it happens even in non-contact sports like basketball.
The strategy of roughing up McDavid only works in the last 10 seconds of a game where he cant then hurt you on the power play. It's an exceedingly rare occurrence in the overall amount of game time that McDavid is free to dive and draw penalty after penalty to help his team win on the power play alone.
Go ask Eric Lindross if the NHL does a good enough job protecting its star players these days. I'll bet he has an opinion because of his shortened career. You should know, being a Devils fan and all..
