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« on: Yesterday at 10:29:46 PM »
1 second game speed is a pretty long time.
10/10 times in a regular game, Hyman just skates by. There are many, many forechecking opportunities where he is in position to blow the defender up to take him off the puck with a slightly different route but he always goes for the hit and stick.
This time, he is clearly frustrated by how the game is going (and being called as Boston finishes their checks all the time) and he goes out of his way to give McAvoy a jolt. It's maybe half a second beyond the norm. He actually had a clear lane to come up behind McAvoy and really steamroll him if he was so inclined, but he slows down instead and checks him front and centre.
It's a bad hit. It's not a suspendable play.
Wagner's though, if Rielly didn't protect himself at the last microsecond, would've been a call to the principal's office. Seeing as how the NHL does not worry itself with policing intent, it'll also be a nothing.
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