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Rejoint: juill. 2017
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I hope Carlo is feeling okay and just going through proper precautions. Hope he'll be back on the ice soon.
I don't blame him for dropping his head when he saw Wilson coming in for a shoulder to shoulder hit. Can't tell if he really thought hiding behind his own shoulder would keep his head safer, or if it was just a fear response of "oh my goodness, there's a guy almost as big as me coming right at me," but it was a split second reaction and it appeared to put him in a lot more danger, and it's unfortunate.
When people are saying, here, that this is a hit the NHL wants to get out of the game, I'm unclear what part of it they want to change. Carlo played the puck, but backed himself into the wall. Wilson glided towards him. They made eye contact before Carlo dropped his head. The current boarding rule says to not hit someone from behind into the boards. Do they want to to make a rule about not hitting anybody into the boards? Or limit how hard someone can hit someone into the boards? They could put sensors in the boards, and limit the actual force of a hit. Kids would learn a lot of physics from watching.
People are tossing around random adjectives like "reckless," "predatory," and "repeat offender," but the way Laviolette described it today was, "a hockey hit." If that's something they want to get out of the game, they can. But is a disciplinary hearing the way to do that?