It's stunning how far apart hockey fans on the internet actually are in their understanding of the game from actual, professionnal hockey players.
This is "completely embarrassing" for the Lightning? Lmao in what universe?
You guys are out to lunch. Kucherov and Geekie were probably getting high fives in the lockerroom.
You see your captain get hit open ice by some AHL plug, in a meaningless pre-season game no less, during a pre-season where star players have gotten seriously injured left and right, you don't have the luxury of instant replays and 30 different angles: you respond immediately. Huge props to Kuch. Nothing dirty about the hit, but the Lightning was not going to let a dirty team like Florida take runs at their captain during pre season.
When I clicked on this thread I honestly thought this would be about Hedman getting hit and no one on TBL responding given the title. Boy oh boy have hockey fans gotten soft lmao