Habby4Life
First pick overall goes to the Montreal Canadiens
- Nov 12, 2008
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The hit - it was late, from the side, it made contact with the body. He did not launch himself nor did he hit the head. His elbow came up after he made contact and passed by Stutlze. He got a penalty and that was enough.You're debating millisecond body adjustments. It doesn't matter. He crossed the whole ice at full speed, launched himself full force and chicken winged himself into a player that had no puck for more than a second and it was a completely blindside hit.
There's no defending this. The puck left Stutzles stick before Xhekaj even decided to shift his hips into the hit.
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Please don't be a homer.
I don’t care how many PP goals they scored, shit score 15,lol. The league does a horrible job protecting players and liberties continue to happen. We just saw a career nobody take out a top players knee. We saw a scrub 4th liner make a very similar hit on Kirby in a meaningless preseason game. Players need to police themselves.
Wifi sent a clear message, if you want to go that route, you leave your team vulnerable because it’s coming back. Wifi did exactly what he should have. I bet every guy in that room gave wifi a pat on the back, they know sometimes shit has to be taken care of on the ice.
It was nice to see and I hope moving forward the Habs continue that mentality.