The league is attempting to appease ancient mindsets like the one quoted in my post above and keep a semblance of old hockey; removing defending players on bad hits is a way to do that
I get that, I was more referring to the head contact in general for the player being in a crouched posture (obviously Barron was reaching much more). I definitely see what you’re talking about with the upwards momentum vs Trouba staying relatively level.
Yeah, the Trouba hit, as much as people dislike Trouba, is a good example of where head contact is unavoidable and therefore permitted (as opposed to the Reaves hit, which is a ridiculous comparison to... well, really anything short of literal headhunting).
I didn't say anything about the call. I said that these hits need to be out of the game. They do. It is a joke that the rules allow them.
Something that says you can't hit people in the freaking head. I am totally fine with punishing people for accidents, like they do in the NFL. The players will adjust. The NHL needs to protect players' heads.
Dont bother. The same types of fans argued until the sun went down that it was impossible to remove most football hits to the head and driving the quarterback into the ground
He didn’t jump. But he did explode upward into the hit which I believe the league is trying to curtail (doing a poor job of it though)
Outlawing incidental contact to the head would essentially outlaw hitting on crouched down players skating north-south. Is that something you're okay with? It would outlaw hits like this one, but it would also outlaw Trouba's hit on Barron, where he stood up Barron on the blue line, but Barron was crouched down enough that contact with the head was unavoidable.
It's in no way comparable to the Reaves hit.
He absolutely did have an upwards trajectory, that I agree with. Lots of "he jumped" reasoning to explain why he should get suspended though, when that isn't exactly the case here.
They could say something about a player crouching into the hit. Whatever. I don't really care how they do it, but the hit in the video in this thread should not be ok. It is predatory and dangerous as hell no matter what the rules say. I do not like following a sport that does not put a priority on protecting the brains of the players and it is clear that the NHL puts no priority on that.
Did he blame Nurse for having his head down for nearly 4 seconds behind the net?
So someone must be new to hockey or not understand physics if they feel differently?
Yeah i dont get the comparison either, besides being the most recent other questionable hit
Might as well make him off limits in this case then. Looking at this still you posted, it's hard to see how he could hit him and NOT hit his head. I guess he could have submarined him?
Again, I think this hit MIGHT be illegal based on whether the DoPS considers this an unnecessary extension upward. They also might consider standing up into the hit to be a regular hitting motion (which it arguably is). The issue with this hit is exactly that Knies is crouched really low. Whitecloud extends upward, but to completely avoid head contact, Whitecloud would have needed to have his chin at the level of the board, which would basically force him to have a hip check stance.
