HTFN
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- Feb 8, 2009
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When you start that hit there and follow through so hard you make your opponent hit the wall with no ice in between you still boarded them. Finish them down, no problem. Decide to blow them straight into the wall? Boarding."defenseless opponent"..."dangerously"...."shall be at the discretion of the Referee". Nothing ambiguous there.....
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Unfortunate outcome, not a penalty
This is what that rule should reflect 100% of the time. There are countless ways to still win that contact without putting somebody in the fencing position. If we're to the point where we can say the onus is on the hitter to make sure they get shoulder contact and avoid the head in the open ice in fractions of seconds, we can say that players should calculate the follow through of their hits enough that nobody is smacking their head into the wall either.