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Chiarelli
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Sorry - where’s the part that’s funny ?
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Well, keep your head up and don't let him hit you then. It's a contact sport and hits like this are part of it.
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Vicious, but clean by Trouba. Barron needs better awareness
Probably a bit of both. He's a prime change of scenery player that I think would benefit from getting moved though.
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Couldn’t agree more. Barron is hunched over and not paying attention for like 50 feet.
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I agree with you here. This looks textbook to me. Beauty of a hit. Unfortunate that Barron was injured. Hopefully he recovers quickly.
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Especially when they follow it up with an evening with a single hockey game.
I have to agree with this. Barron should have seen it coming, it was very obvious. He should have prepare for the hit.
I can't believe people are calling that hit "clean." Just because Barron lacked real awareness of it does not mean it was a good hit.
Define clean. That’s probably the issue in what you’re seeing.
I dunno, puck was already gone, he's clearly targeting the head to the point where he leans into it off-balance, that just looks like a guy trying to injure someone to me. And that's Trouba's M.O.
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How is he targeting the head? He leads down to hit Barron. If anything, he's trying not to hit the head. It's not his fault Barron decided to crouch and also skate like this is shinny not expecting to get hit.
Elbow tucked, no upward explosion, skating backwards into the hit. That's textbook to me.
Elbow tucked, no upward explosion, skating backwards into the hit. That's textbook to me.
BobRossColton
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The puck wasn’t gone nearly long enough to make Barron ineligible for the hit. He’s not targeting the head (though head is clearly contacted, which is not illegal in the NHL). It was an absolutely meant to be a physical hit that made an impact. I wouldn’t say intent to injure, but Trouba wants to make a physical impact.
As the rulebook sits, it doesn’t break any rules. From there we get into, is this something that should be in the game? And I think everyone has slightly different (and valid) opinions on that.
He's thrusting forward at Barron's head to the point where he loses balance. No way was he going for the chest.
Skating backwards means nothing. That's exactly how he's taken off guys' heads before.
I realize Barron does nothing to help himself here and should be a lot smarter about that but it doesn't fully excuse that hit.
Which is very unlikely to happen in the NHL.
You can’t effectively hit without pressuring into it.
I've seen Adam Foote stand guys up at the blue line and knock the slobber out of them without him having to resort to what Trouba did there. Nikita Zadorov is a friggin' giant and yet it's extraordinarily difficult for me to name times he hit a guy in the head. He almost always plants that shoulder right in the other player's chest.
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