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Acciari hit by Dillon - 5min major (suspended 3 games)

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Acciari is hunched but Dillon doesn’t catch anything but his head. Happens fast but with where Acciari’s head is (on the far side of Dillon) not sure why he can’t come through the body there. It’s not a good play that just happens to go wrong.

Ultimately I think match penalty is fair and there doesn’t need to be a suspension. 1 game at most.
 
And I feel like Dillon has a right to stand his ground at the blue line, he just firmed up and turned his shoulder, usually that's a shoulder on shoulder collision when the puck carrier is paying attention

the second angle in the video looks a bit worse for Dillon
 
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It seems like Dillon established his ground, though that's not the be all and end all to these sorts of calls, I know.

I'm fine with the major but I think it should stop there. That wasn't malicious and a lot of the blame I put on the player for running into Dillon at full speed. No situational awareness.

Nothing supplemental, but I'm also not raking the referee over the coals for the call.
 
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man acciari really f***ed himself there

from that reverse angle down the goal line he didn't look like he had a clue dillon was there

i find it hard to fault dillon really with how low acciari was but damn that bucket popped
 
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Bad angle of approach that is essentially East-West, he makes very little contact with the core of Acciari's body but does contact the head. This looks suspension-worthy.
 
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Hate these hits... also hate the people that blame the player that received the hit and not the one that gave it.

I know... nothing he could do, keep your head up kid, go watch figure skating, the PWHL or Hot Yoga (actually.. if ESPN did that, I probably would watch it).
 
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Pancakes said:
As a Pens fan I do think it's a bad hit but I will also say that Acciari kinda Lindrosed himself a bit as well by skating with his head down that low near the boards. Like that's just asking to get concussed like that.
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Horrible take you should feel shame.
 
Hank Plank said:
Horrible take you should feel shame.
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Nah I mean those hits don't belong in the game any more I'm just saying any time you don't protect yourself like that you do run the risk that some guy is gonna do that.

It's stupid that players still have to protect themselves that way but with how lax the NHL is on discipline it would behoove most players to protect themselves better because the NHL sure isn't gonna
 
ryan callahan said:
Lots of people in this thread with 0 understanding of the NHL hit rules. Onus is on the hitter to make a clean play. He didn't. End of story.
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I don't think Rule 48.1 puts the onus completely on the hitter as there are exceptions accounting for the player being hit "materially changing position" just prior to the hit. Or being in a vulnerable position that made head contact unavoidable on an otherwise legal hit.

I think the big question is if the DoPS feels there was enough contact squarely to the opponent's body that makes the head contact therefore legal. To me there wasn't.

If Dillon were coming head on at Acciari I think it would be a different story. There still likely would've been head contact but Dillon would've hit him square on.
 
ryan callahan said:
Lots of people in this thread with 0 understanding of the NHL hit rules. Onus is on the hitter to make a clean play. He didn't. End of story.
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It's a little more complicated than that...

In determining whether contact with an opponent's head was avoidable, the circumstances of the hit including the following shall be considered:

1) Whether the player attempted to hit squarely through the opponent’s body and the head was not "picked" as a result of poor timing, poor angle of approach, or unnecessary extension of the body upward or outward
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3) Whether the opponent put himself in a vulnerable position by assuming a posture that made head contact on an otherwise full body check unavoidable.
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Czechboy said:
Hate these hits... also hate the people that blame the player that received the hit and not the one that gave it.

I know... nothing he could do, keep your head up kid, go watch figure skating, the PWHL or Hot Yoga (actually.. if ESPN did that, I probably would watch it).
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Honest question, does this tired debate shtick not get old?
 
this is going to be a 50/50 call re suspension.
Yes Noel leaves his head out but on the 2nd angle you can see Dillon misses, he went about 2 inches to the right of where he should have aimed.
 
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