Quoting: ColonelX
To be fair he's gliding to time his hit, if he isn't gliding and keep pushing he meets Evans behind the net. No EN goal means y'all still in the game and maybe you score, that's a selfish play because he was a mad **** that his night didn't go as planned. Not a usual dirty player like Kadri but claiming that's a clean hit like OP suggest is a disgusting bias.
The issue with him continuing to skate instead of gliding is that he was already committed to taking the body. He knew he had back support from pionk, and taking the man from the puck was the best play he could’ve made. If he’s already committed to the hit, but continues to skate and then meets Evans behind the net, the charge is 10x as worse as he’d still be skating and would’ve skated through Evans and not let up. He did what he could to make this as clean as it could be. I don’t get what else people wanted him to do, just give up on the play and let him score anyways? Go full sprint and make the charge worse?
Evans was clearing the back of the net regardless of how fast scheifele was going, he was not going to make it in time to make a proper stick check, so body was his only choice.
Evans has a responsibility within himself to actually take a look before going to wrap around. You have to be aware of your surroundings at all times.
Like I said this is a borderline hit. It’s right on the edge. If you watch the clip in slow motion, you’ll actually see that scheifele stops skating at the circles, when he makes contact it’s shoulder to chest, his elbows are in and his feet are on the ground. The hit is clean. What makes it questionable is the speed and the length of distance he travelled.